There have been numerous attempts to explain the enigma of autism, but existing
neurocognitive theories often provide merely a refined description of 1 cluster of symptoms …

Some people hear voices that others do not, but only some of those people seek treatment.
Using a Pavlovian learning task, we induced conditioned hallucinations in four groups of …

The habenula (Hb) is an evolutionary well-conserved structure located in the epithalamus.
The Hb receives inputs from the septum, basal ganglia, hypothalamus, anterior cingulate …

Although affective value is fundamental in explanations of behavior, it is still a somewhat
alien concept in cognitive science. It implies a normativity or directionality that mere …

A rich body of studies in the human and non-human literature has examined the question
how novelty influences memory. For a variety of different stimuli, ranging from simple objects …

Music listening is highly pleasurable and important part of most people's lives. Because
music has no obvious importance for survival, the ubiquity of music remains puzzling and …

Readers and listeners actively predict upcoming words during language processing. These
predictions might serve to support the unification of incoming words into sentence context …

It is widely agreed upon that linguistic predictions are an integral part of language
comprehension. Yet, experimental proof of their existence remains challenging. Here, we …

Abstract Introduction: The habenula (Hb) is postulated to play a critical role in reward and
aversion processing across species, including humans, and has been increasingly …

Discrepancies between expectations and outcomes, or prediction errors, are central to trial-
and-error learning based on reward and punishment, and their neurobiological basis is well …