Publications

Zhang, D., Gao, M., Xu, D., Shi, W., Gutkin, B., Steffensen, S., Lukas, R. & Wu, J. (2012). Impact of prefrontal cortex in nicotine-induced excitation of ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons in anesthetized rats. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(36), 12366-12375. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5411-11.2012

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

Wu, J., Gao, M., Shen, J., Shi, W., Oster, A. & Gutkin, B. (2013). Cortical control of VTA function and influence on nicotine reward. Biochemical Pharmacology, 86(8), 1173-1180. doi:10.1016/j.bcp.2013.07.013

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

Tran-Van-Minh, A., Caze, R., Abrahamsson, T., Cathala, L., Gutkin, B. & Digregorio, D. (2015). Contribution of sublinear and supralinear dendritic integration to neuronal computations. Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 9, 67. doi:10.3389/fncel.2015.00067

Tolu, S., Eddine, R., Marti, F., David, V., Graupner, M., Pons, S., Baudonnat, M., Husson, M., Besson, M., Reperant, C., Zemdegs, J., Pagès, C., Hay, Y., Lambolez, B., Caboche, J., Gutkin, B., Gardier, A., Changeux, J., Faure, P. & Maskos, U. (2013). Co-activation of VTA da and GABA neurons mediates nicotine reinforcement. Molecular Psychiatry, 18(3), 382-393. doi:10.1038/mp.2012.83

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

Strickland, B., Geraci, C., Chemla, E., Schlenker, P., Kelepir, M. & Pfau, R. (2015). Event representations constrain the structure of language: Sign language as a window into universally accessible linguistic biases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(19), 5968-73. doi:10.1073/pnas.1423080112

Oster, A. & Gutkin, B. (2011). A reduced model of DA neuronal dynamics that displays quiescence, tonic firing and bursting. Journal of Physiology Paris, 105, 53-58. doi:10.1016/j.jphysparis.2011.07.012

Oster, A., Faure, P. & Gutkin, B. (2015). Mechanisms for multiple activity modes of VTA dopamine neurons. Frontiers in computational neuroscience, 9, 95. doi:10.3389/fncom.2015.00095

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

Muller, L., Brette, R. & Gutkin, B. (2011). Spike-timing dependent plasticity and feed-forward input oscillations produce precise and invariant spike phase-locking. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 15(5), 45. doi:10.3389/fncom.2011.00045

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. (2021). Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust And What We Believe.

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. & 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

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, .

Mcdonnell, M., Iannella, N., To, M., Tuckwell, H., Jost, J., Gutkin, B. & Ward, L. (2015). A review of methods for identifying stochastic resonance in simulations of single neuron models. Network: Computation in Neural Systems, 26(2), 35-71. doi:10.3109/0954898X.2014.990064

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

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

Maex, R., Budygin, E., Grinevich, V., Bencherif, M. & Gutkin, B. (2014). Receptor activation and desensitization as mechanisms for a7 regulation of dopamine response to nicotine. Chemical Neuroscience , 15(10), 1032-40. doi:10.1021/cn500126t

Krupa, M., Gielen, S. & Gutkin, B. (2014). Intrinsic and synaptic mechanisms for clustered cortical gamma. J Comput. Neurosci , 37(2), 357-76

Keramati, M. & Gutkin, B. (2014). Homeostatic reinforcement learning for integrating reward collection and physiological stability. eLife, 3. doi:10.7554/eLife.04811