Biology & Life Sciences

Cognitive Neuroscience: Reward & Decision Making

Published November 1, 2016 Curated Collections

Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system and is an interdisciplinary biological science that extends across multiple fields, including, chemistry, computer science, engineering, linguistics, mathematics, medicine, philosophy, physics, and psychology. This collection represents a first step in gathering under easily identifiable rubrics some of the most recent neuroscience research published across the PLOS journals. The collection has been organized into broad categories in response to the commonly articulated request from our users that we provide more structured and efficient access to papers of interest in the PLOS corpus. This section includes papers about Reward & Decision Making. Articles in the Neuroscience Collection are presented in order of publication date.

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10.1371/journal.pbio.1002588

PLOS Biology The Neural Representation of Prospective Choice during Spatial Planning and Decisions
January 12, 2017 Raphael Kaplan, John King, Raphael Koster, William D. Penny, Neil Burgess, Karl J. Friston
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10.1371/journal.pbio.1002586

PLOS Biology Suppression of Dopamine Neurons Mediates Reward
December 20, 2016 Nobuhiro Yamagata, Makoto Hiroi, Shu Kondo, Ayako Abe, Hiromu Tanimoto
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10.1371/journal.pone.0164012

PLOS ONE Intuition and Moral Decision-Making – The Effect of Time Pressure and Cognitive Load on Moral Judgment and Altruistic Behavior
October 26, 2016 Gustav Tinghög, David Andersson, Caroline Bonn, Magnus Johannesson, Michael Kirchler, Lina Koppel, Daniel Västfjäll
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10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005145

PLOS Computational Biology Forgetting in Reinforcement Learning Links Sustained Dopamine Signals to Motivation
October 13, 2016 Ayaka Kato, Kenji Morita
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10.1371/journal.pone.0147497

PLOS ONE Collective Decision-Making in Homing Pigeons: Larger Flocks Take Longer to Decide but Do Not Make Better Decisions
February 10, 2016 Carlos D. Santos, Sebastian Przybyzin, Martin Wikelski, Dina K. N. Dechmann
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10.1371/journal.pone.0146536

PLOS ONE Social Influences in Sequential Decision Making
January 19, 2016 Markus Schöbel, Jörg Rieskamp, Rafael Huber
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PLOS Biology How Motivation Triggers Speedy Decisions
March 18, 2014 Janelle Weaver
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10.1371/journal.pbio.1001272

PLOS Biology Anything You Can Do, You Can Do Better: Neural Substrates of Incentive-Based Performance Enhancement
February 21, 2012 Mimi Liljeholm, John O'Doherty
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10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003605

PLOS Computational Biology Optimism as a Prior Belief about the Probability of Future Reward
May 22, 2014 Aistis Stankevicius, Quentin Huys, Aditi Kalra, Peggy Series
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10.1371/journal.pone.0089129

PLOS ONE Abnormal Striatal BOLD Responses to Reward Anticipation and Reward Delivery in ADHD
February 26, 2014 Emi Furukawa, Patricia Bado, Gail Tripp, Paulo Mattos, Jeff Wickens, Ivanei Bramati, Brent Alsop, Fernanda Ferreira, Debora Lima, Fernanda Tovar-Moll, Joseph Sergeant, Jorge Moll
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10.1371/journal.pone.0086850

PLOS ONE Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation of Right Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Does Not Affect Model-Based or Model-Free Reinforcement Learning in Humans
January 24, 2014 Peter Smittenaar, George Prichard, Thomas FitzGerald, Joern Diedrichsen, Raymond Dolan
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10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003377

PLOS Computational Biology Interference and Shaping in Sensorimotor Adaptations with Rewards
January 9, 2014 Ran Darshan, Arthur Leblois, David Hansel
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10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003364

PLOS Computational Biology Actions, Action Sequences and Habits: Evidence That Goal-Directed and Habitual Action Control Are Hierarchically Organized
December 5, 2013 Amir Dezfouli, Bernard W. Balleine
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10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003387

PLOS Computational Biology Cortical and Hippocampal Correlates of Deliberation during Model-Based Decisions for Rewards in Humans
December 5, 2013 Aaron Bornstein, Nathaniel Daw
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10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003309

PLOS Computational Biology Deciding Not to Decide: Computational and Neural Evidence for Hidden Behavior in Sequential Choice
October 31, 2013 Sebastian Gluth, Jörg Rieskamp, Christian Büchel
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10.1371/journal.pone.0072626

PLOS ONE Neural and Behavioral Evidence for an Intrinsic Cost of Self-Control
August 27, 2013 Wouter Kool, Joseph McGuire, Gary Wang, Matthew Botvinick
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PLOS ONE What Is the Subjective Cost of Cognitive Effort? Load, Trait, and Aging Effects Revealed by Economic Preference
July 22, 2013 John Westbrook, Daria Kester, Todd Braver
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10.1371/journal.pone.0065566

PLOS ONE Cool and Hot Executive Function Impairments in Violent Offenders with Antisocial Personality Disorder with and without Psychopathy
June 20, 2013 Stephane De Brito, Essi Viding, Veena Kumari, Nigel Blackwood, Sheilagh Hodgins
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10.1371/journal.pone.0067002

PLOS ONE The Impact of Financial Reward Contingencies on Cognitive Function Profiles in Adult ADHD
June 20, 2013 Ivo Marx, Cornelia Höpcke, Christoph Berger, Roland Wandschneider, Sabine Herpertz
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10.1371/journal.pone.0055247

PLOS ONE Action Initiation in the Human Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex
February 27, 2013 Terrence Sejnowski, Lakshminarayan Srinivasan, Wael Asaad, Daniel Ginat, John Gale, Darin Dougherty, Ziv Williams, Emad Eskandar
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10.1371/journal.pone.0053344

PLOS ONE Reward Optimization in the Primate Brain: A Probabilistic Model of Decision Making under Uncertainty
January 22, 2013 Rajesh Rao, Yanping Huang
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10.1371/journal.pone.0053421

PLOS ONE It’s Not My Fault: Postdictive Modulation of Intentional Binding by Monetary Gains and Losses
December 28, 2012 Keisuke Takahata, Hidehiko Takahashi, Takaki Maeda, Satoshi Umeda, Tetsuya Suhara, Masaru Mimura, Motoichiro Kato
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10.1371/journal.pone.0051637

PLOS ONE The Decision to Engage Cognitive Control Is Driven by Expected Reward-Value: Neural and Behavioral Evidence
December 19, 2012 Matthew Dixon, Kalina Christoff
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10.1371/journal.pone.0051416

PLOS ONE Deficits in Cognitive Control, Timing and Reward Sensitivity Appear to be Dissociable in ADHD
December 7, 2012 Patrick de Zeeuw, Juliette Weusten, Sarai van Dijk, Janna van Belle, Sarah Durston
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10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002716

PLOS Computational Biology A Model of Reward- and Effort-Based Optimal Decision Making and Motor Control
October 4, 2012 Lionel Rigoux, Emmanuel Guigon
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10.1371/journal.pone.0044215

PLOS ONE Increased Thalamic Gamma Band Activity Correlates with Symptom Relief following Deep Brain Stimulation in Humans with Tourette’s Syndrome
September 6, 2012 Nicholas Maling, Rowshanak Hashemiyoon, Kelly Foote, Michael Okun, Justin Sanchez
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10.1371/journal.pone.0036572

PLOS ONE Deep Brain Stimulation of Nucleus Accumbens Region in Alcoholism Affects Reward Processing
May 22, 2012 Marcus Heldmann, Georg Berding, Jürgen Voges, Bernhard Bogerts, Imke Galazky, Ulf Müller, Gunther Baillot, Hans-Jochen Heinze, Thomas Münte
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10.1371/journal.pone.0037306

PLOS ONE The Neural Basis of Decision-Making and Reward Processing in Adults with Euthymic Bipolar Disorder or Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
May 18, 2012 Agustín Ibañez, Marcelo Cetkovich, Agustin Petroni, Hugo Urquina, Sandra Baez, Maria Luz Gonzalez-Gaeda, Juan Kamienkowski, Teresa Torralva, Fernando Torrente, Sergio Strejilevich, Julia Teitelbaum, Esteban Hurtado, Raphael Guex, Alicia Lischinsky, Margherita Melloni, Mariano Sigman, Facundo Manes
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10.1371/journal.pone.0036781

PLOS ONE The Relationship between Impulsive Choice and Impulsive Action: A Cross-Species Translational Study
May 4, 2012 Nienke Broos, Lianne Schmaal, Joost Wiskerke, Lennard Kostelijk, Thomas Lam, Nicky Stoop, Lonneke Weierink, Jannemieke Ham, Eco De Geus, Anton Schoffelmeer, Wim Van den Brink, Dick Veltman, Taco De Vries, Tommy Pattij, Anna Goudriaan
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10.1371/journal.pone.0030909

PLOS ONE Response Inhibition during Cue Reactivity in Problem Gamblers: An fMRI Study
March 30, 2012 Ruth van Holst, Mieke van Holstein, Wim van den Brink, Dick Veltman, Anna Goudriaan
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10.1371/journal.pbio.1001266

PLOS Biology Neural Mechanisms Underlying Motivation of Mental Versus Physical Effort
February 21, 2012 Liane Schmidt, Maël Lebreton, Marie-Laure Clery-Melin, Jean Daunizeau, Mathias Pessiglione
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10.1371/journal.pone.0030613

PLOS ONE Working Together May Be Better: Activation of Reward Centers during a Cooperative Maze Task
February 15, 2012 Austen Krill, Steven Platek
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10.1371/journal.pone.0031089

PLOS ONE Dorsal Striatum and Its Limbic Connectivity Mediate Abnormal Anticipatory Reward Processing in Obesity
February 3, 2012 Lauri Nummenmaa, Jussi Hirvonen, Jarna Hannukainen, Heidi Immonen, Markus Lindroos, Paulina Salminen, Pirjo Nuutila