Neurolaw (also known as law and neuroscience) is a newly established interdisciplinary field that... more Neurolaw (also known as law and neuroscience) is a newly established interdisciplinary field that explores the neural mechanisms underlying mental phenomena and behavior relevant to the law, utilizing the methods and techniques of cognitive neuroscience. This field focuses on how legal systems address issues brought forward by advances in cognitive neuroscience. The present article reviews research from four aspects of neurolaw, including: (1) evaluating the reliability of testimony of persons such as witnesses, e.g. assessing truth-telling and false memories; (2) exploring the influence of cognitive neuroscience on legal practice and theories of criminal law; (3) predicting a particular individual’s future riskof recidivism to facilitate legal intervention and decision-making; and (4) regulating the application of drugs and techniques that manipulate cognition. The study of neurolaw not only deepens our understanding of psychological and neural mechanisms related to legal behaviors...
With increasing popularity of high resolution neuroimaging techniques, such as functional magneti... more With increasing popularity of high resolution neuroimaging techniques, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and position emission computerized tomography (PET), a large number of neuroimaging studies have been accumulated in the last two decades.These new data brought both opportunities and challenges for cognitive neuroscientists,enabling them to generate and examine new hypotheses. Given the main goal of neuroimaging is to explore the relationship between cognitive processes and corresponding locations in brain, coordinate-based meta-analysis become the dominant method for neuroimaging data. One such method, activation likelihood estimation (ALE), is the most widely used, because of its methodological superiority and usability. The current review first introduced basic principles of ALE method. Next, the two most common approaches of conducting meta-analysis of neuroimaging data were discussed: finding consistency across studies and finding modulators of brain acti...
The neural representation of self is a fundamental question for brain research. Employing activat... more The neural representation of self is a fundamental question for brain research. Employing activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta-analyses, we assessed the commonalities and distinctions between different components of the self by focusing on the 'physical' self and the 'psychological' self – assessed respectively through face processing and self-referential tasks. We first conducted ALE meta-analyses by computing the convergence of findings on brain activation in self-face recognition and self-referential studies respectively. Contrast and conjunction analyses of these two meta-analytic results were then applied to extract the distinctions and commonalities in self-face and self-reference tasks. Facial self processing was particularly associated with lateral brain regions with a right hemispheric dominance, while processing psychological self predominantly activated cortical midline structures, more specifically the anterior cingulate cortex/superior frontal cortex. In contrast, the conjunction analyses showed that the two aspects of self-processing recruit the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex and the left inferior frontal gyrus extending to the insula. A framework including both distinct and common neural representation of selfs is discussed.
Neurolaw (also known as law and neuroscience) is a newly established interdisciplinary field that... more Neurolaw (also known as law and neuroscience) is a newly established interdisciplinary field that explores the neural mechanisms underlying mental phenomena and behavior relevant to the law, utilizing the methods and techniques of cognitive neuroscience. This field focuses on how legal systems address issues brought forward by advances in cognitive neuroscience. The present article reviews research from four aspects of neurolaw, including: (1) evaluating the reliability of testimony of persons such as witnesses, e.g. assessing truth-telling and false memories; (2) exploring the influence of cognitive neuroscience on legal practice and theories of criminal law; (3) predicting a particular individual’s future riskof recidivism to facilitate legal intervention and decision-making; and (4) regulating the application of drugs and techniques that manipulate cognition. The study of neurolaw not only deepens our understanding of psychological and neural mechanisms related to legal behaviors...
With increasing popularity of high resolution neuroimaging techniques, such as functional magneti... more With increasing popularity of high resolution neuroimaging techniques, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and position emission computerized tomography (PET), a large number of neuroimaging studies have been accumulated in the last two decades.These new data brought both opportunities and challenges for cognitive neuroscientists,enabling them to generate and examine new hypotheses. Given the main goal of neuroimaging is to explore the relationship between cognitive processes and corresponding locations in brain, coordinate-based meta-analysis become the dominant method for neuroimaging data. One such method, activation likelihood estimation (ALE), is the most widely used, because of its methodological superiority and usability. The current review first introduced basic principles of ALE method. Next, the two most common approaches of conducting meta-analysis of neuroimaging data were discussed: finding consistency across studies and finding modulators of brain acti...
The neural representation of self is a fundamental question for brain research. Employing activat... more The neural representation of self is a fundamental question for brain research. Employing activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta-analyses, we assessed the commonalities and distinctions between different components of the self by focusing on the 'physical' self and the 'psychological' self – assessed respectively through face processing and self-referential tasks. We first conducted ALE meta-analyses by computing the convergence of findings on brain activation in self-face recognition and self-referential studies respectively. Contrast and conjunction analyses of these two meta-analytic results were then applied to extract the distinctions and commonalities in self-face and self-reference tasks. Facial self processing was particularly associated with lateral brain regions with a right hemispheric dominance, while processing psychological self predominantly activated cortical midline structures, more specifically the anterior cingulate cortex/superior frontal cortex. In contrast, the conjunction analyses showed that the two aspects of self-processing recruit the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex and the left inferior frontal gyrus extending to the insula. A framework including both distinct and common neural representation of selfs is discussed.
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