Monja P. Neuser

This study investigates the effects of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) on brain signaling using fMRI, finding increased NTS activation but no changes in dynamic functional connectivity or gastric motility.

Influenca is a gamified app for repeated assessment of reward learning, showing moderate reliability in reinforcement learning parameters over time.

The paper examines the relationship between variability in reward seeking and eating behaviors, finding that greater effort variability is linked to lower cognitive restraint.

This study shows that transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) increases vigor for rewards, particularly for food, but not effort maintenance, with left-side stimulation having a stronger effect.

This study shows that vagus nerve stimulation impairs reinforcement learning by reducing the learning rate, particularly after punishment, in a go/no-go task.

This study investigates how the anterior insula modulates prefrontal cortex responses to emotional stimuli based on expectancy signals using fMRI and cross-correlation analyses.