Substance dependence is a prevalent and urgent public health problem. In 2021, 60 million
Americans reported abusing alcohol within the month prior to being surveyed, and nearly 20�…

Consistent evidence documents powerful effects of social inequality on health, well-being
and academic achievement. Yet research on whether social inequality may also be linked to�…

Two decades of social neuroscience and neuroeconomics research illustrate the brain
mechanisms that are engaged when people consider human beings, often in comparison to�…

Recent studies proposed a general psychopathology factor underlying common
comorbidities among psychiatric disorders. However, its neurobiological mechanisms and�…

Human cerebral organoids are three-dimensional biological cultures grown in the laboratory
to mimic as closely as possible the cellular composition, structure, and function of the�…

Recent work demonstrating low test-retest reliability of neural activation during fMRI tasks
raises questions about the utility of task-based fMRI for the study of individual variation in�…

Although alpha‐band activity has long been a focus of psychophysiological research, its
modulation by emotional value during picture perception has only recently been studied�…

Working memory (WM) maintenance relies on multiple brain regions and inter-regional
communications. The hippocampus and entorhinal cortex (EC) are thought to support this�…

Functional localization is a central aim of cognitive neuroscience. But the nature and extent
of functional localization in the human brain have been subjects of fierce theoretical debate�…

This chapter asks to what extent can neuroscientific data be used to arbitrate among
different psychological theories of emotion. It focuses on human functional neuroimaging�…