Kaosu Matsumori

Motivated for near impossibility: How task type and reward modulate task enjoyment and the striatal activation for extremely difficult task.

The paper investigates how task difficulty and reward affect task enjoyment and striatal activation, finding intrinsic motivation for near-impossible tasks without extrinsic rewards.

Interpersonal Comparison of Utility by Measuring Neural Activity

This study develops a method to compare interpersonal utility using neural activity, finding that brain signals correlate with expected utility and validate an optimal decision rule for well-being aggregation.