Reward-related cues are an important part of our daily life as they often influence and guide
our actions. This paper reviews one of the experimental paradigms used to study the effects …

Emotions are multifaceted, but a key aspect of emotion involves the assessment of the value
of environmental stimuli. This article reviews the many psychological representations …

An increasingly popular method of assessing cognitive functions in rodents is the automated
touchscreen platform, on which a number of different cognitive tests can be run in a manner …

Of the many conceptual distinctions present in psychology today, the approach-avoidance
distinction stands out as one of, if not the, most fundamental and basic. The distinction …

The prefrontal cortex has been implicated in a variety of cognitive and executive processes,
including working memory, decision-making, inhibitory response control, attentional set …

If reward-associated cues acquire the properties of incentive stimuli they can come to
powerfully control behavior, and potentially promote maladaptive behavior. Pavlovian …

Adolescence is a transitional period between childhood and adulthood that encompasses
vast changes within brain systems that parallel some, but not all, behavioral changes …

In this review we discuss the evidence that drug addiction, defined as a maladaptive
compulsive habit, results from the progressive subversion by addictive drugs of striatum …

We review drug addiction from the perspective of the hypothesis that drugs of abuse interact
with distinct brain memory systems. We focus on emotional and procedural forms of memory …

There is general acknowledgement that both the anterior cingulate and orbitofrontal cortex
are implicated in reinforcement-guided decision making, and emotion and social behaviour …