Law and the brain / edited by S. Zeki and O. Goodenough. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006. - xviii, 271 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / Lord Bingham. Introduction / Semir Zeki and Oliver R. Goodenough. - Introductiory Essays. 1. The neuroeconomic path of the law / Morris B. Hoffman. 2. How neuroscience might advance the law / Erin Ann O'Hara. - Law, Biology, and the brain. 3. Law and the sources of morality / Robert A. Hinde. 4. Law, evolution and the brain : applications and open questions / Owen D. Jones. 5. A neuroscientific approach to normative judgment in law and justice / Oliver R. Goodenough and Kristin Prehn. - Neuroeconomics and the law. 6. The brain and the law / Terrence Chorvat and Kevin McCabe. 7. Neuroeconomics / Paul J. Zak. - Decision making and evidence. 8. A cognitive neuroscience framework for understanding causal reasoning and the law / Jonathan A. Fugelsang and Kevin N. Dunbar. - Truthfulness. 9. A cognitive neurobiological account of deception : evidence from functional neuroimaging / Sean A. Spence ... [et al.]. - Property in biology and the brain. 10. The property 'instinct' / Jeffrey Evans Stake. - Criminal responsibility and punishment. 11. For the law, neuroscience changes nothing and everything / Jashua Greene and Jonathan Cohen. 12. The frontal cortex and the criminal justice system / Robert M. Sapolsky. 13. The emergence of consequential thought : evidence from neuroscience / Abigail A. Baird and Jonathan A. Fugelsang. 14. Responsibility and punishment : whose mind? : a response / Oliver R. Goodenough. - Index.

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Law--Psychological aspects.
Cognitive neuroscience.
Neurosciences--Social aspects.
Neurobehavioral disorders--Law and legislation.

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