Publications

Klopfenstein, A. & Mercier, H. (2026). Explaining is not enough: Appealing explanations should also be surprising. Psychonomic bulletin & review, 33(1), 35. doi:10.3758/s13423-025-02789-0

Cleret de Langavant, L., Mouton , A., de Gardelle, V., Kouider, S., Bachoud-Levi, A., Fenelon, G. & Remy, P. (2026). Visual misperceptions in favour of living beings in Parkinson's disease: A psychophysical study. Revue Neurologique, . doi:10.1016/j.neurol.2025.12.005

Dubourg, E. & Scrivner, C. (2026). Vulnerability and the computational logic of fear: insights from the horror genre. Evolution and Human Behavior, 47(1), 106813. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106813

Miller-Viacava, N., Régis, F., Friedman, N. , Mullet, T. , Sueur, J. , Willie, J. & Lorenzi, C. (2026). Spectro-temporal modulation templates for human perception of animal vocalisations in natural soundscapes. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Kandemir, E. , Esposito, E., Gurgand, L. & Ramus, F. (2026). A Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Feedback Timing on Learning Outcomes in Computer-Assisted Learning. Educational Psychology Review, 38(1), 13. doi:10.1007/s10648-026-10117-8

Baumard, N. & Andre, J. (2026). Evolved psychology, eco-phenotypic feedbacks and the social construction of culture. Evolved psychology, eco-phenotypic feedbacks and the social construction of culture, Evolution and Human Behavior, 106844. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2026.106844

Pacherie, E. (2026). Agency. Cambridge University Press

Chaix-Eichel, N., Guerillon, A., Bourgeois-Gironde, S., P Rougier, N., Boraud, T. & Ballesta, S. (2026). Social hierarchy influences monkeys' risky decisions. Communications biology, . doi:10.1038/s42003-026-09817-2

Darcy, G., Karabegovic , M. & Mercier, H. (2026). The Property in Intellectual Property: Reputation Is Harder to Share Than Ideas. Cognitive science, 50(3), e70192. doi:10.1111/cogs.70192

Bourgeois-Gironde, S. (2026). Structural constraints and the diffusion of responsibility. European Journal of Law and Economics. doi:10.1007/s10657-026-09874-2

Wanek, E., Mari, A., Bourgeois-Gironde, S. & Mercier, H. (2026). Contextual expectations and norms of evidential disclosure in assertion. Journal of Pragmatics, 257, 39-50. doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2026.02.010

Bouton, S., Chambon, V., Golestani, N., Formisano, E., Proix, T. & Giraud, A. (2026). Aligning statistical models with inference goals in the neuroscience of language: A dual-dependency taxonomy. Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.), 4 IMAG.a.1132. doi:10.1162/IMAG.a.1132

Almeras, C., Chambon, V. & Wyart, V. (2026). Competing cognitive pressures on human exploration in the absence of trade-off with exploitation. Nature communications, 17(1), 883. doi:10.1038/s41467-026-68639-2

Brunsberg, S. & Ramus, F. (2026). Technical comment on Romero, A., Blanch, A., & Chopik, W. J. (2026). Male and female empathy across 24 countries and 60 latitudinal degrees. Personality and Individual Differences, 257, 113790. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2026.113790

Cecchi, R. & Palminteri, S. (2026). Genuine learning biases persist after accounting for temporally decreasing learning rates: Insight from fitting six datasets. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 123(6), e2534141123. doi:10.1073/pnas.2534141123

Nasioulas, A., Potier, E., Cerrotti, F., Lebreton, M. & Palminteri, S. (2026). Feedback-induced attitudinal changes in risk preferences. Nature communications, 17(1), 992. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-67729-x

Palminteri, S. & M Wu, C. (2026). Beyond computational equivalence: the behavioral inference principle for machine consciousness. Neuroscience of consciousness, 2026(1), niag002. doi:10.1093/nc/niag002

Palminteri, S. & Wyart, V. (2026). Decision Making: A Very Short Introduction. doi:10.1093/9780191912344.001.0001

Schlenker, P., Lamberton, J., Lan, N., Geraci, C., Salis, A., Ravaux, L., Grüter, C., J Ryder, R. & Chemla, E. (2026). Ancestral iconicity: the dance language of bees revisited. Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, . doi:10.1002/brv.70164

XIAO, H., Cremers, A., Straboni, C., Strickland, B. & Peperkamp, S. (2026). The Influence of Grammatical Gender on Object Conceptualization Is Weak and Language-Dependent. Cognitive science, 50(1), e70176. doi:10.1111/cogs.70176

Peperkamp, S. & Sundara, M. (2026). Reassessing the labial-coronal asymmetry in infants’ discrimination of medial consonants. Language Development Research, 6(1). doi:10.34842/LDR2025-971

Boucher, J., Shamma, S. & Boubenec, Y. (2026). Premotor cortex hemodynamic responses primarily reflect perceptual rather than specific motor aspects of decision making. PLoS Biol, 24(5), e3003768. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3003768

Fraticelli, M., Klaus, M. & Lorenzi, C. (2026). Auditory detection of flowing water by humans in a natural habitat: Psychophysical and modelling data. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 159, 3999–4020. doi:10.1121/10.0043729

Yin, P., Radtke-Schuller, S., Shamma, S. & Fritz, J. (2026). 5imilar Response Dynamics Represent Opposite Behaviors and Rewards in Frontal Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience (e1302252026). doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1302-25.2026

Varnet, L., Baga, T. & Spinelli, E. (2026). Grammatical Gender Biases Interpretation of Masculine, but Not Feminine, Hybrid Nouns. , 36( e10), 1–23. doi:10.1017/S0959269526100283

Shamma, S. (2026). Ecological soundscapes viewed through auditory cortical representations. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 159, 4602–4611

A Ferguson, L., Soukupová, M., Bouret, S., Palminteri, S. & L Parkes, S. (2026). Reference-point dependent reinforcement learning in humans and rats. Nature communications, 822. doi:10.1038/s41467-026-73623-x

Dogonasheva, O., Giraud, A., Zakharov, D. & Gutkin, B. (2026). Neuro-oscillatory models of cortical speech processing. Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society, 195. doi:10.1016/j.neunet.2025.108194

Dubourg, E. & Baumard, N. (2026). Distinguishing regulatory variables and ecological affordances: Prioritizing goals versus implementing action. The Behavioral and brain sciences, 49(e65). doi:10.1017/S0140525X2510321X

Mari, A. (2026). The Landscape of Negative Biases: Modality, Exclamative-Questions and Exclamatives. Expressive Meaning and Speech Acts (pp. 132–168). doi:10.1163/9789004749917_007