How do minds emerge from developing brains? According to “neural constructivism,” the
representational features of cortex are built from the dynamic interaction between neural growth …

Many models of judgment and decision-making posit distinct cognitive and emotional
contributions to decision-making under uncertainty. Cognitive processes typically involve exact …

Distributive justice concerns how individuals and societies distribute benefits and burdens
in a just or moral manner. We combined distribution choices with functional magnetic …

How do the representations underlying cognitive skills emerge? It is becoming increasingly
apparent that answering this question requires integration of neural, cognitive and …

Using a multiround version of an economic exchange (trust game), we report that reciprocity
expressed by one player strongly predicts future trust expressed by their partner—a …

Understanding how organisms deal with probabilistic stimulus-reward associations has
been advanced by a convergence between reinforcement learning models and primate …

In decision-making under uncertainty, economic studies emphasize the importance of risk in
addition to expected reward. Studies in neuroscience focus on expected reward and …

Interactions with other responsive agents lie at the core of all social exchange. During a
social exchange with a partner, one fundamental variable that must be computed correctly is …

It has been shown that human combination of crossmodal information is highly consistent
with an optimal Bayesian model performing causal inference. These findings have shed light …

Experimental evidence has consistently confirmed the ability of uninformed traders, even
novices, to infer information from the trading process. After contrasting brain activation in …