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The Neural Basis of Approach-Avoidance Conflict: A Model Based Analysis.
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- Intracranial recordings in humans reveal differential contributions of medial and lateral orbitofrontal cortex to approach-avoidance decision-making.Nature neuroscience · 2026Article
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- Cortical-limbic circuit dynamics of approach-avoidance conflict in humans.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Exploring Brain Dynamics Within the Approach-Avoidance Bias.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Overcoming Automatic Behavioral Tendencies in Approach-Avoidance Conflict Decisions.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- Agent-Based Behavioral Modeling of Human Associative Learning in a Complex Approach-Avoidance Conflict Task.Computational brain & behavior · 2025Article
- Examining neuroanatomical correlates of win-stay, lose-shift behaviour.Brain structure & function · 2025Article
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- Hippocampal damage disrupts the latent decision-making processes underlying approach-avoidance conflict processing in humans.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- Approach-Avoidance Bias in Virtual and Real-World Simulations: Insights from a Systematic Review of Experimental Setups.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Beyond uniformity: individual sensitivities to reward and punishment shape midfrontal-theta responses to approach avoidance conflict.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- How Distributed Subcortical Integration of Reward and Threat May Inform Subsequent Approach-Avoidance Decisions.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Belief inference for hierarchical hidden states in spatial navigation.Communications biology · 2024Article
- The neurocomputational link between defensive cardiac states and approach-avoidance arbitration under threat.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Elucidating medial temporal and frontal lobe contributions to approach-avoidance conflict decision-making using functional MRI and the hierarchical drift diffusion model.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- Quantifying aberrant approach-avoidance conflict in psychopathology: A review of computational approaches.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2023Review
- Large-scale neural network computations and multivariate representations during approach-avoidance conflict decision-making.NeuroImage · 2022Article
- Active and avoidant coping profiles in children and their relationship with anxiety and depression during the COVID-19 pandemic.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- The neural signature of the decision value of future pain.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
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Approach-avoidance conflict arises when the drives to pursue reward and avoid harm are incompatible. Previous neuroimaging studies of approach-avoidance conflict have shown large variability in reported neuroanatomical correlates. These prior studies have generally neglected to account for potential sources of variability, such as individual differences in choice preferences and modeling of hemodynamic response during conflict. In the present study, we controlled for these limitations using a hierarchical Bayesian model (HBM). This enabled us to measure participant-specific per-trial estimates of conflict during an approach-avoidance task. We also employed a variable epoch method to identify brain structures specifically sensitive to conflict. In a sample of 28 human participants, we found that only a limited set of brain structures [inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC), and right pre-supplementary motor area (pre-SMA)] are specifically correlated with approach-avoidance conflict. These findings suggest that controlling for previous sources of variability increases the specificity of the neuroanatomical correlates of approach-avoidance conflict.
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