Curiosity is a basic element of our cognition, but its biological function, mechanisms, and
neural underpinning remain poorly understood. It is nonetheless a motivator for learning …

The outcome of a decision is often uncertain, and outcomes can vary over repeated
decisions. Whether decision outcomes should substantially affect behaviour and learning …

The number of papers about the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) has grown from 1 per month in
1987 to a current rate of over 50 per month. This publication stream has implicated the OFC …

The prefrontal cortex is so important to human beings that, if deprived of it, our behaviour is
reduced to action-reactions and automatisms, with no ability to make deliberate decisions …

People are capable of robust evaluations of their decisions: they are often aware of their
mistakes even without explicit feedback, and report levels of confidence in their decisions …

Rapid advances have recently been made in understanding how value-based decision-
making processes are implemented in the brain. We integrate neuroeconomic and …

Reinforcement learning is an adaptive process in which an animal utilizes its previous
experience to improve the outcomes of future choices. Computational theories of …

Curiosity—our desire to know—is a fundamental drive in human behaviour, but its
mechanisms are poorly understood. A classical question concerns the curiosity motives …

The prefrontal cortex makes up almost a quarter of the human brain, and it expanded
dramatically during primate evolution. The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex presents a …

In the years since it first published, Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain has
become the standard reference and textbook in the burgeoning field of neuroeconomics …