The Neural Correlates of Religious and Nonreligious Belief
PLoS One September 30, 2009 Sam Harris, Jonas Kaplan, Ashley Curiel et al. 173 citations
While religious and nonreligious thinking differentially engage broad regions of the frontal, parietal, and medial temporal lobes, the difference between belief and disbelief appears to be content-independent. Our study compares religious thinking with ordinary cognition and, as such, constitutes a step toward developing a neuropsychology of religion. However, these findings may also further...