Reward, salience, and attentional networks are activated by religious experience in devout Mormons
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Reward, salience, and attentional networks are activated by religious experience in devout Mormons
High-level cognitive and emotional experience arises from brain activity, but the specific brain substrates for religious and spiritual euphoria remain unclear. We demonstrate using functional magnetic resonance imaging scans in 19 devout Mormons that a recognizable feeling central to their devotional practice was reproducibly associated with activation in nucleus accumbens, ventromedial prefro...
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عنوان ژورنال: Social Neuroscience
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1747-0919,1747-0927
DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2016.1257437