title: You shouldn't have: your brain on others' crimes.
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.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, University of Zurich, Blumlisalpstrasse 10, 8006 Zurich. johannes@iew.uzh.ch
authors.forename: Johannes
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Haushofer
authors.forename: Ernst
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fehr
mesh_terms: D003415:Crime / Q000523:psychology*; D003657:Decision Making / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D017397:Prefrontal Cortex / Q000502:physiology*