In everyday life, we have to decide whether it is worth exerting effort to obtain rewards. Effort
can be experienced in different domains, with some tasks requiring significant cognitive …

Prosocial acts—those that are costly to ourselves but benefit others—are a central
component of human coexistence–. While the financial and moral costs of prosocial …

Incentive salience theory both explains the directional component of motivation (in terms of
cue attraction or “wanting”) and its energetic component, as a function of the strength of cue …

Preclinical studies have implicated noradrenergic (NA) dysfunction in cocaine addiction. In
particular, the NA system plays a central role in motivated behavior and may partake in the …

In young adults, recollection-sensitive brain regions exhibit enhanced connectivity with a
widely distributed set of other regions during successful versus unsuccessful recollection …

The emergence of mobile eye trackers embedded in next generation smartphones or VR
displays will make it possible to trace not only what objects we look at but also the level of …

When solving dynamic visuo-spatial tasks, like multiple-object tracking (MOT), the brain
copes with challenges imposed by the number of objects (ie load) that has to be tracked, but …

Prosocial acts—those that are costly to ourselves but benefit others—are a central
component of human coexistence1, 2, 3. While the financial and moral costs of prosocial …

Forschung zum Einfluss von Belohnungen und Hinweisen, die mit Belohnungen assoziiert
werden, haben eine lange Tradition. Diese reicht bis zu den klassischen Lernexperimenten …