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Neurocomputational mechanisms involved in adaptation to fluctuating intentions of others

Nature Communications
Humans frequently interact with agents whose intentions can fluctuate between competition and cooperation over time. It is unclear how the brain adapts to fluctuating intentions of others when the nature of the interactions (to cooperate or compete) is ...
Rémi Philippe, Rémi Janet, Koosha Khalvati, Rajesh P. N. Rao, Daeyeol Lee, Jean-Claude Dreher   +5 more
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Commentary: New View on Treatment of Drug Dependence

Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, 2014
In the 1960s, discovery of pleasure system (defined as reward system) in the brain that may underlie drug reward and addiction encouraged many scientists to investigate the mechanisms by which drug abuse affects central nervous system function.
Mina Ranjbaran, Hedayat Sahraei
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Language Learning Enhanced by Massive Multiple Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) and the Underlying Behavioral and Neural Mechanisms

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2017
Massive Multiple Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) have increased in popularity among children, juveniles, and adults since MMORPGs’ appearance in this digital age.
Yongjun Zhang, Yongjun Zhang, Hongwen Song, Xiaoming Liu, Xiaoming Liu, Dinghong Tang, Yue-e Chen, Yue-e Chen, Xiaochu Zhang, Xiaochu Zhang, Xiaochu Zhang, Xiaochu Zhang, Xiaochu Zhang   +12 more
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Agenda for future business resilience and survival avenues in crisis times: A systematic literature review of the effects of COVID-19 on SMEs’ productivity in South Africa

Social Sciences and Humanities Open
For handling future crises and to give their businesses the best chance of survival it is imperative that owners and managers of SMEs have a comprehensive understanding of the severity of the impact of the crisis itself.
Nokuphila Yvonne Biyela, Reward Utete
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Exploring governance challenges in South African public organisations

Cogent Social Sciences
Despite the incessant poor service delivery serving as a reminder to the existence of governance challenges, the existing literature gives scant attention to what constitute governance challenges in public organisations.
Ndimphiwe Mlamli Marawu, Reward Utete
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The link between social comparison orientation and domain-specific risk-taking: exploring the mediating role of two dimensions of trait competitiveness

Frontiers in Psychology
IntroductionOur recent research has demonstrated that social comparison orientation of ability (SCO-ability) is an antecedent of trait competitiveness (TC), and TC mediates the relation between SCO-ability and domain-specific risk-taking.
Yuqian Wang, Andrew J. Elliot, Edmund Derrington, Yansong Li, Yansong Li, Yansong Li   +5 more
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Learning the specific quality of taste reinforcement in larval Drosophila

eLife, 2015
The only property of reinforcement insects are commonly thought to learn about is its value. We show that larval Drosophila not only remember the value of reinforcement (How much?), but also its quality (What?).
Michael Schleyer, Daisuke Miura, Teiichi Tanimura, Bertram Gerber   +3 more
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Exploring the relationship between employee engagement and counterproductive work behaviour

Frontiers in Psychology
IntroductionDespite the cumulative increase in counterproductive work behaviour in various organisations which have ripple effects on general organisational performance, little is known on how employee engagement relates to counterproductive work ...
Sphindile Mvuyana, Thokozani Ian Nzimakwe, Reward Utete   +2 more
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Sequential selection of economic good and action in medial frontal cortex of macaques during value-based decisions

eLife, 2015
Value-based decisions could rely either on the selection of desired economic goods or on the selection of the actions that will obtain the goods. We investigated this question by recording from the supplementary eye field (SEF) of monkeys during a ...
Xiaomo Chen, Veit Stuphorn
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Primate amygdala neurons evaluate the progress of self-defined economic choice sequences

eLife, 2016
The amygdala is a prime valuation structure yet its functions in advanced behaviors are poorly understood. We tested whether individual amygdala neurons encode a critical requirement for goal-directed behavior: the evaluation of progress during ...
Fabian Grabenhorst, Istvan Hernadi, Wolfram Schultz   +2 more
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