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 …

How do people choose between options? At one extreme, the 'value-first'view is that the
brain computes the value of different options and simply favours options with higher values …

An update to the classic text that links neuroscience and human behavior in the context of
therapy. This groundbreaking book explores the recent revolution in psychotherapy that has …

Creating a healthy, social classroom environment. This book explains how the brain, as a
social organism, learns best throughout the lifespan, from our early schooling through late …

For years, the brain has been viewed as a relatively static entity, determined by the
interaction of genetic preprogramming and early childhood experience. In contrast to this …

When observing the outcome of a choice, people are sensitive to the choice's context, such
that the experienced value of an option depends on the alternatives: getting $1 when the …

Rewards have been examined extensively by both psychologists and neuorscientists and
have become one of the most contentious issues in social and educational psychology. In …

People engaged in interactive decision making rely on prior decision behaviors by other
persons to make new choices and they exhibit inter-brain synchrony between each other …

An essential feature of choice is the assignment of goal values (GVs) to the different options
under consideration at the time of decision making. This computation is done when …

While making economic choices, individuals assign subjective values to the available
options. Values computed in different behavioral conditions, however, can vary substantially …