The Problems With ‘There’s a Brain Area for That?!’ News Stories

“[The public] allure of many neuroscience studies is that they can be made to offer ‘deceptively simple messages’ about human behavior. … [That] spiritual feelings can be localized to specific parts of the brain is important to neuroscientists. But how important is it to you? Put another way, is it really surprising that religious and spiritual feelings occur in the brain?”