Detestable or marvelous? Neuroanatomical correlates of character judgments.
Detestable or marvelous? Neuroanatomical correlates of character judgments.
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DOI：
10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.03.001
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发表时间：
2010-05
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影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Tranel D
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作者：
Croft KE;Duff MC;Kovach CK;Anderson SW;Adolphs R;Tranel D
当我们了解其他人的社会和道德行为的新信息时，我们会形成和更新对他们的性格判断，这会深刻影响我们如何看待他人和对待他人。在此报告的研究中，我们利用了两个有趣的神经系统患者群体，其中这种复杂的“道德更新”过程可能会出错：双侧腹内侧前额叶皮层（vmPFC）损伤的患者和双侧海马体（HC）损伤的患者。我们预测，情绪处理受损的 vmPFC 患者会表现出道德更新减少，并且我们还研究了 HC 患者的严重陈述性记忆障碍如何影响道德更新。 vmPFC、HC 和脑损伤比较 (BDC) 参与者在接触描绘道德良好、不良或中立行为的社交场景之前和之后对不熟悉的人做出道德判断。与我们的预测一致，vmPFC 组的道德判断变化最小，有趣的是，HC 组的变化最大。这些结果表明，vmPFC 和海马体在更新对他人的道德品质判断方面发挥着关键但互补的作用：vmPFC 可能将情感显着性归因于道德信息，而海马体可能提供必要的上下文信息，从而做出适当的性格判断。
As we learn new information about the social and moral behaviors of other people, we form and update character judgments of them, and this can profoundly influence how we regard and act towards others. In the study reported here, we capitalized on two interesting neurological patient populations where this process of complex “moral updating” may go awry: patients with bilateral damage to ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and patients with bilateral damage to hippocampus (HC). We predicted that vmPFC patients, who have impaired emotion processing, would exhibit reduced moral updating, and we also investigated how moral updating might be affected by severe declarative memory impairment in HC patients. The vmPFC, HC, and brain-damaged comparison (BDC) participants made moral judgments about unfamiliar persons before and after exposure to social scenarios depicting the persons engaged in morally good, bad, or neutral behaviors. In line with our prediction, the vmPFC group showed the least amount of change in moral judgments, and interestingly, the HC group showed the most amount of change. These results suggest that the vmPFC and hippocampus play critical but complementary roles in updating moral character judgments about others: the vmPFC may attribute emotional salience to moral information, whereas the hippocampus may provide necessary contextual information from which to make appropriate character judgments.
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