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HTTP:: Religion and 039 Normal 039 Beliefs Governed by Same Brain Area
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Despite the fact that religion is present in all cultures, and it is widely promoted around the world, scientists have yet to determine if religious belief is in any way different from normal cognition. While it is clear that the human brain reacts differently to religious or non-religious statements, the basic mechanisms underlying belief have been found to originate in exactly the same brain area, in a new study. In other words, there is no religious center of the brain. The same area that believes or disputes the statement “4 is an even number” lights up when the brain believes that “there is a God.”The new experiments are among the first thorough, neuroimaging investigations to look at the differences between religious and normal beliefs. The research team, featuring scientists from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of Southern California (USC), also determined that the truth of religious and nonreligious propositions was judg!
ed with the same brain areas by devout Christians and non-believers alike. Details of the study appear in the September 30 issue of the open-access scientific journal PLoS ONE.“Despite vast differences in the underlying processing responsible for religious and nonreli...
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