Traditionally, studies of how pain and attention modulate one another involved explicit
cognitive-state manipulations. However, emerging evidence suggests that spontaneous …

How is the processing of task information organized in the brain? Many views of brain
function emphasize modularity, with different regions specialized for processing different …

The growth of online transactions coupled with the worldwide expansion of Internet-based
information exchange has triggered fear, distrust and risk among online consumers. Despite …

The influence of mood on choices is a well-established but poorly understood phenomenon.
Here, we suggest a three-fold neuro-computational account:(1) the integration of positive …

Risk tolerance, the degree to which an individual is willing to tolerate risk in order to achieve
a greater expected return, influences a variety of financial choices and health behaviors …

Mood effects on economic choice seem blatantly irrational, but might rise from mechanisms
adapted to natural environments. We have proposed a theory in which mood helps adapting …

Event-related potential (ERP) has the potential to reveal the temporal neurophysiological
dynamics of risk decision-making, but this potential has not been fully explored in previous …

Identifying factors whose fluctuations are associated with choice inconsistency is a major
issue for rational decision theory. Here, we investigated the neuro-computational …

Recent studies have shown that spontaneous pre-stimulus fluctuations in brain activity affect
higher-order cognitive processes, including risky decision-making, cognitive flexibility, and …

Intertemporal choice refers to decisions that need to weigh different rewards at different time
points in the future. Decision impulsivity manifests in the tendency of choosing smaller …