🚨Out in Nature Human Behaviour!🚨 Effort is costly - how can we learn to value doing effortful things? Reward effort, not outcomes/performance! Registered report led by the incomparable Hause Lin shows people can learn to prefer doing effortful tasks doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Dynamic representation of appetitive and aversive stimuli in nucleus accumbens shell D1- and D2-medium spiny neurons www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.22.581563v1

Dynamic representation of appetitive and aversive stimuli in nucleus accumbens shell D1- and D2-medium spiny neurons https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.22.581563v1

The nucleus accumbens (NAc) is a key brain region for motivated behaviors, yet how distinct neuronal

How do the LC and VTA systems respond to rewards and valence? Our study used high-res fMRI to explore their activation during a reward-emotion recognition task www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Exploring distinct and joint contributions of the Locus Coeruleus and the Substantia Nigra/Ventral Tegmental Area complex to reward and valence processing using high-resolution fMRI

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We submitted a revised version today, thanks to @akuehnel.bsky.social#neuroscience 🩺

I'm elated to share my PhD keystone paper published @PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...#CognitivePsychology#Motivation#Effort#Foraging#DecisionMaking 🧵

New paper day! "Multiband acquisition sequences for fMRI: Proceed with caution" apertureneuro.org/article/9129...@layerfmri.bsky.social@fmri-today.bsky.social#neuroskyence

New paper out led by Xavier Job at @elife.bsky.socialelifesciences.org/articles/90912 We tested two opposing hypotheses of how action influences somatosensory perception! We show that action does not enhance but attenuates self-touch compared to identical touch in the absence of action

Action does not enhance but attenuates predicted touch

A series of pre-registered psychophysical studies on self-touch tested two opposing models of somatosensory attenuation (cancelation) and enhancement (sharpening) regarding how action affects percepti...

Locus Coeruleus Norepinephrine Neurons Facilitate Orbitofrontal Cortex Remapping and Behavioral Flexibility www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.15.571858v1

Locus Coeruleus Norepinephrine Neurons Facilitate Orbitofrontal Cortex Remapping and Behavioral Flexibility https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.15.571858v1

To guide behavior, brain regions such as the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) retain complex information a

Anxiety researchers - has anyone tried to recruit hypo-anxious population? (people with very low anxiety) If so, what were your selection criteria? Is there a specific diagnostic tool for this?

First pre-print thread here on bsky! We investigated how the acute stress response impacts the allocation of resources (energy) towards safety-related goals. osf.io/preprints/ps...#neuroscience#Neuroskyence#cogpsyc#AffectSci#psychscisky (1/6)