Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

The paper investigates how voluntary temporal attention enhances visual stimulus representation in fronto-cingulate cortex at an intermediate processing stage, rather than in visual cortex.

This study examines how high-fat diet exposure during adolescence affects inhibitory control, brain gene expression, and metabolomics in rats.

The paper examines the relationship between the presence of a brain structure, the paracingulate sulcus, and trait impulsivity dimensions in individuals with psychopathology.

The paper examines how social risk affects neural activity in the amygdala and its connection to the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex in human volunteers.

The paper investigates how frontal cortex lesions affect voluntary persistence in a waiting task, finding dissociable effects on waiting duration and learning from feedback.

The paper investigates how the brain encodes value for different sensory modalities using fMRI, finding modality-specific and general value representations in specific brain regions.

This study investigates whether task-irrelevant auditory stimuli can manipulate central arousal during decision-making, finding they affect pupil responses but not decision formation.

This study investigates how working memory (WM) representation formats influence reinforcement learning (RL) by manipulating whether features or objects are remembered and measuring their impact on learning outcomes.

This study investigates the effect of unilateral hand muscle contraction on frontal alpha asymmetry and inhibitory control in reward contexts, finding no significant behavioral or brain activity changes.

The paper investigates how reward feedback interacts with microstimulation in the frontal eye field to influence saccadic choices in macaques, finding reward-dependent adaptation and no global learning effects.

This study shows that multitasking performance improves with practice that separates task representations in sensory brain regions, reducing modality-based interference.

The paper identifies neurons in the anterior striatum of macaques involved in proactive inhibition during a decision-making task.

This study uses EEG and artificial neural networks to analyze how metacontrol states affect conflict regulation, finding theta band activity reflects mismatch between expected bias and task demands, while alpha and beta bands are involved in neural reset.

This study links emotion-related impulsivity to specific sulcal morphology in the orbitofrontal cortex using LASSO regression in a psychiatric cohort.

The paper identifies distinct roles of rostral and ventral striatal regions in cognitive flexibility and habitual stability during reversal learning.

The paper shows that primate putamen neurons combine tactile and visual value information, improving encoding efficiency while retaining modality details.

This study uses cTBS to show that the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex selectively reduces random exploration in a decision-making task.

This study uses EEG data from a cognitive control task to show that preparatory and adaptive cognitive control involve distinct yet overlapping brain activation patterns and are linked to behavioral performance.

This study shows subcortical integration of reward and threat information before approach-avoidance decisions, challenging theories of separate processing.

This study identifies functional specialization in monkey lateral prefrontal cortex subregions for different sequence components in visual tasks.

This study shows that decisions and movements in monkeys are decoupled but interact, and this control evolves with experience.

The paper investigates how transient high-dimensional neural geometry supports stable conjunctive subspaces for context-dependent action selection in humans using EEG decoding.

The paper investigates functional specialization and distributed processing in marmoset lateral prefrontal cortex by recording neural responses to various stimuli across subregions.

This study examines how trait reward sensitivity influences neural connectivity patterns during strategic decision-making tasks using fMRI.

This study examines how cognitive effort in a rewarded task-switching paradigm is reflected in EEG oscillatory activity, finding increased mid-frontal theta power during the cue-target interval.

This study shows that neural representations of decision variables in the orbitofrontal cortex of mice remain stable over 20 weeks, with only modest representational drift.

This study investigates how ventral frontostriatal circuitry processes symbolic gains and losses in monkeys, identifying the role of the orbitofrontal cortex in coding outcomes and prediction errors.

The paper analyzes reaction time variability in cognitive tasks, finding that experimental conditions and temporal dependencies explain only 8-17% of variance, with most remaining unexplained by linear models.

The paper develops a hierarchical reinforcement learning model to explain individual differences in attentional set shifting using CANTAB IED data and psychiatric symptom assessments.

This study investigates how computational complexity affects neural processes during problem-solving using fMRI.