George Tertikas (@gtertikas.bsky.social)

1/10 Happy to share that our paper, "Acute Anxiety Selectively Enhances Value-Free Random Exploration Through Frontoparietal Engagement", has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Neuroscience. 🧠 www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... Paper PDF available upon request.

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Acute Anxiety Selectively Enhances Value-Free Random Exploration Through Frontoparietal Engagement Motivational decision-making is most adaptive when exploitation of known rewards is effectively balanced against exploration of uncertain alternatives. Trait anxiety influences this balance across ind... https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2026/05/14/JNEUROSCI.2256-25.2026