We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure signal changes in the brains of thirty subjects--fifteen committed Christians and fifteen nonbelievers--as they evaluated the truth and falsity of religious and nonreligious propositions.
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A comparison of both stimulus categories suggests that religious thinking is more associated with brain regions that govern emotion, self-representation, and cognitive conflict, while thinking about ordinary facts is more reliant upon memory retrieval networks.
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