This study is testing a novel neuromodulation method capable of directly targeting deep brain regions—temporal interference (TI)—to enhance emotion regulation. Pilot data show that, compared to sham stimulation, TI targeting the ventral striatium (VS) during breath-focused mindfulness (BFM) enhances neural markers of reward processing (measured via electroencephalography, EEG) and reduces...
How the human brain generates conscious phenomenal experience is a fundamental problem. In particular, it is unknown how variable and dynamic changes in subjective affect are driven by interactions with objective phenomena. We hypothesize a neurocomputational mechanism that generates valence-specific learning signals associated with ‘what it is like’ to be rewarded or punished. Our hypothesized...