In neuroeconomics, valuation refers to the process of assigning values to states and actions
on the basis of the animal's current representation of the environment, while reward …

Over the years, various models have been proposed to explain the psychology and biology
of drug addiction, built primarily around the habit and compulsion models. Recent research …

Abstract Serotonin (5-HT) regulates working memory within the prefrontal cortex network,
which is crucial for understanding obsessive-compulsive disorder. However, the …

Dopamine modulates working memory in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and is crucial for
obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). However, the mechanism is unclear. Here we …

In perceptual categorization, rule selection consists of selecting one or several stimulus-
dimensions to be used to categorize the stimuli (eg, categorize lines according to their …

Work on multiple-system theories of cognition mostly focused on the systems themselves,
while limited work has been devoted to understanding the interactions between systems …

Treatment planning for patients diagnosed with brain tumors requires understanding the
disease dynamics. Mathematical formalization of the tumor progression often implies …

Cognitive models of ACT-R architecture process information in multiple stages, mimicking
the different stages that humans undergo while performing cognitive tasks. For evaluating …

Very little work in psychology has tried to simultaneously tackle the representational problem
and the search problem in creative problem solving. Unifying these two fields is critical …

The goal of this proposal is to design a neurobiologically-based model that describes the
switching mechanism in category learning based on existing category learning theory and …