Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

This study investigates how the brain assigns credit for inferred relationships in structured environments using a novel task and Bayesian model, finding that the medial prefrontal cortex represents hierarchical associations and tracks abstract task positions.

The paper uses Bayesian analysis of fMRI data in an equiprobable Go/NoGo task to find evidence for non-selective response inhibition in uncertain contexts.

This study shows that task-belief and perceptual decision-making are closely linked in macaques, with stronger task-belief associated with better perception.

The paper investigates anticipatory response biases in human behavior using iEEG data and identifies distinct neural signatures for two types of biases.

The paper shows that unique left auditory cortex activity in children predicts performance in inhibition tasks, suggesting different brain mechanisms compared to adults.

This study shows that rat anterior cingulate cortex activity reflects dynamic encoding of decision variables in a patch foraging task, but these signals are not directly involved in decision-making.

The paper investigates how post-error slowing varies based on speed-accuracy tradeoff policies in different contexts and finds that it is only adaptive in a hasty context.

The paper identifies a sustained decrease in corticomotor excitability as a neural marker of proactive inhibitory control during error correction.

This study shows that cardiac cycle phase influences asymmetric value updating in instrumental reward learning, with higher learning rates for positive prediction errors during systole.

The paper identifies a functional partition in the medial prefrontal cortex, showing vmPFC relates to value and cost, while dmPFC relates to confidence and deliberation across rating and choice tasks.

The paper links greater activation in a cingulo-opercular circuit during an anxiety-eliciting task with reduced daily stressor-related distress in individuals.

This study challenges the stability-flexibility tradeoff by showing cognitive stability and flexibility can be independently regulated.

This study evaluates prEMG as a measure of action stopping, finding it better suited than SSRT for investigating brain mechanisms of response inhibition.

This study shows mice can anticipate environmental changes during reward learning, with the medial frontal cortex playing a key role in estimating future change points.

This study examines how aging affects attentional control and working memory resumption after interruptions, finding age-related deficits in maintaining task-relevant information regardless of interruption demand.

This study investigates how people update their beliefs about performance efficacy and adjust cognitive control based on these beliefs using computational modeling and EEG.

The paper identifies a salience network node within the caudal ventrolateral prefrontal cortex using anatomical and functional connectivity analyses in non-human primates and humans.

This study investigates how neurons in the human medial frontal cortex represent cognitive conflict across tasks, showing both task-specific and generalized representations.

This study investigates how perceptual uncertainty affects response inhibition by analyzing brain activity in specific regions during a go/no-go task.

This study investigates trial-by-trial coupling between theta power and BOLD signals during conflict tasks, revealing distinct relationships in brain regions associated with conflict and error processing.

The paper identifies the role of gustatory cortex in evidence accumulation during food choice using EEG-fMRI data and finds EEG energy as a key BOLD regressor.

This study examines age-related differences in brain responses to reciprocated trust using fMRI, finding reduced striatal responses and altered default-mode network connectivity in older adults.

This study finds adolescents outperform younger and older participants in a stochastic reversal-learning task, with optimal RL and BI parameters and unique processing of positive feedback.

This paper challenges the linear model of task-evoked pupil response and proposes an alternative model based on shared neural inputs driving saccades and pupil size, showing better alignment with behavioral and physiological predictions.

The paper investigates how the brain decides when to use forward planning by analyzing context-dependent conflict processing in the anterior cingulate cortex using fMRI.

This study examines age differences in ERP measures of motivated attention, finding older adults show fewer transient and sustained incentive effects compared to younger adults.

The paper shows that instrumental action plans shape selective attention to reward/punishment information, which biases Pavlovian responses and improves performance.

This study identifies a neural signal during internal sampling from working memory that mirrors decision-making processes observed in external sensory sampling.

The paper distinguishes deliberate exploratory choices from random exploration and exploitation using pupil dilation and response time in a probabilistic learning task.

The paper introduces the DMCC55B dataset, a collection of fMRI data from 55 healthy young adults performing cognitive control tasks, for benchmarking and analysis of task performance and individual differences.