Impairment in judgement of the moral emotion guilt following orbitofrontal cortex damage.
emotion
guilt
moral emotion judgement
morality
orbitofrontal cortex
Journal
Journal of neuropsychology
ISSN: 1748-6653
Titre abrégé: J Neuropsychol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101468753
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
09 2019
09 2019
Historique:
received:
02
01
2018
revised:
19
03
2018
pubmed:
20
4
2018
medline:
12
9
2020
entrez:
20
4
2018
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Although neuroimaging studies have provided evidence for an association between moral emotions and the orbitofrontal cortex, studies on patients with focal lesions using experimental probes of moral emotions are scarce. Here, we addressed this topic by presenting a moral emotion judgement task to patients with focal brain damage. Four judgement tasks in a simple pairwise choice paradigm were given to 72 patients with cerebrovascular disease. These tasks consisted of a perceptual line judgement task as a control task; the objects' preference task as a basic preference judgement task; and two types of moral emotion judgement task, an anger task and a guilt task. A multiple linear regression analysis was performed on each set of task performance scores to take into account potential confounders. Performance on the guilt emotion judgement task negatively correlated with the orbitofrontal cortex damage, but not with the other variables. Results for the other judgement tasks did not reach statistical significance. The close association between orbitofrontal cortex damage and a decrease in guilt emotion judgement consistency might suggest that the orbitofrontal cortex plays a key role in the sense of guilt, a hallmark of morality.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
550-563Informations de copyright
© 2018 The British Psychological Society.
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