Economic approaches to decision making assume that people attach values to prospective
goods and act to maximize their obtained value. Neuroeconomics strives to observe these …

Abstract The United States National Institute of Mental Health has recently promoted the
Research Domain Criteria framework, which emphasizes the study of neurocognitive …

BACKGROUND: Mesocorticolimbic neurocircuitry and impulsivity have both been implicated
in pathological gambling (PG) and in reward processing. However, the neural …

Children encounter technology constantly at home and in school. Television, DVDs, video
games, the Internet, and smart phones all play a formative role in children's development …

Objective The feedback negativity (FN) is an event-related potential that differentiates
unfavorable versus favorable outcomes. Although thought to reflect error-related activity …

Rational choice theory predicts that humans always optimize the expected utility of options
when making decisions. However, in decision‐making games, humans often punish their …

The reinforcement learning theory of the error-related negativity (ERN) holds that the impact
of reward signals carried by the midbrain dopamine system modulates activity of the anterior …

Context The neural basis of excessive delay discounting and reduced risk sensitivity of
pathological gamblers with a particular focus on subjective neural reward representations …

Gambling is pertinent to neuroscience research for at least two reasons. First, gambling is a
naturalistic and pervasive example of risky decision making, and thus gambling games can …

Feedback ERN (fERN) and frontal midline theta have both been proposed to index a
dopamine‐like reinforcement learning signal in anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). We …