New preprint! Our fMRI results suggest we automatically pick up on moral content when we listen to stories using a core brain network including TPJ and MTG/STG which reliably tracks moral content even when participants have no explicit instructions to do so. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Naturalistic narrative listening reveals a core brain network for detecting moral information
Moral cognition is a complex process, which recruits a wide range of mechanisms. It is not clear whether any of them reliably reflects moral content in the stimulus. We set out to test whether a speci...