Delay discounting (DD) refers to the phenomenon in which the subjective value of future
rewards is reduced over time. There are individual differences in the DD rate, and increased …

Distributive justice concerns the moral principles by which we seek to allocate resources
fairly among diverse members of a society. Although the concept of fair allocation is one of …

This fMRI study analyzes inferences on other persons' traits, whereby half of the participants
were given spontaneous (“read”) instructions while the other half were given intentional …

The ability to comprehend and represent the temporal properties of an occurrence is a
crucial aspect of human language and cognition. Despite advances in neurolinguistic …

Episodic thinking involves the ability to re-create past and to construct future personal
events, which contain event-specific (episodic) and general (semantic) details. The richness …

Human decision-making frequently relies on mental simulation of future rewards to guide
action choice. In this study, we sought to uncover brain regions engaged during reward …

The default mode network (DMN) is activated when constructing and imagining narrative
events, with functional brain activity in the medial-prefrontal cortex hypothesized to be …

One of the key unresolved issues in affective science is understanding how the subjective
experience of emotion is structured. Semantic space theory has shed new light on this …

Background: Moral judgment has been proposed to rely on a distributed brain network. This
function is impaired in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), a condition …

Imagining future events and remembering past events rely on a common core network, but
several regions within this network—including the hippocampus—show increased activity …