Imagine you are about to confront a friend about a hurtful comment she made and are trying to predict her response. Depending ...

Damage to another region -- the 'ventral' region of medial prefrontal cortex -- was found to cause short-sightedness in decision-making, where one would choose a smaller smaller reward earlier ...

The second system involved in forgiving is central to coping, or reinterpreting information about ourselves, other people, and the world in a way that speeds up our recovery from distress and restores ...

Consistent with past work, we found correlates of sampled evidence in ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), and correlates of accumulated evidence in the prefrontal and parietal cortex. We also ...

Using this approach, they find that regions of the brain supporting valuation (vmPFC and ventral striatum) have responses reflecting gaze-weighted valuation of the currently presented item, whereas ...

However, in the medial prefrontal cortex, there were significantly more spatially tuned neurons when the monkeys were working with another live monkey instead of a filmed monkey or object.

Looking ahead, researchers hope to understand more about the ventral premotor cortex and the medial prefrontal cortex and how they function as a network for social cognition.

Depression is one of the most serious mental disorders affecting modern human life and is often caused by chronic stress. Dopamine system dysfunction is proposed to contribute to the pathophysiology ...

This Research Topic sees itself as a descendant of Goldman-Rakic's horizontal division of the prefrontal cortex into spatial, "where", more output-oriented areas in the dorsal prefrontal cortex, and ...