Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

This study examines how individual differences in self-regulation of the dopaminergic midbrain relate to cognitive control and reward sensitivity during neurofeedback training.

This fMRI study examines neural activity during shopping interactions between college couples, revealing brain regions involved in social decision-making and preference alignment.

This study investigates how lateral orbitofrontal cortex neurons guide sensory circuits during reversal learning in mice through top-down signals and value prediction error.

The paper shows that pupil dilation and dmPFC activity predict anticipated effort levels in human decision-making, supporting anticipatory energization as a mechanism for effort-based choices.

This study identifies functionally distinct subregions in the ventral striatum that encode action, effort, and reward discounting using fMRI in humans.

This study investigates the functional roles of rIFG and pre-SMA in response inhibition using MEG/fMRI, finding rIFG precedes pre-SMA activity and drives connectivity predicting stopping performance.

This study uses fNIRS to identify brain regions involved in newsvendor problem decision making, finding significant activation in DLPFC and OFC under different profit margin conditions.

This study shows distraction reduces goal-directed neural responses for food rewards in the right inferior frontal gyrus, correlating with increased button presses after satiation.

The paper uses a Bayesian regression approach to show that dACC neurons partially integrate value determinants, indicating they are neither pre- nor post-evaluative.

This paper shows model-free and model-based learning strategies can be equally flexible and effective, challenging the assumption that model-based strategies are inherently more complex.

The paper investigates how rules affect neural representations during decision-making, finding that rules warp neural activity to prioritize relevant information.

This paper develops a computational model of decision-making and learning in the orbitofrontal cortex, emphasizing interactions between lateral and medial sub-regions and their sub-cortical connections.

This study identifies the lateral frontal pole as a key region for social-emotional regulation through neuroimaging and connectivity analyses in humans.

The paper shows that changes in subjective food preference due to temporal costs do not require dopamine signaling or the orbital frontal cortex.

This study uses fMRI and PPI analysis to show that striatal connectivity with lateral orbitofrontal cortex and CM-Pf thalamus differs in their association with speed and quality of reversal learning in humans.

The paper identifies neural substrates involved in choosing between intrinsic life values, finding amygdala activation instead of typical consumer choice circuits.

This study investigates how endogenous and exogenous spatial attention affect visual working memory under different loads, finding exogenous cues provide greater benefits under low load.

This study investigates how reward certainty and preference influence decision-making when options are equally valued, showing they affect response times and neural activity.

This study uses state-space modeling and intracranial stimulation to modulate hidden emotional states during conflict resolution, showing bidirectional effects on behavior.

The paper investigates how feature-based attentional cueing affects interference processing in a Stroop-like task with equiprobable conditions, finding differential effects on ERP components.

The paper examines how externalizing psychopathology affects inhibitory control development and brain activation in adolescents at risk for substance use, finding differences that normalize by late adolescence.

The paper presents a computational neural model based on control theory that solves arbitrary problems and links brain regions to control system mechanisms.

The paper investigates unconscious learning and automatic inhibition, finding frontal theta and sensorimotor interactions during rapid motor control without conscious awareness.

This study investigates neural mechanisms underlying speed-accuracy tradeoff in macaques using invasive recordings in the supplementary eye field, showing how error detection and performance adaptation occur through specific neural modulations.

This study investigates value-based decision-making in primates by analyzing neural activity in the superior colliculus during saccadic foraging tasks.

This study examines how feedback valence affects family resemblance category learning using ERPs, finding behavioral and physiological differences between positive and negative feedback conditions.

This study investigates how task properties influence the balance between model-based and model-free learning strategies in decision-making tasks.

The paper examines the relationship between Stop/No-go P300 amplitude and response force on failed inhibitions, finding a continuous correlation that is missed by binary categorization.

The paper investigates how neural systems compute anticipatory value from future rewards, showing three brain regions coordinate this process.

The paper analyzes brain activity patterns during errors to determine which information is behaviorally meaningful, finding stronger links in frontoparietal cortex than visual cortex.