Publications

Yesilaltay , S., De Araujo, E. & Mercier, H. (2022). “If this account is true, it is most enormously wonderful”: Interestingness-if-true and the sharing of true and false news. Digital Journalism, 10(3), 373-394. doi:10.1080/21670811.2021.1941163

Jardri, R. & Denève, S. (2017). [Jumping-to-conclusions in schizophrenia is mediated by circular inference]. Medecine sciences : M/S, 33(11), 933-935. doi:10.1051/medsci/20173311006

Leptourgos, P., Bouttier, V., Jardri, R. & Denève, S. (2021). A functional theory of bistable perception based on dynamical circular inference. Plos Computational Biology, 16(12), e1008480. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008480

Mastrogiuseppe, F. & Ostojic, S. (2019). A geometrical description of global dynamics in trained feedback networks. Neural Computation, 31(6), 1139-1182. doi:10.1162/neco_a_01187

Farrell, H. , Mercier, H. & Schwartzberg, M. (2022). Analytical Democratic Theory: A Microfoundational Approach. American Political Science Review. doi:10.1017/S0003055422000715

Pressnitzer, D., Graves, J., Chambers, C., de Gardelle, V. & Egré, P. (2018). Auditory Perception: Laurel and Yanny Together at Last. Current Biology, 28(13), R739-R741. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.06.002

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

Kuhn, J., Geraci, C., Schlenker, P. & Strickland, B. (2021). Boundaries in Space and Time: Iconic Biases Across Modalities . Cognition, 210, 104596. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104596

Mercier, H. & Sperber, D. (2020). Bounded reason in a social world. In Ricardo Viale (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Bounded Rationality

Leptourgos, P., Denève, S. & Jardri, R. (2017). Can circular inference relate the neuropathological and behavioral aspects of schizophrenia? Current opinion in neurobiology, 46, 154-161. doi:10.1016/j.conb.2017.08.012

Kominsky, J. , Baker, L. , Keil Frank, C. & Strickland, B. (2021). Causality and continuity close the gaps in event representations. Memory and Cognition, 49, 518-531. doi:10.3758/s13421-020-01102-9

Jardri, R., Leptourgos, P., Bouttier, V. & Denève, S. (2020). Circular Inference and Hallucinations. Biological Psychiatry, 87(9), S41-S42. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2020.02.131

Leptourgos, P., Notredame, C., Jardri, R., Denève, S. & Eck, M. (2020). Circular inference in bistable perception. Journal of Vision, 20(12), 521195. doi:10.1167/jov.20.4.12

Bouttier, V., Duttagupta, S. , Denève, S. & Jardri, R. (2022). Circular inference predicts nonuniform overactivation and dysconnectivity in brain-wide connectomes. Schizophrenia Research, 245, 59-67. doi:10.1016/j.schres.2020.12.045

Bondanelli, G. & Ostojic, S. (2020). Coding with transient trajectories in recurrent neural networks. PLoS Computational Biology, 16 (2), e1007655. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007655

Koren, V. & Denève, S. (2017). Computational Account of Spontaneous Activity as a Signature of Predictive Coding. PLoS computational biology, 13(1), e1005355. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005355

Beiran, M. & Ostojic, S. (2019). Contrasting the effects of adaptation and synaptic filtering on the timescales of dynamics in recurrent networks . PLoS Computational Biology, 15(3), e1006893. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006893

Falck, A., Labouret, G., Izard, V., Wertz, A., Keil Frank, C. & Strickland, B. (2020). Core cognition in adult vision: A surprising discrepancy between the principles of object continuity and solidity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149(12), 2250–2263. doi:10.1037/xge0000785

Chevallier, C., Hacquin, A. & Mercier, H. (2021). COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Shortening the Last Mile. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 25(5), 331–333. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2021.02.002

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

Oswald, A. & Ostojic, S. (2020). Curating more diverse scientific conferences. Nat Rev Neurosci, 21, 589-590. doi:10.1038/s41583-020-0373-4

Dubreuil, A., Valente, A., Mastrogiuseppe, F. & Ostojic, S. (2019). Disentangling the roles of dimensionality and cell classes in neural computation. In NeurIPS Workshop.

Hacquin, A., Yesilaltay , S., Aaroe, L. & Mercier, H. (2022). Disgust sensitivity and public opinion on nuclear energy. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 80(101749). doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101749

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

Mercier, H. & Claidière, N. (2022). Does discussion make crowds any wiser? Cognition, 22, 104912. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104912

Herrera-Masurel, A., Altay, S. & Mercier, H. (2023). Does nuclear energy produce neodymium? Negative perception of nuclear energy drives the assumption that it is polluting. Journal of experimental psychology. Applied, 29(3), 572-583. doi:10.1037/xap0000477

De Araujo, E. , Yesilaltay , S., Bor, A. & Mercier, H. (2021). Dominant Jerks: People Infer Dominance From the Utterance of Challenging and Offensive Statements. Social Psychological Bulletin, 16(4), e6999. doi:10.32872/spb.6999

Schuessler, F. , Dubreuil, A., Mastrogiuseppe, F., Ostojic, S. & Barak, O. (2020). Dynamics of random recurrent networks with correlated low-rank structure. Phys. Rev. Research, 2(1), 013111. doi:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.013111

Zeldenrust, F., Gutkin, B. & Denève, S. (2021). Efficient and robust coding in heterogeneous recurrent networks. Plos Computational Biology, 17(4), e1008673. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008673

Dezecache, G. & Mercier, H. (2022). Emotional Vigilance. The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions