The dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) has a near-ubiquitous presence in the
neuroscience of cognitive control. It has been implicated in a diversity of functions, from …

Abstract The Status Quo Bias (SQB) describes an individual's preference to avoid changes
and maintain the current situation. In today's world, technological advances require nearly …

In this paper, we revisit the problem of Bayesian model selection (BMS) at the group level.
We originally addressed this issue in Stephan et al.(2009), where models are treated as …

Belief in one's ability to exert control over the environment and to produce desired results is
essential for an individual's wellbeing. It has repeatedly been argued that perception of …

It takes effort and time to tame one's impulses. Although medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is
broadly implicated in effortful control over behavior, the subthalamic nucleus (STN) is …

In perceptual decision-making, advance knowledge biases people toward choice
alternatives that are more likely to be correct and more likely to be profitable. Accumulation …

Decision-making invokes two fundamental axes of control: affect or valence, spanning
reward and punishment, and effect or action, spanning invigoration and inhibition. We …

Planning and executing volitional actions in the face of conflicting habitual responses is a
critical aspect of human behavior. At the core of the interplay between these 2 control …

The selection of actions, and the vigor with which they are executed, are influenced by the
affective valence of predicted outcomes. This interaction between action and valence …

1. Some people have been interested in increasing consumers' use of" green energy"-
energy sources that do not significantly contribute to air pollution, climate change, and other …