The neural underpinning of religious beliefs: Evidence from brain lesions

Irene Cristofori; Shira Cohen-Zimerman; Joseph Bulbulia; Barry Gordon; Frank Krueger; Jordan Grafman

doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2022.977600

The neural underpinning of religious beliefs: Evidence from brain lesions

Front Behav Neurosci. 2022 Oct 6:16:977600. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.977600. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Irene Cristofori^{1

2}, Shira Cohen-Zimerman^{3

4}, Joseph Bulbulia^{5

6}, Barry Gordon^{7

8}, Frank Krueger^{9

10}, Jordan Grafman^{3

4

11

12}

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Cognitive Sciences Marc Jeannerod CNRS, UMR 5229, Bron, France.
² University of Lyon, Etablissement 1, Villeurbanne, France.
³ Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Brain Injury Research, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, IL, United States.
⁴ Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States.
⁵ School of Psychology, Faculty of Science, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
⁶ Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Plank Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany.
⁷ Cognitive Neurology/Neuropsychology Division, Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.
⁸ Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States.
⁹ School of Systems Biology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States.
¹⁰ Department of Psychology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States.
¹¹ Departments of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United States.
¹² Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States.

No abstract available

Keywords: cognition; dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; lesions mapping; religious belief; social cognition; ventromedial prefrontal cortex.