Jamil Zaki

Conservative and liberal attitudes drive polarized neural responses to political content

The paper examines how conservative and liberal attitudes lead to polarized neural responses to political content, identifying brain regions and language features that drive these differences.

Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying motivated seeing

The paper investigates how reward motivation affects perceptual judgments and finds that motivation biases neural representations in visual cortex.

Wanting to like: Motivation influences behavioral and neural responses to social feedback

The paper examines how motivation influences neural and behavioral responses to social feedback, finding that reward responses to positive feedback depend on the likability of the source.