Date: November 10, 2011
Location: Baesse Auditorium of the Faculty of Philosophy and Human Sciences of UFMG

“The neuroscience of ethics is the area of ​​neuroethics that relates to the understanding of the brain mechanisms that are involved in moral cognition and in our ethical (or unethical) decisions and we can also define it as the field related to the understanding of the brain mechanisms of main behaviors related to ethics and morality. I then identify, and discuss, a series of studies in the area of ​​neuroscience that have been published in the last 10 years and that help our understanding of behaviors such as altruism, generosity, self-confidence, trust, altruistic punishment, violence, lying and prejudice, behaviors that are all related in some way to morality.”