@article{290cc5859fc94609a94d1bcbde8ca6b0,
title = "Opinion: The neural basis of human moral cognition",
abstract = "Moral cognitive neuroscience is an emerging field of research that focuses on the neural basis of uniquely human forms of social cognition and behaviour. Recent functional imaging and clinical evidence indicates that a remarkably consistent network of brain regions is involved in moral cognition. These findings are fostering new interpretations of social behavioural impairments in patients with brain dysfunction, and require new approaches to enable us to understand the complex links between individuals and society. Here, we propose a cognitive neuroscience view of how cultural and context-dependent knowledge, semantic social knowledge and motivational states can be integrated to explain complex aspects of human moral cognition.",
author = "Jorge Moll and Roland Zahn and {De Oliveira-Souza}, Ricardo and Frank Krueger and Jordan Grafman",
note = "Funding Information: When you skim your favourite newspaper, gather at a conference or attend a family meeting, your brain deals with a massive number of perceptual signs of social significance. Our ability to manage this burden of information relies on complex patterns of featural and semantic knowledge118. The existence of context-independent featural representations is supported by a vast amount of neuropsychological and functional imaging evidence119,120. Making implicit or explicit moral appraisals when engaged in the social world requires the ability to efficiently extract social perceptual and functional features from the environment. Social perceptual features are extracted from facial expression, gaze, prosody, body posture and gestures. The posterior STS is a key region for storing these representations33,121. In support of this view, morphological abnormalities of the STS region have been implicated in the impaired social decoding observed in autism122.",
year = "2005",
month = oct,
doi = "10.1038/nrn1768",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "6",
pages = "799--809",
journal = "Nature Reviews Neuroscience",
issn = "1471-003X",
publisher = "Springer Nature",
number = "10",
}