The brain architecture of punishment

该项目旨在绘制神经结构，该结构支撑惩罚如何塑造我们的行为，决定和选择。奖励和惩罚是行为最基本的心理基石。它们使我们能够科普不断变化的世界，并通过寻求效用和避免伤害来最大限度地提高我们的生存概率。该项目期望为学习和决策理论的发展提供新的机制见解，并为维持或恢复正常的决策和动机处理奠定新的基础科学平台。该项目预计将提供一个新的知识基础，以了解对澳大利亚经济造成重大负担的疾病，如药物滥用、反社会人格障碍和抑郁症的决策和动机。

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.