Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

The paper investigates how reward and difficulty cues are evaluated before and after task experience, finding that reward cues are positively evaluated even before task experience, influencing performance.

The paper investigates how the medial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) processes spatial margin of safety decisions, showing distinct roles for anterior and posterior regions in threat predictability and safety signaling.

The paper records neural activity in eight subdivisions of macaque ventral frontal cortex during a decision-making task and finds dissociable representations of decision variables across these regions.

This study examines inhibitory control during gait initiation using EEG, finding that uncertainty delays reaction time and modulates ERP and time-frequency activities.

This study shows humans use compare-to-threshold computations in decision-making tasks, outperforming traditional reinforcement learning models.

The paper introduces a joint model of choices and reaction times that integrates Bayesian decision making with sampling procedures to explain decision processes in cognitive tasks.

This study shows that hippocampal and striatal volumes in children relate to different aspects of value-based learning over two years, with hippocampus linked to delayed learning and striatum to both immediate and delayed learning.

The paper develops a method to quantify decision-making strategies and flexibility during spatial set-shifting, linking them to neural rhythms in the medial prefrontal cortex.

This study investigates thalamic contributions to hierarchical cognitive control by analyzing thalamic activity and thalamocortical interactions during task context switches.

The paper investigates how humans learn from implicit and explicit feedback during perceptual decision-making using EEG-fMRI, identifying distinct neural signatures in the striatum and their integration in the external globus pallidus.

The paper explains how phasic alertness creates an urgency signal that speeds responses but impairs decision-making by increasing competition between evidence accumulators.

The paper analyzes local field potentials in rat brain regions during a GO/noGO task to identify their functional roles in cognitive and motivational processing.

The paper investigates how short-term memory ability influences cognitive effort deployment for reward in humans, finding it is the strongest predictor compared to depression, stress, and reward anticipation.

This study shows that ACC and striatum causally adjust exploration-exploitation balance during reinforcement learning, with opposing effects on learning from reward outcomes.

This study investigates whether tDCS affects frontal alpha asymmetry and inhibitory control, finding no effect on FAA or inhibitory control metrics but identifying a correlation between reward-related inhibitory activity and trait FAA.

This study uses fMRI to identify brain regions and networks associated with affective valence and intensity during sustained pleasure and pain, showing distinct neural coding for each.

The paper identifies neural signatures of resource-based and resistance-based cognitive control in rats during delay discounting tasks using electrophysiological recordings.

This study examines how cognitive control varies during high and low arousal states using an auditory conflict task, finding distinct behavioral dynamics in decision-making processes.

This study uses temporal interference stimulation to examine the distinct roles of dmPFC and rmPFC in cognitive control, finding differential effects on reaction times and accuracy in Stroop tasks.

The paper identifies common neural patterns associated with task engagement and disengagement in macaques using fMRI, showing causal links to specific brain regions.

The paper investigates whether emotional distractors capture attention at low contrast levels using ERP data, finding that emotional stimuli still influence attentional processing across all contrast levels.

This study compares motor inhibition in reactive and anticipated movement tasks, finding no difference in inhibition speed but faster action reprogramming in anticipated movements and age-related slowing in both.

This study shows that anger expression and control are negatively correlated and both are predicted by the same fronto-temporal GM-WM brain network in healthy individuals.

The paper shows individual differences in decision-making strategies are linked to neural efficiency in memory or reinforcement systems.

This study shows that frontal cortical circuits in mice continue to mature beyond sexual maturity, affecting decision-making behaviors with age.

This study investigates the role of dorsal striatum subregions in response conflict management using a Simon task in rats, finding that both DMS and DLS lesions impair performance, especially with task practice.

The paper shows that initiating complex tasks deactivates frontoparietal regions and reduces pupil size, contrasting with activation during task execution.

This study uses a conflict task in rats to reveal cognitive control mechanisms similar to those in humans and children, bridging evolutionary and developmental perspectives.

This study investigates how pupil dilation reflects effortful action invigoration in overcoming aversive Pavlovian biases during a task involving subliminal emotional cues.