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• Study Suggests Unconscious Learning Underlies Belief in God

  WASHINGTON (September 9, 2020) — Individuals who can unconsciously predict complex patterns, an ability called implicit pattern learning, are likely to hold stronger beliefs that there is a god who creates patterns of events in the universe, according to neuroscientists at Georgetown University. Their research, reported in the journal Nature Communications, is the first to […]

  Category: News Release Tags: belief, brain, faith, implicit pattern learning, Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, Laboratory for Relational Cognition, mind, neuroscience, religion