Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

This paper uses meta-analysis to identify brain regions consistently activated during motivated cognitive control tasks, highlighting frontoparietal and salience networks.

The paper shows how the brain combines external cues and internal predictions to guide task preparation and cognitive control.

This study investigates how task design affects antisaccade errors, finding that both inhibition failures and inaccurate voluntary action initiation contribute to errors in both asynchronous and synchronous cue conditions.

This paper develops a multi-attribute neurocomputational model to explain how neural dynamics differ when making choices for oneself versus others, showing that similar time windows are used but with differential tracking of attributes based on recipient preferences.

This study compares spaced versus massed reward learning in humans, finding that spaced learning leads to better long-term memory of value associations.

The paper uses EEG to compare cortical activity during approach and avoidance of physical activity and sedentary behaviors, finding that avoiding sedentary behaviors requires more cognitive resources.

This study investigates the role of the rodent lateral orbitofrontal cortex in outcome devaluation and reversal learning, finding dissociable effects between subregions and task types.

This study investigates how noradrenaline and dopamine affect information gathering during decision-making, finding that noradrenaline blockade reduces information gathering through increased decision urgency.

The paper investigates age-related changes in motor decision-making by examining the role of Pavlovian biases in reward and punishment sensitivity across a large sample.

The paper examines macaque pupil responses to offered and anticipated rewards, finding opposing correlations that challenge the simulation hypothesis and suggest an accept-reject model of comparison.

This study investigates how cognitive control demands affect avoidance behavior using fMRI, finding partial support for the cost of control hypothesis and highlighting the role of task-negative networks.

This paper investigates how the brain integrates evidence for different perceptual attributes and responses during decision-making, finding distinct roles for ventromedial prefrontal cortex and dorsal anterior cingulate cortex.

The paper investigates how cognitive effort and reward valuation change during a prolonged task using electrophysiological measures from the anterior cingulate cortex.

The paper estimates the base rate of decoding information from human prefrontal cortex BOLD signals and finds it significantly lower than visual sensory cortex.

The paper tests whether a PID controller can model human adaptive behavior in dynamic environments, finding it better describes decision-making than traditional models.

This paper challenges the claim that striatal neurons encode action-values by identifying critical confounds in existing studies and failing to detect action-value representations using improved methods.

This study shows that response time patterns reflect learning strategies and reward value construction during complex decision-making tasks.

The paper investigates how decision confidence is encoded in the human medial prefrontal cortex using fMRI, finding distinct neural signatures for confidence compared to sensory reliability and boundary distance.

This study examines how the multiple-demand network responds to varying task difficulty in simple sensory discriminations, finding little effect of sensory manipulations but increased activity with rule complexity.

This paper investigates how the opportunity cost of time modulates cognitive effort in various tasks, finding that higher time costs lead to faster responses and more errors, indicating reduced cognitive effort.

The paper examines how connectivity patterns in prefrontal networks predict multitasking ability using resting-state fMRI data.

This study uses fNIRS to show increased DLPFC activity during anticipation of mental effort, replicating fMRI findings and demonstrating fNIRS's utility for studying effort preparation.

This study investigates metacognition during decision-making using a novel 'decision-redecision' paradigm, finding distinct roles for anterior prefrontal cortex regions in uncertainty monitoring and decision adjustment.

The paper investigates how the brain encodes information prediction errors during non-instrumental information seeking using EEG recordings from human participants.

The paper demonstrates how small changes in two-stage task design can alter model-free and model-based agent behavior, emphasizing the need for simulations in experimental design.

The paper identifies discrete neural activation patterns for 14 emotions using fMRI and pattern classification, showing distributed brain activity across multiple regions.

This study investigates how time pressure affects decision-making by comparing sensory integration and dynamic combination of sensory and reward information in humans.

The paper frames cognitive costs as information-theoretic costs, explaining why certain tasks are costly and linking these costs to brain implementation and metabolic changes.

This study examines the roles of the lateral prefrontal cortex and orbitofrontal cortex in abstract rule learning and reversal in monkeys, finding distinct impairments in each region.

The paper investigates how fronto-basal ganglia circuitry contributes to response inhibition and conflict-induced slowing using fMRI and reinforcement-learning models.