Publications

Angeletos Chrysaitis, N. , Jardri, R., Denève, S. & Seriès, P. (2021). No increased circular inference in adults with high levels of autistic traits or autism. Plos Computational Biology, 17(9), e1009006. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009006

Leptourgos, P., Bouttier, V., Denève, S. & Jardri, R. (2022). From hallucinations to synaesthesia: A circular inference account of unimodal and multimodal erroneous percepts in clinical and drug-induced psychosis. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 135, 104593. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104593

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

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

Ueshima, A., Mercier, H. & Kameda, T. (2021). Social deliberation systematically shifts resource allocation decisions by focusing on the fate of the least well-off. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 92, 104067 . doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2020.104067

Yesilaltay , S., Hacquin, A., Chevallier, C. & Mercier, H. (2021). Information delivered by a chatbot has a positive impact on COVID-19 vaccines attitudes and intentions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. doi:10.1037/xap0000400

Mercier, H. & Sperber, D. (2021). L'Énigme de la raison.

Mercier, H., Dockendorff, M. , Majima, Y. , Hacquin, A. & Schwartzberg, M. (2021). Intuitions about the epistemic virtues of majority voting. Thinking & Reasoning , 27(3), 445-463. doi:10.1080/13546783.2020.1857306

Mercier, H., Yesilaltay , S. & Hacquin, A. (2022). Why do so few people share fake news? It hurts their reputation. , 24(6), 1303-1324. doi:10.1177/1461444820969893

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

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

Yesilaltay , S., Schwartz, M., Hacquin, A., Allard, A. , Mercier, H. & Blancke, S. (2022). Scaling up interactive argumentation by providing counterarguments with a chatbot. Nature Human Behaviour, 6(4), 579-592. doi:10.1038/s41562-021-01271-w

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

Acerbi , A., Yesilaltay , S. & Mercier, H. (2022). Research note: Fighting misinformation or fighting for information? Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review, 3(1), 1-15. doi:10.37016/mr-2020-87

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

Alemi, A., Machens, C., Denève, S. & Slotine, J. (2018). Learning nonlinear dynamics in efficient, balanced spiking networks using local plasticity rules. In Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, AAAI Press.

Bernard, A., Bredeche, N. & Andre, J. (2020). Indirect genetic effects allow escape from the inefficient equilibrium in a coordination game. Evolution Letters, 4(3), 257-265. doi:10.1002/evl3.155

Brendel, W. , Bourdoukan, R., Vertechi, P. , Machens, C. & Denève, S. (2020). Learning to represent signals spike by spike. PLOS Computational Biology, 16(3), e1007692. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007692

Chambon, V., Farrer, C., Pacherie, E., Leboyer, M., Zalla, T. & Jacquet, P. (2017). Reduced Sensitivity to Social Priors During Action Prediction in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Cognition, 160, 17–26 . doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2016.12.005

Chambon, V., Domenech, P., Jacquet, P., Barbalat, G., Bouton, S., Pacherie, E., Koechlin, E. & Farrer, C. (2017). Neural coding of prior expectations in hierarchical intention inference. Scientific reports, 7(1), 1278. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-01414-y

Charafeddine, R., Zambrana , I., Triniol, B. , Mercier, H., Clément, F. , Kaufmann, L. , Reboul, A. , Pons, F. & Van Der Henst, J. (2020). How Preschoolers Associate Power with Gender in Male-Female Interactions: A Cross-Cultural Investigation. Sex Roles, 83, 453-473. doi:10.1007/s11199-019-01116-x

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

Claidière, N., Trouche, E. & Mercier, H. (2017). Argumentation and the diffusion of counter-intuitive beliefs. Journal of experimental psychology. General, 146(7), 1052-1066. doi:10.1037/xge0000323

Denève, S., Alemi, A. & Bourdoukan, R. (2017). The Brain as an Efficient and Robust Adaptive Learner. Neuron, 94(5), 969-977. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2017.05.016

Gutierrez, G. & Denève, S. (2018). Population adaptation in efficient balanced networks. eLife, 8, e46926. doi:10.7554/eLife.46926

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

Jardri, R., Duverne, S., Litvinova, A. & Denève, S. (2017). Experimental evidence for circular inference in schizophrenia. Nature communications, 8, 14218. doi:10.1038/ncomms14218

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

Kim , K., Ladenbauer, J., Babo-Rebelo, M., Buot, A., Kehongre , K., Adam, C., Hasboun, D., Lambrecq , V., Navarro , V., Ostojic, S. & Tallon-Baudry, C. (2019 ). Resting-state neural firing is linked to cardiac cycle duration in the human cingulate and parahippocampal cortices. Journal of Neuroscience , 39(19), 3676-3686. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2291-18.2019

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