The neuroscience of love

Today we find a well written article on research into the conflict between the front and middle brain:
It was only in 2000 that two London scientists selected 70 people, all in the early sizzle of love, and rolled them into the giant cylinder of a functional magnetic resonance imaging scanner, or fMRI. The images they [...]

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Discovering Natural Rationality

I’d like to direct you to a post by Benoit Hardy-Vallée, a U of Toronto philosopher of science interested in neuroethics and neuroeconomics. It is a nice discussion of the Knobe Effect, supported by a good list of references.
Take a look at some of the other posts as well, and subscribe to his RSS feed. [...]

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Causes of wrongful convictions

If you have a subscription or google the title of the piece, you can read an interesting New York Times column about Brandon Garrett’s empirical analysis of 200 wrongful convictions.

Study of Wrongful Convictions Raises Questions Beyond DNA, by Adam Liptak

The study in question is called Judging Innocence, but we have to wait until January to [...]

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How much brain do you really need?

Not much, apparently…

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Audio: Law and ethics of brain scans

The law faculty of Arizona State University hosted a conference on the topic of neuroethics and neurolaw, and kindly uploaded audio of the speaker’s presentations. Most are accompanied by PowerPoint presentations you can download as PDFs.
These two give particularly good overviews:

Emily Murphy, Authenticity, Bluffing, and the Privacy of Human Thought: Ethical Issues in Brain Scanning
Gary [...]

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