The Religious Cognition Collaborative
The Religious Cognition Collaborative develops interdisciplinary research on religion, cognition, neuroscience, consciousness, and culture.
A large-scale secondary analysis examining whether religious upbringing, current religiosity, and religious importance are associated with brain morphology and shared neural responses during naturalistic viewing.
View ProjectReligious belief, spiritual experience, dreams, ritual, and the cognitive processes involved in religious life.
Secondary-data analysis, neuroimaging, computational neuroscience, and quantitative modeling.
Religion in literature, media, mythology, intellectual history, and cultural life.
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RCC works with researchers, clinicians, institutions, and independent scholars to develop focused interdisciplinary projects. We are particularly interested in promising questions, public datasets, and projects seeking an organizational home.