Overlapping neural systems represent cognitive effort and reward anticipation [PDF]
, 2014 Anticipating a potential benefit and how difficult it will be to obtain it are valuable skills in a constantly changing environment. In the human brain, the anticipation of reward is encoded by the Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC) and Striatum. Naturally,
Achten, Eric +5 more
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'The risks of playing it safe': a prospective longitudinal study of response to reward in the adolescent offspring of depressed parents [PDF]
, 2013 BACKGROUND Alterations in reward processing may represent an early vulnerability factor for the development of depressive disorder. Depression in adults is associated with reward hyposensitivity and diminished reward seeking may also be a feature of ...
A. Rawal +6 more
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Cholinergic innervation is necessary to shift reward timing activity in rodent visual cortex [PDF]
, 2011 While the biological analogue of prediction error has been well characterized in the midbrain dopaminergic system, the possibility of other neuromodulatory systems acting as global reinforcers is a topic of much debate.
Emma Roach, Marshall Hussain Shuler
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Reward-to-risk ratios of funds of hedge funds [PDF]
, 2012 This chapter examines whether the fund of hedge fund portfolios dominate the U.S. equity and bond markets based on alternative measures of reward-to-risk ratios. Standard deviation is used to measure total risk and both nonparametric and parametric value-
Agarwal +20 more
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Homo economicus in visual search [PDF]
, 2009 How do reward outcomes affect early visual performance? Previous studies found a suboptimal influence, but they ignored the non-linearity in how subjects perceived the reward outcomes.
Koch, Christof +2 more
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Altered reward processing in patients with lifelong premature ejaculation
Scientific Reports, 2023 Given that sexual behavior is usually pleasurable and highly rewarding, it is surprising that there is as yet no known research to empirically assess how premature ejaculation (PE) patients respond to the rewarding aspect of sexual behavior.
Yansong Li +7 more
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Learning Contextual Reward Expectations for Value Adaptation [PDF]
, 2018 Substantial evidence indicates that subjective value is adapted to the statistics of reward expected within a given temporal context. However, how these contextual expectations are learned is poorly understood.
Chew, B. +3 more
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The Role of Predictions, Their Confirmation, and Reward in Maintaining the Self-Concept
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2022 The predictive processing framework posits that people continuously use predictive principles when interacting with, learning from, and interpreting their surroundings.
Aviv Mokady, Niv Reggev, Niv Reggev
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Understanding the benefits of extrinsic emotion regulation in depression
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Depression is a serious psychiatric illness that negatively affects people’s feelings, thoughts, and actions. Providing emotion regulation support to others, also termed Extrinsic Emotion Regulation (EER), reduces depressive symptoms such as ...
Atheer Massarwe, Noga Cohen, Noga Cohen
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A Nested Family of $k$-total Effective Rewards for Positional Games [PDF]
, 2015 We consider Gillette's two-person zero-sum stochastic games with perfect information. For each $k \in \ZZ_+$ we introduce an effective reward function, called $k$-total.
Boros, Endre +3 more
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