Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

This study investigates how catecholaminergic neuromodulation and spatial attention jointly influence perceptual decision-making through behavioral, algorithmic, and neural measures.

The paper investigates how subjective value representations in the human orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) are influenced by past and present context during economic decision-making using sEEG data.

This study shows rats use distinct value computations for sequential decisions within trials, revealing how different value estimates interact dynamically during rapid decision-making.

This paper introduces DeCoP, a novel decoding method that separates reward processing into evaluation and salience components, showing improved performance over traditional methods.

This study investigates the distinct roles of vlOFC and BLA in stimulus- and action-based reversal learning under uncertainty using chemogenetic inhibition in rats.

This study uses fMRI and dynamic causal modeling to show that ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) modulates connections from dorsolateral PFC to orbitofrontal cortex based on prior belief during decision strategy re-evaluation.

The paper identifies distinct neural interaction subsystems in the human frontal cortex for reward and punishment learning using intracranial recordings.

This study shows that humans exhibit rapid withdrawal responses to feared animals like snakes and spiders, mediated by reflex-like attentional processing, with later conscious attention slowing the response.

This study uses fMRI and pupillometry to show that both types of deviant stimuli activate multiple subcortical systems, including the locus coeruleus, in a 'local-global' paradigm.

The paper shows that boundary updating explains how previous stimulus history affects decision uncertainty and choice bias through behavioral, physiological, and neural evidence.

This study uses meta-analytic neuroimaging to show acetylcholine modulates midcingulo-insular network activity during attention, enhancing response speed without sacrificing accuracy.

This study examines the development of sustained and selective attention in adolescents and finds they predict classroom distractibility, with sustained attention continuing to develop while selective attention matures earlier.

This paper frames approach-avoidance conflict tasks as multi-objective reinforcement learning problems and introduces decision-makers to distinguish between reinforcement learning models.

The paper shows how dopaminergic plasticity shifts evidence accumulation in humans by altering competition between action representations during decision-making.

This study uses computational modeling on a large sample to show that punishment learning increases with age while reward learning remains stable, and action initiation biases decrease.

The paper examines how working memory-related neural activity changes with adolescent development in non-human primates, finding that the most significant changes occur in intermediate cortical layers rather than superficial layers.

The paper investigates how cognitive control adjusts target and distractor processing under different task demands, finding distinct mechanisms for enhancing targets and suppressing distractors.

The paper examines the correlation between the balance N1 and ERN amplitudes in young and older adults, finding shared variance but also task-specific components.

The paper investigates how salience and reward affect impulse control, finding that high salience improves stopping performance and rewards benefit those with low task-induced motivation.

This paper provides behavioral and electrophysiological evidence of sub-second updates in reward predictions using slot machine outcomes.

The paper shows that distinct lateral prefrontal regions exhibit an anterior-posterior functional gradient, with posterior areas involved in working memory and anterior areas less responsive to task-related stimuli.

The paper identifies temporally specific neural activity patterns in subcallosal ACC, striatum, and amygdala during reward anticipation in non-human primates.

This study shows that the unexpected absence of threat activates human reward and salience systems similarly to reward prediction errors, with stronger responses to more probable and intense omissions.

This study identifies distinct roles of the orbitofrontal cortex, ventral striatum, and dopamine neurons in processing counterfactual outcomes during decision-making in monkeys.

This study measures non-selective motor effects of inhibitory control using isometric force recordings, showing suppression of task-irrelevant hand force during action-stopping.

The paper investigates how the cingulo-opercular network contributes to decision-making under ambiguity using fMRI and behavioral tasks.

The paper shows that the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (vlPFC) encodes value pop-out during visual search, with neural activity predicting search efficiency.

This paper develops an EEG measure of continuous feedback processing in humans and tests whether it aligns with the reward prediction error hypothesis.

The paper examines how pre- and post-choice neural signals relate to confidence in perceptual decisions, finding that post-choice evidence accumulation continues and is influenced by confidence levels.

The paper confirms that improved instructions enhance model-based decision making but also shows reward effects are linked to stimulus-response learning.