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Characterising the neuro-oscillatory signatures of spontaneous and deliberate music-evoked visual imagery and examining their role in stress recovery. 描述自发和刻意音乐诱发的视觉图像的神经振荡特征，并研究它们在压力恢复中的作用。

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Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience Pub Date : 2026-05-09 DOI: 10.3758/s13415-025-01390-1

Sarah Hashim, Diana Omigie

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Understanding loss aversion by using tDCS stimulation on DLPFC and multiple ERP measures: A tDCS-EEG study. 通过tDCS刺激DLPFC和多重ERP测量理解损失厌恶：一项tDCS- eeg研究。

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Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience Pub Date : 2026-05-06 DOI: 10.3758/s13415-026-01448-8

Jia Jin, Lu Dai, Zhongfeng Wang, Qin Xiao, Ailian Wang

{"title":"Understanding loss aversion by using tDCS stimulation on DLPFC and multiple ERP measures: A tDCS-EEG study.","authors":"Jia Jin, Lu Dai, Zhongfeng Wang, Qin Xiao, Ailian Wang","doi":"10.3758/s13415-026-01448-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-026-01448-8","url":null,"abstract":"Loss aversion is a crucial aspect of risky decision-making; yet its neural underpinnings remain unclear, particularly regarding the functional relationship between neural activity and behavior. This study employed bihemispheric DLPFC transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and electroencephalogram (EEG) to deeply understand the neural mechanism of loss aversion from three aspects: 1) functional relationship of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) on loss aversion; 2) comprehensive neural basis of loss aversion; 3) neural evidence of functional effect of DLPFC on loss aversion. Twenty-five healthy subjects underwent three stimulations, i.e., right anodal/left cathodal (right stimulation), left anodal/right cathodal (left stimulation), and sham stimulation targeted bilateral DLPFC on separate days with 7- to 14-day intervals. Participants performed a mixed gamble task poststimulation while EEG was recorded. Behaviorally, right stimulation reduced acceptance rate and increased loss aversion coefficients compared with sham and left stimulation. Moreover, both average and single-trial ERP analysis revealed enhanced feedback-related negativity difference (d-FRN) deflections following right stimulation, whereas no significant error-related negativity (ERN) effect was found. These findings suggested that right DLPFC is a key region driving loss aversion by increasing sensitivity to losses and modulating negative emotional responses.","PeriodicalId":50672,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147845676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The role of social norms, empathy, and religiosity in assisted dying decisions: an fMRI study. 社会规范、同理心和宗教信仰在辅助临终决定中的作用：一项功能磁共振成像研究。

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Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience Pub Date : 2026-05-06 DOI: 10.3758/s13415-026-01452-y

Jie Chen, Michael S Cohen, Winnifred Louis, Jean Decety, Emma F Thomas, Monique Crane, Catherine Amiot, Susilo Wibisono, Pascal Molenberghs

{"title":"The role of social norms, empathy, and religiosity in assisted dying decisions: an fMRI study.","authors":"Jie Chen, Michael S Cohen, Winnifred Louis, Jean Decety, Emma F Thomas, Monique Crane, Catherine Amiot, Susilo Wibisono, Pascal Molenberghs","doi":"10.3758/s13415-026-01452-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-026-01452-y","url":null,"abstract":"Medical assistance in dying (MAiD) is gaining legal and social acceptance; yet it remains ethically controversial and challenging for healthcare professionals. This functional MRI study examines how social norms and empathy influence MAiD decisions in 59 Australian medical students while evaluating hypothetical assisted-dying scenarios. Participants' decisions generally aligned with the legal framework. MAiD was approved when eligibility criteria were met (normative cases) and denied when they were not (nonnormative cases). Nonnormative scenarios elicited greater activation in frontoparietal brain regions involved in response selection and inhibition, consistent with increased decision difficulty. These scenarios elicited heightened activity in the precuneus, temporoparietal junction, and angular gyrus, along with stronger functional connectivity between the anterior hippocampus and the precuneus, suggesting greater reliance on memory retrieval and mentalizing. Normative scenarios were associated with increased amygdala activity, particularly among less religious participants, suggesting a role for negative affective salience. Greater activity in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, and connectivity between the anterior cingulate cortex and this region, suggest positive feelings related to compassion when a clinician can legally approve an assisted dying request. Normative scenarios were also associated with reduced connectivity between the anterior cingulate cortex and the anterior insula, particularly in those with higher trait affective empathy, suggesting that doctors might feel a reduction in their patients' pain. The findings provide the first empirical evidence of the neural mechanisms underlying decision-making in bioethical cases involving death as the outcome, highlighting distinct contributions and potential risk factors for medical practitioners in normative and nonnormative MAiD clinical situations.","PeriodicalId":50672,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147845726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Substance use and the value of control. 物质使用和控制的价值。

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Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience Pub Date : 2026-05-06 DOI: 10.3758/s13415-026-01451-z

Elle M Giovanni, Mimi Liljeholm

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Neurotransmitters in memory destabilization: An integrative perspective framed by prediction error and novelty. 记忆不稳定中的神经递质：预测误差和新颖性框架下的综合视角。

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Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience Pub Date : 2026-05-06 DOI: 10.3758/s13415-026-01449-7

Junjiao Li, Wei Chen, Changhong Li, Daoming Fu, Ailing Liu, Yang Liu

{"title":"Neurotransmitters in memory destabilization: An integrative perspective framed by prediction error and novelty.","authors":"Junjiao Li, Wei Chen, Changhong Li, Daoming Fu, Ailing Liu, Yang Liu","doi":"10.3758/s13415-026-01449-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-026-01449-7","url":null,"abstract":"Memory destabilization is a critical phase in memory reconsolidation, during which the transient disruption of consolidated memory traces allows for the incorporation of new information, supporting memory updating and adaptive behavioral modification. While neurotransmitter release and receptor signaling during memory reactivation are known to trigger memory destabilization, the underlying regulatory networks and dynamic interactions remain unclear. Existing studies often examine neurotransmitters in isolation, lacking a unified framework. This review introduces a novel integrative framework that organizes existing evidence on neurotransmitter-mediated memory destabilization around novelty and prediction error (PE) signaling. By synthesizing experimental findings across dopamine (DA), norepinephrine (NE), acetylcholine (ACh), the glutamatergic/GABAergic systems, and the endocannabinoid system, we analyze how PE and novelty engage distinct yet interacting neural pathways. Integrating experimental data and theoretical concepts from multiple systems, we propose the PE-Novelty-Neurotransmitter Network-a unified framework explaining how multimodal neurotransmitter co-release across the midbrain-locus coeruleus-cortex circuit dynamically regulates the balance between memory stability and flexibility. This review addresses diverse memory types, with a focus on maladaptive memories, while also discussing emotional and nonemotional memories. It further discusses potential clinical implications, particularly how neuromodulatory process related to PE and novelty may inform strategies for modifying maladaptive memories and enhancing cognitive flexibility. By bridging mechanistic insights with translational considerations, this work establishes a unified framework for understanding memory plasticity and informs future efforts to translate basic neuroscience into therapeutic contexts.","PeriodicalId":50672,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147845693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience Pub Date : 2026-05-06 DOI: 10.3758/s13415-026-01454-w

Lulu Liu, Runyu Huang, Yu-Jung Shang, Shijie Li, Yushan Cen

{"title":"Withdrawal-related threat sensitivity mediates associations between perceived rejection and loneliness: Divergent neural correlates in younger and older adults.","authors":"Lulu Liu, Runyu Huang, Yu-Jung Shang, Shijie Li, Yushan Cen","doi":"10.3758/s13415-026-01454-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-026-01454-w","url":null,"abstract":"Perceived social rejection is a robust risk factor for loneliness across the lifespan; yet the psychological and neural mechanisms underlying this association may differ by age. This study investigated whether withdrawal-related threat sensitivity mediates the relationship between perceived rejection and loneliness in younger and older adults and whether distinct brain regions are associated with this pathway. A total of 249 participants (141 younger adults aged 18-34 years and 108 older adults aged 60-89 years) completed questionnaires assessing perceived rejection, withdrawal-related threat sensitivity, and loneliness, and underwent structural MRI. Higher perceived rejection was associated with greater withdrawal-related threat sensitivity and loneliness, and withdrawal-related threat sensitivity partially mediated the association between perceived rejection and loneliness in both age groups. Older adults reported lower mean levels of withdrawal-related threat sensitivity and loneliness, but the indirect behavioral association did not differ reliably by age group. Exploratory neuroimaging analyses suggested that gray matter volume in several regions in self-referential and social-perceptual processing (i.e., left angular gyrus, left precuneus, left subparietal sulcus, left planum temporale, and right superior temporal sulcus) was associated with loneliness through perceived rejection and withdrawal-related threat sensitivity. In exploratory analyses, age-sensitive indirect effects were observed in the left precuneus and left planum temporale, with significant effects evident only in younger adults. These findings provide preliminary evidence that withdrawal-related threat sensitivity may explain the association between perceived rejection and loneliness across adulthood, while age differences may be more evident in mean levels and exploratory structural correlates than in the behavioral pathway itself.","PeriodicalId":50672,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147845740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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People, places, and things: The impact of scene animacy on emotional modulation of the early posterior negativity. 人、地点和事物：场景动画对早期后验消极情绪调节的影响。

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Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience Pub Date : 2026-05-06 DOI: 10.3758/s13415-026-01446-w

Han Jia, Andrew H Farkas, Dean Sabatinelli

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Stimulation success!? Improved response inhibition performance after prefrontal single-site and condition-and-perturb transcranial magnetic stimulation. 刺激成功! ?前额叶单部位和条件-扰动经颅磁刺激后反应抑制性能的改善。

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Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience Pub Date : 2026-04-24 DOI: 10.3758/s13415-026-01439-9

Maximilian A Friehs, Matteo Ferrante, Hagen Jung, Martin Dechant, Christian Frings, Gesa Hartwigsen

{"title":"Stimulation success!? Improved response inhibition performance after prefrontal single-site and condition-and-perturb transcranial magnetic stimulation.","authors":"Maximilian A Friehs, Matteo Ferrante, Hagen Jung, Martin Dechant, Christian Frings, Gesa Hartwigsen","doi":"10.3758/s13415-026-01439-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-026-01439-9","url":null,"abstract":"In everyday behaviour, the ability to stop an already initiated action is critical for ensuring both your safety and that of others; for example, when stopping a reaching movement towards a hot stove-top after realising it is hot. Neuroscientific evidence points towards the critical role of several regions in the right prefrontal cortex in the coordination and execution of this response inhibition-specifically the right inferior frontal gyrus (rIFG) and the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (rDLPFC). The present study investigated the effects of different transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) protocols on stop-signal task (SST) performance. We hypothesized that TMS over one or both of these areas would be detrimental to performance. However, contrary to our hypothesis, TMS significantly facilitated performance regardless of the stimulation condition. We applied both frequentist and Bayesian methods to assess the robustness of these effects, revealing consistent reductions in stop-signal reaction time (SSRT) across active conditions. Our results add to the growing body of results that suggest TMS effects may not be as straight-forward as usually assumed and that so-called \"inhibitory protocols\" can facilitate performance. This result could be explained by a shift in the signal-to-noise ratio depending on the pre-activation of the area. Put differently, TMS may have primed task-related activity in the target areas to a level that was optimal for task performance. Alternatively, the observed effect may reflect an (over)compensation by other parts of the network or disruption of competing resources. Future studies may provide further support for these hypotheses.","PeriodicalId":50672,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147787601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The oblique effect in visual working memory is enhanced by distraction, regardless of tDCS manipulations. 视觉工作记忆中的斜向效应会因分心而增强，而与tDCS操作无关。

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Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience Pub Date : 2026-04-21 DOI: 10.3758/s13415-026-01443-z

Harun Yörük, Benjamin J Tamber-Rosenau

{"title":"The oblique effect in visual working memory is enhanced by distraction, regardless of tDCS manipulations.","authors":"Harun Yörük, Benjamin J Tamber-Rosenau","doi":"10.3758/s13415-026-01443-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-026-01443-z","url":null,"abstract":"The sensory recruitment model suggests that visual working memory (VWM) relies on early visual cortex (EVC), while the alternative frontoparietal account argues VWM representation is independent from EVC. An emerging consensus suggests that VWM relies on a distributed network, with different brain loci serving behavior depending on task demands. To evaluate VWM reliance on EVC vs. parietal cortex, we applied anodal (or sham) transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to either occipital cortex (Oz) or right posterior parietal cortex (P4) to manipulate cortical representations before an orientation VWM task. To provoke perceptual interference and encourage reliance on parietal cortex, in half of blocks, distractors appeared during VWM delays. We predicted that parietal tDCS would improve VWM capacity to protect representations against ongoing distractions. We also expected that occipital tDCS could either increase memory capacity in nondistraction blocks or increase susceptibility to ongoing distraction. Finally, we reasoned that the oblique effect, which is thought to rely in part on EVC, would be reduced by distractor presence and the accompanying shift to reliance on parietal representations. Contrary to our predictions, neither tDCS manipulation affected VWM reports and the oblique effect was always present but was paradoxically stronger with distraction. These results could suggest reliance on EVC for VWM maintenance, even under distraction. Alternatively, these results could signal loss of fine-grained VWM detail under distraction due to use of representational strategies that maximize task performance rather than veridical orientation representation.","PeriodicalId":50672,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147787682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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ERP effects at encoding: Image memorability or recognition success? ERP对编码的影响：图像记忆或识别成功？

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Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience Pub Date : 2026-04-21 DOI: 10.3758/s13415-026-01427-z

Will Deng, Kara D Federmeier

{"title":"ERP effects at encoding: Image memorability or recognition success?","authors":"Will Deng, Kara D Federmeier","doi":"10.3758/s13415-026-01427-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-026-01427-z","url":null,"abstract":"The subsequent memory effect (SME) refers to neural patterns (e.g., in EEG or fMRI) at encoding that predict later memory performance. In N400-based SMEs, for example, items later remembered elicit less negative N400 amplitudes at encoding compared to items later forgotten. These effects have traditionally been interpreted as reflecting idiosyncratic neural states during encoding-in the case of the N400, states related to semantic activation-that influence episodic encoding success. However, recent work on memorability, a stable, item-level property indicating the population-level likelihood that an image will be remembered, has shown that high (compared to low) memorability images elicit less negative N400 amplitudes, suggesting that memorability is linked to more targeted semantic mapping. This raises the question of whether encoding-related effects are more tied to intrinsic stimulus properties or in-the-moment encoding variability. The present study examined both factors in tandem: ERPs were recorded while participants viewed images varying in memorability and were later classified by recognition outcome (hit vs. miss). Analyses revealed that N400 amplitudes were significantly predicted by memorability scores even when controlling for subsequent memory performance. Memorability also predicted Late Positive Complex SMEs. These findings suggest that neural activity traditionally associated with later memory success may capture item-level properties rather than transient encoding states. Consequently, memorability appears to be a key driver of differences in memory performance, challenging interpretations of SMEs as purely state-dependent and highlighting the importance of considering intrinsic stimulus characteristics when evaluating effects correlated with memory success.","PeriodicalId":50672,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147787624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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