You shouldn't have: your brain on others' crimes
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An Experimental Analysis of Children's Ability to Provide a False Report about a Crime
Published on: May 3, 2016
Johannes Haushofer1, Ernst Fehr
1Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, University of Zurich, Blumlisalpstrasse 10, 8006 Zurich. johannes@iew.uzh.ch
Abstract:
Our legal system requires assigning responsibility for crimes and deciding on appropriate punishments. A new fMRI study by Buckholtz et al. in this issue of Neuron reveals that the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (rDLPFC) plays a key role in these cognitive processes. This finding sheds light on the neural mechanisms underlying moral judgment from a third-party perspective.
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