Neurobiology of human values with 2 tables

Authors:Jean-Pierre Changeux, Fondation IPSEN pour la recherche thérapeutique (Issuing body)

Summary:Beyond the temptation to stay away from the field of knowledge science may also have felt itself unconcerned by the study of human values for a simple heuristic reason, namely the lack of tools allowing objective study.

Print Book, English, 2005

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Publisher: Springer, Berlin, 2005

Series:

Research and perspectives in neurosciences

Genre:Aufsatzsammlung

Physical Description:XV, 159 S. graph. Darst. 24 cm

ISBN:

9783540262534, 3540262539

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:179943281

Subjects:

(VLB-FS)cognition

(VLB-FS)moral values

(VLB-FS)neuroimaging

(VLB-FS)social conduct

(VLB-FS)social instincts

Contents:

Creation, Art, and the Brain.- Did Evolution Fix Human Values?.- Homo homini lupus? Morality, the Social Instincts, and our Fellow Primates.- Disorders of Social Conduct Following Damage to Prefrontal Cortices.- The Neurobiological Grounding of Human Values.- Emotion and Cognition in Moral Judgment: Evidence from Neuroimaging.- Neural substrates of affective style and value.- Cognitive Psychology of Moral Intuitions.- Mirror neuron: a neurological approach to empathy.- How does the brain know when it is right?.- Cerebral basis of human errors.- How a Primate Brain Comes to Know Some Mathematical Truths.

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