Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

This study challenges the stability-flexibility tradeoff by showing cognitive stability and flexibility can be independently regulated.

This study evaluates prEMG as a measure of action stopping, finding it better suited than SSRT for investigating brain mechanisms of response inhibition.

This study examines how aging affects attentional control and working memory resumption after interruptions, finding age-related deficits in maintaining task-relevant information regardless of interruption demand.

This study investigates how people update their beliefs about performance efficacy and adjust cognitive control based on these beliefs using computational modeling and EEG.

The paper identifies a salience network node within the caudal ventrolateral prefrontal cortex using anatomical and functional connectivity analyses in non-human primates and humans.

This study investigates how neurons in the human medial frontal cortex represent cognitive conflict across tasks, showing both task-specific and generalized representations.

This study investigates how perceptual uncertainty affects response inhibition by analyzing brain activity in specific regions during a go/no-go task.

This study investigates trial-by-trial coupling between theta power and BOLD signals during conflict tasks, revealing distinct relationships in brain regions associated with conflict and error processing.

The paper identifies the role of gustatory cortex in evidence accumulation during food choice using EEG-fMRI data and finds EEG energy as a key BOLD regressor.

This study examines age-related differences in brain responses to reciprocated trust using fMRI, finding reduced striatal responses and altered default-mode network connectivity in older adults.

This study finds adolescents outperform younger and older participants in a stochastic reversal-learning task, with optimal RL and BI parameters and unique processing of positive feedback.

This paper challenges the linear model of task-evoked pupil response and proposes an alternative model based on shared neural inputs driving saccades and pupil size, showing better alignment with behavioral and physiological predictions.

The paper investigates how the brain decides when to use forward planning by analyzing context-dependent conflict processing in the anterior cingulate cortex using fMRI.

The paper distinguishes deliberate exploratory choices from random exploration and exploitation using pupil dilation and response time in a probabilistic learning task.

The paper introduces the DMCC55B dataset, a collection of fMRI data from 55 healthy young adults performing cognitive control tasks, for benchmarking and analysis of task performance and individual differences.

This study shows that a working memory task downregulates the amygdala similarly to a cognitive reappraisal task, suggesting task demand, not reappraisal itself, drives amygdala deactivation.

The paper investigates whether confidence judgments are processed similarly across different cognitive domains using behavioral and neural data from two tasks.

This study uses a race model framework to test how transient beta oscillations modulate decision thresholds during human action-stopping, finding that beta increases thresholds for the Go process more than the Stop process.

The paper extends the PRO model to explain decision-making under risk in humans and macaques, showing ACC represents outcome variance and links to mean-variance theories.

This study investigates how motivational signals affect metacognitive signals in the VMPFC during decision-making, finding that confidence signals are disrupted in trials with negative monetary prospects.

This study investigates how locus coeruleus noradrenergic integrity influences inhibitory control in older adults through prefrontal cortical connectivity.

The paper shows humans estimate environmental controllability by comparing actor and spectator models, with stress reducing perceived control and increasing reliance on the spectator model.

The paper shows mice trade off decision speed for safety during approach-avoidance decisions under danger by adjusting activity in the paraventricular thalamus and prefrontal cortex.

The paper develops a universal attention measure from fMRI data that predicts both task-general and task-specific attention performance and their neural mechanisms across multiple tasks.

This study compares neural activity during inhibitory control tasks between people with nicotine use disorder and non-smokers, finding differences in prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortex activity.

The paper investigates whether rapid attention to visual threat is controlled top-down by the DLPFC using rTMS and ERP measurements.

This study investigates the neural correlates of task processing and representation in the lateral frontal cortex using fMRI, finding distinct roles for different regions in executing tasks versus maintaining task representations.

This study examines how reward and expectancy influence neural signals during motor preparation and execution, showing increased motor preparation for larger rewards and greater motor effort when rewards are unexpected.

The paper tests the affective dial hypothesis by comparing brain regions activated during emotion up- and down-regulation, finding they target distinct circuits rather than opposing effects in the same areas.

This study shows that pupil size in mice playing a competitive game correlates with decision variables like choice, outcome, and value updating, but not action selection.