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

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

Lunven, M., Hernandez Dominguez, K., Youssov, K., Hamet Bagnou, J., Fliss, R. , Vandendriessche, H., Bapst, B. , Morgado, G., Remy, P., Schubert, R. , Reilmann, R., Busse, M., Craufurd, D., Massart, R., Rosser, A. & Bachoud-Levi, A. (2023). A new approach to digitized cognitive monitoring: validity of the SelfCog in Huntington's disease. Brain communications, 5(2), fcad043. doi:10.1093/braincomms/fcad043

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

Ghambaryan, A., Gutkin, B., Klucharev, V. & Koechlin, E. (2021). Additively Combining Utilities and Beliefs: Research Gaps and Algorithmic Developments. Frontiers in Neuroscience, . doi:10.3389/fnins.2021.704728

Vlasceanu, M., Mercier, H. & (Et Al), . (2024). Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries. Science Advances, 10(6). doi:10.1126/sciadv.adj5778

Farrell, H. , Mercier, H. & Schwartzberg, M. (2023). Analytical Democratic Theory: A Microfoundational Approach. American Political Science Review, 117(2), 767-772. doi:10.1017/S0003055422000715

Dockendorff, M. & Mercier, H. (2024). Argument evaluation and production in the correction of political innumeracy. Thinking & Reasoning , 30(1), 195–217. doi:10.1080/13546783.2023.2259537

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

Lefebvre, G., Lebreton, M., Meyniel, F., Bourgeois-Gironde, S. & Palminteri, S. (2017). Behavioural and neural characterization of optimistic reinforcement learning. Nature Human Behaviour , 1(4), 0067

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

Chambon, V., Thero, H., Findling, C. & Koechlin, E. (2018). Believing in one's power: a counterfactual heuristic for goal-directed control. bioRxiv, 498675. doi:10.1101/498675

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

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

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

Palminteri, S. (2023). Choice-confirmation bias and gradual perseveration in human reinforcement learning. Behavioral neuroscience, 137(1), 78-88. doi:10.1037/bne0000541

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, .

Anlló, H., Bavard, S., Benmarrakchi, F., Bonagura, D., Cerrotti, F., Cicue, M., Gueguen, M., José Guzmán, E., Kadieva, D., Kobayashi, M., Lukumon, G., Sartorio, M., Yang, J., Zinchenko, O., Bahrami, B., Silva Concha, J., Hertz, U., B Konova, A., Li, J., O'Madagain, C., Navajas, J., Reyes, G., Sarabi-Jamab, A., Shestakova, A. , Sukumaran, B., Watanabe, K. & Palminteri, S. (2024). Comparing experience- and description-based economic preferences across 11 countries. Nature human behaviour, 8(8), 1554-1567. doi:10.1038/s41562-024-01894-9

Koechlin, E. (2021). Computational models of adaptive behavior and prefrontal cortex. Neuropsychopharmacology, 47, 58–71. doi:10.1038/s41386-021-01123-1

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

Palminteri, S., Lefebvre, G., Kilford, E. & Blakemore, S. (2017). Confirmation bias in human reinforcement learning: Evidence from counterfactual feedback processing. PLoS computational biology, 13(8), e1005684. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005684

Chierchia, G. , Soukupová, M., Kilford, E., Griffin, C. , Leung, J. , Palminteri, S. & Blakemore, S. (2022). Confirmatory reinforcement learning changes with age during adolescence. Developmental Science, .(e13330). doi:10.1111/desc.13330

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

Vandendriessche, H., Demmou, A. , Bavard, S., Yadak, J. , Lemogne, C. , Mauras, T. & Palminteri, S. (2022). Contextual influence of reinforcement learning performance of depression: evidence for a negativity bias? Psychological Medicine, ., 1-11. doi:10.1017/S0033291722001593

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

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

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

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

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