{"id":2664,"date":"2017-12-19T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T08:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=2664"},"modified":"2017-12-16T01:33:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T01:33:49","slug":"neuroscience-of-morality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/neuroscience-of-morality\/","title":{"rendered":"The Neuroscience of Morality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/AdobeStock_164544380_Credit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2666\" src=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/AdobeStock_164544380_Credit.jpg\" alt=\"AdobeStock_164544380_Credit\" width=\"793\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/AdobeStock_164544380_Credit.jpg 793w, https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/AdobeStock_164544380_Credit-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 793px) 100vw, 793px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How do brains encode moral impulses?<\/p>\n<p>As you can imagine, that&#8217;s an extraordinarily difficult question&#8211;in part because definitions of morality can be tricky in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/538ca3ade4b090f9ef331978\/t\/590c7044bebafbc3108b7c97\/1493987401787\/nn.4557.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> study, researchers study the neural underpinnings of moral decisions&#8211;particularly decisions not to harm other people. The findings are quite complicated&#8211;lots of talk about the lateral pre-frontal cortex&#8211;but a fascinating glimpse into our moral\/neural selves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do brains encode moral impulses? As you can imagine, that&#8217;s an extraordinarily difficult question&#8211;in part because definitions of morality can be tricky in the first place. In this study, researchers study the neural underpinnings of moral decisions&#8211;particularly decisions not to harm other people. The findings are quite complicated&#8211;lots of talk about the lateral pre-frontal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-2664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2664"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2743,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions\/2743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}