Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

This study investigates how computational complexity affects neural processes during problem-solving using fMRI.

The paper investigates dynamic inter-areal communication in macaque ventral frontal cortex during decision-making, finding temporally specific and task-dependent patterns of connectivity.

This study examines layer-specific responses in the dlPFC during a working memory task using fMRI, finding differential activation patterns in superficial and deep layers across task phases.

The paper investigates how lactate levels in the dmPFC/dACC relate to motivation for physical effort and neural activity, finding a systemic influence of lactate on brain metabolism.

This study investigates how reward prospects affect cognitive processing under different task specificity conditions, finding that reward enhances preparatory top-down attention in a task-specific manner.

This study uses intracerebral stimulation to show that different locations in ventromedial prefrontal cortex and anterior insula have opposing effects on economic choices.

This study identifies distinct OFC-subcortical pathways in macaques that support experience-based and inference-based value updating during adaptive decision-making.

This study examines how anhedonia severity affects attentional network recruitment and emotional blunting during music listening in healthy adults.

The paper shows mice adapt perceptual choice history biases to different temporal regularities, supported by a reinforcement learning model and striatal dopamine signals.

The paper shows that prediction-error signals in the anterior cingulate cortex are necessary for rapid task-switching in mice, with specific neural circuits involved in computing these signals.

This paper models how the brain computes delayed consequences in decision-making without explicit feedback, showing how neural dynamics and learning mechanisms adapt over time.

This study separates the neural bases of selective attention and decision-making using a two-stage task and multimodal neuroimaging data, showing attention affects stimulus representations before decision-making begins.

This study investigates how stake magnitude affects Pavlovian biases and response speed in humans, finding that high stakes slow responses without altering bias magnitude.

This study examines sex differences in contextual control over reward prediction in rats, finding females show slower acquisition but more robust performance with increased orbitofrontal cortex activation.

The paper shows that during decision-making, macaques' gaze at empty locations reactivates value encoding in orbitofrontal cortex, influencing choices even after offers are no longer visible.

The paper shares a dataset of cognitive tasks, anatomical MRI, and functional MRI data from 103 healthy adults to study self-regulation.

This study uses EEG and ERP analyses to show that a concurrent working memory task eliminates the Stroop effect by disrupting stimulus-response mapping.

The paper investigates how reward and difficulty cues are evaluated before and after task experience, finding that reward cues are positively evaluated even before task experience, influencing performance.

The paper investigates how the medial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) processes spatial margin of safety decisions, showing distinct roles for anterior and posterior regions in threat predictability and safety signaling.

The paper records neural activity in eight subdivisions of macaque ventral frontal cortex during a decision-making task and finds dissociable representations of decision variables across these regions.

This study examines inhibitory control during gait initiation using EEG, finding that uncertainty delays reaction time and modulates ERP and time-frequency activities.

The paper introduces a joint model of choices and reaction times that integrates Bayesian decision making with sampling procedures to explain decision processes in cognitive tasks.

This study shows that hippocampal and striatal volumes in children relate to different aspects of value-based learning over two years, with hippocampus linked to delayed learning and striatum to both immediate and delayed learning.

The paper develops a method to quantify decision-making strategies and flexibility during spatial set-shifting, linking them to neural rhythms in the medial prefrontal cortex.

The paper investigates how humans learn from implicit and explicit feedback during perceptual decision-making using EEG-fMRI, identifying distinct neural signatures in the striatum and their integration in the external globus pallidus.

The paper analyzes local field potentials in rat brain regions during a GO/noGO task to identify their functional roles in cognitive and motivational processing.

The paper investigates how short-term memory ability influences cognitive effort deployment for reward in humans, finding it is the strongest predictor compared to depression, stress, and reward anticipation.

This study investigates whether tDCS affects frontal alpha asymmetry and inhibitory control, finding no effect on FAA or inhibitory control metrics but identifying a correlation between reward-related inhibitory activity and trait FAA.

This study uses fMRI to identify brain regions and networks associated with affective valence and intensity during sustained pleasure and pain, showing distinct neural coding for each.

This study examines how cognitive control varies during high and low arousal states using an auditory conflict task, finding distinct behavioral dynamics in decision-making processes.