Tobias Nolte

The paper introduces a Caring Attributions task and identifies valence-partitioned temporal-difference Bayesian inference as a new neurocomputational mechanism for judging others' care or lack thereof.

This study examines how adult attachment styles influence the perception of affective touch and interoception, finding that insecure attachment reduces pleasantness discrimination of affective touch.

The paper uses fMRI to show that GPe activity interacts with reward and dopamine levels, supporting a computational model of value encoding in the basal ganglia.