La contribución de la neurociencia a la comprensión de la conducta: El caso de la moral / The contribution of neuroscience to the understanding of moral behavior
Rev. méd. Chile
;
137(3): 419-425, mar. 2009.
Artículo
en Español
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ABSTRACT
The neuro-scientific study of moral actions and judgments is particularly relevant to medicine, especially when assessing behavior disorders secondary to brain diseases. In this paper, moral behavior is reviewed from an evolutionary and neuro-scientific perspective. We discuss the role of emotions in moral decisions, the role of brain development in moral development and the cerebral basis of moral behavior. Empirical evidence shows a relationship between brain and moral development changes in cerebral architecture are related to changes in moral decision complexity. Moral development takes a long time, achieving its maturity during adulthood. It is suggested that moral cognition depends on cerebral regions and neural networks related to emotional and cognitive processing (i.e. prefrontal and temporal cortex) and that moral judgments are complex affective and cognitive phenomena. This paper concludes with the suggestion that a satisfactory clinical/legal evaluation of a patient requires that the neural basis of moral behavior should be taken into account.
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Asunto principal:
Conducta Social
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Neurociencias
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Principios Morales
Tipo de estudio:
Estudio pronóstico
Límite:
Humanos
Idioma:
Español
Revista:
Rev. méd. Chile
Asunto de la revista:
Medicina
Año:
2009
Tipo del documento:
Artículo
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Documento de proyecto
País de afiliación:
Chile
Institución/País de afiliación:
Servicio Medico Legal/CL
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Universidad de Chile/CL
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Universidad de La Frontera/CL
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Universidad de Valparaíso/CL
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