Publications

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bavard, S. & Palminteri, S. (2023). The functional form of value normalization in human reinforcement learning. eLife, 12, e83891. doi:10.7554/eLife.83891

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

C M Gueguen, M., Anlló, H., Bonagura, D., Kong, J., Hafezi, S., Palminteri, S. & B Konova, A. (2023). Recent Opioid Use Impedes Range Adaptation in Reinforcement Learning in Human Addiction. Biological psychiatry, . doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2023.12.005

Candia-Rivera, D. , Raimondo , F., Perez, P. , Naccache, L., Tallon-Baudry, C. & D Sitt, J. (2023). Conscious processing of global and local auditory irregularities causes differentiated heartbeat-evoked responses. eLife, 27(12), e75352. doi:10.7554/eLife.75352

Chung, V., Grèzes, J. & Pacherie, E. (2023). Collective Emotion: A Framework for Experimental Research. Emotion Review, 16(1), 28-45. doi:10.1177/17540739231214533

Collomb-Clerc, A., C M Gueguen, M., Minotti, L., Kahane, P., Navarro , V., Bartolomei, F., Carron, R., Régis, J., Chabardès, S., Palminteri, S. & Bastin, J. (2023). Human thalamic low-frequency oscillations correlate with expected value and outcomes during reinforcement learning. Nature communications, 14(1), 6534. doi:10.1038/s41467-023-42380-6

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

Engelen, T., Solca, M. & Tallon-Baudry, C. (2023). Interoceptive rhythms in the brain. Nature neuroscience, 26, 1670–1684. doi:10.1038/s41593-023-01425-1

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