Haushofer Johannes, Fehr Ernst
Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, University of Zurich, Blumlisalpstrasse 10, 8006 Zurich.
Neuron. 2008 Dec 10;60(5):738-40. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2008.11.019.
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.
我们的法律体系要求确定犯罪责任并决定适当的惩罚。Buckholtz等人在本期《神经元》杂志上发表的一项新的功能磁共振成像研究表明，右侧背外侧前额叶皮层（rDLPFC）在这些认知过程中起着关键作用。这一发现从第三方视角揭示了道德判断背后的神经机制。
