Publications
Hobson-McNamara Dialogues on “Conscious States”
Allan Hobson and Patrick McNamara (Spring-Summer 2020). E-book.
A Neurocomputational Theory of Nightmares: The Role of Formal Properties of Nightmare Images
Patrick McNamara, Wesley J. Wildman, George Hodulik, and David Rohr (2021). SLEEP Advances, 2(1), zpab009.
Neural Underpinning of a Personal Relationship With God and Sense of Control: A Lesion-Mapping Study
Shira Cohen-Zimerman, Irene Cristofori, Wanting Zhong, Joseph Bulbulia, Frank Krueger, Barry Gordon, and Jordan Grafman (2020). Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 20, 575-587.
The Neural Basis of Religious Cognition
Jordan Grafman, Irene Cristofori, Wanting Zhong, and Joseph Bulbulia (2020). Current Directions in Psychological Science, 29(2), 126-133.
Dream Content Analysis Using Artificial Intelligence
Patrick McNamara, Kevin Duffy-Deno, Tom Marsh, and Thomas Marsh Jr (2019). International Journal of Dream Research, 12(1), 42-52.
Supernatural Agent Cognitions in Dreams
Patrick McNamara, Brian Teed, Victoria Pae, Adonai Sebastian, and Chisom Chukwumerije (2018). Journal of Cognition and Culture, 18, 445-467.
Prefrontal Brain Lesions Reveal Magical Ideation Arises From Enhanced Religious Experiences
Wanting Zhong, Frank Krueger, Marc Wilson, Joseph Bulbulia, and Jordan Grafman (2018). Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 24(2), 245-249.
Biological and Cognitive Underpinnings of Religious Fundamentalism
Wanting Zhong, Irene Cristofori, Joseph Bulbulia, Frank Krueger, and Jordan Grafman (2017). Neuropsychologia, 100, 18-25.
Impacts of Religious Semantic Priming on an Intertemporal Discounting Task: Response Time Effects and Neural Correlates
Jonathan Morgan, Dustin Clark, Yorghos Tripodis, Christopher S. Halloran, April Minsky, Wesley J. Wildman, Raymon Durso, and Patrick McNamara (2016). Neuropsychologia, 89, 403-413.
Do You Need Cognitive Neuroscience to Understand Religious Cognition, Experience and Texts?
Patrick McNamara (2015). Journal of Cognitive Historiography, 2(1), 66-74.
Cognitive and Neural Foundations of Religious Belief
Dimitrios Kapogiannis, Aron K. Barbey, Michael Su, Giovanna Zamboni, Frank Krueger, and Jordan Grafman (2009). PNAS, 106(12), 4876-4881.