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Dopaminergic modulation of sensitivity to immediate and delayed punishment during decision-making
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2023 Dec 5. doi: 10.3758/s13415-023-01139-8. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTEffective decision-making involves careful consideration of all rewarding and aversive outcomes. Importantly, negative outcomes often occur later in time, leading to underestimation, or "discounting," of these consequences. Despite the frequent occurrence of delayed outcomes, little is known about the neurobiology underlying sensitivity to delayed punishment during decision-making. The Delayed Punishment Decision-making Task (DPDT) addresses this by assessing sensitivity to delayed versus immediate punishment in rats. Rat...
Source: Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience - December 5, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Grace L Minnes Anna J Wiener Anna E Liley Nicholas W Simon Source Type: research

Theory of mind in mild cognitive impairment and Parkinson's disease: The role of memory impairment
CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest that ToM impairment in PD can be explained by memory dysfunction that mediates executive control. ToM downsides in the amnesic forms of PD-MCI may suggest that subtle changes in social cognition could partly explain future transitions into dementia. Hence, the evaluation of social cognition in PD is critical to characterize a possible behavioral marker of cognitive decline.PMID:38049608 | DOI:10.3758/s13415-023-01142-z (Source: Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience)
Source: Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience - December 4, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Gianpaolo Maggi Chiara Giacobbe Carmine Vitale Marianna Amboni Ignacio Obeso Gabriella Santangelo Source Type: research

Correction to: Imagining emotional future events in PTSD: clinical and neurocognitive correlates
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2023 Dec 1. doi: 10.3758/s13415-023-01141-0. Online ahead of print.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38040864 | DOI:10.3758/s13415-023-01141-0 (Source: Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience)
Source: Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience - December 1, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Mieke Verfaellie Virginie Patt Ginette Lafleche Renee Hunsberger Jennifer J Vasterling Source Type: research

A primer on the use of computational modelling to investigate affective states, affective disorders and animal welfare in non-human animals
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2023 Nov 30. doi: 10.3758/s13415-023-01137-w. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTObjective measures of animal emotion-like and mood-like states are essential for preclinical studies of affective disorders and for assessing the welfare of laboratory and other animals. However, the development and validation of measures of these affective states poses a challenge partly because the relationships between affect and its behavioural, physiological and cognitive signatures are complex. Here, we suggest that the crisp characterisations offered by computational modelling of the underlying, but unobservable, ...
Source: Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience - November 30, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Vikki Neville Michael Mendl Elizabeth S Paul Peggy Seri ès Peter Dayan Source Type: research

Effects of task context on EEG correlates of mind-wandering
This study was designed to examine how mind-wandering and its neural correlates vary across tasks with different attentional demands, motivated by the context regulation hypothesis of mind-wandering. Participants (n = 59 undergraduates) completed the sustained attention to response task (SART) and the Stroop selective attention task in counterbalanced order while EEG was recorded. The tasks included experience-sampling probes to identify self-reported episodes of mind-wandering, along with retrospective reports. Participants reported more mind-wandering during the SART than the Stroop and during whichever task was presente...
Source: Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience - November 29, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Rebecca J Compton Danylo Shudrenko Katelyn Mann Emil Turdukulov Erin Ng Lucas Miller Source Type: research

Brain representations of space and time in episodic memory: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2023 Nov 29. doi: 10.3758/s13415-023-01140-1. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAll experiences preserved within episodic memory contain information on the space and time of events. The hippocampus is the main brain region involved in processing spatial and temporal information for incorporation within episodic memory representations. However, the other brain regions involved in the encoding and retrieval of spatial and temporal information within episodic memory are unclear, because a systematic review of related studies is lacking and the findings are scattered. The present study was designed to i...
Source: Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience - November 29, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: C ésar Torres-Morales Selene Cansino Source Type: research