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Aguirre & Goodenough present What Will You See in the Courtroom? Part 1. Stanford, 2013

Dr. Geoffrey Aguirre and Oliver Goodenough present What Will You See in the Courtroom? An Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging for Judges at the Colloquium on Law, Neuroscience, and Criminal Justice on March 14 -- 15, 2013 in Palo Alto, California. Dr. Aguirre is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology and an Associate Director of the Center for Neuroscience & Society at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Goodenough is a Professor of Law at Vermont Law School and Co-Director of the Law Lab at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. The colloquium was sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience and co-sponsored by the Federal Judicial Center, Vanderbilt Law School, Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences, and the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research. Description and Learning Objectives: Neuroscientific evidence is increasingly being proffered in U.S. courtrooms. This session provides a concise and readily accessible introduction to human brain structure, brain function, and how structure and function are studied through modern neuroimaging techniques. Specific learning objectives include: • Introduction to the general organization of the human nervous system, and the terms used in science and medicine to describe basic brain locations and structures. • Explanation of how neurons communicate with one another, how this communication is related to human thought and behavior, and some of the methods employed in modern neuroscience research to study the activity of neurons in humans. • Explanation of why an understanding of psychological processes and experimental designs is necessary to evaluate human brain function in imaging studies. • Introduction to how functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) works, how it relates to other methods of studying brain function, and important limitations and cautions regarding the use and meaning of functional brain imaging evidence. • Clarification of the types of legal inferences and conclusions that should and should not be drawn from particular types of brain science research and evaluation. • Discussion of guiding principles and questions judges should ask in order to effectively assess neuroimaging data when proffered in a courtroom. Learn more: www.lawneuro.org