In order to control behavior in an adaptive manner the brain has to learn how some
situations and actions predict positive or negative outcomes. During the last decade …

The activity of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) has been related to decision-making
(Gehring and Willoughby, 2002; Sanfey et al., 2003; Mulert et al., 2008), socially-driven …

It is of the utmost importance for an organism to rapidly detect and react to changes in its
environment. The oddball paradigm has repeatedly been used to explore the underlying …

Decision-making involves a complex interplay of emotional responses and reasoning
processes. In this study, we use TMS to explore the neurobiological substrates of moral …

Self-control is key to success in life. Initial acts of self-control temporarily impair subsequent
self-control performance. Why such self-control failures occur is unclear, with prominent …

Being able to control inner and environmental states is a basic need of living creatures. The
perception of such control is based on the perceived ratio of outcome probabilities given the …

Negative feedback can signal poor performance, but it also provides information that can
help learners reach the goal of task mastery. The primary aim of this study was to test the …

The mechanisms underlying cognitive disturbances in Parkinson's disease (PD) are poorly
understood but likely to depend on the ongoing degenerative processes affecting structural …

Modern theories of moral judgment predict that both conscious reasoning and unconscious
emotional influences affect the way people decide about right and wrong. In a series of …

Whereas positive feedback is both rewarding and informative, negative feedback can be
construed as either punishing (because it is indicative of poor performance) or informative …