Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) enables non-invasive access to the awake,
behaving human brain. By tracking whole-brain signals across a diverse range of cognitive …

Subjective value is a core concept in neuroeconomics, serving as the basis for decision
making. Despite the extensive literature on the neural encoding of subjective reward value …

Frontal and parietal cortex are implicated in economic decision-making, but their causal
roles are untested. Here we silenced the frontal orienting field (FOF) and posterior parietal …

Humans often face the challenge of making decisions between ambiguous options. The
level of ambiguity in decision-making has been linked to activity in the parietal cortex, but its …

A growing body of research has placed the ventral striatum at the center of a network of
cerebral regions involved in anticipating rewards in healthy controls. However, little is known …

Decisions between two economic goods can be swayed by a third unavailable
'decoy'alternative, which does not compete for choice, notoriously violating the principles of …

Is irrational behavior the incidental outcome of biological constraints imposed on neural
information processing? In this work, we consider the paradigmatic case of gamble …

Risk is a fundamental factor affecting individual and social economic decisions, but its
neural correlates are largely unexplored in the social domain. The amygdala, together with …

Computational neuroscience offers a valuable opportunity to understand the neural
mechanisms underlying behavior. However, interpreting individual differences in these …

A core assumption in decision neuroscience is that individuals decide between options by
comparing option-specific subjective reward values. Psychological accounts challenge this …