[HTML][HTML] Medial and orbital frontal cortex in decision-making and flexible behavior

MC Klein-Flügge, A Bongioanni, MFS Rushworth - Neuron, 2022‏ - cell.com
The medial frontal cortex and adjacent orbitofrontal cortex have been the focus of
investigations of decision-making, behavioral flexibility, and social behavior. We review …

Neural correlates of metacognition: Disentangling the brain circuits underlying prospective and retrospective second‐order judgments through noninvasive brain …

D Saccenti, AS Moro, S Sassaroli… - Journal of …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Metacognition encompasses the capability to monitor and control one's cognitive processes,
with metamemory and metadecision configuring among the most studied higher order …

[ספר][B] In consciousness we trust: The cognitive neuroscience of subjective experience

H Lau - 2022‏ - books.google.com
In Consciousness We Trust is a synthesis of Hakwan Lau's 20-year research programme
exploring the neuroscience of consciousness. Discussing studies from his own laboratory …

[HTML][HTML] Computational mechanisms underlying the dynamics of physical and cognitive fatigue

J Matthews, MA Pisauro, M Jurgelis, T Müller… - Cognition, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The willingness to exert effort for reward is essential but comes at the cost of fatigue.
Theories suggest fatigue increases after both physical and cognitive exertion, subsequently …

Multiscale chemogenetic dissection of fronto-temporal top-down regulation for object memory in primates

T Hirabayashi, Y Nagai, Y Hori, Y Hori, K Oyama… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Visual object memory is a fundamental element of various cognitive abilities, and the
underlying neural mechanisms have been extensively examined especially in the anterior …

Balancing risk-return decisions by manipulating the mesofrontal circuits in primates

R Sasaki, Y Ohta, H Onoe, R Yamaguchi, T Miyamoto… - Science, 2024‏ - science.org
Decision-making is always coupled with some level of risk, with more pathological forms of
risk-taking decisions manifesting as gambling disorders. In macaque monkeys trained in a …

Causal manipulation of self-other mergence in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex

MK Wittmann, N Trudel, HA Trier, MC Klein-Flügge… - Neuron, 2021‏ - cell.com
To navigate social environments, people must simultaneously hold representations about
their own and others' abilities. During self-other mergence, people estimate others' abilities …

The prefrontal cortex and (uniquely) human cooperation: a comparative perspective

Y Zoh, SWC Chang, MJ Crockett - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2022‏ - nature.com
Humans have an exceptional ability to cooperate relative to many other species. We review
the neural mechanisms supporting human cooperation, focusing on the prefrontal cortex …

Imagining the future self through thought experiments

K Miyamoto, MFS Rushworth, N Shea - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2023‏ - cell.com
The ability of the mind to conceptualize what is not present is essential. It allows us to reason
counterfactually about what might have happened had events unfolded differently or had …

[HTML][HTML] Emotion regulation from an action-control perspective

B Bramson, I Toni, K Roelofs - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Despite increasing interest in emotional processes in cognitive science, theories on emotion
regulation have remained rather isolated, predominantly focused on cognitive regulation …