Social, self,(situational), and affective processes in medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC): Causal, multivariate, and reverse inference evidence

MD Lieberman, MA Straccia, ML Meyer, M Du… - Neuroscience & …, 2019 - Elsevier
The medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) has been posited to serve a variety of social, affective,
and cognitive functions. These conclusions have largely been driven by forward inference …

Can delay discounting deliver on the promise of RDoC?

KM Lempert, JE Steinglass, A Pinto, JW Kable… - Psychological …, 2019 - cambridge.org
The National Institute of Mental Health launched the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC)
initiative to better understand dimensions of behavior and identify targets for treatment …

[HTML][HTML] Comparing and contrasting the cognitive effects of hippocampal and ventromedial prefrontal cortex damage: a review of human lesion studies

C McCormick, E Ciaramelli, F De Luca, EA Maguire - Neuroscience, 2018 - Elsevier
The hippocampus and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) are closely connected brain
regions whose functions are still debated. In order to offer a fresh perspective on …

Neuroanatomy of the vmPFC and dlPFC predicts individual differences in cognitive regulation during dietary self-control across regulation strategies

L Schmidt, A Tusche, N Manoharan… - Journal of …, 2018 - Soc Neuroscience
Making healthy food choices is challenging for many people. Individuals differ greatly in their
ability to follow health goals in the face of temptation, but it is unclear what underlies such …

The drift diffusion model as the choice rule in inter-temporal and risky choice: A case study in medial orbitofrontal cortex lesion patients and controls

J Peters, M D'Esposito - PLoS computational biology, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Sequential sampling models such as the drift diffusion model (DDM) have a long tradition in
research on perceptual decision-making, but mounting evidence suggests that these models …

Distinct medial orbitofrontal–striatal circuits support dissociable component processes of risk/reward decision-making

NL Jenni, G Rutledge, SB Floresco - Journal of Neuroscience, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
The medial orbitofrontal cortex (mOFC) regulates a variety of cognitive functions, including
refining action selection involving reward uncertainty. This region sends projections to …

The interplay of hippocampus and ventromedial prefrontal cortex in memory-based decision making

RA Weilbächer, S Gluth - Brain sciences, 2016 - mdpi.com
Episodic memory and value-based decision making are two central and intensively studied
research domains in cognitive neuroscience, but we are just beginning to understand how …

The role of ventromedial prefrontal cortex in reward valuation and future thinking during intertemporal choice

E Ciaramelli, F De Luca, D Kwan, J Mok, F Bianconi… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Intertemporal choices require trade-offs between short-term and long-term outcomes.
Ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) damage causes steep discounting of future rewards …

The computational and neural substrates of individual differences in impulsivity under loss framework

K Jiang, G Zhao, Q Feng, S Guan, H Im… - Human Brain …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Numerous neuroimaging studies have identified significant individual variability in
intertemporal choice, often attributed to three neural mechanisms:(1) increased reward …

An asymmetry in past and future mental time travel following vmPFC damage

E Ciaramelli, F Anelli, F Frassinetti - Social Cognitive and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The role of ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) in mental time travel toward the past and
the future is debated. Here, patients with focal lesions to the vmPFC and brain-damaged and …