Browsing Law School by Subject "neuroscience and neurobiology"

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    • The Neural Correlates of Third-Party Punishment 
      Jones, Owen D.; Buckholtz, Joshua; Asplund, Christopher L.; Dux, Paul E.; Zald, David H.; Gore, John C.; Marois, Rene (Neuron, 2008-12)
      This article reports the discovery, from the first full-scale law and neuroscience experiment, of the brain activity underlying punishment decisions. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure brain ...
    • Neuroscientists in Court 
      Jones, Owen D.; Wagner, Anthony D.; Faigman, David L.; Raichle, Marcus E. (Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2014)
      Neuroscientific evidence is increasingly being offered in court cases. Consequently, the legal system needs neuroscientists to act as expert witnesses who can explain the limitations and interpretations of neuroscientific ...
    • Parsing the Behavioral and Brain Mechanisms of Third-Party Punishment 
      Jones, Owen D.; Ginther, Matthew R.; Bonnie, Richard J.; Hoffman, Morris B.; Shen, Francis X.; Simons, Kenneth W.; Marois, Rene (The Journal of Neuroscience, 2016)
      The evolved capacity for third-party punishment is considered crucial to the emergence and maintenance of elaborate human social organization and is central to the modern provision of fairness and justice within society. ...
    • Predicting the Knowledge--Recklessness Distinction in the Human Brain 
      Jones, Owen D.; Vilares, Iris; Wesley, Michael J.; Ahn, Woo-Young; Bonnie, Richard J.; Hoffman, Morris; Morse, Stephen J.; Yaffe, Gideon; Lohrenz, Terry; Montague, P. Read (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017-03-21)
      Criminal convictions require proof that a prohibited act was performed in a statutorily specified mental state. Different legal consequences, including greater punishments, are mandated for those who act in a state of ...