Browsing Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works by Subject "neuroscience"

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    • Behavioral Genetics and Crime, In Context 
      Jones, Owen D. (Law and Contemporary Problems, 2006)
      This Article provides an introduction to some of the key issues at the intersection of behavioral genetics and crime. It provides, among other things, an overview of the emerging points of consensus, scientifically, on ...
    • Brain Imaging for Legal Thinkers: A Guide for the Perplexed 
      Jones, Owen D.; Buckholtz, Joshua W.; Schall, Jeffrey D.; Marois, Rene (Stanford Technology Law Review, 2009)
      It has become increasingly common for brain images to be proffered as evidence in criminal and civil litigation. This Article - the collaborative product of scholars in law and neuroscience - provides three things. First, ...
    • Brain Scans as Evidence: Truths, Proofs, Lies, and Lessons 
      Jones, Owen D.; Shen, Francis X. (Mercer Law Review, 2011)
      This contribution to the Brain Sciences in the Courtroom Symposium identifies and discusses issues important to admissibility determinations when courts confront brain-scan evidence. Through the vehicle of the landmark ...
    • Law, Responsibility, and the Brain 
      Jones, Owen D.; Mobbs, Dean; Lau, Hakwan C.; Frith, Christopher D. (PLoS Biology, 2007)
      This article addresses new developments in neuroscience, and their implications for law. It explores, for example, the relationships between brain injury and violence, as well as the connections between mental disorders ...
    • The Neural Correlates of Third-Party Punishment 
      Jones, Owen D.; Buckholtz, Joshua; Asplund, Christopher L.; Dux, Paul E.; Zald, David H.; Gore, John C.; Marois, Rene (Neuron, 2008-12)
      This article reports the discovery, from the first full-scale law and neuroscience experiment, of the brain activity underlying punishment decisions. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure brain ...
    • Parsing the Behavioral and Brain Mechanisms of Third-Party Punishment 
      Jones, Owen D.; Ginther, Matthew R.; Bonnie, Richard J.; Hoffman, Morris B.; Shen, Francis X.; Simons, Kenneth W.; Marois, Rene (The Journal of Neuroscience, 2016)
      The evolved capacity for third-party punishment is considered crucial to the emergence and maintenance of elaborate human social organization and is central to the modern provision of fairness and justice within society. ...
    • Predicting the Knowledge--Recklessness Distinction in the Human Brain 
      Jones, Owen D.; Vilares, Iris; Wesley, Michael J.; Ahn, Woo-Young; Bonnie, Richard J.; Hoffman, Morris; Morse, Stephen J.; Yaffe, Gideon; Lohrenz, Terry; Montague, P. Read (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017-03-21)
      Criminal convictions require proof that a prohibited act was performed in a statutorily specified mental state. Different legal consequences, including greater punishments, are mandated for those who act in a state of ...