Abnormal Moral Reasoning in Complete and Partial Callosotomy Patients

Autor/inn/en	Miller, Michael B.; Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter; Young, Liane; King, Danielle; Paggi, Aldo; Fabri, Mara; Polonara, Gabriele; Gazzaniga, Michael S.
Titel	Abnormal Moral Reasoning in Complete and Partial Callosotomy Patients
Quelle	In: Neuropsychologia, 48 (2010) 7, S.2215-2220 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0028-3932
DOI	10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.02.021
Schlagwörter	Patients; Moral Development; Moral Values; Diagnostic Tests; Brain Hemisphere Functions; Task Analysis; Cognitive Processes; Surgery; Seizures; Epilepsy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Patient; Moralische Entwicklung; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Diagnostic test; Diagnostischer Test; Aufgabenanalyse; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Chirurgie; Anfallsleiden; Epilepsie
Abstract	Recent neuroimaging studies suggest lateralized cerebral mechanisms in the right temporal parietal junction are involved in complex social and moral reasoning, such as ascribing beliefs to others. Based on this evidence, we tested 3 anterior-resected and 3 complete callosotomy patients along with 22 normal subjects on a reasoning task that required verbal moral judgments. All 6 patients based their judgments primarily on the outcome of the actions, disregarding the beliefs of the agents. The similarity in performance between complete and partial callosotomy patients suggests that normal judgments of morality require full interhemispheric integration of information critically supported by the right temporal parietal junction and right frontal processes. (Contains 2 tables and 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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