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The neural basis of human moral cognition

Moll, Jorge, Zahn, Roland, de Oliveira-Souza, Ricardo, Krueger, Frank, Grafman, Jordan·2005·Nature Reviews Neuroscience

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Moral cognitive neuroscience is an emerging field of research that focuses on the neural basis of uniquely human forms of social cognition and behaviour. Recent functional imaging and clinical evidence indicates that a remarkably consistent network of brain regions is involved in moral cognition. These findings are fostering new interpretations of social behavioural impairments in patients with brain dysfunction, and require new approaches to enable us to understand the complex links between individuals and society. Here, we propose a cognitive neuroscience view of how cultural and context-dependent knowledge, semantic social knowledge and motivational states can be integrated to explain complex aspects of human moral cognition.

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Authors: Moll, J., Zahn, R., de Oliveira-Souza, R., Krueger, F., & Grafman, J.
Affiliations: National Institutes of Health (US)
Corresponding author: Grafman, Jordan
ORCID: Moll, Jorge
Zahn, Roland
Grafman, Jordan
Venue: Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2005-10
Volume: 6
Issue: 10
Pages: 799-809
ISSN: 1471-003X (ISSN-L)
1471-0048
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1768
OpenAlex: W1568809335
Cited by: 930
References: 160
Citations by year: 2026: 18 · 2025: 27 · 2024: 27 · 2023: 35 · 2022: 30 · 2021: 57 · 2020: 43 · 2019: 60 · 2018: 45 · 2017: 52 · 2016: 38 · 2015: 50 · 2014: 76 · 2013: 73 · 2012: 51
FWCI: 2.63
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations: Nature reviews. Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
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Funders: National Institutes of Health
Topics: Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Ethics in Business and Education
Keywords: moral cognition, neural basis of morality, moral judgment, social cognition, brain dysfunction, cultural knowledge, motivational states, ethical decision-making
MeSH terms: Brain, Cognition, Humans, Morals, Neural Pathways, Neurosciences

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