Abstract

Commentary: The Emerging Neuroscience of Third-Party Punishment.

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  • Reviewed by: Hongbo Yu, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Matthew Ginther, Court of Federal Claims, United States

  • More than a decade of neuroimaging research has established that several distinct brain networks are consistently recruited during social punishment, i.e., the propensity of cooperative individuals to spend some of their resources penalizing norm violators

  • Neuroimaging studies have demonstrated a critical role of executive and mentalizing brain regions in TPP (Baumgartner et al, 2012; Bellucci et al, 2016)

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Introduction

Reviewed by: Hongbo Yu, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Matthew Ginther, Court of Federal Claims, United States. Neuroimaging studies have demonstrated a critical role of executive (the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, DLPFC) and mentalizing (the temporoparietal junction, TPJ) brain regions in TPP (Baumgartner et al, 2012; Bellucci et al, 2016).

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