Virtual lesions of the inferior parietal cortex induce fast changes of implicit religiousness/spirituality

Cortex

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-15

  Crescentini, Cristiano ^a,b   Aglioti, Salvatore M ^b,c   Fabbro, Franco ^a   Urgesi, Cosimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; IAT; Inferior parietal lobe; Religiousness spirituality; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PERSONALITY TEST; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RELIGION; RESPONSE TIME; SELF CONCEPT; SELF ESTEEM; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; ACCURACY; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; IMPLICIT ASSOCIATION TEST; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; RELIGION; SPIRITUALITY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84895758908     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.01.023     Document Type: Article

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