The brain architecture of punishment

这个项目旨在绘制出惩罚如何塑造我们的行为、决定和选择的神经结构。奖励和惩罚是行为最基本的心理组成部分。它们使我们能够应对不断变化的世界，并通过寻求效用和避免伤害来最大化我们的生存概率。本项目期望为学习和决策理论的发展提供新的机制见解，为维持或恢复正常的决策和动机加工奠定新的基础科学平台。该项目有望为理解药物滥用、反社会人格障碍和抑郁症等对澳大利亚经济造成重大负担的疾病中的决策和动机提供新的知识基础。

This project aims to map the neural architecture that underpins how punishment shapes our behaviours, decisions and choices. Reward and punishment are the most fundamental psychological building blocks of behaviour. They allow us to cope with a changing world and maximise our probability of survival by seeking utility and avoiding harm. This project expects to provide new mechanistic insights to advance theories of learning and decision-making and lay a new basic science platform for maintaining or restoring normal decision making and motivational processing. This project is expected to provide a new knowledge base for understanding decision-making and motivation in disorders that impose significant burdens on the Australian economy such as substance abuse, antisocial personality disorder and depression.