Recent years have seen a rejuvenation of interest in studies of motivation–cognition
interactions arising from many different areas of psychology and neuroscience. The present …

Predictive coding is a unifying framework for understanding redundancy reduction and
efficient coding in the nervous system. By transmitting only the unpredicted portions of an …

Understanding how the brain computes value is a basic question in neuroscience. Although
individual studies have driven this progress, meta-analyses provide an opportunity to test …

The subjective well-being or happiness of individuals is an important metric for societies.
Although happiness is influenced by life circumstances and population demographics such …

We examined the neural basis of self-regulation in individuals from a cohort of preschoolers
who performed the delay-of-gratification task 4 decades ago. Nearly 60 individuals, now in …

This meta‐analysis explores the location and function of brain areas involved in social
cognition, or the capacity to understand people's behavioral intentions, social beliefs, and …

Over the last 10 years advances in the new field of neuromarketing have yielded a host of
findings which defy common stereotypes about consumer behavior. Reason and emotions …

Neuroimaging studies of decision-making have generally related neural activity to objective
measures (such as reward magnitude, probability or delay), despite choice preferences …

Introduction Pleasure and reward are generated by brain circuits that are largely shared
between humans and other animals. Discussion Here, we survey some fundamental topics …

The basal ganglia as a whole are broadly responsible for sensorimotor coordination,
including response selection and initiation. However, it has become increasingly clear that …