Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Pupil dilation indexes - but does not causally influence - conscious error detection: a double-blind, placebo-controlled investigation of performance-monitoring using atomoxetine.

This study investigates whether pupil dilation, a measure of autonomic response to errors, causally influences conscious error detection in older adults using atomoxetine.

Effortful control and cortical brain structure in 5-year-old children: findings from the FinnBrain birth cohort study

This study examines the relationship between effortful control and cortical brain structure in 5-year-olds using the FinnBrain cohort, finding specific brain regions associated with EC subscales.

Visual Salience Controls the Speed of Evidence Accumulation in Value-Based Decisions by Rats

This study shows that visual salience affects decision speed in rats, with intermediate salience cues reducing choice preference and slowing evidence accumulation.

Choice-driven remapping of action- and stimulus-anchored value in human single neurons

The paper records single neuron activity in human brain regions during reward tasks to show how value encoding shifts from domain-general to domain-segregated during decision-making.

Selection vs. integration task demands shape the similarity of information neural coding

This study examines how selection and integration demands during a size judgment task influence neural coding patterns using EEG, revealing differences in categorical and exemplar encoding.

Reference Point-Dependent Reinforcement Learning in Humans and Rats

This study shows that reference point-dependent reinforcement learning, involving relative value encoding, is conserved in humans and rats despite some species-specific differences in behavioural and computational parameters.

The human cerebellum encodes temporally sensitive reinforcement learning signals

This study identifies temporally sensitive reinforcement learning signals in human cerebellar regions during an RL task with controlled feedback delays.

Persistent Decision-Making in Mice, Monkeys, and Humans

This study compares persistence in decision-making across mice, monkeys, and humans in a dynamic task, finding that primates outlast mice in exploitation strategies.

Decoding the dynamics of cognitive control: Insights from reach movements and electroencephalography

This study investigates the congruency sequence effect using EEG and a flanker task, showing that behavioral and neural responses are influenced by response repetition and occur within a specific temporal window.

Altered EEG markers of reward learning during abstinence in alcohol dependence: a probabilistic reversal learning study

The Effects of Learnability and Reward Responsiveness on Reward Processing

The paper investigates how task learnability and reward responsiveness affect reward processing using EEG and a behavioral task, finding interactions in high performers.

Prefrontal mechanisms of goal progress inference and monitoring in macaque monkeys

This study investigates neural mechanisms in macaque monkeys for tracking goal progress and rate, showing distinct roles in midcingulate and lateral prefrontal cortex.

Effects of overt and covert attention on decision-making dynamics in prefrontal cortex

This study investigates how overt and covert attention influence decision-making dynamics in prefrontal cortex by analyzing neural activity in orbitofrontal cortex and lateral prefrontal cortex.

Trial-Level Sequence Modeling Reveals Hidden Dynamics of Dual-Task Interference

This paper uses trial-level sequence modeling of EEG to reveal shared and variable cognitive operations in dual-task interference, showing how individual strategies affect performance.

Real-time tracking of pupil-phase fluctuations reveals state-dependent modulation of temporal attentional capacity

This study shows that temporal attentional capacity varies with the phase of slow pupil-linked brain-state fluctuations, not just baseline arousal levels.

Behavioral Relevance Coding in Human Area 46 Precedes Selective Motor Activation to Action Targets

The paper identifies area 46 as a key node in whole-brain dynamics that integrates object relevance into executive control signals during action preparation.

Task context is broadly encoded in the human brain

The paper investigates how task context is encoded in the brain using fMRI data, finding that context is widely represented across the cortex and interacts with specific brain regions involved in attention and control.

Differences in other-directed emotion regulation tracks connectivity between amygdala and prefrontal regions during fairness decisions

The paper examines how individual differences in other-directed emotion regulation relate to neural and behavioral responses during fairness decisions in social contexts.

A computational account of how positive performance bias supports cognitive effort

The paper shows that positive performance bias reduces the perceived cost of cognitive effort by decreasing sensitivity to effort in learning models.

The stability of thought: using experience sampling and brain imaging to determine the contextually bound nature of human cognition.

The paper examines the relationship between task context, thought patterns, and neural activity, finding that thought reliability varies with task context and is associated with MDN activity.

The development of FEDUPP: Feeding Experimentation Device Users Processing Package to Assess Learning and Cognitive Flexibility

The paper develops FEDUPP, an open-source analysis pipeline, to assess learning and cognitive flexibility in mice using a home-cage paradigm, revealing subtle impairments in goal-directed feeding behavior.

Determinants of persistence in sequential effort-based decision-making

This study examines how individuals decide to persist or disengage in sequential effort-based tasks, finding that persistence is influenced by task difficulty, skill, fatigue, progress, goal proximity, and early success.

Dissociable after-effects of prosocial acts: Effort is costly for others but valued for self

The paper investigates how effort expenditure during prosocial acts affects reward evaluation, finding distinct neural responses for self- and other-benefiting efforts.

Dissociable neural substrates of integration and segregation in exogenous attention

This study identifies dissociable neural signatures for integration and segregation processes in exogenous attention using fMRI, supporting the integration-segregation theory.

Neural Dynamics of Belief and Value Computations Guiding Strategic Social Decisions

The paper identifies temporally structured neural dynamics underlying strategic social decisions using EEG and computational modeling of belief and value computations.

Canonical decision computations underlie behavioral and neural signatures of cooperation in primates

The paper identifies a neural mechanism in the dmPFC of marmosets that uses social gaze to accumulate evidence for cooperative decisions.

Inhibition in motion: Test-retest reliability of inhibitory kinematics in a go/no-go mouse tracking task

This study evaluates the test-retest reliability of kinematic measures in a mouse-tracking go/no-go task, finding moderate-to-good reliability for inhibitory control metrics.

Anatomical input-output streams within mouse orbitofrontal cortex subdivisions

The paper maps anatomical input-output streams in mouse orbitofrontal cortex subdivisions, revealing connectivity patterns and functional roles in decision-making and emotional reactivity.

Coordinated human prefrontal dynamics sustain task-state representations during learning

The paper shows prefrontal circuits coordinate to encode attention-weighted value signals during learning, shaping state representations in complex environments.

Testosterone Administration Modulates Competitive Choice via Ventral Striatum and TPJ

This study shows testosterone increases sensitivity to outcome feedback in competitive decision-making and modulates neural activity in ventral striatum and TPJ.