However, less is known about the nature of the representations in the human brain for reward and punishment, especially for abstract types of reward and punishment (such as praise or losing money).

Here, there, everywhere: Reward and penalty processing is widespread in the human brain Date: October 5, 2011 Source: Cell Press Summary: Our behavior is often guided by the desire to obtain ...

The very concept of divine reward and punishment has more in common with the way a child is introduced to religion than how an adult engages with life and its many paths.

A new study shows that dopamine release in the human brain plays a crucial role in encoding both reward and punishment prediction errors. This means that dopamine is involved in the process of ...

I've disliked the idea of rewards and punishments since graduate school, when I read Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community, by Alfie Kohn. In it, Kohn blasts behavior modification ...

There's actually two kinds of neurons in the striosome that allow the animal to do both--reward pursuing and also punishment avoidance. Those different things are both critical for us to survive with.

In Devarim 11:13-21 the Torah talked about reward and punishment. The people are commanded to love the LORD, serve him with all our hearts and souls and we will be rewarded with rain and grain ...

More than just the 'rewards' chemical, dopamine helps our brains avoid negative experiences based on previous 'punishment' ...

Like Humans, Chimps Reward Cooperation and Punish Freeloaders Recent research challenges the notion that our closest animal relatives don’t like working as a team By Bret Stetka ...