The breadth and complexity of natural behaviors inspires awe. Understanding how our
perceptions, actions, and internal thoughts arise from evolved circuits in the brain has …

The new technological advances achieved during the last decade allowed the scientific
community to investigate and employ neurophysiological measures not only for research …

Problems of cooperation--in which agents seek ways to jointly improve their welfare--are
ubiquitous and important. They can be found at scales ranging from our daily routines--such …

Social interactions involve complex decision-making tasks that are shaped by dynamic,
mutual feedback between participants. An open question is whether and how emergent …

The goal of the NIH Science of Behavior Change (SOBC) Common Fund Program is to
provide the basis for an experimental medicine approach to behavior change that focuses …

Research has demonstrated that extensive structural and functional brain development
continues throughout adolescence. A popular notion emerging from this work states that a …

Purpose For many consumer neuromarketing researchers, the use of functional magnetic
resonance imaging has been the most preferred neuroscience technique. However …

Computational ideas pervade many areas of science and have an integrative explanatory
role in neuroscience and cognitive science. However, computational depictions of cognitive …

Although the prevalent view of emotion and decision making is derived from the notion that
there are dual systems of emotion and reason, a modulatory relationship more accurately …

We review emerging research on the psychological and biological factors that underlie
social group formation, cooperation, and conflict in humans. Our aim is to integrate the …