Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Alterations in amygdala function explain how aging and loneliness impair trust learning

This study shows that aging and loneliness impair trust learning through reduced amygdala function and altered reward signaling.

A frontal motor circuit for economic decisions and actions

This paper identifies a frontal motor circuit that transforms abstract economic decisions into spatial actions through dynamic reconfiguration.

Computational and neural mechanisms underlying the influence of action affordances on value learning

The paper investigates how action affordances influence value-based learning by analyzing human behavior and fMRI data using computational models.

Anxiety Selectively Impairs Reward Learning Under Uncertainty, While N3 Sleep Recalibrates It

The paper shows high trait anxiety impairs reward learning in noisy environments but not volatile ones, and N3 sleep improves learning and evidence accumulation.

Global and selective effects of auditory attention on arousal: insights from pupil dilation

This study uses pupillometry in an auditory task to show that attention modulates arousal globally and selectively, supporting the dual role of norepinephrine.

The Neural Basis of Habit Formation Measured in Goal-Directed Response Switching

This study investigates the neural basis of habit formation by analyzing brain activity during goal-directed response switching, identifying key brain regions and their interactions.

A meta-analysis of neural systems underlying delay discounting: Implications for transdiagnostic research

This paper conducts a meta-analysis of fMRI studies on delay discounting to identify reliable neural correlates and recommends specific analytic approaches for future research.

Exploring neural mechanisms underlying error-related impairments in active working memory suggests an adaptive shielding of contents during cognitive control

The paper investigates how motor errors affect working memory performance and identifies a neurophysiological mechanism underlying error-related impairments in active working memory.

Basal forebrain and neural correlates of self-regulation traits in sustained attention

This study investigates neural correlates of self-regulation traits in sustained attention using functional imaging data, confirming increased recruitment of cholinergic substrates in the basal forebrain.

Anxiety makes time pass quicker: neural correlates

The paper investigates how anxiety affects time perception by examining neural correlates in the cingulate cortex using fMRI and temporal bisection tasks.

Neural signatures of flexible temporal orienting under spatial and motor uncertainty

The paper investigates how temporal attention affects visual processing stages using EEG, finding that temporal predictability modulates ERP components like P300 during target identification tasks.

Multiple Partially Overlapping Neural Modules Orchestrate Conflict Processing

The paper uses EEG data from three conflict tasks to show that conflict processing involves partially overlapping neural mechanisms rather than being fully domain-general or task-specific.

Learning to blink strategically is crucial to performance in a predictable saccade task and varies across the lifespan

The paper investigates how blink timing adapts to a saccade task across age and cognitive control, finding strategic adjustments and age-related declines in blink optimization.

Sex differences in task engagement and lapse rate during reward learning

This study investigates sex differences in reward learning by analyzing task engagement and lapse rates in rats during stimulus- and action-based learning and their reversals.

Generalizable Neural Models of Emotional Engagement and Disengagement

The paper identifies generalizable neural patterns of emotional engagement and disengagement using fMRI and predictive modeling across two studies.

Cardiac-sympathetic state predicts action restraint, gated by demonstrated agency

The paper shows cardiac-sympathetic outflow predicts action restraint during a task, with effects modulated by reward and loss conditions and participant success.

Learning decouples accuracy and reaction time for rapid decisions in a transitive inference task

This study applies a drift diffusion model to analyze decision-making dynamics in a transitive inference task, showing stable reaction times despite improved accuracy during learning.

Environmental Conflict Modulates Pavlovian Bias

This paper shows that environmental conflict reduces Pavlovian avoidance and increases instrumental choice, especially in individuals with high trait anxiety.

Real-time functional connectivity-based neurofeedback of the DLPFC-amygdala pathway during threat-exposure attenuates anxiety

This study uses real-time fMRI neurofeedback to train individuals to regulate DLPFC-amygdala connectivity during threat exposure, reducing anxiety.

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.

Adjacent Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex (DLPFC) Regions Participate in Distinct Large-Scale Networks Differentially Recruited for Social and Cognitive Control Functions

The paper identifies functionally distinct adjacent regions in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) specialized for social and cognitive control tasks using individualized neuroimaging.

Multi-task Intracranial EEG recordings reveal a Comprehensive Role of the Human Dorsal Anterior Insula in High-Level Cognition

This study uses multi-task intracranial EEG recordings to investigate the role of the human dorsal anterior insula in various cognitive tasks, revealing its involvement in the Action-Mode Network and the interplay between cognitive effort and efficiency.

The Inferior Frontal Sulcus, not the Anterior Insula, acts as a late-stage attentional gate for the fast rejection of salient but irrelevant sensory inputs during cognitive tasks

Decision-making components and times revealed by the single-trial electro-encephalogram

The paper uses single-trial EEG to identify five sequential decision-making events and their timing, supported by psychophysical laws and neural activity patterns.

Orbitofrontal noradrenaline mediates volatility-dependent adjustment of learning rate

This study shows that noradrenergic signaling in the orbitofrontal cortex adjusts learning rates based on environmental volatility, improving adaptive decision-making in rats.

Prefrontal cortex temporally multiplexes slow and fast dynamics in value learning and memory

The paper identifies a two-rate system in vlPFC neurons that temporally multiplex slow and fast dynamics during value learning and memory, leading to spontaneous recovery of old values.

Learning from imagined experiences via an endogenous prediction error

The paper shows that imagined experiences can generate prediction errors that drive learning and update preferences about individuals.

Striatal indirect pathway mediates hesitation

This paper identifies the striatal indirect pathway as mediating hesitation in mice through cell-type specific electrophysiology and optogenetics.

The Impact of Acute High-Intensity Activity on Perceptual Decision-Making Dynamics

This study examines how high-intensity exercise affects perceptual decision-making using drift diffusion modeling, finding improved performance and changes in evidence accumulation and non-decision time.

Integrated Representations of Threat and Controllability in the Lateral Frontal Pole

The paper examines how different regions of the lateral prefrontal cortex represent threat and controllability during threat anticipation, finding that the lateral frontal pole uniquely integrates these signals.