Emotion, motivation, decision-making, the orbitofrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, and the amygdala

ET Rolls - Brain Structure and Function, 2023 - Springer
The orbitofrontal cortex and amygdala are involved in emotion and in motivation, but the
relationship between these functions performed by these brain structures is not clear. To …

Learning task-state representations

Y Niv - Nature neuroscience, 2019 - nature.com
Arguably, the most difficult part of learning is deciding what to learn about. Should I
associate the positive outcome of safely completing a street-crossing with the situation 'the …

Emotion and the prefrontal cortex: An integrative review.

ML Dixon, R Thiruchselvam, R Todd… - Psychological …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) plays a critical role in the generation and regulation of emotion.
However, we lack an integrative framework for understanding how different emotion-related …

[HTML][HTML] The psychology and neuroscience of curiosity

C Kidd, BY Hayden - Neuron, 2015 - cell.com
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 …

[BUCH][B] Moral tribes: Emotion, reason, and the gap between us and them

J Greene - 2014 - books.google.com
“Surprising and remarkable… Toggling between big ideas, technical details, and his
personal intellectual journey, Greene writes a thesis suitable to both airplane reading and …

[HTML][HTML] The expected value of control: an integrative theory of anterior cingulate cortex function

A Shenhav, MM Botvinick, JD Cohen - Neuron, 2013 - cell.com
The dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) has a near-ubiquitous presence in the
neuroscience of cognitive control. It has been implicated in a diversity of functions, from …

Taking stock of value in the orbitofrontal cortex

EB Knudsen, JD Wallis - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
People with damage to the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) have specific problems making
decisions, whereas their other cognitive functions are spared. Neurophysiological studies …

Motivation and cognitive control: from behavior to neural mechanism

M Botvinick, T Braver - Annual review of psychology, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Research on cognitive control and executive function has long recognized the relevance of
motivational factors. Recently, however, the topic has come increasingly to center stage, with …

Cognitive effort: A neuroeconomic approach

A Westbrook, TS Braver - Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 2015 - Springer
Cognitive effort has been implicated in numerous theories regarding normal and aberrant
behavior and the physiological response to engagement with demanding tasks. Yet, despite …

What the orbitofrontal cortex does not do

TA Stalnaker, NK Cooch, G Schoenbaum - Nature neuroscience, 2015 - nature.com
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 …