October 29, 2015
Harvard Assistant Professor of Psychology Joshua Buckholtz explains how a brain region called the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex coordinates third-party punishment decisions of the type made by judges and juries. The findings were released in a paper co-authored by Buckholtz and René Marois of Vanderbilt University.
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/10/pinpointing-punishment/?ut...(1)