Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

The paper examines how the brain processes selection and execution errors using EEG, finding distinct neural signatures for each type of error.

This study examines the effects of a single dose of tyrosine on decision-making tasks and physiological arousal, finding reduced response times and altered temporal discounting.

This study investigates how dopamine affects error-monitoring EEG signatures in Parkinson's disease patients under medication and withdrawal conditions.

This study investigates how the lateral orbitofrontal cortex (lOFC) interacts with the primary somatosensory cortex (S1) during tactile learning, showing lOFC sends signals to S1 to update sensory representations during behavioral adaptation.

The paper links sign-tracking behavior in youth to externalizing behaviors and specific reward-related brain activation patterns.

This study identifies a cross-hemispheric excitatory-inhibitory loop between the prefrontal cortex and cerebellum that resolves the Stroop effect by regulating interference between language and color information.

This study investigates neural processes during conflict resolution in cognitive control tasks and finds task-specific neural signatures that do not generalize across tasks.

The paper shows that preparatory activity in mouse frontal cortex encodes prospective value to support predictive choice behavior.

This study investigates corticostriatal and thalamostriatal connectivity during serial reversal learning, finding increased functional connectivity between the centromedian-parafascicular nuclei and striatum for negative feedback.

The paper investigates neural correlates of implicit emotion regulation in children using fMRI and identifies putamen activity associated with emotional response inhibition.

This study shows that specific prefrontal cortex projections to striatum and thalamus differentially control context-dependent strategy switching in mice.

The paper identifies distinct prefrontal circuits targeting anterior and posterior dorsal striatum subregions and characterizes their roles in action control during a choice task.

This study investigates the role of the rat frontal orienting field (FOF) and posterior parietal cortex (PPC) in economic decisions under risk, finding that FOF inactivation significantly alters behavior by reducing the utility function exponent.

The paper shows that unreliable individual neurons in monkey orbitofrontal cortex collectively encode reliable economic value signals during choice tasks.

This study investigates whether attention selects individual features or whole objects in working memory using EEG, eye-tracking, and behavioral measures, finding that attention spreads between an object's features.

This study uses fMRI to show that left posterior parietal cortex tracks Bayesian inference components during a probabilistic decision task.

The paper investigates neurocognitive mechanisms in spatial reward learning, showing feedback-related ERP differences and predictive brain activity linked to spatial attention.

The paper shows that hypoexcitability of anterior insular cortex neurons in juvenile rats is linked to compulsive behavior, which can be mitigated by chemogenetic activation.

This paper investigates whether social and non-social decision-making share common neural mechanisms by analyzing EEG-fMRI data during a task with comparable decision evidence scales.

This study investigates how novelty and uncertainty influence exploration vs. exploitation in the human brain using a novel task and computational modeling.

The paper examines anxiety-related deficits in attentional inhibition using ERP components, finding that higher trait anxiety correlates with reduced Pd amplitudes, indicating impaired top-down inhibition.

The paper shows that the anterior cingulate cortex encodes the value of peripheral cues before fixation to guide subsequent fixations and choices during economic decision-making.

The paper shows that cortical regions encode biased prediction errors before subcortical regions during action-outcome learning.

The paper identifies distinct neural representations for prosocial and self-benefitting effort using fMRI and shows empathy correlates with prosocial effort encoding.

The paper provides neural evidence for the successor representation in choice evaluation by linking behavioral errors to predictive representations in sensory cortex.

The paper investigates neural compensation between prefrontal cortex regions using a devaluation task in rats, finding that lesions in one area can lead to compensatory activation in another.

This study shows that disrupting the anterior cingulate cortex with ultrasound impairs learning from loss experiences, especially under high cognitive demand.

This paper introduces a decision-making strategy called Performance-Gated Deliberation (PGD) that adapts to changing contexts by incorporating an adaptive opportunity cost of deliberation, outperforming traditional reinforcement learning models in explaining primate behavior and urgency.

The paper investigates how environmental volatility affects learning and brain organization, finding asymmetric behavioral and neural adaptations when transitioning from volatile to stable environments.