[HTML][HTML] Appetitive Pavlovian-instrumental transfer: a review

E Cartoni, B Balleine, G Baldassarre - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Reward-related cues are an important part of our daily life as they often influence and guide
our actions. This paper reviews one of the experimental paradigms used to study the effects …

Training motor responses to food: A novel treatment for obesity targeting implicit processes

E Stice, NS Lawrence, E Kemps, H Veling - Clinical psychology review, 2016‏ - Elsevier
The present review first summarizes results from prospective brain imaging studies focused
on identifying neural vulnerability factors that predict excessive weight gain. Next, findings …

Withholding a reward-driven action: studies of the rise and fall of motor activation and the effect of cognitive depletion

SM Freeman, AR Aron - Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2016‏ - direct.mit.edu
Controlling an inappropriate response tendency in the face of a reward-predicting stimulus
likely depends on the strength of the reward-driven activation, the strength of a putative top …

High working memory load increases intracortical inhibition in primary motor cortex and diminishes the motor affordance effect

SM Freeman, S Itthipuripat, AR Aron - Journal of Neuroscience, 2016‏ - jneurosci.org
Motor affordances occur when the visual properties of an object elicit behaviorally relevant
motor representations. Typically, motor affordances only produce subtle effects on response …

Susceptibility to interference between Pavlovian and instrumental control is associated with early hazardous alcohol use

H Chen, S Nebe, N Mojtahedzadeh… - Addiction …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Pavlovian‐to‐instrumental transfer (PIT) tasks examine the influence of Pavlovian stimuli on
ongoing instrumental behaviour. Previous studies reported associations between a strong …

[HTML][HTML] Go/no-go training affects frontal midline theta and mu oscillations to passively observed food stimuli

I van de Vijver, HT van Schie, H Veling, R van Dooren… - Neuropsychologia, 2018‏ - Elsevier
The mere perception of high-calorie food items can trigger strong action tendencies towards
these foods. Go/no-go training has successfully been applied to reduce such action …

Less approach, more avoidance: Response inhibition has motivational consequences for sexual stimuli that reflect changes in affective value not a lingering global …

RL Driscoll, KQ De Launay, MJ Fenske - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2018‏ - Springer
Response inhibition negatively impacts subsequent hedonic evaluations of motivationally
relevant stimuli and reduces the behavioral incentive to seek and obtain such items. Here …

Age-dependent Pavlovian biases influence motor decision-making

X Chen, RB Rutledge, HR Brown… - PLoS Computational …, 2018‏ - journals.plos.org
Motor decision-making is an essential component of everyday life which requires weighing
potential rewards and punishments against the probability of successfully executing an …

Mental contrasting spurs energy by changing implicit evaluations of obstacles.

S Wittleder, A Kappes, NR Krott, M Jay… - Motivation …, 2020‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Mentally contrasting a desired future with the obstacle of current reality produces expectancy-
dependent changes in explicit evaluations of the obstacle of current reality. Past research …

Dopamine selectively modulates the outcome of learning unnatural action–valence associations

NC Van Wouwe, DO Claassen, JS Neimat… - Journal of cognitive …, 2017‏ - direct.mit.edu
Learning the contingencies between stimulus, action, and outcomes is disrupted in
disorders associated with altered dopamine (DA) function in the BG, such as Parkinson …