The ability to regulate emotions is an important part of adaptive functioning in society.
Advances in cognitive and affective neuroscience and biological psychiatry have facilitated …

Cannabis use during adolescence increases the risk of developing psychotic disorders later
in life. However, the neurobiological processes underlying this relationship are unknown …

Many people voluntarily incur costs to punish violations of social norms. Evolutionary
models and empirical evidence indicate that such altruistic punishment has been a decisive …

Although executive function (EF) is often considered a domain-general cognitive function, a
distinction has been made between the “cool” cognitive aspects of EF more associated with …

Background Recent studies suggest that internet addiction disorder (IAD) is associated with
structural abnormalities in brain gray matter. However, few studies have investigated the …

We propose a model of addiction based on three premises:(i) use among addicts is
frequently a mistake;(ii) experience sensitizes an individual to environmental cues that …

During the past decade, a rising interest has emerged in aspects of the broad construct of
executive function (EF) in childhood. This has transpired as research has discovered that the …

Visual aesthetic perception (“aesthetics”) or the capacity to visually perceive a particular
attribute added to other features of objects, such as form, color, and movement, was fixed …

The Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) involves probabilistic learning via monetary rewards and
punishments, where advantageous task performance requires subjects to forego potential …

Physiological studies of auditory perception have not yet clearly distinguished sensory from
decision processes. In this experiment, human participants identified speech sounds …