Ayat Abdurahman

The paper identifies distinct neural representations for prosocial and self-benefitting effort using fMRI and shows empathy correlates with prosocial effort encoding.

This study shows that older adults maintain prosocial learning rates but have reduced self-relevant learning rates compared to younger adults.

The paper investigates neural mechanisms of model-free learning in moral decision-making, finding that model-free learning prioritizes avoiding harm to others over self and involves specific brain regions.