Brain interactions make the difference between religious and non-religious individuals

There was a new religious beliefs-related study released by a researcher from Auburn University, in collaboration with The National Institutes of Health. The study focuses on the relationship between brain networks and how these affect religious beliefs. The final results prove that brain interactions result in differences between religious and non-religious subjects. The results of this study are published in the journal Brain Connectivity by Gopikrishna Deshpande, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Auburn's Samuel Ginn College of Engineering and the researchers from NIH. The group of researchers proved that brain interactions were associated with the theory of mint (ToM) and people with stronger ToM activity were more religious. “Religious belief is a unique human attribute observed across different cultures in the world, even in those cultures which evolved independently, such as Mayans in Central America and aboriginals in Australia”, said Deshpande who is also a researcher at Auburn`s Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research Center.