fMRI researcher looks at religion (NPR)

National Public Radio has a story on ways researchers are using functional MRI to map religious beliefs.

All Things Considered
March 9, 2009
The human brain, it appears, responds to God as if he were just another person, according to a team at the National Institutes of Health.

A study of 40 people — some religious, some nonreligious — found that phrases such as “I believe God is with me throughout the day and watches over me” lit up the same areas of the brain we use to decipher the emotions and intentions of other people…

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