To analyze the neuromoral circuit scientists perform experimental paradigms utilizing fMRI and tasks that assess moral reasoning and judgment. One method includes the administration of moral dilemmas to subjects, in the form of anecdotes, while their brain activity is measured by fMRI. Another approach includes the presentation of emotionally charged moral or immoral scenes and images to subjects while their brain activity is measured by fMRI. Moreover, measuring neuronal assembly activity during personal and impersonal moral dilemmas has also been a method of investigating morality at the brain level. Finally, the pathological approach investigates tissue abnormalities in the neuromoral network and links them to potential cognitive and behavioral deficits.
