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Hidden Brain: Terror Strikes And An Attacker's Identity

12:24pm June 20, 2017

by Shankar Vedantam

Sometimes it can feel like there is a terrorist attack on the news every other week. But how much attention an attack receives has a lot to do with one factor: the religion of the perpetrator. — Sometimes it can feel like there is a terrorist attack on the news every other week. But how much attention an attack receives has a lot to do with one factor: the religion of the perpetrator. David McNew / AFP/Getty Images

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