Biological and cognitive underpinnings of religious fundamentalism.

摘要: Beliefs profoundly affect people's lives, but their cognitive and neural pathways are poorly understood. Although previous research has identified the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) as critical to representing religious beliefs, means by which vmPFC enables belief is uncertain. We hypothesized that represents diverse beliefs a lesion would be associated with fundamentalism, or narrowing of beliefs. To test this prediction, we assessed adherence widely-used fundamentalism scale in large sample 119 patients penetrating traumatic brain injury (pTBI). If crucial modulating personal predicted pTBI lesions exhibit greater modulated flexibility trait openness. Instead, found participants dorsolateral (dlPFC) have fundamentalist similar effect dlPFC on was significantly mediated decreased These findings indicate openness necessary for flexible adaptive commitment, such diversity thought dependent functionality.