Humans require a plethora of higher cognitive skills to perform executive functions, such as
reasoning, planning, language and social interactions, which are regulated predominantly …

Economic choice behavior entails the computation and comparison of subjective values. A
central contribution of neuroeconomics has been to show that subjective values are …

Most organisms facing a choice between multiple stimuli will look repeatedly at them,
presumably implementing a comparison process between the items' values. Little is known …

To better understand the reward circuitry in human brain, we conducted activation likelihood
estimation (ALE) and parametric voxel-based meta-analyses (PVM) on 142 neuroimaging …

Welcome to the third edition of The Psychology of Attitudes & Attitude Change. As you would
expect, this edition contains many new developments. As a starting point, Bas Verplanken …

Context Research has implicated an addictive process in the development and maintenance
of obesity. Although parallels in neural functioning between obesity and substance …

It has long been suspected that the relative abundance of specific nutrients can affect
cognitive processes and emotions. Newly described influences of dietary factors on …

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 …

The basal ganglia as a whole are broadly responsible for sensorimotor coordination,
including response selection and initiation. However, it has become increasingly clear that …

El objetivo de este trabajo es discutir el estado de la ciencia en el ámbito de la
neuropsicología de las funciones ejecutivas, definidas como habilidades de alto orden …