Publications

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

Yesilaltay , S., Claidière, N. & Mercier, H. (2020). It Happened to a Friend of a Friend: Inaccurate Source Reporting In Rumor Diffusion. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2, E49. doi:10.1017/ehs.2020.53

Yesilaltay , S. & Mercier, H. (2020). Framing messages for vaccination supporters. Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied, 26(4). doi:10.1037/xap0000271

Yesilaltay , S. & Mercier, H. (2020). Relevance Is Socially Rewarded, But Not at the Price of Accuracy. Evolutionary Psychology, 18(1), 1–7. doi:10.1177/1474704920912640

Findling, C., Skvortsova , V., Dromnelle, R. , Palminteri, S. & Wyart, V. (2019). Computational noise in reward-guided learning drives behavioral variability in volatile environments. Nature Neuroscience , 22, 2066–2077. doi:10.1101/439885

Fontanesi , L., Palminteri, S. & Lebreton, M. (2019). Decomposing the effects of context valence and feedback information on speed and accuracy during reinforcement learning: A meta-analytical approach using diffusion decision modeling. Cognitive Affective Behavioral Neuroscience, 1-13. doi:10.3758/s13415-019-00723-1

Lebreton, M., Bacily , K., Palminteri, S. & Engelmann, J. (2019). Contextual influence on confidence judgments in human reinforcement learning. PLoS Comput Biol, 15(4), e1006973. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006973

Lebreton, M., Bavard, S., Daunizeau, J. & Palminteri, S. (2019). Assessing inter-individual differences with task-related functional neuroimaging. Nature Human Behaviour. doi:10.1038/s41562-019-0681-8

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

O'Madagain, C. (2019). Epistemic Injustice at the Conceptual Level: Are We Entitled to Our Own Concepts? Studia Philosophica Estonica, 12, 64-80

Safra, L., Chevallier, C. & Palminteri, S. (2019). Depressive symptoms are associated with blunted reward learning in social contexts. PLOS Computational Biology, 15(7), e1007224. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007224

Safra, L., Palminteri, S. & Chevallier, C. (2019). Social information impairs reward learning in depressive subjects: behavioral and computational characterization. Plos Computational Biology, 15(7), e1007224. doi:10.1101/378281

Sidarus, N., Palminteri, S. & Chambon, V. (2019). Cost-benefit trade-offs in decision-making and learning. PLOS Computational Biology, 15(9), e1007326. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007326

Bavard, S., Lebreton, M., Khamassi, M., Coricelli, G. & Palminteri, S. (2018). Reference-point centering and range-adaptation enhance human reinforcement learning at the cost of irrational preferences. Nature Communications, 9(4503)

Correa, C. , Noorman, S. , Jiang, J. , Palminteri, S., Cohen, M. , Lebreton, M. & van Gaal, S. (2018). How the level of reward awareness changes the computational and electrophysiological signatures of reinforcement learning. Journal of Neuroscience , 0457-18. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0457-18.2018

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

Lefebvre, G., Nioche, A., Bourgeois-Gironde, S. & Palminteri, S. (2018). Contrasting temporal difference and opportunity cost reinforcement learning in an empirical money-emergence paradigm. PNAS, 115(49), E11446-E11454. doi:10.1073/pnas.1813197115

Palminteri, S. & Chevallier, C. (2018). Can We Infer Inter-Individual Differences in Risk-Taking From Behavioral Tasks? Frontiers in psychology, 9, 2307. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02307

Strickland, B. & Chemla, E. (2018). Cross-linguistic regularities and learner biases reflect "core" mechanics. PloS one, 13(1), e0184132. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0184132

Hertz, U., Palminteri, S., Brunetti, S., Olesen, C., Frith, C. & Bahrami, B. (2017). Neural computations underpinning the strategic management of influence in advice giving. Nature communications, 8(1), 2191. doi:10.1038/s41467-017-02314-5