The prefrontal cortex, pathological anxiety, and anxiety disorders

MM Kenwood, NH Kalin, H Barbas - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2022 - nature.com
Anxiety is experienced in response to threats that are distal or uncertain, involving changes
in one's subjective state, autonomic responses, and behavior. Defensive and physiologic …

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 …

Rethinking concepts and categories for understanding the neurodevelopmental effects of childhood adversity

KE Smith, SD Pollak - Perspectives on psychological science, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Discovering the processes through which early adverse experiences affect children's
nervous-system development, health, and behavior is critically important for developing …

Paranoia and belief updating during the COVID-19 crisis

P Suthaharan, EJ Reed, P Leptourgos… - Nature human …, 2021 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has made the world seem less predictable. Such crises can lead
people to feel that others are a threat. Here, we show that the initial phase of the pandemic …

Serotonin neurons modulate learning rate through uncertainty

CD Grossman, BA Bari, JY Cohen - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Regulating how fast to learn is critical for flexible behavior. Learning about the
consequences of actions should be slow in stable environments, but accelerate when that …

A model for learning based on the joint estimation of stochasticity and volatility

P Piray, ND Daw - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Previous research has stressed the importance of uncertainty for controlling the speed of
learning, and how such control depends on the learner inferring the noise properties of the …

Using reinforcement learning models in social neuroscience: frameworks, pitfalls and suggestions of best practices

L Zhang, L Lengersdorff, N Mikus… - Social Cognitive and …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The recent years have witnessed a dramatic increase in the use of reinforcement learning
(RL) models in social, cognitive and affective neuroscience. This approach, in combination …

[HTML][HTML] A taxonomy of surprise definitions

A Modirshanechi, J Brea, W Gerstner - Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
Surprising events trigger measurable brain activity and influence human behavior by
affecting learning, memory, and decision-making. Currently there is, however, no consensus …

Neural computations of threat

I Levy, D Schiller - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2021 - cell.com
A host of learning, memory, and decision-making processes form the individual's response
to threat and may be disrupted in anxiety and post-trauma psychopathology. Here we review …

AI-enabled UAV communications: Challenges and future directions

AO Hashesh, S Hashima, RM Zaki, MM Fouda… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) communications gained significant
concentration as a talented technology for future wireless communications using its …