Archive for January, 2010

God Lives In Our Head!

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Researchers at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke recently confirmed something I’d been guessing for quite some time – that religion is all in our head.
In their study they took religious and non-religious people alike and asked them to think about religious topics while hooked up to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans.   [...]

Can You Trust Your Memory?

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

I just learned about some recent advances in scientific studies related to memory.  Apparently memory does not work how I always thought it did.  I had learned, from reading slightly dated neuroscience texts, that memories were “burned” into the brain, similar to how data is burned to a CD or DVD.  They were immutable, and [...]