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

Empathy reflects the ability to perceive and be sensitive to the emotional states of others,
often eliciting a motivation to care for their well-being. It plays a central role in prosocial …

The specific neural systems underlying the subjective feeling of fear are debated in affective
neuroscience. Here, we combine functional MRI with machine learning to identify and …

Artificial intelligence (AI) is often used to describe the automation of complex tasks that we
would attribute intelligence to. Machine learning (ML) is commonly understood as a set of …

Determining and decoding emotional brain processes under ecologically valid conditions
remains a key challenge in affective neuroscience. The current functional Magnetic …

While disgust originates in the hard-wired mammalian distaste response, the conscious
experience of disgust in humans strongly depends on subjective appraisal and may even …

The insula and the cingulate are key brain regions with many heterogenous functions. Both
regions are consistently shown to play integral roles in the processing of affective, cognitive …

Learning to predict action outcomes in morally conflicting situations is essential for social
decision-making but poorly understood. Here we tested which forms of Reinforcement …

Based on neuroimaging data, the insula is considered important for people to empathize
with the pain of others. Here, we present intracranial electroencephalographic (iEEG) …

Neurobiological pain models propose that chronic pain is accompanied by neurofunctional
changes that mediate pain processing dysfunctions. In contrast, meta‐analyses of …