Publications

Nettle, D., Chevallier, C., De Courson, B., A Johnson, E. , T Johnson, M. & E Pickett, K. (2025). Short-term changes in financial situation have immediate mental health consequences: implications for social policy. Social Policy & Administration, 59(2), 293-308. doi:10.1111/spol.13065

Vrizzi, S., Najar, A., Lemogne, C. , Palminteri, S. & Lebreton, M. (2025). Behavioral, computational and self-reported measures of reward and punishment sensitivity as predictors of mental health characteristics. Nature Mental Health, 3, 654–666. doi:10.1038/s44220-025-00427-1

M Hayes, W., Yax, N. & Palminteri, S. (2025). Relative Value Encoding in Large Language Models: A Multi-Task, Multi-Model Investigation. Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science, 15(10), 989-1001. doi:10.1162/opmi_a_00209

Turner, G., M Ferguson, A., Katiyar, T., Palminteri, S. & Orben, A. (2025). Old Strategies, New Environments: Reinforcement Learning on Social Media. Biological psychiatry, 97(10), 989-1001. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2024.12.012

Tomova, L., Towner, E., Thomas, K., Zhang , L., Palminteri, S. & Blakemore, S. (2025). Acute isolation is associated with increased reward seeking and reward learning in human adolescents. Communications psychology, 3(1), 135. doi:10.1038/s44271-025-00306-6

Palminteri, S. (2025). Human reinforcement learning processes and biases: computational characterization and possible applications to behavioral public policy. Mind Soc. doi:10.1007/s11299-025-00329-w

Palminteri, S. & Clavere, A. (2025). Le cerveau face à nos décisions. Cerveau & Psycho, 174(3), 21-27. doi:10.3917/cerpsy.174.0021.

Sabat, M., De Dampierre, C. & Tallon-Baudry, C. (2025). Evidence for domain-general arousal from semantic and neuroimaging meta-analyses reconciles opposing views on arousal. , Vol. 122: In Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., e2413808122. doi:10.1073/pnas.2413808122

Lussange, J., Vrizzi, S., Palminteri, S. & Gutkin, B. (2024). Mesoscale effects of trader learning behaviors in financial markets: A multi-agent reinforcement learning study. PloS one, 19(4), e0301141. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0301141

El Zein, M., Mennella, R., Meaux, E., Wyart, V. & Grèzes, J. (2024). Prioritized neural processing of social threats during perceptual decision-making. iScience, 27(6), 109951. doi:10.1016/j.isci.2024.109951

Bouton, S., Chevallier, C., Hallimat Cissé, A., Heude, B. & Jacquet, P. (2024). Metabolic trade-offs in childhood: Exploring the relationship between language development and body growth. Developmental science, 27(4), e13493. doi:10.1111/desc.13493

Beaurenaut, M., Kovarski, K., Destais, C., Mennella, R. & Grèzes, J. (2024). Spontaneous instrumental approach-avoidance learning in social contexts in autism. Molecular autism, 15(1), 33. doi:10.1186/s13229-024-00610-8

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

Yax, N. , Anlló, H. & Palminteri, S. (2024). Studying and improving reasoning in humans and machines. Communications Psychology volume, 2(51). doi:10.1038/s44271-024-00091-8

De Falco, E., Solca, M., Bernasconi, F., Babo-Rebelo, M., Young, N., Sammartino, F., Tallon-Baudry, C., Navarro , V., R Rezai, A., Krishna, V. & Blanke, O. (2024). Single neurons in the thalamus and subthalamic nucleus process cardiac and respiratory signals in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(11), e2316365121. doi:10.1073/pnas.2316365121

Baumard, N., Safra, L., Martins, M. & Chevallier, C. (2024). Cognitive fossils: using cultural artifacts to reconstruct psychological changes throughout history. Trends in cognitive sciences, 28(2), 172-186. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2023.10.001

Chung, V., Mennella, R., Pacherie, E. & Grèzes, J. (2024). Social bonding through shared experiences: the role of emotional intensity. Soc. Open Sci., 11, 240048. doi:10.1098/rsos.240048

Mennella, R., Bazin, S., Ferrel, C., Vernazza-Martin, S. & Beaurenaut, M. (2024). The effect of anxiety on gait: a threat-of-scream study. Psychological research, 89(1), 14. doi:10.1007/s00426-024-02039-3

Sequestro, M., Serfaty, J., Grèzes, J. & Mennella, R. (2024). Social threat avoidance depends on action-outcome predictability. Communications psychology, 2(1), 100. doi:10.1038/s44271-024-00152-y

C M Gueguen, M., Anlló, H., Bonagura, D., Kong, J., Hafezi, S., Palminteri, S. & B Konova, A. (2024). Recent Opioid Use Impedes Range Adaptation in Reinforcement Learning in Human Addiction. Biological psychiatry, 95(10), 974-984. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2023.12.005

Engelen, T., Schuhmann, T. , Sack, A. & Tallon-Baudry, C. (2024). Organ-Specificity In Viscera-Motor Coupling: The Phase Of The Heart, Lungs, And Stomach All Drive Motor Cortex Excitability, But Independently. Psychophysiology, 61, S120-S120. doi:10.1111/psyp.14692

Engelen, T., Buot, A., Grèzes, J. & Tallon-Baudry, C. (2023). Whose emotion is it? Perspective matters to understand brain-body interactions in emotions. NeuroImage, 268, 119867. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.119867

Vandendriessche, H. & Palminteri, S. (2023). Neurocognitive biases from the lab to real life. Communications biology, 6(1), 158. doi:10.1038/s42003-023-04544-4

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

Garcia, B., Lebreton, M., Bourgeois-Gironde, S. & Palminteri, S. (2023). Experiential values are underweighted in decisions involving symbolic options. Nature human behaviour, . doi:10.1038/s41562-022-01496-3

Grèzes, J., Risch, N., Courtet, P. , Olié, E. & Mennella, R. (2023). Depression and approach-avoidance decisions to emotional displays: The role of anhedonia. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 104306. doi:10.1016/j.brat.2023.104306

Thouzeau, V., Bollée, J. , Cristia, A. & Chevallier, C. (2023). Decades of Trivers-Willard research on humans: What conclusions can be drawn? Evolution and Human Behavior, 44(4). doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.03.005

Abdel Sater, R., Mus, M., Wyart, V. & Chevallier, C. (2023). A zero-cost attention-based approach to promote cleaner streets: A Signal Detection Theory approach in Parisian streets. PloS one, 18(4), e0284272. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0284272

Beaurenaut, M., Mennella, R., Dezecache, G. & Grèzes, J. (2023). Prioritization of danger-related social signals during threat-induced anxiety. Emotion (Washington, D.C.), . doi:10.1037/emo0001231

Anlló, H., Bavard, S., Benmarrakchi, F., Bonagura, D., Cerrotti, F., Cicue, M., Gueguen, M., Guzmán, E., Kadieva, D., Kobayashi, M., Lukumon, G., Sartorio, M., Yang, J., Zinchenko, O., Bahrami, B., Silva, J., Hertz, U., Konova, A., Li, J., O'Madagain, C., Navajas, J., Reyes, G., Sarabi-Jamab, A., Shestakova, A. , Sukumaran, B., Watanabe, K. & Palminteri, S. (2023). Outcome context-dependence is not WEIRD: Comparing reinforcement- and description-based economic preferences worldwide. Research square, . doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-2621222/v1