Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

This study investigates how affect and neural activity influence the formation of self-efficacy beliefs through computational modeling and neuroimaging.

The paper investigates how monkeys switch between learned rules and continuously update them during a perceptual categorization task, revealing distinct computational processes for rule switching and rule learning.

This study identifies dysfunctional feedback processing in methamphetamine users through neurophysiological and computational analysis, revealing altered sensitivity to feedback and reduced medial-frontal theta oscillations.

The paper examines how changes in basal ganglia output, specifically in the substantia nigra pars reticulata, contribute to self-restraint during a behavioral inhibition task in rats.

The paper investigates how conjunctive representations support prioritization and selection of planned actions in working memory, showing that high-priority actions are more strongly represented and selected.

The paper provides electrophysiological normative responses for emotional images to create reliable probes for studying affective systems.

This study investigates striatal activity in rats during action sequence initiation, finding that adolescent rats show steeper modulation of striatal responses with waiting time compared to adults.

The paper analyzes neural activity in macaques during a foraging task to show how prefrontal regions represent and control actions in a modular and hierarchical manner.

This paper derives a normative decision model that uses adaptive thresholds to maximize reward in changing environments, showing better performance than constant-threshold models.

The paper shows that amygdala activity biases perceptual decisions towards desired outcomes by enhancing sensory evidence processing during decision-making.

This study shows that pubertal maturation, not just chronological age, is more strongly linked to improvements in inhibitory control, particularly through changes in ventrolateral prefrontal cortex activation.

This study examines SSRT changes across two sessions of the anticipatory response inhibition task and stop signal task, finding stable non-selective inhibition but changes in partial inhibition.

This study shows that long-term training increases lPFC involvement in working memory by shaping stimulus-selective representations and sequence relationships, reconciling conflicting views on lPFC function.

This paper identifies neural correlates of the go- and stop-processes in action-stopping using scalp potentials, showing how they align with the independent race model predictions.

This study shows that lateral OFC subpopulations encode current and prior action information, and their disruption affects action control and contingency reversal.

This study compares the effects of complex exercise (badminton) and simple exercise (running) on inhibitory control and brain activation using fNIRS, finding improved Stroop task performance with complex exercise without increased brain activation.

This study shows that human defensive neural circuits, not just empathy, drive helping behavior when others are in danger.

This study investigates the role of the frontal eye field in mixed-strategy decision-making using a game-theoretic task in macaques, finding that FEF activity predicts choices and is causally involved in the process.

This study investigates exogenous attention to emotional facial expressions across menstrual cycle phases in women without PMS, finding no phase-emotion interaction in behavioral or ERP measures.

The paper investigates assumptions about parameter generalization and interpretability in reinforcement learning models across different tasks and participants.

The paper examines how choice confidence and reward expectation are encoded in the caudate nucleus and frontal eye field during decision-making tasks in monkeys.

The paper investigates how task difficulty modulates the P3m component using MEG and identifies its sources in centro-parietal regions.

This study shows that task prioritization affects EEG oscillations during task preparation, but not the decoding of task-specific information or attentional orienting.

This study identifies the basolateral amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex as necessary for reward-seeking guided by occasion setters, while the dorsal hippocampus is not involved.

The paper examines the relationship between midfrontal theta activity and memory of errors during a Flanker task, finding that theta increases with errors but does not predict subsequent memory.

This study uses computational models to show that the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex encodes action-value during emotion regulation, with implications for understanding affective processing and therapy strategies.

The paper investigates how lateral orbitofrontal cortex and basolateral amygdala influence sensitivity to delayed punishment during decision-making in rodents.

The paper uses an auditory accessory stimulus to show that increased pupil-linked phasic arousal reduces choice bias without affecting response caution.

This study uses EEG to show that retrospective attention enhances target representations in working memory, supporting the target strengthening hypothesis and highlighting the role of frontoparietal networks.

The paper shows that dlPFC activation during normative choices is better explained by evidence accumulation than self-control mechanisms.