Background: We propose the use of serious games to screen for abnormal cognitive status
in situations where it may be too costly or impractical to use standard cognitive assessments …

Highlights•Computational approaches provide novel insights into psychiatric
conditions.•There exist several challenges for translating the approaches into clinical …

Psychological research has placed great emphasis on inhibitory control due to its integral
role in normal cognition and clinical disorders. The stop-signal task and associated measure …

Three experiments are presented that explore the assertion that loss aversion and
diminishing sensitivity drive the effect of experience on choice behavior. The experiments …

The current evidence of cognitive disturbances and brain alterations in schizophrenia does
not provide the plausible explanation of the underlying mechanisms. Neuropsychological …

Philosophers and psychologists have long-debated the notion that the voice in our heads
might help us to control our actions. Evidence from a number of lines of research suggests …

Computerised cognitive assessments are a vital tool in the behavioural sciences, but
participants often view them as effortful and unengaging. One potential solution is to add …

Although low self-control is consistently related to adolescent offending, it is unknown
whether self-report measures or laboratory behavior tasks yield better predictive utility, or if a …

Psychopathic individuals are generally unresponsive to motivational and emotional cues
that facilitate behavioral regulation. A putative mechanism for this deficiency is Gray's (1981) …

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of perceived time pressure on
a learning-based task called the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT). One hundred and sixty-three …