Does a bishop pray when he prays? And does his brain distinguish between different religions?

doi:10.1002/pchj.116

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	Does a bishop pray when he prays? And does his brain distinguish between different religions?
	Silveira Sarita ; Bao Yan ; Wang Lingyan ; P?ppel Ernst ; Avram Mihai ; Simmank Fabian ; Zaytseva Yuliya ; Blautzik Janusch
刊名	PsyCh journal
	2015
关键词	brain connectivity,explicit judgment,fMRI,implicit knowledge,religious belief,resting state
DOI	10.1002/pchj.116
英文摘要	Does a religion shape belief-related decisions and influence neural processing? We investigated an eminent bishop of the Catholic Church in Germany by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to assess neural processing while he was responding to short sentences of the Christian Bible, the Islamic Quran, and the Daodejing ascribed to Laozi in Experiment 1. In Experiment 2, continuous praying was further compared to the resting state activity. In contrast to explicit statements of agreeing or not agreeing to different statements from the Bible and the Quran, we found in Experiment 1 no difference in neural activation when the bishop was reading these statements from the two religions. However, compared to reading statements from the Bible, reading statements from the Daodejing resulted in significantly higher activation in the left inferior and middle frontal cortices and the left middle temporal gyrus, although he equally agreed to both statements explicitly. In Experiment 2, no difference during continuous praying and the resting state activity was observed. Our results confirm the difference between explicit and implicit processing, and they suggest that a highly religious person may pray always-or never. On a more general level this observation suggests that ritualized activities might be subliminally represented in resting state activities.? 2015 The Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd.; PubMed; 4; 199-207; 4
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.pku.edu.cn/handle/20.500.11897/435900]
专题	心理与认知科学学院
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Silveira Sarita,Bao Yan,Wang Lingyan,et al. Does a bishop pray when he prays? And does his brain distinguish between different religions?[J]. PsyCh journal,2015.
APA	Silveira Sarita.,Bao Yan.,Wang Lingyan.,P?ppel Ernst.,Avram Mihai.,...&Blautzik Janusch.(2015).Does a bishop pray when he prays? And does his brain distinguish between different religions?.PsyCh journal.
MLA	Silveira Sarita,et al."Does a bishop pray when he prays? And does his brain distinguish between different religions?".PsyCh journal (2015).