Neural circuits in the brain that are activated when mitigating criminal sentences

In sentencing guilty defendants, jurors and judges weigh 'mitigating circumstances', which create sympathy for a defendant. Here we use functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure neural activity in ordinary citizens who are potential jurors, as they decide on mitigation of punishment...

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Autores principales: Yamada, Makiko, Camerer, Colin F., Fujie, Saori, Kato, Motoichiro, Matsuda, Tetsuya, Takano, Harumasa, Ito, Hiroshi, Suhara, Tetsuya, Takahashi, Hidehiko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Pub. Group 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3316876/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22453832
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1757

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3316876/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22453832
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1757

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