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The faculty of language: what is it, who has it, and how did it evolve?
We argue that an understanding of the faculty of language requires substantial interdisciplinary cooperation. We suggest how current developments in linguistics can be profitably wedded to work in… Expand
Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements
- M. Koenigs, L. Young, +4 authors A. Damasio
- Psychology, Medicine
- Nature
- 19 April 2007
The psychological and neurobiological processes underlying moral judgement have been the focus of many recent empirical studies. Of central interest is whether emotions play a causal role in moral… Expand
Computational Constraints on Syntactic Processing in a Nonhuman Primate
The capacity to generate a limitless range of meaningful expressions from a finite set of elements differentiates human language from other animal communication systems. Rule systems capable of… Expand
The faculty of language: what is it, who has it, and how did it evolve?
We argue that an understanding of the faculty of language requires substantial interdisciplinary cooperation. We suggest how current developments in linguistics can be profitably wedded to work in… Expand
Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong
- M. Hauser
- Psychology
- 22 August 2006
Scholars have long argued that moral judgements arise from rational deliberations about what society determines is right and wrong. This has generated the idea that our moral psychology is founded on… Expand
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A Dissociation Between Moral Judgments and Justifications
- M. Hauser, F. Cushman, L. Young, R. K. Jin, J. Mikhail
- Psychology
- 1 February 2007
To what extent do moral judgments depend on conscious reasoning from explicitly understood principles? We address this question by investigating one particular moral principle, the principle of the… Expand
Spontaneous number representation in semi–free–ranging rhesus monkeys
- M. Hauser, S. Carey, L. Hauser
- Medicine, Psychology
- Proceedings of the Royal Society of London…
- 22 April 2000
Previous research has shown that animals possess considerable numerical abilities. However, this work was based on experiments involving extensive training, a small number of captive subjects and… Expand
The neural basis of the interaction between theory of mind and moral judgment
- L. Young, F. Cushman, M. Hauser, R. Saxe
- Psychology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 15 May 2007
Is the basis of criminality an act that causes harm, or an act undertaken with the belief that one will cause harm? The present study takes a cognitive neuroscience approach to investigating how… Expand
Is there teaching in nonhuman animals?
We derive a simple operational definition of teaching that distinguishes it from other forms of social learning where there is no active participation of instructors, and then discuss the constituent… Expand
Serotonin selectively influences moral judgment and behavior through effects on harm aversion
- M. Crockett, L. Clark, M. Hauser, T. Robbins
- Psychology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 27 September 2010
Aversive emotional reactions to real or imagined social harms infuse moral judgment and motivate prosocial behavior. Here, we show that the neurotransmitter serotonin directly alters both moral… Expand