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June 2021

June 14, 2021

Music and Dance in Human Evolution

Humans everywhere play music and dance. But other animals don't — so where did these...

October 2015

October 13, 2015

Hilbert problems in the study of religion

Journal editors at Religion, Brain & Behavior are calling for experts and researchers across religious...

December 2014

December 04, 2014

A new theory for why Buddhist meditation makes us feel good

Our brains build up stable patterns of activity over time, and these patterns may inhibit...

November 2014

November 14, 2014

Want to understand religion? You’ve gotta have a body.

Religious experience is something that comes from what bodies do. What goes on in our...

October 2013

October 11, 2013

Why Are There Atheists?

Certain aspects of personality orientation may naturally lead some people to religious belief and others...

September 2013

September 18, 2013

Ritual reduces life’s noise-to-signal ratio

Our world is filled with unspoken social conventions that transform messy, continuous information into clearer,...

June 2013

June 14, 2013

The neurology of spirit writing

Are spirit mediums for real? Who knows? But researchers in the US and Brazil have...

April 2013

April 22, 2013

How the brain escapes the self

Research from the University of Missouri shows that reduced functioning in the right parietal cortex...

February 2013

February 20, 2013

Journal articles on scientific study of religion available online this month

Taylor & Francis, the publisher of the journal Religion, Brain & Behavior, is making all...

October 2012

October 12, 2012

Are autistics less religious? Yes.

New research shows that autistics – and men! – may believe less in God because...

May 2012

May 07, 2012

Muslim prayer may increase alpha waves in the brain

Connor Wood The religious brain is hot stuff right now. Publications as diverse as Science and Newsweek seem to...

April 2012

April 21, 2012

God spot in the brain? More like God spots

Nicholas C. DiDonato Neurologists have long wondered whether a particular part of the brain can...

April 04, 2012

How much are your sacred values worth?

Connor Wood The best things in life can’t be bought…but everyone has his or her...

March 2012

March 28, 2012

Religion may reduce anxiety response

Connor Wood You’ve felt it before: the embarrassed, self-conscious realization that you’ve just committed a...

March 18, 2012

Gamma waves help meditation change the brain

Connor Wood Long-term meditators know that meditation can change people’s experience of the world, usually...