Educational Psychology Program, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA.
Adv Exp Med Biol. 2022;1378:179-194. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-99550-8_12.
In this chapter, I examined the relationship between the cerebellum, emotion, and morality with evidence from large-scale neuroimaging data analysis. Although the aforementioned relationship has not been well studied in neuroscience, recent studies have shown that the cerebellum is closely associated with emotional and social processes at the neural level. Also, debates in the field of moral philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience have supported the importance of emotion in moral functioning. Thus, I explored the potentially important but less-studied topic with NeuroSynth, a tool for large-scale brain image analysis, while addressing issues associated with reverse inference. The result from analysis demonstrated that brain regions in the cerebellum, the right Crus I and Crus II in particular, were specifically associated with morality in general. I discussed the potential implications of the finding based on clinical and functional neuroimaging studies of the cerebellum, emotional functioning, and neural networks for diverse psychological processes.
在这一章中，我利用大规模神经影像学数据分析的证据，研究了小脑、情绪和道德之间的关系。尽管神经科学对上述关系尚未进行充分研究，但最近的研究表明，小脑在神经水平上与情绪和社会过程密切相关。此外，道德哲学、心理学和神经科学领域的争论也支持了情绪在道德功能中的重要性。因此，我利用神经影像综合分析工具 NeuroSynth 探讨了这个潜在重要但研究较少的话题，同时解决了与反向推理相关的问题。分析结果表明，小脑的脑区，特别是右侧的 Crus I 和 Crus II，与一般的道德有特定的关联。我根据小脑的临床和功能神经影像学研究、情绪功能以及不同心理过程的神经网络，讨论了这一发现的潜在意义。
