Comparing third-party responsibility with intention attribution: An fMRI investigation of moral judgment.

Autor: Kulakova E; Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, United Kingdom; Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: eugenia.kulakova@charite.de., Bonicalzi S; Dipartimento FilCoSpe, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy; Fakultät für Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie und Religionswissenschaft, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany., Williams AL; Department of Life Sciences, Brunel University London, United Kingdom., Haggard P; Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, United Kingdom; Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France; Institut d'études Avancées de Paris, Paris, France.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Consciousness and cognition [Conscious Cogn] 2024 Oct; Vol. 125, pp. 103762. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Sep 18.
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2024.103762
Abstrakt: Neuroimaging studies demonstrate that moral responsibility judgments activate the social cognition network, presumably reflecting mentalising processes. Conceptually, establishing an agent's intention is a sub-process of responsibility judgment. However, the relationship between both processes on a neural level is poorly understood. To date, neural correlates of responsibility and intention judgments have not been compared directly. The present fMRI study compares neural activation elicited by third-party judgments of responsibility and intention in response to animated pictorial stimuli showing harm events. Our results show that the social cognition network, in particular Angular Gyrus (AG) and right Temporo-Parietal Junction (RTPJ), showed stronger activation during responsibility vs. intention evaluation. No greater activations for the reverse contrast were observed. Our imaging results are consistent with conceptualisations of intention attribution as a sub-process of responsibility judgment. However, they question whether the activation of the social cognition network, particularly AG/RTPJ, during responsibility judgment is limited to intention evaluation.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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