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Featured Publications
- Harnessing the Power of Natural Selection: A New Publication from Prof. Owen Jones
- Goal-Directed Modulation of Neural Memory Patterns: Implications for fMRI-Based Memory Detection
- Coursebook:
Law and Neuroscience - A Primer on Criminal Law and Neuroscience
- Law and Neuroscience: Recommendations Submitted to the President's Bioethics Commission
- Court Review: Special Issue on
Law and Neuroscience - Neuroscientists in Court
- Law and Neuroscience
(Journal of Neuroscience) - Brain Imaging for Legal Thinkers: A Guide for the Perplexed
- Through A Scanner Darkly: Functional Neuroimaging as Evidence of a Criminal Defendant's Past Mental States
- Detecting Individual Memories Through The Neural Decoding Of Memory States And Past Experience
- Law and Neuroscience in the United States
Featured Media
- New Conference Videos from the Research Network
- Gideon Yaffe on Criminal Responsibility & Neuroscience (Yale Dean's Lecture)
- Anthony Wagner on Remembering and the Brain: Can Brain Scans Detect Memories?
- Laurence Steinberg, "Should the Science of Adolescent Brain Development Inform Public Policy?"
- Martha Farah on "Law and the Brain"
- Owen D. Jones - Interviewed by Alan Alda, on Law and Neuroscience
Introductions to Law and Neuroscience Generally
- Law & Neuroscience: What, Why, and Where to Begin , MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience (2016).
- Owen D. Jones & Anthony D. Wagner, Law and Neuroscience: Progress, Promise, and Pitfalls , in The Cognitive Neurosciences (Gazzaniga, Mangun, and Poeppel, eds., 6th edition, 2019)
- Owen D. Jones & Francis X. Shen, Law and Neuroscience in the United States , in INTERNATIONAL NEUROLAW: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS, p. 349, T.M. Spranger, ed., Springer-Verlag, 2012.
- Stephen J. Morse & Adina L. Roskies, eds., A Primer on Criminal Law & Neuroscience , Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Owen D. Jones, Jeffrey D. Schall & Francis X. Shen, Law and Neuroscience (law school course book) Aspen Publishers, 2014.
- The Law and Neuroscience Bibliography
- Greely, Henry, & Anthony Wagner, Reference Guide on Neuroscience , in FEDERAL JUDICIAL CENTER REFERENCE MANUAL ON SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE, 3rd. Ed. (2011).
- Owen D. Jones, Joshua W. Buckholtz, Jeffrey D. Schall & Rene Marois, Brain Imaging for Legal Thinkers: A Guide for the Perplexed , 2009 STAN. TECH. L. REV. 5 (2009).
- Teneille Brown & Emily Murphy, Through A Scanner Darkly: Functional Neuroimaging as Evidence of a Criminal Defendant's Past Mental States , 62 Stan. L. Rev. 1119 (2010).
Introductions to Neuroscience Generally
- Marie T. Banich & Rebecca J. Compton, Cognitive Neuroscience,3rd Ed.
- Mark F. Bear, Barry W. Connors & Michael A. Paradiso, Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain
- Stanley Finger, Origins of Neuroscience: A History of Explorations into Brain Function
- Michael S. Gazzaniga, Richard B. Ivry & George R. Mangun, Cognitive Neuroscience, 4th Ed.
- Scott A. Huettel, Allen W. Song & Gregory McCarthy, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 2nd Ed.
- Jamie Ward, The Student's Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience, 2nd Ed. (Psych. Press, 2006).
- Brain Facts, a 74 page primer on brain and nervous system published by the Society for Neuroscience (Learn more at BrainFacts.org)
- Encyclopedia of Neuroscience