Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

This study shows that aging and loneliness impair trust learning through reduced amygdala function and altered reward signaling.

This paper identifies a frontal motor circuit that transforms abstract economic decisions into spatial actions through dynamic reconfiguration.

The paper investigates how action affordances influence value-based learning by analyzing human behavior and fMRI data using computational models.

The paper shows high trait anxiety impairs reward learning in noisy environments but not volatile ones, and N3 sleep improves learning and evidence accumulation.

This study uses pupillometry in an auditory task to show that attention modulates arousal globally and selectively, supporting the dual role of norepinephrine.

This study investigates the neural basis of habit formation by analyzing brain activity during goal-directed response switching, identifying key brain regions and their interactions.

This paper conducts a meta-analysis of fMRI studies on delay discounting to identify reliable neural correlates and recommends specific analytic approaches for future research.

The paper investigates how motor errors affect working memory performance and identifies a neurophysiological mechanism underlying error-related impairments in active working memory.

This study investigates neural correlates of self-regulation traits in sustained attention using functional imaging data, confirming increased recruitment of cholinergic substrates in the basal forebrain.

The paper investigates how anxiety affects time perception by examining neural correlates in the cingulate cortex using fMRI and temporal bisection tasks.

The paper investigates how temporal attention affects visual processing stages using EEG, finding that temporal predictability modulates ERP components like P300 during target identification tasks.

The paper uses EEG data from three conflict tasks to show that conflict processing involves partially overlapping neural mechanisms rather than being fully domain-general or task-specific.

The paper investigates how blink timing adapts to a saccade task across age and cognitive control, finding strategic adjustments and age-related declines in blink optimization.

This study investigates sex differences in reward learning by analyzing task engagement and lapse rates in rats during stimulus- and action-based learning and their reversals.

The paper identifies generalizable neural patterns of emotional engagement and disengagement using fMRI and predictive modeling across two studies.

The paper shows cardiac-sympathetic outflow predicts action restraint during a task, with effects modulated by reward and loss conditions and participant success.

This study applies a drift diffusion model to analyze decision-making dynamics in a transitive inference task, showing stable reaction times despite improved accuracy during learning.

This paper shows that environmental conflict reduces Pavlovian avoidance and increases instrumental choice, especially in individuals with high trait anxiety.

This study uses real-time fMRI neurofeedback to train individuals to regulate DLPFC-amygdala connectivity during threat exposure, reducing anxiety.

The paper investigates how people determine controllability and causality in collaborative settings through specific behavioral patterns and brain activity in the supramarginal gyrus.

The paper identifies functionally distinct adjacent regions in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) specialized for social and cognitive control tasks using individualized neuroimaging.

This study uses multi-task intracranial EEG recordings to investigate the role of the human dorsal anterior insula in various cognitive tasks, revealing its involvement in the Action-Mode Network and the interplay between cognitive effort and efficiency.

The paper uses single-trial EEG to identify five sequential decision-making events and their timing, supported by psychophysical laws and neural activity patterns.

This study shows that noradrenergic signaling in the orbitofrontal cortex adjusts learning rates based on environmental volatility, improving adaptive decision-making in rats.

The paper identifies a two-rate system in vlPFC neurons that temporally multiplex slow and fast dynamics during value learning and memory, leading to spontaneous recovery of old values.

The paper shows that imagined experiences can generate prediction errors that drive learning and update preferences about individuals.

This paper identifies the striatal indirect pathway as mediating hesitation in mice through cell-type specific electrophysiology and optogenetics.

This study examines how high-intensity exercise affects perceptual decision-making using drift diffusion modeling, finding improved performance and changes in evidence accumulation and non-decision time.

The paper examines how different regions of the lateral prefrontal cortex represent threat and controllability during threat anticipation, finding that the lateral frontal pole uniquely integrates these signals.