It's all over the place and maybe nowhere; WE DON'T KNOW - paper abstract here:
This paper tries to connect cognitive processes with structure asking where is morality located? Researchers examined the literature answering that it was found all over the brain; ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPC), the left medial orbitofrontal cortex and medial Brodmann area (when moral situation statements were used). These are areas associated with risk, fear and cognitive processing of decision-making, respectively. The other locations were the right medial orbitofrontal cortex and medial frontal gyrus, and lower medial Brodmann area (when visual stimulus was used). These areas of the limbic system are involved in emotion, reward, behavior and memory.
This paper tries to connect cognitive processes with structure asking where is morality located? Researchers examined the literature answering that it was found all over the brain; ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPC), the left medial orbitofrontal cortex and medial Brodmann area (when moral situation statements were used). These are areas associated with risk, fear and cognitive processing of decision-making, respectively. The other locations were the right medial orbitofrontal cortex and medial frontal gyrus, and lower medial Brodmann area (when visual stimulus was used). These areas of the limbic system are involved in emotion, reward, behavior and memory.
As such, the researchers define morality as a combination of characteristics such as emotion and theory of mind, which encompasses a full range of mental states (beliefs, desires, intentions and imagination) that cause action. This paper finds ..."not necessarily the moral brain, but the engagement of the emotional brain and the social brain during moral cognition”. So, the end suggestion seems to better define precisely what we are looking for in terms of morality, then we can better hone in on where “it” may be.
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