Browsing Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works by Author "Marois, Rene"

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    • Brain Imaging for Legal Thinkers: A Guide for the Perplexed 
      Jones, Owen D.; Buckholtz, Joshua W.; Schall, Jeffrey D.; Marois, Rene (Stanford Technology Law Review, 2009)
      It has become increasingly common for brain images to be proffered as evidence in criminal and civil litigation. This Article - the collaborative product of scholars in law and neuroscience - provides three things. First, ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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. ...
    • Sorting Guilty Minds 
      Jones, Owen D.; Shen, Francis X.; Hoffman, Morris B.; Greene, Joshua D.; Marois, Rene (New York University Law Review, 2011)
      Because punishable guilt requires that bad thoughts accompany bad acts, the Model Penal Code (MPC) typically requires that jurors infer the past mental state of a criminal defendant. More specifically, jurors must sort ...