Hippocampal damage increases deontological responses during moral decision making.

Complex moral decision making is associated with the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) in humans, and damage to this region significantly increases the frequency of utilitarian judgments. Since the vmPFC has strong anatomical and functional links with the hippocampus, here we asked how patients...

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Main Authors: McCormick, C, Rosenthal, C, Miller, T, Maguire, E
Formato: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicado: Society for Neuroscience 2016