Background: Existing literature suggests that attentional control is needed to overcome an attentional bias towards food cues. Overcoming this bias is important in avoiding unhealthy eating behaviors, such as overeating. ...

Obesity has reached pandemic proportions, resulting in major negative consequences for people’s health. Obesity results from a positive energy balance between food intake and energy expenditure. A promising method to ...

Although curiosity was long characterized as information-seeking with the aim of maximizing rewards, it was found that receiving information in itself is already rewarding. This raised questions about what curiosity actually ...

The past decade has seen a surge of interest in selective stopping. Researchers studying selective stopping have relied on the independent race model of simple stopping. Furthermore, they have investigated selective ...

There is considerable interindividual variability in learning from rewards and punishments. Because dopamine is a key mediator in this type of learning, we hypothesized that these differences originate from variability in ...

The dopaminergic midbrain (substantia nigra and ventral tegmental area (SN/VTA)), is associated with computation of reward prediction signals. This reward prediction error is essential for learning. GABA also plays a crucial ...