- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Face Recognition and Perception
University of Birmingham
2023-2025
Abstract Reinforcement learning is a fundamental process for how humans and other animals attain rewards themselves. However, to act prosocially, we must also learn our choices reward others. The ventromedial prefrontal cortex has been independently linked reinforcement prosocial behaviour, yet its causal impact on the roles of multiple subregions remain unknown. Here, large group adults with rare focal damage (n=28), two carefully age- gender-matched control groups (lesions elsewhere, n=21;...
Humans are highly social beings who interested in what others saying, thinking, and doing. A recent study the Proceedings of National Academy Sciences finds that we can easily tell whether a person’s pattern attention is natural or artificially manipulated.