This ought to be good: Brain activity accompanying positive and negative expectations and outcomes

This ought to be good: brain activity accompanying positive and negative expectations and outcomes.

The current study employed a modified gambling task, in which probabilistic cues were provided to elicit positive or negative expectations. Event-related potentials (ERPs) to "final outcome" and "probabilistic cues" were analyzed. Difference waves between the negative condition and the corresponding positive condition were examined. The results confirm that feedback related negativity (FRN) amp...

Evaluation of Positive and Negative Affect Induction on the Regional Brain Activity and Personality Traits

Objective: The present study aims to investigate the effect of emotions (negative and positive affects) and gender on the activity of different brain regions and their relationship with personality traits of extraversion, introversion, neuroticism, and stability. Methods: The study participants were 33 right-handed volunteer undergraduate students (17 males and 16 females). Our stimuli were tw...

An Integrated Framework for Ought-to-be and Ought-to-do Constraints 1

An Integrated Framework for Ought-to-be and Ought-to-do Constraints (Extended Abstract)

Deontic logic is the logic to reason about ideal and actual behaviour. Besides the traditional role as an underlying logic for law and ethics (for a survey see [MW]), in the realm of computer science, deontic logic has been proposed as a logic for the specification of legal expert systems [BMT87],[Sta80], authorization mechanisms [ML85], decision support systems [Kd.,88], [Lee88b],[Lee88a], dat...

There ought to be a law?