Consequences, Acción, and Intention as Factors in Moral Judgments: An fMRI Investigation Jana Schaich Borg, Catherine Hynes, John Van Horn, Scott Grafton, and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong Abstract & The traditional philosophical doctrines of Consequentialism, Doing and Allowing, and Double Effect prescribe that moral judgments and decisions should be based on consequences, acción (as opposed to inaction), and intention. This study uses functional magnetic resonance imaging to

Specialized Face Perception Mechanisms Extract Both Part and Spacing Information: Evidence from Developmental Prosopagnosia Galit Yovel1 and Brad Duchaine2 Abstract & It is well established that faces are processed by mecha- nisms that are not used with other objects. Two prominent hypotheses have been proposed to characterize how informa- tion is represented by these special mechanisms. The spacing hypothesis suggests that face-specific mechanisms primarily ex-

E i g e d c e s for Recognition Matthew Turk and Alex Pentland Vision and Modeling Group The Media Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology Abstract We have developed a near-real-time computer system that can locate and track a subject’s head, and then recognize the person by comparing characteristics of the face to those of known individuals. The computational approach taken in this system

White Matter Changes Compromise Prefrontal Cortex Function in Healthy Elderly Individuals Christine Wu Nordahl1, Charan Ranganath1, Andrew P. Yonelinas1, Charles DeCarli1, Evan Fletcher1, and William J. Jagust2 Abstract & Changes in memory function in elderly individuals are often attributed to dysfunction of the prefrontal cortex (PFC). One mechanism for this dysfunction may be disruption of white matter tracts that connect the PFC with its anatomical

Musician Children Detect Pitch Violations in Both Music and Language Better than Nonmusician Children: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Approaches Cyrille Magne1,2, Daniele Scho¨n1,2, and Mireille Besson1,2 D o w n l o a d e d f r o m Abstract & The idea that extensive musical training can influence processing in cognitive domains other than music has re- ceived considerable attention from the educational system

Imaging Informational Conflict: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Numerical Stroop J. Espiga, h. D. Critchley, D. mi. Glaser, R. j. Dolan, y B. Butterworth Abstract & We employed a parametric version of the comparison Stroop paradigm to investigate the processing of numerical magnitude and physical size under task-relevant and -irrelevant conditions to investigate two theoretical issues: (1) What is the fate of task-irrelevant

Why You Think Milan is Larger than Modena: Neural Correlates of the Recognition Heuristic Kirsten G. Volz1, Lael J. Schooler2, Ricarda I. Schubotz1, Markus Raab3, Gerd Gigerenzer2, y D. Yves von Cramon1 Abstract & When ranking two alternatives by some criteria and only one of the alternatives is recognized, participants overwhelmingly adopt the strategy, termed the recognition heuristic (RH), of choosing the recognized alternative. Comprensión

Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Dissociates Working Memory Manipulation from Retention Functions in the Prefrontal, but not Posterior Parietal, Cortex Bradley R. Postle, Fabio Ferrarelli, Massihullah Hamidi, Eva Feredoes, Marcello Massimini, Michael Peterson, Andrew Alexander, and Giulio Tononi D o w n l o a d e d f r o m l l / / / / / j f / t t i t

Navigation and Acquisition of Spatial Knowledge in a Virtual Maze Sabine Gillner and Hanspeter A. Mallot Max-Planck-Institut für biologische Kybernetik Abstract n Spatial behavior in humans and animals includes a wide variety of behavioral competences and makes use of a large number of sensory cues. Here we studied the ability of human subjects to search locations, to ªnd shortcuts and novel paths, to estimate distances

Morphological Processing in a Second Language: Behavioral and Event-related Brain Potential Evidence for Storage and Decomposition Anja Hahne1, Jutta L. Mueller1, and Harald Clahsen2 D o w n l o a d e d Abstract & This study reports the results of two behavioral and two event-related brain potential experiments examining the processing of inflected words in second-language (L2) learners with Russian as their native