Research Articles
How Hunger Rewires Decision-Making: The Surprising Link Between Empty Stomachs and Economic Rationality
Discover how hunger enhances economic rationality and promotes consistent decision-making in non-human primates, with implications for human behavior and eating disorders.
The Aging Social Brain: Why We Misplace Trust as We Grow Older
Explore how aging affects social decision-making and trust through the CISDA framework. Learn about the science behind elder vulnerability to fraud and the brain changes that impact social cognition.
Cracking the Code of Restless Bandits: How Scientists Reverse-Engineer Our Decisions
Explore how cognitive scientists use parameter and model recovery to decode decision-making processes in restless bandit problems, advancing computational psychiatry and neuroscience.
The Brain's Clockwork: How Your Mind Makes Timely Decisions
Explore the neuroscience of temporal decision-making, how our brains process time, and the neural mechanisms behind delay discounting and time perception.
The Brain's Shopping Cart: Why a 'Rational' Brain Region Isn't What We Thought
Discover how recent neuroscience research challenges the long-held belief about the brain's economic decision-making center and what this means for our understanding of rationality.
Cracking the Brain's Code: How Virtual Mazes and AI are Unlocking the Secrets of Decision-Making
Explore how fMRI and flexible recurrent neural networks are revolutionizing our understanding of decision-making processes in the human brain.
The Time Warp: Why Your Brain Chooses Cake Now Over Kale Later
Discover how logarithmic time-perception in the brain explains impulsive decisions and self-control challenges in intertemporal choice.
The Brain's Decision Factory: How the Basal Ganglia Guides Your Choices
Explore how the basal ganglia, a deep-brain structure, serves as a crucial decision-making hub that helps us navigate uncertainty and guides our choices in health and disease.
The Brain's Decision Desk: Unpacking the What, When, and Whether of Intentional Action
Exploring the WWW model of intentional action and how the brain makes decisions about what to do, when to act, and whether to act at all.