The empirical study of belief is emerging at a rapid clip, uniting work from all corners of
cognitive science. Reliance on belief in understanding and predicting behavior is …

The hypothesis put forth is that expectations of treatment effects reduce negative emotions
and thereby reduce symptoms, eg pain. Negative emotions increase pain, and it is …

Concussion is a growing public health issue in the United States, and chronic traumatic
encephalopathy (CTE) is the chief long-term concern linked to repeated concussions …

Background Addiction is supposedly characterized by a shift from goal-directed to habitual
decision making, thus facilitating automatic drug intake. The two-step task allows …

Placebo treatments and opiate drugs are thought to have common effects on the opioid
system and pain-related brain processes. This has created excitement about the potential for …

Visual attentional capacity is severely limited, but humans excel in familiar visual contexts, in
part because long-term memories guide efficient deployment of attention. To investigate the …

Recent work suggests that subconcussive head impacts may contribute to long-term
neurodegeneration; however, the risk thresholds are unknown. It was hypothesized that the …

Background: The anterior cingulate and several other prefrontal and parietal brain regions
are implicated in error processing and cognitive control. The effects of different doses of …

Functional magnetic imaging (fMRI) studies showed that resting state activity in the healthy
brain is organized into multiple large‐scale networks encompassing distant regions. A key …

Little is known about how prior beliefs impact biophysically described processes in the
presence of neuroactive drugs, which presents a profound challenge to the understanding of …