Correction: The Neural Correlates of Religious and Nonreligious Belief

Harris, Sam; Kaplan, Joseph; Curiel, Ashley; Bookheimer, Susan Y.; Iacoboni, Marco; Cohen, Mark S.

doi:10.1371/annotation/7f0b174d-ab93-4844-8305-1de22836aab8

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“…On the one hand, it has been found that certain aspects of religious and nonreligious beliefs share common neural underpinnings (Howlett & Paulus, 2015;Leshinskaya et al, 2017) and, perhaps not surprisingly, that religious beliefs recruit areas responsible for semantic storage, processing and retrieval (Berns et al, 2012). On the other hand, there have also been detectable differences in the brain activation patterns between religious and nonreligious beliefs (Harris et al, 2010) as well as in some social processing mechanisms (Huang & Han, 2014;Schjoedt et al, 2011;Thiruchselvam et al, 2017). Religious experiences appear to be interpersonal events where the mind of a deity or supernatural agent is believed to be involved.…”

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Neural network involvement for religious experiences in worship measured by EEG microstate analysis

Walter

Koenig

2022

Social Neuroscience

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To date, not much is known about large-scale brain activation patterns in religious states of mind and previous studies have not set an emphasis on experience. The present study investigated the phenomenon of religious experiences through microstate analysis, and it was the first neurocognitive research to tackle the dimension of experience directly. Hence, a total of 60 evangelical Christians participated in an experiment where they were asked to engage in worship and try to connect with God. With a bar slider, people were able to continuously rate how strongly they sensed God's presence at any given moment. A selection of songs was used to help in the induction of the desired experience. With 64 electroencephalography (EEG) electrodes, the brain activity was assessed and analyzed with five clusters of microstate classes. First, we hypothesized that the neural network for multisensory integration was involved in the religious experience. Second, we hypothesized that the same was true for the Default Mode Network (DMN). Our results suggested an association between the auditory network and the religious experience, and an association with the salience network as well as with the DMN. No associations with the network thought to be involved with multisensory integration was detected.

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Neural network involvement for religious experiences in worship measured by EEG microstate analysis

Walter

Koenig

2022

Social Neuroscience

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“…Observaron que las zonas de recompensa se activan de manera mucho más intensa con chistes o juegos de palabras que con frases comunes y la respuesta es proporcional a lo divertido que los sujetos encuentran cada uno de los chistes. 53 Durante un estudio de resonancia magnética funcional 54 15 voluntarios cristianos y 15 no creyentes, se pronunciaron sobre la verdad o falsedad de locuciones tanto religiosas (ejemplo: "los ángeles existen") como no religiosas ("Alejandro Magno fue un famoso caudillo militar"). Las imágenes cerebrales de los creyentes y no creyentes eran indistinguibles, lo que sugiere que la evaluación de verdad o falsedad es independiente de su contenido.…”

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La naturaleza de la lengua*

Gómez

2015

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The present discourse of admission to the Mexican Academy of Language traces the biological foundations of human language in animal behavior, hominization, and neuroscience. Animal intentional and symbolic expressions constitute evident foundations of human propositional language and thought. Through arduous training, individual parrots and apes learn, recognize, and express abstract symbols, while vervet monkeys in their natural habitat produce different cries to identify their predators. A communicative intention is furthermore suggested by social play, tactic deception, machiavellic intelligence, or calls to name individuals. Such capacities evolved toward Homo sapiens and its early pictorial representations show adaptive and innovative symbolic talents based on neuronal networks that generate cognitive resources in coordination with the environment. Right-hand skills, tool production, symbolic language, and left hemisphere predominance constitute associated capacities emerging during the human split from the apes 2.5 million years ago. Even though the modularity of language engages specialized brain areas for expression and comprehension, meaning requires a wider connectivity. Processing verbal information involves the activations of neural networks genetically-disposed in a brain device that is conditioned by repetitive learning. Linguistic representation utilizes firing codes of neurons organized in such networks; their contents are determined by the origin and destiny of the neural pathways, while meanings emerge from the dynamic patterned process of the interconnections among brain modules. The human symbolic realm is detectable in the world of expression and culture because it is mediated by social processes tangled to brain processes through appropriate practices. Meaning is thereby conceived as a dynamic braid with an external or cultural loop, and an internal or neurosemantic loop. The nascent contribution of biological, cognitive and brain sciences in coordination to humanistic disciplines to understand the nature of language is as revealing as it is challenging.Key words: Language, communication, neuropsychology, culture. RESUMENEl presente texto de ingreso a la Academia Mexicana de la Lengua perfila los fundamentos biológicos del lenguaje y el significado en la conducta animal, la hominización y la neurociencia.Las expresiones intencionales y simbólicas en animales constituyen claros cimientos del lenguaje y el pensamiento proposicional humano. Mediante entrenamiento, ejemplares de aves y simios aprenden, reconocen y expresan símbolos abstractos, en tanto que los monos verdes en su medio natural emiten diferentes voces para identificar a sus predadores. La intención comunicativa está además sugerida por el juego social, el engaño táctico, la inteligencia maquiavélica o los silbidos para nombrar individuos. Dichas habilidades evolucionaron hasta el Homo sapiens cuyas representaciones pictóricas iniciales marcan una simbolización adaptativa basada en circuitos neuronales que generan recursos...

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Two paradigms for religious representation: The physicist and the playground (a reply to Levy)

Leeuwen

2017

Cognition

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Correction: The Neural Correlates of Religious and Nonreligious Belief

Cited by 4 publications

References 28 publications

Neural network involvement for religious experiences in worship measured by EEG microstate analysis

Neural network involvement for religious experiences in worship measured by EEG microstate analysis

La naturaleza de la lengua*

Two paradigms for religious representation: The physicist and the playground (a reply to Levy)

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