Publications

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

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

Mercier, H., Dockendorff, M. , Majima, Y. , Hacquin, A. & Schwartzberg, M. (2021). Intuitions about the epistemic virtues of majority voting. Thinking & Reasoning , 27(3), 445-463. doi:10.1080/13546783.2020.1857306

Mercier, H., Hacquin, A. & Claidière, N. (2021). Being Easy to Communicate Might Make Verdicts Based on Confessions More Legitimate. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 21(3-4), 203-225. doi:10.1163/15685373-12340104

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

Mercier, H. (2021). How Good Are We At Evaluating Communicated Information? Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 89, 257-272. doi:10.1017/S1358246121000096

Nair, A. , B. Johnson, E. , Gregory, S. , Osborne-Crowley, K. , Zeun, P. , Scahill, R. , Lowe, J. , Papoutsi, M., Palminteri, S., Rutledge, R. , Rees, G. & Tabrizi, S. (2021). Aberrant Striatal Value Representation in Huntington's Disease Gene Carriers 25 Years Before Onset. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 6(9), 910-918. doi:10.1016/j.bpsc.2020.12.015

Palminteri, S. & Maël, L. (2021). Context-dependent outcome encoding in human reinforcement learning. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 41, 144-151. doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2021.06.006

Ueshima, A., Mercier, H. & Kameda, T. (2021). Social deliberation systematically shifts resource allocation decisions by focusing on the fate of the least well-off. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 92, 104067 . doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2020.104067

Weiss, A., Chambon, V., Drugowitsch, J. & Wyart, V. (2021). Interacting with volatile environments stabilizes hidden-state inference and its brain signatures. Nature Communications, 12, 2228. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-22396-6

Yesilaltay , S., Hacquin, A., Chevallier, C. & Mercier, H. (2021). Information delivered by a chatbot has a positive impact on COVID-19 vaccines attitudes and intentions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. doi:10.1037/xap0000400

Bouchacourt, F., Palminteri, S., Koechlin, E. & Ostojic, S. (2020). Temporal Chunking as a Mechanism for Unsupervised Learning of Task-Sets. eLife, 9, e50469. doi:10.7554/eLife.50469

Chambon, V., Thero, H., Vidal, M., Vandendriessche, C., Haggard, P. & Palminteri, S. (2020). Choosing and learning: outcome valence differentially affects learning from free versus forced choices. Nature Human Behaviour, .

Chambon, V., Thero, H., Vidal, M., Vandendriessche, H., Haggard, P. & Palminteri, S. (2020). Information about action outcomes differentially affects learning from self-determined versus imposed choices. Nature Human Behaviour , 4, 1067-1079. doi:10.1038/s41562-020-0919-5

Charafeddine, R., Zambrana , I., Triniol, B. , Mercier, H., Clément, F. , Kaufmann, L. , Reboul, A. , Pons, F. & Van Der Henst, J. (2020). How Preschoolers Associate Power with Gender in Male-Female Interactions: A Cross-Cultural Investigation. Sex Roles, 83, 453-473. doi:10.1007/s11199-019-01116-x

Le Bars, S., Devaux, A., Nevidal, T., Chambon, V. & Pacherie, E. (2020). Agents' pivotality and reward fairness modulate sense of agency in cooperative joint action. Cognition, 195, 104117. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104117

Lussange, J., Lazarevich, I. , Bourgeois-Gironde, S., Palminteri, S. & Gutkin, B. (2020). Modelling Stock Markets by Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning. Computational Economics, 57, 113-147. doi:10.1007/s10614-020-10038-w

Marie, A. , Yesilaltay , S. & Strickland, B. (2020). The cognitive foundations of misinformation on science - What we know and what scientists can do about it. EMBO Rep , 21(4), e50205. doi:10.15252/embr.202050205

Mercier, H., Dockendorff, M. , Majima, Y. , Hacquin, A. & Schwartzberg, M. (2020). Intuitions about the epistemic virtues of majority voting. Thinking & Reasoning , 27(3). doi:10.1080/13546783.2020.1857306

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

Mercier, H. (2020). Divination as polling: Comment on Boyer’s Why divination? Evolved psychology and strategic interaction in the production of truth. Current Anthropology, .

Najar, A., Bonnet, E., Bahador, B. & Palminteri, S. (2020). The actions of others act as a pseudo-reward to drive imitation in the context of social reinforcement learning. PLoS Biology, 18 (12), e3001028. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3001028

Najar, A., Sigaud, O. & Chetouani , M. (2020). Interactively shaping robot behaviour with unlabeled human instructions. Auton Agent Multi-Agent Syst, 34(35). doi:10.1007/s10458-020-09459-6

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

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

Skvortsova , V., Palminteri, S., Buot, A., Karachi, C., Welter, M., Grabli, D. & Pessiglione, M. (2020). A Causal Role for the Pedunculopontine Nucleus in Human Instrumental Learning. Current Biology, 31(5). doi:10.1016/j.cub.2020.11.042

Ting, C. , Palminteri, S., Engelmann, J. & Lebreton, M. (2020). Robust valence-induced biases on motor response and confidence in human reinforcement learning. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, . doi:10.3758/s13415-020-00826-0

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

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

Yesilaltay , S., Majima, Y. & Mercier, H. (2020 ). It's my idea! Reputation management and idea appropriation. Evolution and Human Behavior, 41(3), 235-243. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.03.004