Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53183#.VLcb0snQrzE Author(s) Motoaki Sugiura 1,2* , Rüdiger J. Seitz 3 , Hans-Ferdinand Angel 4 Affiliation(s) 1 Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan . 2 International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan . 3 Centre for Neurology and Neuropsychiatry, LVR-Klinikum Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany . 4 Institute of Catechetics and Religious Education, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Graz, Austria . ABSTRACT Departing from the long debates on the role of faith/belief, recent interdisciplinary research has turned to characterize the features of the psychophysical processes underlying believing. Here we review recent cognitive neuroscience models of the believing process and propose a conceptual framework that integrates current theoretical a...
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