Rushworth, Matthew F. S.

Beyond negative valence: 2-week administration of a serotonergic antidepressant enhances both reward and effort learning signals

Scholl, J., Kolling, N., Nelissen, N., Browning, M., Rushworth, M. F. S., & Harmer, C. J. (2017) · PLOS Biology

Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on BehaviorNeural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

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Causal manipulation of self-other mergence in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex

Wittmann, M. K., Trudel, N., Trier, H. A., Klein-Flügge, M. C., Sel, A., Verhagen, L., & Rushworth, M. F. S. (2021) · Neuron

Neural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesAction Observation and Synchronization

Cited by 55

Identification and disruption of a neural mechanism for accumulating prospective metacognitive information prior to decision-making

Miyamoto, K., Trudel, N., Kamermans, K., Lim, M. C., Lazari, A., Verhagen, L., Wittmann, M. K., & Rushworth, M. F. S. (2021) · Neuron

Neural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesDecision-Making and Behavioral Economics

Cited by 45

Connectivity and the search for specializations in the language-capable brain

Mars, R. B., Eichert, N., Jbabdi, S., Verhagen, L., & Rushworth, M. F. S. (2018) · Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Neurobiology of Language and BilingualismLanguage Development and Disorders

Cited by 41

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

Cited by 32

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

Cited by 29

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

Cited by 29

Imagining the future self through thought experiments

Miyamoto, K., Rushworth, M. F. S., & Shea, N. (2023) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Neural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesDecision-Making and Behavioral Economics

Cited by 28

Cognitive Neuroscience: Acting on Numbers

Göbel, S. M., & Rushworth, M. F. S. (2004) · Current Biology

Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skillsNeural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Cited by 27

Viewing Ambiguous Social Interactions Increases Functional Connectivity between Frontal and Temporal Nodes of the Social Brain

Ainsworth, M., Sallet, J., Joly, O., Kyriazis, D., Kriegeskorte, N., Duncan, J., Schüffelgen, U., Rushworth, M. F. S., & Bell, A. H. (2021) · The Journal of Neuroscience

Action Observation and SynchronizationFunctional Brain Connectivity Studies

Cited by 24

Causal role of a neural system for separating and selecting multidimensional social cognitive information

Mahmoodi, A., Nili, H., Harbison, C., Hamilton, S., Trudel, N., Bang, D., & Rushworth, M. F. S. (2023) · Neuron

Neural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesFace Recognition and Perception

Cited by 20

Human hippocampus and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex infer and update latent causes during social interaction

Mahmoodi, A., Luo, S., Harbison, C., Piray, P., & Rushworth, M. F. S. (2024) · Neuron

Memory and Neural MechanismsNeural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Cited by 17

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

Cited by 12

Comparing brain connections in different species using diffusion weighted imaging

Rushworth, M. F. S., Boorman, E., & Mars, R. B. (2009) · Diffusion MRI

Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and ApplicationsFunctional Brain Connectivity Studies

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Asymmetric projection of introspection reveals a behavioural and neural mechanism for interindividual social coordination

Miyamoto, K., Harbison, C., Tanaka, S., Saito, M., Luo, S., Matsui, S., Sankhe, P., Mahmoodi, A., Lin, M., Trudel, N., et al. (2025) · Nature Communications

Action Observation and SynchronizationNeural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Cited by 4

What’s Worth the Risk? A Neural Circuit for Trade-Offs

Kolling, N., & Rushworth, M. F. S. (2015) · Cell

Neural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesMemory and Neural Mechanisms

Cited by 3

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

Cited by 3

Active disambiguation guides inferring controllability and cause in social interactions

Spiering, L., Trier, H. A., O’Reilly, J. X., Kolling, N., Wittmann, M. K., Rushworth, M. F. S., & Scholl, J. (2025) · Nature Communications

Neural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesAction Observation and Synchronization

Cited by 2

Fundamental features of social environments determine rate of social affiliation

Garud, S., Rascu, M., Hamilton, S., Yu, I., Rushworth, M. F. S., & Klein-Flügge, M. C. (2025) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Neural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesNeurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior

Cited by 2

Two prefrontal-subcortical circuits estimate controllability and reflect its impact on learning

Liu, Y., Spiering, L., Luo, S., Kingston, N., Grohn, J., & Rushworth, M. F. S. (2026) · Neuron

Neural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesNeurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior

Cited by 1

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

Cited by 1