Parkinson's disease can affect not only motor functions but also cognitive abilities, leading to
cognitive impairment. One common issue in Parkinson's disease with cognitive dysfunction …

Many brain areas modulate their activity during vibrotactile tasks. The activity from these
areas may code the stimulus parameters, stimulus perception, or perceptual reports. Here …

Sociosexual preference is critical for reproduction and survival. However, neural
mechanisms encoding social decisions on sex preference remain unclear. In this study, we …

In adulthood, stress exposure and genetic risk heighten psychological vulnerability by
accelerating neurobiological senescence. To investigate whether molecular and brain …

A stimulus held in working memory is perceived as contracted toward the average stimulus.
This contraction bias has been extensively studied in psychophysics, but little is known …

Dopamine modulates a wide range of cognitive processes in the prefrontal cortex, but the
underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we examined the roles of prefrontal …

Synaptic plasticity allows cortical circuits to learn new tasks and to adapt to changing
environments. How do cortical circuits use plasticity to acquire functions such as decision …

Difficulty in cessation of drinking, smoking, or gambling has been widely recognized.
Conventional theories proposed relative dominance of habitual over goal‐directed control …

Deficits in cognitive flexibility have been characterized in affective, anxiety, and
neurodegenerative disorders. This paper reviews data, mainly from studies on animal …

Perception is influenced by sensory stimulation, prior knowledge, and contextual cues,
which collectively contribute to the emergence of perceptual biases. However, the precise …