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Does it correlate for both groups?

Posted by PetarK on 16 Jul 2011 at 01:31 GMT

While the contrast of belief minus disbelief yielded similar activation patterns for both stimulus categories, a comparison of all religious trials to all nonreligious trials produced a wide range of signal differences throughout the brain.
http://plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0007272#article1.body1.sec2.sec3.p1

It doesn't seem clear whether those regions are active for both the Christian and the non-religious group during religious and non-religious stimuli respectively. Later, it is clear that the brain activity of the two groups correlates for "blasphemy", but the regions are not the same. I apologize if this becomes clear later in the article, but I cannot find the clarification.

Thanks.

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