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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Yan Jiang, Jinfeng Han, Mingyue Xiao, Yong Liu, Hong Chen
Summary: People with overweight and obesity struggle to control their eating behaviors, which can be explained by impairments in reward learning. This study examined the effects of time pressure on goal-directed and habitual responses in individuals with overweight and obesity. The results showed that under high time pressure, individuals with overweight and obesity displayed more habitual responses towards both food and non-food rewards compared to lean individuals. This suggests a deficit in goal-directed control or an overreliance on habits among individuals with overweight and obesity, supporting the Habit Hypothesis for Overeating.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
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Geriatrics & Gerontology
Tao-Mian Mi, Wei Zhang, Martin J. McKeown, Piu Chan
Summary: The study reveals that Parkinson's disease patients have impaired formation of both goal-directed and habitual control systems. Additionally, they are more susceptible to slips of action, indicating a difficulty in engaging the goal-directed system and an excessive reliance on habitual control in the expression of acquired learning.
FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
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Geriatrics & Gerontology
Kaori L. Ito, Laura Cao, Renee Reinberg, Brenton Keller, John Monterosso, Nicolas Schweighofer, Sook-Lei Liew
Summary: The study compared online and in-person performance on the two-stage Markov task and found no differences in estimated free parameters between different age groups. It also replicated previous findings that young adults are more goal-directed than older adults.
FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
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Psychiatry
Weiran Zhou, Hui Zheng, Min Wang, Yanbin Zheng, Shuaiyu Chen, Meng-jing Wang, Guang-Heng Dong
Summary: This study found disrupted thalamocortical communication in patients with Internet gaming disorder (IGD), which may lead to an imbalance between goal-directed and habitual systems in IGD patients. These findings provide more information about the role of the thalamus in the pathophysiology of IGD, and these circuit alterations could potentially be useful in treatment development and monitoring treatment outcomes for IGD patients.
JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Naveen Sendhilnathan, Debaleena Basu, Michael E. Goldberg, Jeffrey D. Schall, Aditya Murthy
Summary: The study revealed unexpected differences in neural signatures for goal-directed versus non-goal-directed movements in a brain area selectively implicated in voluntary control, adding critical constraints to the way we think about saccade generation in the brain.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
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Neurosciences
Sascha Froelich, Marlon Esmeyer, Tanja Endrass, Michael N. Smolka, Stefan J. Kiebel
Summary: Human behavior often consists of repeated action sequences that become automatic or habitual through extensive repetition. However, we are also required to react flexibly and in a goal-directed manner in response to events in our environment. In this study, we developed a novel behavioral paradigm to investigate how implicitly learned action sequences interfere with goal-directed control.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
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Biology
Jonathan S. Tsay, Hyosub E. Kim, Arohi Saxena, Darius E. Parvin, Timothy Verstynen, Richard B. Ivry
Summary: Repetition of specific movement biases subsequent actions towards the practiced movement. Recent experiments have identified two sources of use-dependent biases: one from dynamic changes during motor planning and another reflecting a stable shift in motor execution. This study used a distributional analysis to examine the contribution of these biases in reaching.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2022)
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Psychology, Clinical
Tim van Timmeren, Payam Piray, Anna E. Goudriaan, Ruth J. van Holst
Summary: This study used functional MRI to investigate the balance between goal-directed and habitual control in gambling disorder (GD) patients and healthy controls (HCs) during acute stress. Contrary to the hypothesis, GD patients did not show impaired goal-directed decision making after stress induction. These findings challenge the notion that GD is related to an increased reliance on habitual control.
ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORS
(2023)
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Neurosciences
Chuanyong Xu, Gangqiang Hou, Tingxin He, Zhongqiang Ruan, Jierong Chen, Zhen Wei, Carol A. Seger, Qi Chen, Ziwen Peng
Summary: An imbalance between goal-directed and habitual learning systems may underlie compulsivity in OCD, with stress hormone ACTH potentially moderating this relationship. This study provides new insights into the neural correlates of this imbalance and its relationship with symptom dimensions in patients with OCD.
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Endocrinology & Metabolism
B. Hartogsveld, C. W. E. M. Quaedflieg, P. van Ruitenbeek, T. Smeets
Summary: This study found that activity in the ACC, insula, and OFC is associated with the balance between goal-directed and habitual behavior in healthy controls. While stress and BED did not modulate this balance, BED participants showed smaller differences in putamen activation compared to HCs.
PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY
(2022)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Stylianos Papaioannou, Michael Dimitriou
Summary: During preparation for voluntary movements, goal-dependent modulation reduces human muscle afferent activity and also adjusts stretch reflex gains in shoulder and upper arm muscles. Central preparatory activity plays a role in tuning muscle stiffness through independent control of muscle spindle sensors based on task goals.
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Neurosciences
Danielle M. M. Giangrasso, Kaliana M. M. Veros, Maureen M. M. Timm, Peter J. J. West, Karen S. S. Wilcox, Kristen A. A. Keefe
Summary: The transition from drug abuse to addiction is related to the shift from goal-directed to habitual control over drug behavior. This study aimed to investigate the glutamate system in the dorsolateral striatum (DLS) in the context of habitual drug-seeking behavior. The results showed that glutamate clearance and release dynamics in the DLS remain largely unaffected by a history of cocaine self-administration, regardless of the mode of control over cocaine-seeking behavior.
FRONTIERS IN MOLECULAR NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Mirta Fiorio, Bernardo Villa-Sanchez, Filippo Rossignati, Mehran Emadi Andani
Summary: The study found that the placebo effect has a positive impact on goal-directed movements, improving movement execution and reducing subjective fatigue. These findings provide new evidence for the use of the placebo effect in improving motor function or treating patients with motor deficits.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Review
Clinical Neurology
Talifu Zikereya, Kaixuan Shi, Wei Chen
Summary: Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by motor and cognitive impairments. Exercise can delay the progression of the disease by improving motor and cognitive performance, providing potential strategies for treatment.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROLOGY
(2023)
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Psychology, Biological
Lari Vainio
Summary: This study found that responses were slowed down and more erroneous when the handle position of the non-target was compatible with the responding hand. The response inhibition effect disappeared when there was a delay longer than 200 ms between the offset of the non-target and the onset of the target. The findings suggest that processes controlling habitual responses associated with affordance of a non-target utilize response inhibition mechanisms overlapping with those involved in behavioral control.
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Biology
Aaron L. Wong, Jeff Goldsmith, Alexander D. Forrence, Adrian M. Haith, John W. Krakauer
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Yue Ding, Kathleen Gray, Alexander Forrence, Xiaoqin Wang, Juan Huang
Article
Clinical Neurology
John W. Krakauer, Tomoko Kitago, Jeff Goldsmith, Omar Ahmad, Promit Roy, Joel Stein, Lauri Bishop, Kelly Casey, Belen Valladares, Michelle D. Harran, Juan Camilo Cortes, Alexander Forrence, Jing Xu, Sandra DeLuzio, Jeremia P. Held, Anne Schwarz, Levke Steiner, Mario Widmer, Kelly Jordan, Daniel Ludwig, Meghan Moore, Marlena Barbera, Isha Vora, Rachel Stockley, Pablo Celnik, Steven Zeiler, Meret Branscheidt, Gert Kwakkel, Andreas R. Luft
Summary: The study compared two approaches of delivering high-intensity, high-dose upper-limb therapy in patients with subacute stroke: neuroanimation therapy and modified conventional occupational therapy. Both high-dose therapy groups showed greater recovery on the Action Research Arm Test but not the Fugl-Meyer Upper Extremity motor score when compared with the historical cohort.
NEUROREHABILITATION AND NEURAL REPAIR
(2021)