ECON 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Positron Emission Tomography, Photographic Film
Document Summary
Jones et al (2009) brain imaging for legal thinkers: a guide for the. Increasingly common for brain images to be preferred as evidence in civil and criminal litigation. Article offers general guidelines for legal thinkers: how to understand brain imaging studies, avoid misunderstanding them. In criminal cases often used to argue the defendant as incompetent. Full complement of cases at the intersection of law and neuroscience is too large for comprehensive overview. Brain imaging: powerful tool: can be used for good and for ill, skillful or sloppy, useful or irrelevant. Brain imaging can be (intentionally or unintentionally) misunderstood/ misused. Information about parts in the body are structured: no information about how parts are functioning. Pet scanning: positron emission tomography, enable to learn about how the brain functions, radioactive tracers that move through the bloodstream. Criminal and law-abiding behavior originates in the brain. Nor brain structures specifically for criminal behavior. Brain features cannot necessarily explain why person behaved criminal.
