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Religious Socialization and Neural Organization

Religious identity and socialization are often assumed to leave detectable signatures in brain structure or function. This project uses data from the Amsterdam Open MRI Collection to test those claims across structural MRI, diffusion imaging, cortical morphology, and naturalistic functional neuroimaging.

Research question

Are religious upbringing, current religiosity, and religious importance associated with measurable differences in brain morphology or with shared neural responses during naturalistic viewing?

Methods

Structural MRI, diffusion MRI, cortical morphometry, naturalistic fMRI, intersubject correlation, and intersubject representational similarity analysis. The structural and functional analyses are presented as outputs within one research program rather than as separate projects.

Current status

Analyses completed; manuscripts in preparation.

Outputs

Manuscripts, analysis code, and supporting materials are forthcoming.

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