Nils Kolling

Prefrontal mechanisms of goal progress inference and monitoring in macaque monkeys

This study investigates neural mechanisms in macaque monkeys for tracking goal progress and rate, showing distinct roles in midcingulate and lateral prefrontal cortex.

Controllability and cause in human collaboration

The paper investigates how people determine controllability and causality in collaborative settings through specific behavioral patterns and brain activity in the supramarginal gyrus.

Confidence and insight into working memories are shaped by attention and recent performance

The paper investigates how attention and performance feedback influence confidence and insight in working memory, showing attention improves confidence judgments and feedback helps update beliefs over time.

General mechanisms of task engagement in the primate frontal cortex

The paper identifies common neural patterns associated with task engagement and disengagement in macaques using fMRI, showing causal links to specific brain regions.

VmPFC supports persistence during goal pursuit through selective attention

This study investigates how the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) supports persistence during goal pursuit by modulating attention, showing that vmPFC activity predicts individual differences in goal-oriented attention and persistence.

Strategic exploration in the macaque prefrontal cortex

This study investigates strategic exploration in macaques, showing distinct neural circuits in ACC/MCC-dlPFC and OFC that support strategic decision-making and counterfactual learning.

Temporal Scaling of Human Scalp-Recorded Potentials

This study reveals consistent temporal scaling of human scalp-recorded potentials across four EEG tasks using a novel general linear modelling approach.

Spatiotemporally Resolved Multivariate Pattern Analysis for M/EEG

This paper introduces STRM, a method for analyzing M/EEG data to infer spatiotemporal activity patterns and improve predictive accuracy in neuroscience tasks.

Dopamine modulates dynamic decision-making during foraging

This study shows dopamine modulates decision-making during foraging by influencing background reward rates rather than foreground rewards.

The macaque anterior cingulate cortex translates counterfactual choice value into actual behavioral change

This study investigates how macaque monkeys maintain and translate counterfactual choice values into behavioral changes using functional MRI and ultrasound disruption of the anterior cingulate cortex.

Simultaneous representation of a spectrum of dynamically changing value estimates during decision making

The paper shows that four brain regions represent value estimates on different time-scales, interacting to support flexible decision-making.