The neural networks that putatively modulate aspects of normal emotional behavior have
been implicated in the pathophysiology of mood disorders by converging evidence from …

Positive affect systematically influences performance on many cognitive tasks. A new
neuropsychological theory is proposed that accounts for many of these effects by assuming …

Half of all Americans have money in the stock market, yet economists can't agree on whether
investors and markets are rational and efficient, as modern financial theory assumes, or …

This highly influential work--now in a revised and expanded third edition incorporating major
advances in the field--gives clinicians, educators, and students a new understanding of what …

One of the most influential ideas in the past 30 years is the Efficient Markets Hypothesis, the
idea that market prices incorporate all information rationally and instantaneously. However …

Abstract “Executive functions” is an umbrella term for functions such as planning, working
memory, inhibition, mental flexibility, as well as the initiation and monitoring of action. The …

Minimizing the costs that others impose upon oneself and upon those in whom one has a
fitness stake, such as kin and allies, is a key adaptive problem for many organisms. Our …

The orbitofrontal cortex contains the secondary taste cortex, in which the reward value of
taste is represented. It also contains the secondary and tertiary olfactory cortical areas, in …

There are many advantages to defining emotions as states elicited by reinforcers, with the
states having a set of different functions. This approach leads towards an understanding of …

This book updates the Dual Coding Theory of mind (DCT), a theory of modern human
cognition consisting of separate but interconnected nonverbal and verbal systems. Allan …