Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

The paper identifies four functionally distinct subregions in rodent medial prefrontal cortex that process economic decision information differently along a dorso-ventral gradient.

This study investigates interhemispheric influences during selective stopping with proactive cueing, finding that stopping selectivity increases with stopping certainty and proactive response inhibition occurs in the cued hand.

This study examines how episodic memory retrieval impacts the timing and dynamics of value-based decisions using EEG and drift-diffusion modeling.

The paper investigates the timing of spatial, feature, and motor selection during working memory-guided behavior, finding temporally dissociable mechanisms for these processes.

This study challenges the assumption that model-free learning is automatic by showing that model-based strategies can reduce mental effort without increasing it.

The paper identifies the right inferior frontal gyrus as a key node and regulator in the basal ganglia-thalamocortical response inhibition circuit using fMRI and causal modeling.

This paper introduces a Reinforcement Meta-Learning framework to model information gathering trade-offs and shows it aligns with neural and behavioral findings on information demand.

The paper investigates inhibition mechanisms in the stop signal task, distinguishing between attentional capture and action cancellation, and finds involuntary pauses occur in both stop and ignore conditions.

This study shows that right inferior frontal cortex damage increases trigger failures in inhibitory control tasks but does not impair the implementation of inhibition once initiated.

This study investigates temporal anticipation in humans using magnetoencephalography, finding that right parietal cortex activity correlates with reaction times and represents event probability.

This study uses fMRI and TMS to investigate the roles of prefrontal and parietal cortex in task-switching, finding distinct functions for the aIFJ and IPS in preparatory control.

The paper examines how confidence judgments relate to response dynamics across the adult lifespan, finding age-dependent changes in these associations.

The paper analyzes neural population activity in the anterior cingulate cortex of monkeys to show how context is abstractly represented and how outcomes are encoded relative to this context.

This study shows that removing reinforcement in humans improves instrumental performance by reducing a general action bias, not by unmasking learned associations.

The paper examines brain activity in rats during rule shifts in a T-maze, identifying specific prefrontal and striatal regions activated during learning new reward contingencies.

The paper shows that strong neural representations of past task features can slow reaction times in future behavior during task-switching.

The paper investigates how task difficulty and reward affect task enjoyment and striatal activation, finding intrinsic motivation for near-impossible tasks without extrinsic rewards.

This study shows mental effort cost learning is retrospective, updating decisions based on prediction errors at effort completion, not during the task.

The paper uses high precision MEG to show R-IFG beta power increases during response conflict, suggesting a generalized role in response inhibition beyond simple stopping.

This paper conducts a meta-analysis of 77 MIDT studies to identify shared and distinct neural activity during anticipation and outcome of monetary wins and losses.

The paper examines how exposure to appetitive cues affects temporal discounting and neural reward responses in humans, finding no significant effect on discounting despite increased neural activity.

This study shows that the multiple-demand network processes task difficulty independently of context, using fMRI data from arithmetic tasks with varying difficulty levels.

This study develops a neurodynamical computational theory of action regulation and tests it in neurotypical individuals and Parkinson's disease patients, showing how disruptions in this mechanism lead to motor deficits.

This study uses EEG and drift-diffusion models to show spatial attention affects visual encoding time and non-decision processes in perceptual decision-making.

This study investigates how affect and neural activity influence the formation of self-efficacy beliefs through computational modeling and neuroimaging.

The paper investigates how monkeys switch between learned rules and continuously update them during a perceptual categorization task, revealing distinct computational processes for rule switching and rule learning.

This study identifies dysfunctional feedback processing in methamphetamine users through neurophysiological and computational analysis, revealing altered sensitivity to feedback and reduced medial-frontal theta oscillations.

The paper examines how changes in basal ganglia output, specifically in the substantia nigra pars reticulata, contribute to self-restraint during a behavioral inhibition task in rats.

The paper investigates how conjunctive representations support prioritization and selection of planned actions in working memory, showing that high-priority actions are more strongly represented and selected.

The paper provides electrophysiological normative responses for emotional images to create reliable probes for studying affective systems.