Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

The paper identifies design issues in the stop-signal task of the ABCD study and proposes solutions for improving data quality and analysis.

This paper identifies an integrative gradient within the fronto-parietal control network that supports cognitive control and predicts cognitive ability and neuromodulation response.

This study investigates how the brain adapts error monitoring in multitasking by rescheduling error processing, showing a trial-wise trade-off between immediate and deferred error detection.

This study links the amplitude of error-related negativity (ERN) to functional connectivity within the error-monitoring network, particularly between the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex and the supplementary motor area.

The paper examines how physical activity and aerobic fitness relate to brain processes involved in anticipatory selective visuospatial attention in adolescents, finding distinct associations.

The paper investigates how neural markers like the P3 and readiness potential track decision-making under varying evidence strength and shows that urgency and competition between choice accumulators explain the results.

This study uses EEG to examine reward anticipation and outcome processing during slot machine play, finding distinct neural responses to winning, near misses, and total misses.

This study examines the stability of fMRI reward-related activation over 1-2 years in adolescents and young adults, finding modest stability and suggesting that certain contrasts may be less effective for individual difference studies.

This study identifies distinct anatomical projection patterns into different subregions of the rat OFC along both anterior-posterior and medial-lateral axes.

The paper examines neural responses to feedback during the PASAT task, finding stage-dependent associations between negative feedback-related potentials and cognitive performance.

This study examines the development of attentional networks from childhood to young adulthood, finding that executive control stabilizes while orienting and alerting continue to develop, with cortical thickness linked to these changes.

The paper shows that cortical excitation-inhibition balance in different brain regions is associated with distinct decision-making processes: patch-leaving in dACC and value-guided choices in vmPFC.

The paper investigates how inferred controllability modulates Pavlovian and instrumental action selection using neural data from a Go/NoGo task.

The paper demonstrates that neural signals in reward-related brain regions follow choice indifference curves, indicating integration of multiple reward components into scalar signals.

The paper investigates the interaction between cognitive control and motor functioning in healthy adults, finding differences in error-related negativity and post-error slowing based on motor proficiency and linking anxiety to motor performance.

The paper extends a computational model of medial and lateral prefrontal cortex interaction to incorporate real-time dynamics and demonstrates its ability to capture neurophysiological and behavioral effects.

The paper examines electrophysiological and behavioral markers of cognitive conflict processing in adolescents, finding age-related changes in parietal components but not frontal components, and a positive age association with accuracy in the Gratton effect.

This paper introduces a new reinforcement learning-error accumulation model (RL-ARD) that better captures response time dynamics in instrumental learning tasks compared to existing models.

The paper links lower childhood family income and adolescent depressive symptoms to reduced neural value signaling in the prefrontal cortex during reward learning tasks.

The paper investigates neural dynamics in reward-related brain regions during expected value computation, finding distinct temporal patterns in orbitofrontal cortex and ventral striatum.

This study shows that lapses in perceptual decisions in rats reflect a strategic trade-off between exploration and exploitation, and are informative about decision-related computations in neural structures.

This study maps brain regions involved in social reward and punishment processing using a voxel-based meta-analysis of fMRI data from the Social Incentive Delay task.

The paper finds that right putamen gray matter volume predicts success in real-time fMRI neurofeedback training across different paradigms and target regions.

The paper examines how valence bias relates to frontoamygdalar connectivity and depressive symptoms in children, finding that negative bias correlates with increased depressive symptoms and reduced connectivity in more advanced puberty.

This study trains RNNs on cognitive tasks to model prefrontal neuron maturation, finding increased delay period activity and activation in antisaccade tasks.

This study investigates how rodent lateral OFC lesions affect Pavlovian cue-outcome learning, finding that pre-training lesions enhance acquisition while post-training lesions impair it.

The paper compares neural mechanisms for risky decisions involving nicotine vapor and monetary reward using an MR-compatible vaping device and fMRI.

This study shows that reward improves motor performance by enhancing neural representations of action in motor planning areas before movement.

This study shows acute stress impairs reward learning in men by slowing learning from positive prediction errors, consistent with dopamine disruptions.

The paper constructs a neurally-informed model of decision-making that incorporates prior knowledge of time constraints and stimulus probability, revealing adjustments in neural processes not captured by standard diffusion models.