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MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience

The following publications were authored or co-authored by a member of the Law and Neuroscience Project (2007-2011):

Aharoni, Eyal, Et Al., Can Neurological Evidence Help Courts Assess Criminal Responsibility? Lessons from Law and Neuroscience, 1124 ANNALS N.Y. ACAD. OF SCI. 145 (2008).

Aharoni, Eyal, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong & Kent A. Kiehl, Can psychopathic offenders discern moral wrongs? A new look at the moral/conventional distinction, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 15 Aug 2011.

Belcher, Annabelle & Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Neurolaw , 1 WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS: COGNITIVE SCIENCE 18 (2010).

Brown, Teneille & Emily Murphy, Through A Scanner Darkly: Functional Neuroimaging as Evidence of a Criminal Defendant's Past Mental States , 62 STAN. L. REV. 1119 (2010).

Buckholtz, Joshua W.,  Christopher L. Asplund, Paul E. Dux, David H. Zald, John C. Gore, Owen D. Jones, and René Marois, The Neural Correlates of Third Party Punishment , 60 Neuron 930 (2008).

Bunge, Silvia A. & Sarah E. Munro, Trends In Research On Cognitive And Brain Development, __ TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES __ (Forthcoming).

Faigman, David, Evidentiary Incommensurability , 75 BROOKLYN L. REV. 1115 (2010).

Farah, Martha J., M. Elizabeth Smith, Cyrena Gawuga, Dennis Lindsell, & Dean Foster, Brain Imaging and Brain Privacy: A Realistic Concern? 21 JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE 119 (2008).

Gazzaniga, Michael S., The Law and Neuroscience , 60 NEURON 412 (2008).

Gazzaniga, Michael S., Neuroscience and the Correct Level of Explanation For Understanding Mind , 14 TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES 291 (2010).

Gazzaniga, Michael S., Neuroscience In The Courtroom , 304 SCI. AMER. 54 (2011).

Gazzaniga, Michael S., et. al., A JUDGE'S GUIDE TO NEUROSCIENCE: A CONCISE INTRODUCTION, SAGE Center, UC Santa, Barbara (2010). Contents:

  1. Michael S. Gazzaniga, "What Is Cognitive Neuroscience?"
  2. Marcus Raichle, "What Is An fMRI?"
  3. Anthony Wagner, "Can Neuroscience Identify Lies?"
  4. Louis J. Ptacek, "What Is Neurogenetics?"
  5. Howard Fields, "Can Neuroscience Identify Pain?"
  6. Helen Mayberg, "Does Neuroscience Give Us New Insights Into Criminal Responsibility?"
  7. Floyd E. Bloom, "Does Neuroscience Give Us New Insights Into Drug Addiction?"
  8. Kent A. Kiehl, "Can Neuroscience Identify Psychopaths?"
  9. Scott T. Grafton, "Has Neuroscience Already Appeared in the Courtroom?"
  10. Read Montague, "How Is Neuroscience Likely to Impact Law in the Near Future"
  11. Adina Roskies, "How Is Neuroscience Likely to Impact the Law in the Long Run?"

Goodenough, Oliver R., & Micaela Tucker, Law and Cognitive Neuroscience , 6 ANNU. REV. LAW SOC. SCI. 28.1 (2010).

Greely, Henry, Neuroscience and Criminal Justice: Not Responsibility But Treatment , 56 Kan. L. Rev. 1103 (2008).

Greely, Henry, Neuroscience-Based Lie Detection: The Need for Regulation , in USING IMAGING TO IDENTIFY DECEIT: SCIENTIFIC AND ETHICAL QUESTIONS (2009).

Greely, Henry, Neuroscience and Criminal Responsibility  Proving "Can't Help Himself" as a Narrow Bar to Criminal Liability, in LAW & NEUROSCIENCE, CURRENT LEGAL ISSUES 13 (MICHAEL FREEMAN ED. 2011).

Greely, Henry, Who Knows What Evil Lurks In The Hearts Of Men? Behavioral Genomics, Neuroscience, Criminal Law, And The Search For Hidden Knowledge, in THE IMPACT OF BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES ON CRIMINAL LAW (N.A. Farahany, ed., 2009) 161-182. 

Greely, Henry, Nita Farahany, & James Coleman, Genetics, Neuroscience, And Criminal Responsibility, in in THE IMPACT OF BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES ON CRIMINAL LAW (N.A. Farahany, ed., 2009) 183-241.

Greely, Henry, & Anthony Wagner, Reference Guide on Neuroscience, in FEDERAL JUDICIAL COLLEGE REFERENCE MANUAL ON SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE (3rd. Ed.)

Greene, Joshua D., and Joseph M. Paxton, Patterns Of Neural Activity Associated With Honest And Dishonest Moral Decisions , 106 PNAS 12506 (2009).

Hoffman, Morris, THE PUNISHER'S BRAIN  (Book Under Contract).

Hoffman, Morris, Ten Legal Dissonances, 62 Mercer L. Rev. (2011).

Hoffman, Morris, Evolutionary Jurisprudence: The End Of The Naturalistic Fallacy And The Beginning Of Natural Reform?, in LAW & NEUROSCIENCE, CURRENT LEGAL ISSUES (MICHAEL FREEMAN ED. 2011).

Hyman, Steven E., Meditations on Self-Control: Lessons from the Neurobiology of Addiction, in ADDICTION AND SELF CONTROL (NEIL LEVY, ED., FORTHCOMING).

ILLES, JUDY, & BARBARA J. SAHAKIAN, EDS., OXFORD HANDBOOK OF NEUROETHICS (2011). Selections:

  1. Joshua D. Greene & Jonathan Cohen, "For the Law, Neuroscience Changes Nothing and Everything"
  2. Emily R. Murphy & Henry T. Greely, "What Will Be the Limits of Neuroscience-Based Mindreading in the Law?"
  3. Susan Wolf, "Incidental Findings in Neuroscience Research: A Fundamental Challenge to the Structure of Bioethics and Health Law"

Jones, Owen D., Joshua W. Buckholtz, Jeff Schall, and Rene Marois, Brain Imaging For Legal Thinkers: A Guide For the Perplexed , 2009 Stan. Tech. L. Rev. 5 (2009). Reprinted in: LAW & NEUROSCIENCE, CURRENT LEGAL ISSUES (MICHAEL FREEMAN ED. 2011).

JONES, OWEN,  JEFFREY SCHALL, & FRANCIS SHEN, LAW AND NEUROSCIENCE (Law School Coursebook; Forthcoming 2013, Aspen Legal Publishers).

Jones, Owen & Francis Shen, Law and Neuroscience in the United States, in INTERNATIONAL NEUROLAW - A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS (Tade Spranger, ed. 2011).

Joshi, Swapna, S. Karthikeyan, B.S. Manjunath, Scott Grafton, & Kent A. Kiehl, Anatomical Parts-Based Regression Using Non-Negative Matrix Factorization , Paper presented at Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference (2011).

KIEHL, KENT A., & WALTER SINNOTT-ARMSTRONG, EDS., HANDBOOK ON PSYCHOPATHY AND LAW FORTHCOMING). Contents:

  1. Kent A. Kiehl, "Introduction"
  2. Adelle Forth, "Assessment of Psychopathy: The Hare Psychopathy Checklist Measures"
  3. Katherine Fowler, "Alternatives to the Psychopathy Checklist - Revised (PCL-R)"
  4. Michael Koenigs, "The Decision-Making Impairment In Psychopathy: Psychological And Neurobiological Mechanisms"
  5. Jana Schaich Borg, "Do Psychopaths Make Moral Judgments?"
  6. Kent A. Kiehl, "Functional Imaging of Psychopaths"
  7. Marina Boccardi, "Neuroscience of Psychopathy: Structural Imaging"
  8. E. Viding, "Quantitative Genetic Studies Of Psychopathic Traits In Minors: Review And Implications For The Law"
  9. Irwin Waldman, "The Search for Genes and Environments That Underlie Psychopathy and Antisocial Behavior: Quantitative and Molecular Genetic Approaches"
  10. Michael Caldwell, "Treatment of Adolescents with Psychopathic Features"
  11. Marnie Rice, "Psychopathy and Violent Recidivism"
  12. John Edens, "Taking Psychopathy Measures "Out of the Lab" and into the Legal System: Some Practical Concerns"
  13. Paul Litton, "Criminal Responsibility and Psychopathy"
  14. Samuel Pillsbury, "Why Psychopaths are Responsible"
  15. Stephen Morse, "Preventive Detention of Psychopaths and Dangerous Offenders"
  16. Michael Corrado, "Some Notes on Preventative Detention and Psychopathy"
  17. Eric Luna, "Psychopathy and Sentencing"

Kiehl, Kent A., Without Morals: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Criminal Psychopaths , in MORAL PSYCHOLOGY, VOL. 3: THE NEUROSCIENCE OF MORALITY (MIT Press, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Ed., 2008).

MacArthur Foundation Law & Neuroscience Project, Law and Neuroscience Bibliography, http://www.lawneuro.org/bibliography.php (2010).

Moore, Michael S., Intention as a Marker of Moral Responsibility and Legal Liability, in THE PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF CRIMINAL LAW (ANTONY DUFF AND STUART GREEN, EDS., 2010).

Moore, Michael S.,   Intention, Responsibility, and the Challenges of Recent Neuroscience , 2010 Stan. Tech. L. Rev. (2010).

Moore, Michael S., Mechanical Brains and Responsible Choices (Forthcoming). 

Moore, Michael S., The Neuroscience of Rational Human Action and Responsibility (Forthcoming) 

Moore, Michael S., Responsible Choices, Desert-Based Legal Institutions, and the Challenges of Contemporary Neuroscience, 29 SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY & POLICY 1 (2011). 

Moore, Michael S., Renewed Questions About the Causal Theory of Action, in CAUSING HUMAN ACTIONS : NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE CAUSAL THEORY OF ACTION (JESÚS H AGUILAR & ANDREI A BUCKAREFF, EDS., 2010)

Moore, Michael S., & Heidi Hurd, Blaming the Stupid, Clumsy, Selfish, and Weak: The Culpability of Negligence, __ CRIMINAL LAW AND PHILOSOPHY __ . Shortened version to appear in Rowan Cruft, Matt Kramer, and Mark Reiff, eds., Crime, Punishment, and Responsibility (2011).

MOORE, MICHAEL S., & HEIDI HURD, NEW ESSAYS IN CRIMINAL LAW THEORY (Forthcoming).

Morse, Stephen, Actions Speak Louder than Images, Using Imaging to Identify Deceit: Scientific and Ethical Questions , in USING IMAGING TO IDENTIFY DECEIT: SCIENTIFIC AND ETHICAL QUESTIONS (2009).

Morse, Stephen, Determinism and the Death of Folk Psychology: Two Challenges to Responsibility from Neuroscience , 9 Minn. J.L. Sci. & Tech. 1 (2008).

Morse, Stephen, Lost In Translation? An Essay On Law And Neuroscience , in LAW & NEUROSCIENCE, CURRENT LEGAL ISSUES (MICHAEL FREEMAN ED. 2011).

Morse, Stephen, Irrational Exuberance: Neuroscience in the Courts, 62 Mercer L. Rev. __ (2011).

MORSE, STEPHEN & ADINA ROSKIES, EDS., PRIMER ON LAW & NEUROSCIENCE, (Forthcoming, Oxford University Press). Contents:

  1. Stephen Morse, "Introduction to Law and Neuroscience"
  2. Adina Roskies, "Cellular Mechanisms: Fundamentals of Neuronal Signaling"
  3. Adina Roskies, "Functional Neuroanatomy"
  4. Adina Roskies, "Overview of Imaging Techniques"
  5. Scott Grafton, Et Al., "Neuroscience in Law Beyond Imaging"
  6. David Faigman, "Admissibility of Neuroscientific Evidence"
  7. Henry Greely, "Mind Reading"
  8. Stephen Morse and Bill Newsome, "Criminal Responsibility and Competence"
  9. Barry Feld, Et Al., "Brain Development and Juveniles"
  10. Douglas Husak and Emily Murphy, "Neuroscience and Addiction"

Morse, Stephen, Psychopathy and Criminal Responsibility , 1 Neuroethics 205 (2008).

Morse, Stephen, Vice, Disorder, Conduct and Culpability , 5 PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHIATRY, & PSYCHOLOGY 47 (2008).

NADEL, LYNN, & WALTER SINNOTT-ARMSTRONG &, EDS. MEMORY & LAW (Forthcoming). Contents:

  1. Elizabeth Phelps, "Emotion And The Reliability Of Memory"
  2. Henry L. Roediger, "Confidence And The Reliability Of Memory"
  3. Elizabeth Loftus, "Eye-Witness Memory"
  4. Scott Gronlund, "Line-Up Procedures And Memory"
  5. Lisa E. Hasel, "Confessions And Eyewitness Memory"
  6. Daniel Schacter, "Detecting True Vs. False Memories"
  7. Anthony Wagner, "Episodic Memory and Guilty Knowledge Tests"
  8. Linda J. Demaine, "Effect Of Judicial Instructions To Ignore"
  9. William Hirst, "Jury Setting Effects On Memory"
  10. Adam Kolber, "Memory Dampening"
  11. Anders Sandberg, "Memory Enhancement"
  12. Francis X. Shen, "Monetizing Memory Science: Neuroscience and the Future of PTSD Litigation"
  13. Martin Conway, "Implications and Future Directions"

NADELHOFFER, THOMAS, ED. THE FUTURE OF PUNISHMENT (Forthcoming).

Nadelhoffer, Thomas, Stephanos Bibas, Scott Grafton, Kent A. Kiehl, Andrew Mansfield, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, & Michael Gazzaniga, Neuroprediction, Violence, and the Law: Setting the Stage , 17 NEUROETHICS 1 (2010).

Phelps, Elizabeth, Lying Outside the Laboratory: The Impact of Imagery and Emotion on the Neural Circuitry of Lie Detection , in USING IMAGING TO IDENTIFY DECEIT: SCIENTIFIC AND ETHICAL QUESTIONS (2009).

Raichle, Marc, An Introduction to Functional Brain Imaging in the Context of Lie Detection , in USING IMAGING TO IDENTIFY DECEIT: SCIENTIFIC AND ETHICAL QUESTIONS (2009).

Rakoff, Jed, Lie Detection in the Courts: The Vain Search for the Magic Bullet , in USING IMAGING TO IDENTIFY DECEIT: SCIENTIFIC AND ETHICAL QUESTIONS (2009).

Rakoff, Jed, Science and the Law: Uncomfortable Bedfellows , 38 SETON HALL LAW REV. 1379 (2008). 

Rissman, Jesse, Hank Greely, and Anthony D. Wagner, Detecting Individual Memories Through The Neural Decoding Of Memory States And Past Experience , 107 PNAS 9849 (2010). 

Robillard, J.M., & J. Illes, Neuroscience and Law in the Media: What About Addiction? in ADDICTION NEUROETHICS (2011), Carter, Hall and Illes (Eds)., Elsevier.

Roskies, Adina L., How Does Neuroscience Affect Our Conception Of Volition?, 33 ANN. REV. OF NEUROSCIENCES 33 (2010).

Roskies, Adina L., Neuroimaging and Inferential Distance , 1 NEUROETHICS 19 (2008).

Roskies, Adina L., Response to Sie and Wouters: A Neuroscientific Challenge To Free Will And Responsibility? 12 Trends in Cognitive Sciences 4 (2008).

Roskies, Adina L., & Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Brain Images as Evidence in the Criminal Law , in LAW AND NEUROSCIENCE: CURRENT LEGAL ISSUES (Oxford Univ. Press, Michael Freeman, Ed., 2010).

Frederick Schauer, Can Bad Science Be Good Evidence? Lie Detection, Neuroscience and the Mistaken Conflation of Legal and Scientific Norms , 95 CORNELL L.R. 1191 (2010).

Schauer, Frederick,  Neuroscience, Lie-Detection, and the Law , 14 TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES 101 (2010).

Schweitzer, Nicholas J., Michael J. Saks, Emily Murphy, Adina Roskies, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, & Lyn M. Gaudet, Neuroimages as Evidence in a Mens Rea Defense: No Impact , PSYCHOLOGY, PUBLIC POLICY, AND THE LAW (In Press).

Shen, Francis X., Morris B. Hoffman, Owen D. Jones, René Marois & Joshua D. Greene, Sorting Guilty Minds , 86 NYU L. REV. (2011).

Shen, Francis X., Law and Neuroscience Bibliography: Navigating The Emerging Field, 38 INT. J. LEGAL INFO. 352 (2010). 

Shen, Francis X., & Owen D. Jones, Brain Scans As Evidence: Truths, Proofs, Lies, And Lessons , 62 Mercer L. Rev. (2011).

Shen, Francis X., Law and Neuroscience: Possibilities For Prosecutors, 33 CDAA Prosecutor's Brief __ (Summer 2011).

SINGH, ILINA, WALTER SINNOTT-ARMSTRONG, & JULIAN SAVULESCU, EDS., BIOPREDICTION: SCIENTIFIC, LEGAL AND SOCIO-ETHICAL CHALLENGES IN THE USE OF BIOMARKERS TO PREDICT ABERRANT BEHAVIOR (Forthcoming).

Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter, Neural Lie Detection in Courts, in USING IMAGING TO IDENTIFY DECEIT: SCIENTIFIC AND ETHICAL QUESTIONS (2009).

Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter, Are Addicts Responsible?, in ADDICTION AND SELF CONTROL (NEIL LEVY, ED., FORTHCOMING).

Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter, Et Al., Brain Images as Legal Evidence , 5 EPISTEME 359 (2008).

Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter, & Ken Levy. Insanity Defenses, in John Deigh and David Dolinko, eds. THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF PHILOSOPHY AND CRIMINAL LAW (2010).

SINNOTT-ARMSTRONG, WALTER, & LYNN NADEL, EDS. CONSCIOUS WILL AND RESPONSIBILITY: A TRIBUTE TO BENJAMIN LIBET (Oxford, 2010). Contents:

  1. Benjamin Libet, "Do We Have Free Will?"
  2. Adina L. Roskies, "Why Libet's Studies Don't Pose a Threat to Free Will"
  3. Alfred R. Mele, "Libet on Free Will: Readiness Potentials, Decisions, and Awareness"
  4. Susan Pockett and Suzanne Purdy, "Are Voluntary Movements Initiated Preconsciously? The Relationships Between Readiness Potentials, Urges, and Decisions"
  5. William P. Banks and Eve A. Isham, "Do We Really Know What We are Doing? Implications of Reported Time of Decision for Theories of Volition"
  6. Elisabeth Pacherie and Patrick Haggard, "What are Intentions?"
  7. Mark Hallett, "Volition: How Physiology Speaks to the Issue of Responsibility"
  8. John-Dylan Haynes, "Beyond Libet: Long-term Prediction of Free Choices from Neuroimaging Signals"
  9. F. Carota, M. Desmurget, and A. Sirigu, "Forward Modeling Mediates Motor Awareness"
  10. Tashina Graves, Brian Maniscalco, and Hakwan Lau, "Volition and the Function of Consciousness"
  11. Deborah Talmi and Chris D. Frith, "Neuroscience, Free Will, and Responsibility"
  12. Jeffrey P. Ebert and Daniel M. Wegner, "Bending Time to One's Will"
  13. Thalia Wheatley and Christine Looser, "Prospective Codes Fulfilled: A Potential Neural Mechanism of the Will"
  14. Terry Horgan, "The Phenomenology of Agency and the Libet Results"
  15. Thomas Nadelhoffer, "The Threat of Shrinking Agency and Free Will Disillusionism"
  16. Gideon Yaffe, "Libet and the Criminal Law's Voluntary Act Requirement"
  17. Larry Alexander, "Criminal and Moral Responsibility and the Libet Experiments"
  18. Michael S. Moore, "Libet's Challenge(s) to Responsible Agency"
  19. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, "Lessons from Libet"

Wolf, Susan, Neurolaw: The Big Question, 8 AJOB 21 (2008).

Yaffe, Gideon, Are Addicts Akratic?: Interpreting the Neuroscience of Reward , in ADDICTION AND SELF CONTROL (NEIL LEVY, ED., FORTHCOMING).

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