The Language of Mens Rea

. J.D. Candidate, Vanderbilt Law School; Ph. D. Candidate in Neuroscience, Vanderbilt University. . McKnight Land-Grant Professor & Associate Professor of Law, University of Minnesota; Executive Director of Education and Outreach, MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience. . Coauthors listed beyond the second author are listed alphabetically by last name. . Harrison Foundation Professor of Medicine and Law, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, Professor of Public Policy, and Director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. . District Judge, Second Judicial District (Denver), State of Colorado; Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Colorado and University of Denver; Member, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience; Research Fellow, Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research. . Joe B. Wyatt Distinguished University Professor, New York Alumni Chancellor’s Professor of Law, and Professor of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University; Director, MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience. . Professor, Department of Psychology and Center for Integrated and Cognitive Neuroscience, Vanderbilt University. . Professor of Law and The Honorable Frank R. Kenison Distinguished Scholar in Law, Boston University School of Law. . Acknowledgments: We received helpful comments from members of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience and from the organizers of and participants at the Adjudicating Guilty Minds Symposium at Duke Law School, the Guilty Minds: Neuroscience & Criminal Law Symposium of the Denver University Law Review, and conferences of the MacArthur Foundation Law and Neuroscience Project. Roland Nadler and Sarah PrenticeMott provided valuable research assistance. Preparation of this Article was supported in part by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Its contents reflect the views of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of either the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation or The MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience.