Psychological and Brain Mechanisms of Moral Reasoning for Individuals With Autism

	Psychological and Brain Mechanisms of Moral Reasoning for Individuals With Autism
	Li Zhan-Xing 1,2; Zhu Li-Qi1
摘要	Deficits in communication are one of the main symptoms for individuals with autism, and studying their mode of moral reasoning might help us explain this phenomenon. Previous research has shown differences in moral reasoning between individuals with autism and normal individuals. For example, people with autism could distinguish moral violation from conventional violation, but they often judged those actors who hurt others without intention deliberately. On the other hand, they were not sensitive to the victim's emotional cues and could not understand what others felt. Such studies suggest that the ability to mind-read and to show empathy with others might be some of the key psychological mechanisms required to complete moral reasoning tasks. Furthermore, other research suggests that there is a relationship between the moral reasoning and language development of individuals with autism. People with autism often explain their moral reasoning by repeating story details and declaring concrete outcomes, but their explanations lack descriptions of abstract moral rules. Brain imaging studies show that there are significant differences between people with autism and typically-developing individuals in the activation in the orbito-frontal cortex (OFC), amygdala, insula, inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), anterior cingulate cortex(ACC), medial prefrontal cortex(mPFC), default-mode network(DMN) and right temporo-parietal junction (RTPJ) in moral reasoning. These locations are also vital brain regions for theory of mind or empathy. Further studies have shown that when completing sentence processing tasks, people with autism also showed different activation in the verbal functional association areas by contrast with nounal individuals, and this might be the internal basis for their explanation mode of moral reasoning. Future research should consider the interaction of the influence of theory of mind, empathy and verbal ability in moral reasoning for individuals with autism, and adopt more non-verbal methods. In addition, future studies could incorporate brain damage technology and hormone level analysis to examine the physiological mechanism of moral reasoning for people with autism comprehensively.
关键词	Autism Theory Of Mind Empathy Moral Reasoning Brain Mechanism
	2015-12-01
语种	英语
发表期刊	PROGRESS IN BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS
ISSN	1000-3282
卷号	42 期号:12 页码:1103-1111
期刊论文类型	Review
收录类别	SCI ; SSCI
WOS关键词	HIGH-FUNCTIONING AUTISM ; SPECTRUM DISORDERS ; EMOTION RECOGNITION ; ASPERGER-SYNDROME ; EMPATHY ; CHILDREN ; JUDGMENT ; ADULTS ; MIND ; FMRI
WOS标题词	Science & Technology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine
WOS研究方向	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology ; Biophysics
WOS类目	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology ; Biophysics
WOS记录号	WOS:000367202700004
引用统计	被引频次：3[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/15432
专题	中国科学院行为科学重点实验室
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Key Lab Behav Sci, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Grad Sch, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
第一作者单位	中国科学院行为科学重点实验室
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Li Zhan-Xing,Zhu Li-Qi. Psychological and Brain Mechanisms of Moral Reasoning for Individuals With Autism[J]. PROGRESS IN BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS,2015,42(12):1103-1111.
APA	Li Zhan-Xing,&Zhu Li-Qi.(2015).Psychological and Brain Mechanisms of Moral Reasoning for Individuals With Autism.PROGRESS IN BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS,42(12),1103-1111.
MLA	Li Zhan-Xing,et al."Psychological and Brain Mechanisms of Moral Reasoning for Individuals With Autism".PROGRESS IN BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS 42.12(2015):1103-1111.

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