Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

This study investigates how the brain learns and uses attentional templates in decision-making tasks, showing that templates are represented in prefrontal and parietal cortex and transform stimuli into value representations.

The paper examines sex differences in subcortical brain volume trajectories across adolescence using longitudinal data from two European sites.

The paper investigates the cortical, genetic, and molecular dissociation of three attention networks using multimodal neuroimaging and finds that gene expression co-varies with activation maps but neurotransmitter receptor distributions do not align with the networks.

This study investigates ERP correlates of confidence during decision formation in a perceptual judgment task and finds that higher confidence is associated with larger CPP amplitudes, independent of relative evidence.

The paper investigates how hostile attribution bias affects neural synchrony in the left ventromedial prefrontal cortex during social narratives, finding it correlates with attributional complexity and can be classified from neural data.

The paper shows that category-based attention enhances memory search efficiency by modulating visual processing and directing spatial attention to within-category distractors.

This study examines how reproductive experience affects cost-benefit decision making in male and female rats, finding sex-specific differences in risk-taking and intertemporal choice.

This study uses fMRI to separate the effects of task process and stimulus domain on control networks during semantic and non-semantic tasks, finding both factors influence activation patterns.

The paper identifies neural signatures of emotion regulation using fMRI data and machine learning models, showing they can predict emotion regulation with 82.5% accuracy.

This study shows distributional reinforcement learning better explains prefrontal cortex responses compared to classic reinforcement learning.

The paper finds that the presence of a specific sulcus in the left anterior lateral prefrontal cortex correlates with higher reasoning scores in young adults.

The paper uses computational modeling in rats to identify decision-making strategies underlying cognitive effort, revealing distinct subgroups and neurotransmitter effects on attention and choice behavior.

This study investigates how the modality of go signals affects stopping speed in response to stop signals, finding faster stopping in cross-modal conditions and fastest stopping with audiovisual stop signals.

This study investigates the neural correlates of impulsivity using meta-analytic synthesis and functional connectivity modelling, identifying distinct brain networks associated with decision-making and action control.

This study examines how challenge level and reward size affect mental effort, stress, and affect during a cognitive task, finding that higher challenge and rewards increase effort but also stress, while rewards alone boost positive affect.

The paper investigates whether task-related changes in EEG recordings reflect changes in sensory representations or additional cognitive processes, finding that they reflect cognitive processes like target recognition.

This study investigates the role of anterior cingulate cortex (CG) in working memory by optogenetically silencing CG neurons during specific task phases in a delayed non-match to trajectory task.

The paper uses meta-analytic evidence to show brain regions involved in error processing versus successful response in cognitive control tasks.

The paper identifies conserved neural mechanisms in the lateral habenula that integrate information value with extrinsic rewards to guide multi-attribute decisions.

This study investigates shared and distinct brain mechanisms of conflict resolution in cognitive control using fMRI, distinguishing them from time-on-task effects.

This study uses fMRI to compare neural changes during instruction-based and trial-and-error learning, finding that S-R rule representations guide task performance regardless of learning mode.

This study uses RNNs to simulate WM prioritization, showing context and priority are encoded via distinct mechanisms in neural representations.

The paper investigates neural dynamics during competition between voluntary and involuntary attentional control in visual working memory, showing delayed prioritization and increased frontal midline theta activity.

This paper uses electromyography to study motor inhibition during failed stopping in a stop signal task, finding that EMG differentiates failed from successful stops and shows persistent inhibition after failed attempts.

This study uses fMRI and multivariate decoding to show that neural preparation for stimulus relevance and probability involves distinct brain regions with some overlap in the fusiform gyrus.

This study shows that human insula and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex encode reward prediction errors asymmetrically, with distinct neural populations for positive, negative, and unsigned RPEs.

This study uses transcranial focused ultrasound on rIFG during a Stop-Signal task to show that it improves response inhibition by reducing P300 onset latency, not amplitude.

This study uses optogenetic disruptions in rats to show the medial prefrontal cortex's role in different working memory processes during flexible decision-making.

This study investigates how working memory load affects instrumental learning under Pavlovian influence, finding that it slows learning and increases randomness without altering Pavlovian bias.

This study identifies brain regions involved in devaluation-sensitive and devaluation-insensitive Pavlovian learning by analyzing reward and state prediction errors using fMRI and computational modeling.