Areas of the Brain Involved in Third Party Punishment (IMAGE)

Vanderbilt University

Areas of the Brain Involved in Third Party Punishment

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A pair of neuroscientists from Vanderbilt and Harvard propose that five specific areas in the brain have been repurposed by evolution to enable third party punishment, which makes human prosociality possible.

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Rene Marois, Deborah Brewingtons / Vanderbilt University

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