Raymond J. Dolan

TL;DR: It is shown that, even when the degree of perceptual familiarity of an option is unrelated to choice outcome, novelty nevertheless drives choice behavior, and the brain uses perceptual novelty to approximate choice uncertainty in decision making.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used fMRI adaptation to investigate whether the human anterior superior temporal sulcus contains representations of different gaze directions, as suggested by non-human primate research.

TL;DR: Regression analysis of the neuroimaging data revealed that left amygdala and right lateral orbitofrontal rCBF covaried as a function of stimulus category (i.e., food vs non-food).

TL;DR: M measuring how much money people will sacrifice to reduce the number of painful electric shocks delivered to either themselves or an anonymous stranger shows that most people valued others’ pain more than their own pain, and this ‟hyperaltruistic” valuation was linked to slower responding when making decisions that affected others, consistent with an engagement of deliberative processes in moral decision making.

TL;DR: Functional magnetic resonance imaging scanning parameters are adapted to maximize sensitivity to medial temporal lobe activity to demonstrate that left perirhinal and hippocampal responses during word list encoding are greater for subsequently recalled than forgotten words.