It is becoming clearer how neurobiological mechanisms generate 'liking'and
'wanting'components of food reward. Mesocorticolimbic mechanisms that enhance …

Computational ideas pervade many areas of science and have an integrative explanatory
role in neuroscience and cognitive science. However, computational depictions of cognitive …

Reward contains separable psychological components of learning, incentive motivation and
pleasure. Most computational models have focused only on the learning component of …

In recent years significant progress has been made delineating the psychological
components of reward and their underlying neural mechanisms. Here we briefly highlight …

What we eat, when and how much, all are influenced by brain reward mechanisms that
generate “liking” and “wanting” for foods. As a corollary, dysfunction in reward circuits might …

What brain reward systems mediate motivational 'wanting'and hedonic 'liking'for food
rewards? And what roles do those systems play in eating disorders? This article surveys …

The aim of the third edition of this book is... to provide a lucid introduction to contemporary
phenomena and theories about learning and behavior. The book strives to present a …

In healthy individuals, food cues can trigger hunger and feeding behavior. Likewise,
smoking cues can trigger craving and relapse in smokers. Brain imaging studies report that …

Early life stress (ELS), in the form of childhood maltreatment, abuse, or neglect, increases
the risk for psychiatric sequelae later in life. The neurobiology of response to early stress …

Cues associated with rewards, such as food or drugs of abuse, can themselves acquire
motivational properties. Acting as incentive stimuli, such cues can exert powerful control …