Khalighinejad, Nima

A Basal Forebrain-Cingulate Circuit in Macaques Decides It Is Time to Act

Khalighinejad, N., Bongioanni, A., Verhagen, L., Folloni, D., Attali, D., Aubry, J.-F., Sallet, J., & Rushworth, M. F. S. (2020) · Neuron

Neural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesNeurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior

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Endogenous action selection processes in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex contribute to sense of agency: A meta-analysis of tDCS studies of ‘intentional binding

Khalighinejad, N., Di Costa, S., & Haggard, P. (2016) · Brain Stimulation

Free Will and AgencyTranscranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies

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A habenula-insular circuit encodes the willingness to act

Khalighinejad, N., Garrett, N., Priestley, L., Lockwood, P., & Rushworth, M. F. S. (2021) · Nature Communications

Neural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesNeurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior

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Complementary roles of serotonergic and cholinergic systems in decisions about when to act

Khalighinejad, N., Manohar, S., Husain, M., & Rushworth, M. F. S. (2022) · Current Biology

Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on BehaviorNeural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

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Human decisions about when to act originate within a basal forebrain–nigral circuit

Khalighinejad, N., Priestley, L., Jbabdi, S., & Rushworth, M. F. S. (2020) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Neural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesNeurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior

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A distributed subcortical circuit linked to instrumental information-seeking about threat

Trier, H. A., Khalighinejad, N., Hamilton, S., Harbison, C., Priestley, L., Laubach, M., Klein-Flügge, M., Scholl, J., & Rushworth, M. F. S. (2025) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Neural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesNeurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior

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Activity in human dorsal raphe nucleus signals changes in behavioural policy

Priestley, L., Mahmoodi, A., Reith, W. D., Khalighinejad, N., & Rushworth, M. F. S. (2026) · Nature Communications

Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on BehaviorNeural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

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Interpretable abstractions of artificial neural networks predict behavior and neural activity during human information gathering

D’Ambrogio, S., Grohn, J., Khalighinejad, N., Mattar, M. G., Hunt, L., & Rushworth, M. F. S. (2026) · Nature Neuroscience

Neural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesDecision-Making and Behavioral Economics

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