ArticleCognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience2021
Real-Life Self-Control is Predicted by Parietal Activity During Preference Decision Making: A Brain Decoding Analysis.
Article in Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04498988 (Volitional Dysfunction in Self-control Failures and Addictive Behaviors), which is not on this map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Volitional Dysfunction in Self-control Failures and Addictive Behaviors
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Neuroscience meets behavior: A systematic literature review on magnetic resonance imaging of the brain combined with real-world digital phenotyping.Human brain mapping · 2024Pooled it
- Default mode network activity is related to efficiency in a combined motion error and gambling task.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Risk, reward and loss in addictive behavior: a six-year cross-lagged panel study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The functional connectivity between the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the medial prefrontal cortex underlying the association between self-control and delay discounting.Brain structure & function · 2025Article
- Enhanced activation in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and inferior parietal lobule during recovery from body dissatisfaction.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- No evidence for a reciprocal relationship between daily self-control failures and addictive behavior in a longitudinal study.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Effort Foraging Task reveals positive correlation between individual differences in the cost of cognitive and physical effort in humans.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Measuring self-regulation in everyday life: Reliability and validity of smartphone-based experiments in alcohol use disorder.Behavior research methods · 2023Article
- The relationship between executive functioning and addictive behavior: new insights from a longitudinal community study.Psychopharmacology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Despite its relevance for health and education, the neurocognitive mechanism of real-life self-control is largely unknown. While recent research revealed a prominent role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in the computation of an integrative value signal, the contribution and relevance of other brain regions for real-life self-control remains unclear. To investigate neural correlates of decisions in line with long-term consequences and to assess the potential of brain decoding methods for the individual prediction of real-life self-control, we combined functional magnetic resonance imaging during preference decision making with ecological momentary assessment of daily self-control in a large community sample (N = 266). Decisions in line with long-term consequences were associated with increased activity in bilateral angular gyrus and precuneus, regions involved in different forms of perspective taking, such as imagining one's own future and the perspective of others. Applying multivariate pattern analysis to the same clusters revealed that individual patterns of activity predicted the probability of real-life self-control. Brain activations are discussed in relation to episodic future thinking and mentalizing as potential mechanisms mediating real-life self-control.
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