Psychiatric disorders encompass complex aberrations of cognition and affect and are
among the most debilitating and poorly understood of any medical condition. Current …

Recent work in social cognition has moved beyond a focus on how people process social
rewards to examine how healthy people represent other agents and how this is altered in …

External rewards such as food and money are potent modifiers of behaviour,. Pioneering
studies established that these salient sensory stimuli briefly interrupt the tonic discharge of …

Memorization and generalization are complementary cognitive processes that jointly
promote adaptive behavior. For example, animals should memorize safe routes to specific …

The human brain is composed of multiple, discrete, functionally specialized regions that are
interconnected to form large-scale distributed networks. Using advanced brain-imaging …

The consolidation of discrete experiences into a coherent narrative shapes the cognitive
map, providing structured mental representations of our experiences. In this process, past …

Learning describes the process by which our internal expectation models of the world are
updated by surprising outcomes (prediction errors [PEs]) to improve predictions of future …

Some experiences linger in mind, spontaneously returning to our thoughts for minutes after
their conclusion. Other experiences fall out of mind immediately. It remains unclear why. We …

Bottom-up models of functionally relevant patterns of neural activity provide an explicit link
between neuronal dynamics and computation. A prime example of functional activity …

Music can evoke pleasurable and rewarding experiences. Past studies that examined task-
related brain activity revealed individual differences in musical reward sensitivity traits and …