A neural network for religious fundamentalism derived from patients with brain lesions
Michael A. Ferguson, Erik W. Asp, Isaiah Kletenik, Daniel Tranel, Aaron D. Boes, Jenae M. Nelson, Frederic L. W. V. J. Schaper, Shan Siddiqi, Joseph I. Turner, J. Seth Anderson, Jared Allen Nielsen, James R. Bateman, Jordan Henry Grafman, Michael Fox
The paper identifies a brain network associated with religious fundamentalism using lesion data from two independent datasets, showing strong right hemisphere lateralization and reproducibility.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Aug 27, 2024Peer-reviewedNeuroscience