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An article in SciAm discussing what is currently known about differences in brains between atheists and religious believers

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An article in SciAm discussing what is currently known about differences in brains between atheists and religious believers

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  • IsThereADifferenceBetweenTheBrainOfAnAtheistAndTheBrainOfAReligiousPerson . . . 00:51:20 by tamara: (:Summary:An article in `SciAm discussing what is currently known about differences in brains between atheists and religious believers:) Various experiments have also tried to elucidate whether believing in God causes similar brain changes as believing in something else. The results, so far, show that thinking about God may activate the same parts of the brain as thinking about an airplane, a friend or a lamppost. For instance, one study showed that when religious people prayed to God, they used some of the same areas of the brain as when they talked to an average Joe. In other words, in the religious person's brain, God is just as real as any object or person. Research also suggests that a ­religious brain exhibits higher levels of dopamine, a hormone associated with increased attention and motivation. A study showed that believers were much more likely than skeptics to see words and faces on a screen when there were none, whereas skeptics often did not see words and faces that were actually there. Yet when skeptics were given the drug L-dopa, which increases the amount of dopamine in the brain, they were just as likely to interpret scrambled patterns as words and faces as were the religious individuals.
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