Anxiety traits can manifest as a tendency to overlook positive information, impacting memory and decision-making. Using EEG-based neural decoding, we examined future reward …
Background Depressive symptoms are associated with negative expectations and reduced belief updating by positive information. Cognitive immunization, the devaluation of positive …
Cognitive models of delusions emphasize the role of bias against disconfirmatory evidence (BADE) in maintaining false beliefs, but sources of this tendency remain elusive. While …
Failing to make decisions that would actively avoid negative outcomes is central to helplessness. In a 20 Bayesian framework, deciding whether to act is informed by beliefs …
Mood uctuations, central to human experience, are profoundly in uenced by reward prediction error (RPE). Although depression and anxiety are traditionally understood to …
This thesis investigated two cognitive approaches for improving the application of non- invasive brain stimulation in the treatment of depression. The goal of the first project was to …