Kiana M. Sabugo

The paper investigates how incentive valence engages different basal ganglia circuits during movement initiation, finding distinct neural patterns for reward and threat conditions.

This study uses TREV to measure cardiac contractility during threat anticipation and finds it correlates with neural activity and emotional responses better than skin conductance responses.

The paper dissociates the functional roles of a novel open-loop circuit and a traditional closed-loop circuit in the human brain during incentive-based motor tasks.