Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

This study examines how age and affective experiences influence spatial and temporal variability in brain activity during emotion regulation in youth.

The paper investigates how proactive and reactive cognitive control mechanisms differ in multiple-target search using fMRI and eye tracking, finding distinct neural activity patterns in frontal and parietal regions based on target selection freedom.

This study shows that visual cortex activity predicts future value-based choices, suggesting a role for visual regions in supporting striatal bias during decision-making.

The paper shows that the P300 EEG signal's relationship with learning depends on the statistical context of surprise, with larger P300s predicting more learning in changing contexts and less in outlier contexts.

The paper shows that decision confidence influences the speed-accuracy tradeoff in subsequent decisions by adjusting decision bounds based on previous confidence reports.

This study shows that microstimulation of specific prefrontal cortex regions in non-human primates induces negative decision-making by targeting striosomes in the anterior striatum.

This study uses fMRI and representational similarity analysis to examine how brain regions organize novel task encoding based on control-related variables and reward expectations.

The paper replicates a study on collective perceptual decision-making and identifies neurophysiological correlates using EEG, showing error-monitoring components integrate conflicting information during joint decisions.

The paper investigates how the brain tracks surprise across different sensory modalities and finds separate predictive models for visual and auditory stimuli but a common inhibitory control mechanism.

This study shows that deactivating the dACC in macaques impairs rule-maintenance performance and alters dlPFC oscillatory activities during a rule-switching task.

This study examines how monetary feedback affects belief updating in reward learning, finding faster learning and distinct electrophysiological responses compared to non-monetary feedback.

This study investigates how expectations about distractors and targets influence neural mechanisms of inhibition and facilitation during search tasks, revealing distinct neural dynamics for each.

The paper investigates how reward motivation affects perceptual judgments and finds that motivation biases neural representations in visual cortex.

This study investigates how the anterior insula modulates prefrontal cortex responses to emotional stimuli based on expectancy signals using fMRI and cross-correlation analyses.

The paper investigates neural and computational mechanisms of bidding behavior in auctions using model-based neuroimaging and finds directional learning models outperform reinforcement learning in predicting human bidding strategies.

The paper identifies a connectional hub in the rostral anterior cingulate cortex (rACC) that integrates inputs from diverse frontal cortex regions in both macaques and humans.

The paper examines pupil diameter changes during task switches between cognitive labor and leisure, finding similar patterns in both directions and suggesting a role for norepinephrine in task reorientation.

The paper introduces a new computational model for analyzing decision-making in the Iowa Gambling Task, showing improved fit and lifespan trends in directed exploration.

The paper investigates how the human brain computes the value of information (VOI) using a common neural code with basic rewards, showing it is influenced by both instrumental benefit and anticipation utility.

The paper introduces a recurrent neural network approach to model human decision-making and shows it outperforms traditional methods in predicting behavior in depression and bipolar disorder.

This study shows that post-decision processing in primate vlPFC influences subsequent auditory decisions by encoding sensory evidence and choice biases.

The paper examines how emotion transitions affect executive function through prefrontal-posterior brain synchronization, showing stress exacerbates these effects.

The paper investigates how regulation and strategy affect emotional responses to pictures and words using behavioral and ERP measures, finding distinct neural patterns for pictures and words.

This study investigates how brain activity patterns relate to long-lasting non-reinforced behavioral change using fMRI and a cue-approach training paradigm.

This study uses MEG/EEG to track and compare multiple component processes of selective attention over time, identifying five distinct processing operations with different time-courses.

This paper proposes a framework connecting motivational and cognitive impairments in depression using computational models of cognitive control.

The paper investigates age-related changes in error processing during adolescence using electrophysiological and behavioral measures, finding increased ERN amplitude and age-related improvements in post-error adjustments.

This study shows that spatial metamemory in macaques depends on the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex but not the orbitofrontal cortex, using lesion studies and metacognitive measures.

This study examines how age, puberty, and testosterone levels influence affective reactivity in adolescents using longitudinal fMRI data.

The paper links compulsivity and impulsivity to distinct patterns of fronto-striatal myelination during adolescence using longitudinal MRI data.