Publications

Palminteri, S., Kilford, E., Coricelli, G. & Blakemore, S. (2016). The Computational Development of Reinforcement Learning during Adolescence. PLoS Computational Biology, 12(6). doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004953

Palminteri, S. & Maël, L. (2022). The computational roots of positivity and confirmation biases in reinforcement-learning. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 26(7), 607-621. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2022.04.005

Mercier, H. (2020). The Cultural Evolution of Oaths, Ordeals, and Lie Detectors. The Journal of Cognition and Culture, 20(3-4), 159-187. doi:10.1163/15685373-12340080

Garcia, B., Cerrotti, F. & Palminteri, S. (2021). The description-experience gap: a challenge for the neuroeconomics of decision-making under uncertainty. Philosophical transactions of the royal society B, 376(1819). doi:10.1098/rstb.2019.0665

Garcia, B., Cerrotti, F. & Palminteri, S. (2021). The description–experience gap: a challenge for the neuroeconomics of decision-making under uncertainty. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 376, 20190665. doi:10.1098/rstb.2019.0665

Pischedda, D. , Palminteri, S. & Giorgio, C. (2020). The effect of counterfactual information on outcome value coding in medial prefrontal and cingulate cortex: from an absolute to a relative neural code. Journal of Neuroscience, 40(16), 3268-3277. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1712-19.2020

Mahr, J. , Mascaro, O., Mercier, H. & Csibra, G. (2021). The effect of disagreement on children’s source memory performance. Plos One, 16(4), e0249958. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0249958

Bavard, S. & Palminteri, S. (2023). The functional form of value normalization in human reinforcement learning. eLife, 12, e83891. doi:10.7554/eLife.83891

Palminteri, S., Wyart, V. & Koechlin, E. (2017). The Importance of Falsification in Computational Cognitive Modeling. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 21(6), 425-433. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2017.03.011

Trouche, E., Prado, J. , Léone, J. , Epinat-Duclos, J. & Mercier, H. (2020). The neural bases of argumentative reasoning. Brain and Language, 208, 104827. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2020.104827

Lochy, A., Rossion , B. & de Heering, A. (2019). The non-linear development of the right hemispheric specialization for human face perception. Neuropsychologia., 126, 10-19. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.06.029.

O'Madagain, C., Kachel , G. & Strickland, B. (2019). The Origin of Pointing: Evidence for the Touch Hypothesis. Science Advances, 5(7), eaav2558. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aav2558

O'Madagain, C., Kachel , G. & Strickland, B. (2019). The origin of pointing: Evidence for the touch hypothesis. Science Advances, 5(7), eaav2558. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aav2558

Bai, D. & Strickland, B. (2023). The Pulfrich solidity illusion: a surprising demonstration of the visual system’s tolerance of solidity violations. Psychon Bull Rev. doi:10.3758/s13423-023-02271-9

Karabegovic , M. & Mercier, H. (2024). The Reputational Benefits of Intellectual Humility. Rev.Phil.Psych, 15, 483–498. doi:10.1007/s13164-023-00679-9#

Pischedda, D. , Palminteri, S. & Giorgio, C. (2020). The role of counterfactual information on outcome value coding in mPFC and cingulate cortex: from an absolute to an adaptive neural code. . The Journal of Neuroscience, 40 (16), 3268-3277. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1712-19.2020

Giavazzi, M., Daland, R., Palminteri, S., Peperkamp, S., Brugières, P., Jacquemot, C., Schramm, C., Cleret de Langavant, L. & Bachoud-Levi, A. (2018 ). The role of the striatum in linguistic selection: Evidence from Huntington’s disease and computational modeling. Cortex, 109, 189-204. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2018.08.031

Mercier, H. & Boyer, P. (2021). Truth-making institutions: From divination, ordeals and oaths to judicial torture and rules of evidence. Evolution and Human Behavior, 42(3), 259-267. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.11.004

Bavard, S., Rustichini, A. & Palminteri, S. (2021). Two sides of the same coin: Beneficial and detrimental consequences of range adaptation in human reinforcement learning. Science Advances, 7(14). doi:10.1126/sciadv.abe0340

Yesilaltay , S., Hacquin, A. & Mercier, H. (2020). Why do so few people share fake news? It hurts their reputation. New Media & Society, . doi:10.1177/1461444820969893

Mercier, H., Yesilaltay , S. & Hacquin, A. (2022). Why do so few people share fake news? It hurts their reputation. , 24(6), 1303-1324. doi:10.1177/1461444820969893

Bavard, S. & Palminteri, S. (2021). Why unchosen options linger in our minds. Communications Biology , 4, 1271. doi:10.1038/s42003-021-02803-w