Brolsma, S. C.A, Vrijsen, J.N, Vassena, E, Rostami Kandroodi, M, Bergman, M, van Eijndhoven, P.F., Collard, R.M, den Ouden, H.E.M, Schene, A.H, Cools, R. (2020). Challenging the negative learning bias hypothesis of depression: reversal learning in a naturalistic psychiatric sample. Psychological Medicine. [pdf]
“How does willpower work and how do underlying factors such as cognitive control and motivation influence it? We talk to Dr. Roshan Cools about her research.
We cover many topics ranging from reward and the role of dopamine as well as cognitive enhancers such as ritalin or adderall and if they are actually effective or not.
We also touched upon how UX design could impact cognitive control and how you should think about it.”
Listen to the full podcast episode here.
What do changing bad habits, catching up with a friend, and considering your next move at game night have in common? Rebecca Calcott will tell you, read more on our blog.
Westbrook, A, van den Bosch, R, Määttä, J.I, Hofmans, L, Papadopetraki, D, Cools, R* & Frank, M.J* (in press). Dopamine Promotes Cognitive Effort by Biasing the Benefits Versus Costs of Cognitive Work. bioRxiv. [preprint] Science. [pdf]
Cook JL, Swart JC, Froböse MI, Diaconescu AO, Geurts DEM, den Ouden HEM* & Cools R* (in press). Catecholaminergic modulation of meta-learning. Elife. [pdf]
Click here to find the new blog post written by Rebecca Calcott.
Baas M, Boot N, van Gaal S, de Dreu C. K.W, Cool R. (2019). Methylphenidate does not affect convergent and divergent creative processes in healthy adults. Neuroimage. [link]
Read more on Donders Wonders, where Rebecca Calcott wrote a post on cognitive flexibility.
Cools, R. (2019). Chemistry of the Adaptive Mind: Lessons from Dopamine. Neuron. [pdf]
Read the latest blog post on cognitive effort, written by Ceyda Sayali.
Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Swart for a successful PhD defense!
Westbrook A, Cools R, Braver TS. (2019). Editorial. Special issue on Cognitive Effort. Neuropsychologia. [pdf]
Piray P, Ly V, Roelofs K, Cools R*, Toni I* (2019). Emotionally aversive cues suppress neural systems underlying optimal learning in socially anxious individuals. JNeurosci. [pdf]
Mas-Herrero E, Sescousse G, Cools R, Marco-Pallares J. (2019). The contribution of striatal pseudo-reward prediction errors to value-based decision-making. NeuroImage. [preprint] [pdf]
Here you can listen to our PhD researcher Lieke van Lieshout tell us about how she got interested in curiosity research.
Welcome to Ceyda Sayali!
van Holst RJ, Janssen LK, van Mierlo K, Lammers G.J, Cools R, Overmeem S, Aarts E. (2018). Enhanced food-related responses in the ventral medial prefrontal cortex in narcolepsy type . Scientific Reports. [pdf]
Frobose, M.I., Swart, J.C., Cook, J.L., Dirk EM Geurts, den Ouden, H.E.M., Cools, R. (in press) Catecholaminergic modulation of the avoidance of cognitive control. bioRxiv. [preprint] Journal of Experimental Psychology: General [pdf]
See the promotion video here.
Swart, J.C., Frank, M.J., Määttä, J.I., Jensen, O., Cools, R., & den Ouden, H.E.M. (in press) Frontal network dynamics reflect neurocomputational mechanisms for reducing maladaptive biases in motivated action. PLOS Biology.