An essential tension can be found between researchers interested in ecological validity and
those concerned with maintaining experimental control. Research in the human …

The ability to regulate emotions is an important part of adaptive functioning in society.
Advances in cognitive and affective neuroscience and biological psychiatry have facilitated …

A common assumption regarding error-based motor learning (motor adaptation) in humans
is that its underlying mechanism is automatic and insensitive to reward-or punishment …

Clinical, experimental and neuroimaging studies indicate that the cerebellum is involved in
neural processes beyond the motor domain. Cerebellar somatotopy has been shown for …

A growing interest in cerebellar function and its involvement in higher cognition have
prompted much research in recent years. Cerebellar presence in a wide range of cognitive …

There is controversy over the nature of the disturbance in brain development that underpins
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In particular, it is unclear whether the …

The somatic marker hypothesis (SMH;[Damasio, AR, Tranel, D., Damasio, H., 1991. Somatic
markers and the guidance of behaviour: theory and preliminary testing. In Levin, HS …

It has been observed that men and women show performance differences in the Iowa
Gambling Task (IGT), a task of decision-making in which subjects through exploration learn …

The current paper reviews four research perspectives that have been used to investigate the
development of risk-taking. Cognitive developmental research has investigated the …

Understanding how organisms deal with probabilistic stimulus-reward associations has
been advanced by a convergence between reinforcement learning models and primate …