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 …

Naturalistic reinforcement learning

T Wise, K Emery, A Radulescu - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2024 - cell.com
Humans possess a remarkable ability to make decisions within real-world environments that
are expansive, complex, and multidimensional. Human cognitive computational …

Neural signatures of prosocial behaviors

G Bellucci, JA Camilleri, SB Eickhoff… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Prosocial behaviors are hypothesized to require socio-cognitive and empathic abilities—
engaging brain regions attributed to the mentalizing and empathy brain networks. Here, we …

Formalising social representation to explain psychiatric symptoms

JM Barnby, P Dayan, V Bell - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Recent work in social cognition has moved beyond a focus on how people process social
rewards to examine how healthy people represent other agents and how this is altered in …

Dopamine and serotonin in human substantia nigra track social context and value signals during economic exchange

SR Batten, D Bang, BH Kopell, AN Davis… - Nature human …, 2024 - nature.com
Dopamine and serotonin are hypothesized to guide social behaviours. In humans, however,
we have not yet been able to study neuromodulator dynamics as social interaction unfolds …

Towards a neurocomputational account of social controllability: From models to mental health

S Na, SA Rhoads, NC Alessandra, VG Fiore… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Controllability, or the influence one has over their surroundings, is crucial for decision-
making and mental health. Traditionally, controllability is operationalized in sensorimotor …

Interactive cognitive maps support flexible behavior under threat

T Wise, CJ Charpentier, P Dayan, D Mobbs - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
In social environments, survival can depend upon inferring and adapting to other agents'
goal-directed behavior. However, it remains unclear how humans achieve this, despite the …

Computational mechanisms underlying illusion of control in delusional individuals

S Na, S Blackmore, D Chung, M O'Brien… - Schizophrenia …, 2022 - Elsevier
Humans navigate complex situations that require the accurate estimation of the
controllability of the environment. Aberrant controllability computation might lead to …

Invasive computational psychiatry

I Saez, X Gu - Biological psychiatry, 2023 - Elsevier
Computational psychiatry, a relatively new yet prolific field that aims to understand
psychiatric disorders with formal theories about the brain, has seen tremendous growth in …

Disrupted computations of social control in individuals with obsessive-compulsive and misophonia symptoms

SM Banker, S Na, J Beltrán, HW Koenigsberg… - IScience, 2022 - cell.com
Misophonia is a disorder in which certain sounds produced by other people lead to intense
negative reactions. It remains unknown how misophonia relates to other psychiatric …