Motivational processes underlie behaviors that enrich the human experience, and
impairments in motivation are commonly observed in psychiatric illness. While motivated …

One fundamental question concerning brain reward mechanisms is to determine how
reward-related activity is influenced by the nature of rewards. Here, we review the …

Over the past twenty years there has been an increasing number of brain imaging studies on
the mechanisms underlying reward motivation in humans. This narrative review describes …

In humans, the anterior insula (aI) has been the topic of considerable research and ascribed
a vast number of functional properties by way of neuroimaging and lesion studies. Here, we …

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 …

Motivational relevance can prioritize information for memory encoding and consolidation
based on reward value. In this review, we pinpoint the possible psychological and neural …

The basal ganglia have traditionally been viewed as motor processing nuclei; however,
functional neuroimaging evidence has implicated these structures in more complex …

Many of the individual differences in cognition, motivation, and learning—and the disruption
of these processes in neurological conditions—are influenced by genetic factors. We …

Since its modern inception about two decades ago, the use of neuroscience tools and
insights in studying advertising has grown an increasing prominence in the researcher's …

Investigations of individual differences have become increasingly important in the cognitive
neuroscience of executive control. For instance, individual variation in lateral prefrontal …