Because of dogs' prolonged evolution with humans, many of the canine cognitive skills are
thought to represent a selection of traits that make dogs particularly sensitive to human cues. …

Understanding dogs’ perceptual experience of both conspecifics and humans is important to
understand how dogs evolved and the nature of their relationships with humans and other …

There is mounting evidence that the mesolimbic dopamine system carries valuation signals
not only for appetitive or gain-related stimuli, with which it is traditionally associated, but also …

The overall goal of this work was to measure the efficacy of fMRI for predicting whether a dog
would be a successful service dog. The training and imaging were performed in 49 dogs …

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we capture neural activity in the ventral
striatum—a key area in the human brain's reward processing circuit—of 35 adult investors …

The majority of decision-related research has focused on how the brain computes decisions
over outcomes that are positive in expectation. However, much less is known about how the …

The disposition effect is a phenomenon in which investors hold onto losing assets longer
than they hold onto gaining assets. In this study, we used functional magnetic resonance …

Decisions about consequences that are delayed in time are referred to as intertemporal
choice. The importance of such decisions can easily be illustrated by their pervasiveness …

Clinical information suggests that opioid dependence is a major contributor to poor outcomes
involving health status and to increased length of stay in hospital settings. Before spine …

Standard economic theory treats contractual risk the same as risk experienced in a lottery,
but the transfer of risk from principal to agent may change the perception of risk. Previous …