Neural correlates of mystical experience.

TL;DR: It is found that participants with dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) lesions have fundamentalist beliefs similar to patients with vmPFC lesions and that the effect of a dlPFC lesion on fundamentalism was significantly mediated by decreased cognitive flexibility and openness.

TL;DR: Evidence indicating that religious cognition involves a complex interplay among the brain regions underpinning cognitive control, social reasoning, social motivations, and ideological beliefs is reviewed.

TL;DR: A review of studies investigating the correlations between political ideology, religiosity, right-wing authoritarianism, ingroups/outgroups, and prejudice in an attempt to describe and understand the well-established links between these dimensions.

TL;DR: Through semi-structured interviews with sixteen experienced practitioners from a variety of traditions, it is found that practitioners consider digital technology to be a mixed blessing, and applied insights from their respective practices to strategically mitigate digital technology's negative effects in three ways.

TL;DR: The role of the superior anterior temporal lobe (aTL) was investigated, recently shown to represent conceptual social knowledge, and it was found that larger lesions in either the vmPFC or the superior aTL were associated with increased stereotypical attitudes, whereas smaller lesions in the vlPFC wereassociated with decreased stereotypical attitudes.

TL;DR: The extent to which intellectual processes are preserved as a function of preinjury 'intelligence' and of size and location of the brain lesions was evaluated in Vietnam war veterans who survived penetrating missile wounds.

TL;DR: Investigation of changes in brain activity accompanying different experiences of loss of self-control of movement found similar brain systems underpin attributions and experiences of external and internal alien control of movement supported by distinct brain mechanisms.

TL;DR: Using brain imaging in humans, it is shown that the lateral PFC is organized as a cascade of executive processes from premotor to anterior PFC regions that control behavior according to stimuli, the present perceptual context, and the temporal episode in which stimuli occur, respectively.