Resumen de Awesome awe
Marchant investigates people's awe experience. The cause of this effect might lie in the brain. At the annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping in Vancouver Canada, in June, neuroscientist Michiel van Elk presented functional MRI scans showing that awe quiets activity in the default mode network, which includes parts of the frontal lobes and cortex, and is thought to relate to the sense of self. The notion of transcending the self has traditionally been associated with religious or mystical experiences. Among others, psychologist Dacher Keltner believes that awe predates religion by millions of years. Evolution-related ideas are tough to back up, but he argues that responding to powerful forces in nature and in society through group bonding would have had survival value.
