New paper by Jennifer Swart in PLOS Biology

Our study titled “Frontal network dynamics reflect neurocomputational mechanisms for reducing maladaptive biases in motivated action” is now published online in the PLOS Biology journal. In this study, we investigated the neurocomputational mechanisms underlying overcoming maladaptive motivational influences through frontal cognitive control. We found that midfrontal theta-band activity covaried with the level of Pavlovian conflict and was associated with reduced Pavlovian biases rather than reduced instrumental learning biases. Motor and lateral prefrontal regions synchronized to the midfrontal cortex, and these network dynamics predicted the reduction of Pavlovian biases over and above local, midfrontal theta activity.

The paper is open access and can be found here.