Dan Bang

Dynamics of dopamine transients in human olfactory epithelium during reward learning

This study measures fast dopamine transients in human olfactory epithelium during reward learning tasks and finds they shift from outcomes to cues, matching prediction error signals.

Dopamine and serotonin transients predict depressive symptom relief following deep brain stimulation of human subcallosal cingulate cortex

This paper shows that dopamine and serotonin changes during deep brain stimulation predict symptom relief in treatment-resistant depression.

Dopamine dynamics in human anterior cingulate cortex during Pavlovian-instrumental conflict

This study investigates dopamine's role in the human anterior cingulate cortex during Pavlovian-instrumental conflict, showing it evaluates Pavlovian responses in a reinforcement learning framework.

Octopamine and tyramine dynamics predict learning rate phenotypes during associative conditioning in honey bees

Neurocomputational mechanisms of confidence in self and others

The paper investigates how confidence in others' decisions is computed by combining estimates of ability and decision difficulty, supported by specific brain systems.

Distinct neurocomputational mechanisms support informational and normative conformity

This study identifies distinct neural mechanisms for informational and normative conformity using fMRI during a social decision-making task.

Private-public mappings in human prefrontal cortex

The paper investigates how the human brain supports private-public mappings in social contexts using fMRI data from an interactive task.

Human noise blindness drives suboptimal cognitive inference

This study shows humans adapt near-optimally to sensory noise but exhibit suboptimal cognitive judgments under integration noise, captured by a Bayesian model blind to this noise.

Group decision-making is optimal in adolescence

This study shows that group decision-making by adolescents is optimal, with performance at adult levels, challenging previous views of adolescent decision-making as sub-optimal.

Distinct encoding of decision confidence in human medial prefrontal cortex

The paper investigates how decision confidence is encoded in the human medial prefrontal cortex using fMRI, finding distinct neural signatures for confidence compared to sensory reliability and boundary distance.