The neurobiology of decision-making and responsibility: Reconciling mechanism and mindedness

This essay reviews recent developments in neurobiology which are beginning to expose the mechanisms that underlie some elements of decision-making that bear on attributions of responsibility. These elements have been mainly studied in simple perceptual decision tasks, which are performed similarly b...

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Main Authors: Michael Neil Shadlen, Adina L. Roskies
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnins.2012.00056/full