Terms & Concepts
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This document describes the terms that PSY 511 students suggested that they are interested in learning more about this semester.
Brain areas
- Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
- Dorsomedial prefrontal cortex
- Left precentral gyrus
- Left inferior frontal junction
- Striatum
Networks/Pathways
- Default mode network
- Dorsal attention network
- Frontoparietal network (Central executive network)
- Mesolimbic (dopamine) pathway
Physiological processes
- Interoception
- Allostasis/allostatic load
- Heart rate variability (HRV)
- Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA)
- Vagal (i.e, CN X Vagus nerve) tone
Measures & methods
- Resting state fMRI (rsfMRI)
- Structural MRI
- Vertex-wise vs. regional analyses of cortical thickness, c.f. (Harrewijn et al., 2021)
- Electroencephalography (EEG)
- Frequency-domain analyses
- Alpha (\(\alpha\)) power
- Hemispheric asymmetry
- Periodic vs. aperiodic components of EEG (Donoghue, Dominguez, & Voytek, 2020)
- Coupling c.f. (He et al., 2025)
- Event-related Potentials (ERP)
- Reward Positivity (RewP)
- Spheroids/Organoids
- Personality neuroscience
- Regions of interest (ROI)
- Frequency-domain analyses
- ENIGMA consortium
- Multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA)
Computational ideas
- Reward prediction error
- Predictive coding/active inference
- Free energy
- Neural sequence
Psychological processes
- Repetitive negative thinking
- Rumination
- Worry
- Internalizing psychopathology
- Executive function
- Reward processing
- Reward prediction error
- Predictive coding
- Behavioral inhibition
- Inhibitory control
- Categorization (in emotion), c.f. Barrett (2017)
- Borderline personality disorder (BPD)
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
References
Barrett, L. F. (2017). The theory of constructed emotion: An active inference account of interoception and categorization. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsw154
Donoghue, T., Dominguez, J., & Voytek, B. (2020). Electrophysiological frequency band ratio measures conflate periodic and aperiodic neural activity. eNeuro, 7, ENEURO.0192–20.2020. https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0192-20.2020
Harrewijn, A., Cardinale, E. M., Groenewold, N. A., Bas-Hoogendam, J. M., Aghajani, M., Hilbert, K., … Pine, D. S. (2021). Cortical and subcortical brain structure in generalized anxiety disorder: Findings from 28 research sites in the ENIGMA-anxiety working group. Translational Psychiatry, 11, 502. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-021-01622-1
He, L., Wang, X., Zhang, J., Xiao, Z., Hu, X., & Liu, Y. (2025). Human hippocampal ripples loosen medial prefrontal constraints to foster creative thinking. bioRxiv, 2025.07.22.666046. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.22.666046