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. 2008 Dec 10;60(5):738-40.
doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2008.11.019.

You shouldn't have: your brain on others' crimes

Johannes Haushofer  1 , Ernst Fehr
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You shouldn't have: your brain on others' crimes

Johannes Haushofer et al. Neuron. .
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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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