Law and the brain

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Applying our new found knowledge from neuroscience to the discipline of law seems a natural development - the making, considering, and enforcing of law of course rests on mental processes. However, there are real issues that the legal system will face as neurobiological studies continue to relentlessly probe the human mind. This volume represents the first serious attempt to address questions of law as reflecting brain activity, emphasizing that it is the organization and functioning of the bra…

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Title Statements

Full title :Law and the brain / edited by S. Zeki and O. Goodenough.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2006.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2006.

The Physical Object

Description:xviii, 271 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0198570112, 9780198570110, 0198570104, 9780198570103
oclc:ocm61262371
LC Classification:K346
Dewey Decimal:340/.1/9

The neuroeconomic path of the law / Morris B. Hoffman -- How neuroscience might advance the law / Erin Ann O'Hara -- Law and the sources of morality / Robert A. Hinde -- Law, evolution and the brain : applications and open questions / Owen D. Jones -- A neuroscientific approach to normative judgment in law and justice / Oliver R. Goodenough and Kristin Prehn -- The brain and the law / Terrence Chorvat and Kevin McCabe -- Neuroeconomics / Paul J. Zak -- A cognitive neuroscience framework for understanding causal reasoning and the law / Jonathan A. Fugelsang and Kevin N. Dunbar -- A cognitive neurobiological account of deception : evidence from functional neuroimaging / Sean A. Spence [and others] -- The property 'instinct' / Jeffrey Evans Stake -- For the law, neuroscience changes nothing and everything / Jashua Greene and Jonathan Cohen -- The frontal cortex and the criminal justice system / Robert M. Sapolsky -- The emergence of consequential thought : evidence from neuroscience / Abigail A. Baird and Jonathan A. Fugelsang -- Responsibility and punishment : whose mind? : a response / Oliver R. Goodenough.

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Brain brains Cerveau Cognitieve processen Cognitive neuroscience Cognitive science Droit -- Aspect psychologique Gehirn Gerechtelijke psychologie Kognitionswissenschaft Law -- Psychological aspects Legislation, Medical Médecine -- Législation. -- Droit Medical laws and legislation Nervous System Diseases Neurobehavioral disorders -- Law and le… Neuropsychologie Neurosciences Neurosciences -- Aspect social Neurosciences -- Social aspects