Arguably, the most difficult part of learning is deciding what to learn about. Should I
associate the positive outcome of safely completing a street-crossing with the situation 'the …

The prefrontal cortex (PFC) plays a critical role in the generation and regulation of emotion.
However, we lack an integrative framework for understanding how different emotion-related …

The new technological advances achieved during the last decade allowed the scientific
community to investigate and employ neurophysiological measures not only for research …

Humans respond cognitively and emotionally to the built environment. The modern
possibility of recording the neural activity of subjects during exposure to environmental …

In many circumstances alternative courses of action and thoughts have to be inhibited to
allow the emergence of goal-directed behavior. However, this has not been the accepted …

Numerous studies have begun to address how the brain's gray and white matter may be
shaped by meditation. This research is yet to be integrated, however, and two fundamental …

The number of papers about the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) has grown from 1 per month in
1987 to a current rate of over 50 per month. This publication stream has implicated the OFC …

Orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) has long been known to play an important role in decision
making. However, the exact nature of that role has remained elusive. Here, we propose a …

The hippocampus and the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) both have important roles in cognitive
processes such as learning, memory and decision making. Nevertheless, research on the …

Most organisms facing a choice between multiple stimuli will look repeatedly at them,
presumably implementing a comparison process between the items' values. Little is known …