Neuroscience and the soul: Competing explanations for the human experience

Cognition

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 31-37

  Preston, Jesse Lee ^a   Ritter, Ryan S ^a   Hepler, Justin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Explanatory gap; Mind body dualism; Neuroscience; Soul

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; METAPHYSICS; MORALITY; NEUROSCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; RELIABILITY; RELIGION;

ADULT; CONSCIOUSNESS; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIND-BODY RELATIONS, METAPHYSICAL; NEUROSCIENCES; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872477602     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.12.003     Document Type: Article

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