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- NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Bridging stimulus generalization and representation learningvia rational dimensionality reduction
Lukas Neugebauer, Christian Büchel
The paper proposes a Bayesian model linking stimulus generalization and representation learning through dimensionality reduction, supported by experimental findings.
DOI 10.1101/2023.08.09.549352 - NeuroscienceScience AdvancesPeer-reviewed
Distinct roles of the orbitofrontal cortex, ventral striatum, and dopamine neurons in counterfactual thinking of decision outcomes
Mengxi Yun, Masafumi Nejime, Takashi Kawai…·Masayuki Matsumoto
This study identifies distinct roles of the orbitofrontal cortex, ventral striatum, and dopamine neurons in processing counterfactual outcomes during decision-making in monkeys.
- NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Investigating the Neural Correlates of Processing Basic Emotions: A Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) Study
Gülnaz Yükselen, Ozan Cem Öztürk, Gümüş Deniz Canlı, Sinem Burcu Erdoğan
This study uses fNIRS to examine neural correlates of emotion regulation, finding distinct PFC activation patterns for positive and negative emotions and arousal levels.
- NeuroscienceBehavior Research MethodsPeer-reviewed
Measuring the non-selective effects of motor inhibition using isometric force recordings
Benjamin O. Rangel, Giacomo Novembre, Jan R. Wessel
This study measures non-selective motor effects of inhibitory control using isometric force recordings, showing suppression of task-irrelevant hand force during action-stopping.
- NeuroscienceNeuroImagePeer-reviewed
Specialized late cingulo-opercular network activation elucidates the mechanisms underlying decisions about ambiguity
Jordan E. Pierce, Nathan M. Petro, Elizabeth M. Clancy…·Maital Neta
The paper investigates how the cingulo-opercular network contributes to decision-making under ambiguity using fMRI and behavioral tasks.
- NeuroscienceiSciencePeer-reviewed
Prefrontal Cortex Encodes Value Pop-out in Visual Search
Mojtaba Abbaszadeh, Armin Panjehpour, Seyyed Mohammad Amin Alemohammad…·Ali Ghazizadeh
The paper shows that the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (vlPFC) encodes value pop-out during visual search, with neural activity predicting search efficiency.
- NeurosciencePsychophysiologyPeer-reviewed
The Neural Correlates of Continuous Feedback Processing
Cameron Dale Hassall, Yan Yan, Laurence Tudor Hunt
This paper develops an EEG measure of continuous feedback processing in humans and tests whether it aligns with the reward prediction error hypothesis.
8 citations - NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Internal Neural Representations in Task-Switching Guided by Context Biases
This study examines neural representations in task-switching feedforward networks using context biases, finding that they transition from parallel processing to independent subnetworks, similar to cortical processing.
DOI 10.1101/2023.07.24.550365 - NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Interactions between the representations of pain and reward suggest dynamic shifts in reference point
R Hoskin, Cyril R Pernet, Deborah Talmi
The paper investigates how the brain computes expected utility from mixed prospects of pain and reward using fMRI, finding interactions between pain and reward representations in specific brain regions.
- NeuroscienceImaging NeurosciencePeer-reviewed
Confidence is predicted by pre- and post-choice decision signal dynamics
John P Grogan, Wouter Rys, Simon P. Kelly, Redmond G O’Connell
The paper examines how pre- and post-choice neural signals relate to confidence in perceptual decisions, finding that post-choice evidence accumulation continues and is influenced by confidence levels.
35 citationstop 3% - NeuroscienceCortexPeer-reviewed
Model-free decision making resists improved instructions and is enhanced by stimulus-response associations
Raúl Luna, Miguel Angel Vadillo, David Luque
The paper confirms that improved instructions enhance model-based decision making but also shows reward effects are linked to stimulus-response learning.
3 citations - NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Relationship Between the P300 and Sequence Knowledge in a Changing Environment
This study investigates whether P300 fluctuations reflect surprise based on event probability or event transition probability in a changing environment, finding that event transition probability better explains P300 changes.
- NeurosciencePsychophysiologyPeer-reviewed
Erotic cue exposure increases physiological arousal, biases choices towards immediate rewards and attenuates model-based reinforcement learning
David Mathar, Annika Wiebe, Deniz Tuzsus…·Jan Peters
The paper examines how erotic cues affect physiological arousal, reward discounting, and model-based reinforcement learning in healthy males.
8 citations - NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Faster action reprogramming, but not stopping, with proactive cues: Combining EMG and computational modelling in response-selective stop signal tasks
Sauro E. Salomoni, Quentin F. Gronau, Andrew Heathcote…·Mark R. Hinder
This study investigates how proactive cues affect stopping and responding in a bimanual task using EMG and computational modeling, finding reduced stopping delay with no effect on stopping speed.
- NeuroscienceCerebral CortexPeer-reviewed
Brain functional characterization of response-code conflict in dual-tasking and its modulation by age
Lya K. Paas Oliveros, Edna C. Cieslik, Aleks Pieczykolan…·Robert Langner
The paper investigates brain activity and connectivity related to response-code conflict in dual-tasking and its modulation by age, finding that conflict resolution involves the multiple-demand network with limited age or performance effects.
- NeuroscienceProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesPeer-reviewed
Subspace partitioning in human prefrontal cortex resolves cognitive interference
Jan Weber, Gabriela Yukari Iwama, Anne‐Kristin Solbakk…·Randolph F. Helfrich
The paper identifies a coding mechanism in human prefrontal cortex that resolves interference between past and present task variables by partitioning neural activity into distinct low-dimensional states.
37 citationstop 3% - NeuroscienceiSciencePeer-reviewed
Internal selective attention is delayed by competition between endogenous and exogenous factors.
This study shows that competition between endogenous and exogenous factors delays internal selective attention, unlike external attention where exogenous factors can override task-irrelevant stimuli.
7 citations - NeuroscienceScientific ReportsPeer-reviewed
Modifying Pavlovian-To-Instrumental Transfer By Approach Avoidance Training In Healthy Subjects - A Proof of Concept Study
Annika Rosenthal, Ke Chen, Anne Beck, Nina Romanczuk‐Seiferth
This study examines how approach avoidance training affects Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer in healthy subjects, finding that avoidance training increases response rates to negative stimuli but does not alter approach avoidance propensities.
4 citations - NeuroscienceDevelopmental SciencePeer-reviewed
Developmental shift in testosterone influence on prefrontal emotion control
Anna Tyborowska, Inge Volman, Hannah C. M. Niermann…·Karin Roelofs A
This study shows that testosterone's effect on prefrontal emotion control shifts from enhancing to impairing neural control during adolescence to young adulthood.
- NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Maintaining task performance levels under cognitive load while walking requires widespread reallocation of neural resources: A Mobile Brain-Body Imaging (MoBI) study.
Eleni Patelaki, John J. Foxe, Amber L. McFerren, Edward G. Freedman
This study investigates how neural resources are reallocated during walking under increased cognitive load using MoBI, finding attenuated EEG amplitude changes without performance costs.
- NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Early life adversities affect expected value signaling in the adult brain
Seda Sacu, Magda Dubois, Pascal-M. Aggensteiner…·Nathalie E. Holz
The paper investigates how early life adversities impact reward learning and decision-making in adults using neurocomputational methods and fMRI data from a longitudinal cohort.
- NeuroscienceCerebral CortexPeer-reviewed
A global pause generates nonselective response inhibition during selective stopping
Corey George Wadsley, John Cirillo, Arne Nieuwenhuys, Winston D. Byblow
This study investigates whether nonselective response inhibition during selective stopping arises from a global pause or a specific cancel process, finding it primarily results from a nonselective pause but not fully explains the stopping-interference effect.
20 citations - NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Unveiling consistency in flexibility: the role of reward and cognitive control in moral decisions
Xinyi Julia Xu, Guochun Yang, Jiamin Huang…·Haiyan Wu
This study investigates how reward and cognitive control influence moral decisions by analyzing self-consistency and flexibility using mouse-tracking and fMRI.
- NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Flexible coding schemes in dorsomedial prefrontal cortex underlie decision-making during delay discounting
Shelby White, Mitchell D. Morningstar, Emanuela De Falco…·Christopher C. Lapish
This study shows that dmPFC encoding changes with delay duration, reflecting deliberative processes at longer delays and impulsive choices at shorter delays.
- NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Acute stress reshapes third-party punishment and help decisions: Behavioral evidence and neurocomputational mechanisms
Huagen Wang, Xiaoyan Wu, Jiahua Xu…·Shaozheng Qin
This paper shows acute stress shifts third-party decisions from punishment to help in injustice events by altering neural network activity and connectivity.
- NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Proactive Versus Reactive Control Strategies Differentially Mediate Alcohol Drinking in Wistar and P rats
Mitchell D. Morningstar, Nicholas M. Timme, Baofeng Ma…·Christopher C. Lapish
The paper compares proactive and reactive cognitive control strategies in Wistar and P rats during alcohol-seeking tasks, finding Wistars use proactive control while P rats use reactive control.
DOI 10.1101/2023.06.08.544260 - NeurosciencePLoS ONEPeer-reviewed
Causal role of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in modulating the balance between Pavlovian and instrumental systems in the punishment domain
Hyeonjin Kim, Jihyun K. Hur, Mina Kwon…·Woo‐Young Ahn
This study uses tDCS to modulate the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and finds reduced Pavlovian bias in the punishment domain, suggesting a causal role in balancing decision-making systems.
10 citations - NeuroscienceeNeuroPeer-reviewed
Neuronal representation of a working memory-based decision strategy in the motor and prefrontal cortico-basal ganglia loops
Tomohiko Yoshizawa, Makoto Ito, Kenji Doya
This study investigates how working memory-based decision strategies like WSLS are represented in the motor and prefrontal cortico-basal ganglia loops using neuronal recordings in rats.
9 citations - NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Detecting Regime Shifts: Neurocomputational Substrates for Over- and Underreactions to Change
Mu-Chen Wang, George Wu, Shih‐Wei Wu
This paper investigates how people over- and underreact to regime shifts by analyzing brain activity during a controlled task, linking behavioral biases to distinct neural networks.