It has been 70 years since Donald Hebb published his formalized theory of synaptic
adaptation during learning. Hebb's seminal work foreshadowed some of the great …

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phenomena and mechanisms, creating the important challenge of understanding how they …

Neuroscientific evidence is increasingly being offered in court cases. Consequently, the
legal system needs neuroscientists to act as expert witnesses who can explain the …

Legal decision-making in criminal contexts includes two essential functions performed by
impartial" third parties:" assessing responsibility and determining an appropriate …

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buildings, while the behavior of every species except humans is studied by life scientists in …

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vague and the subject of too much disagreement to operationalize. 1 There may be some …

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with costly social norms, and offer puzzlingly poor performances on any number of …

In perhaps the first attempt to link the brain to mental illness, Hippocrates elegantly wrote
that it is the brain that makes us mad or delirious. Epitomizing one of the fundamental …

Human behavior is not always consistent with standard rational choice predictions. Apparent
deviations from rational choice predictions provide a promising arena for the merger of …

In its dark and quiet core, the administration of criminal justice in America depends-far more
than we like to admit-on amateur mind readers. This is because the thought processes …