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

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

Balsdon, T., Wyart, V. & Mamassian, P. (2024). Metacognitive evaluation of postdecisional perceptual representations. Journal of vision, 24(4), 2. doi:10.1167/jov.24.4.2

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

Csaba Farkas, B. , Baptista, A., Speranza, M., Wyart, V. & Jacquet, P. (2024). Specifying the timescale of early life unpredictability helps explain the development of internalising and externalising behaviours. Scientific reports, 14(1), 3563. doi:10.1038/s41598-024-54093-x

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

Engelmann, J. , Maël, L., Salem-Garcia, N. & van der Weele, J. (2024). Anticipatory Anxiety and Wishful Thinking. American Economic Review, 111(4), 926–60. doi:10.1257/aer.20191068

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

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

Andrade, K., Guieysse, T., Medani, T., Koechlin, E., Pantazis, D. & Dubois, B. (2023). The dual-path hypothesis for the emergence of anosognosia in Alzheimer's disease. Frontiers in neurology, 14. doi:10.3389/fneur.2023.1239057

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

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

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

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

Guieysse, T., Lamothe, R., Houot, M., Razafimahatratra, S., Medani, T., Lejeune, F., Dreyfus, G., Klarsfeld, A., Pantazis, D., Koechlin, E. & Andrade, K. (2023). Detecting Anosognosia from the Prodromal Stage of Alzheimer's Disease. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD, 95(4), 1723-1733. doi:10.3233/JAD-230552

Lee, J. , Rouault, M. & Wyart, V. (2023). Adaptive tuning of human learning and choice variability to unexpected uncertainty. Science Advances, 9(13). doi:10.1126/sciadv.add0501

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

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

Palminteri, S. & Cecchi, R. (2023). Objective models of subjective feelings. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, 151, 105233. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105233

Salem-Garcia, N., Palminteri, S. & Lebreton, M. (2023). Linking confidence biases to reinforcement-learning processes. Psychological review, 130(4), 1017–1043. doi:10.1037/rev0000424

Ting, C. , Salem-Garcia, N., Palminteri, S., B Engelmann, J. & Lebreton, M. (2023). Neural and computational underpinnings of biased confidence in human reinforcement learning. Nature communications, 14(1), 6896. doi:10.1038/s41467-023-42589-5

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

Anlló, H., Katsumi, W., Sackur, J. & de Gardelle, V. (2022). Effects of false statements on visual perception hinge on social suggestibility. J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 48(8), 889–900. doi:10.1037/xhp0001024

Atkinson-Clement, C. , Maël, L., Patsalides, L. , De Liege, A. , Klein, Y. , Roze, E. , Deniau, E. , Andreas, H., Palminteri, S. & Yulia, W. (2022). Decision-making under risk and ambiguity in adults with Tourette syndrome. Psychological Medicine, 1-11. doi:10.1017/S0033291722002318