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Ahmed, A. A. A., Alegret, N., Almeida, B., Alvarez-Puebla, R., Andrews, A. M., Ballerini, L., Barrios-Capuchino, J. J., Becker, C., Blick, R. H., Bonakdar, S., Chakraborty, I., Chen, X., Cheon, J., Chilla, G., Conceicao, A. L. C., Delehanty, J., Dulle, M., Efros, A. L., Epple, M., Fedyk, M., Feliu, N., Feng, M., Fernández-Chacón, R., Fernandez-Cuesta, I., Fertig, N., Förster, S., Garrido, J. A., George, M., Guse, A. H., Hampp, N., Harberts, J., Han, J., Heekeren, H. R., Hofmann, U. G., Holzapfel, M., Hosseinkazemi, H., Huang, Y., Huber, P., Hyeon, T., Ingebrandt, S., Ienca, M., Iske, A., Kang, Y., Kasieczka, G., Kim, D.-H., Kostarelos, K., Lee, J.-H., Lin, K.-W., Liu, S., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Lohr, C., Mailänder, V., Maffongelli, L., Megahed, S., Mews, A., Mutas, M., Nack, L., Nakatsuka, N., Oertner, T. G., Offenhäusser, A., Oheim, M., Otange, B., Otto, F., Patrono, E., Peng, B., Picchiotti, A., Pierini, F., Pötter-Nerger, M., Pozzi, M., Pralle, A., Prato, M., Qi, B., Ramos-Cabrer, P., Resch Genger, U., Ritter, N., Rittner, M., Roy, S., Santoro, F., Schuck, N. W., Schulz, F., Şeker Erkin, Skiba, M., Sosniok, M., Stephan, H., Wang, R., Wang, T., Wegner, K. D., Weiss, P. S., Xu, M., Yang, C., Zargarian, S. S., Zeng, Y., Zhou, Y., Zhu, D., Zierold, R., & Parak, W. J. (2025). Interfacing with the brain: How nanotechnology can contribute. ACS Nano, 19(11), 10630–10717. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.4c10525
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Lu, Y.-L., Lu, Y.-F., Ren, X., & Zhang, H. (2025). Exploring the bounded rationality in human decision anomalies through an assemblable computational framework. Cognitive Psychology, 156, Article 101713. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2025.101713
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Radzikowska, M., Pike, A. C., & Hall-McMaster, S. (2025). Computational perspectives on cognition in anorexia nervosa: A systematic review. Computational Psychiatry, 9(1), 100–121. https://doi.org/10.5334/cpsy.128
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2024
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Ameen, M. S., Petzka, M., Peigneux, P., & Hoedlmoser, K. (2024). Post-training sleep modulates motor adaptation and task-related beta oscillations. Journal of Sleep Research, 33(4), Article e14082. https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.14082
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Hedrich, N. L., Schulz, E., Hall-McMaster, S., & Schuck, N. W. (2024). An inductive bias for slowly changing features in human reinforcement learning. PLoS Computational Biology, 20(11), Article e1012568. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012568
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Koch, C., Zika, O., Bruckner, R., & Schuck, N. W. (2024). Influence of surprise on reinforcement learning in younger and older adults. PLoS Computational Biology, 20(8), Article e1012331. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012331
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Löwe, A. T., Touzo, L., Muhle-Karbe, P. S., Saxe, A. M., Summerfield, C., & Schuck, N. W. (2024). Abrupt and spontaneous strategy switches emerge in simple regularised neural networks. PLoS Computational Biology, 20(10), Article e1012505. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012505
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Nitsch, A., Garvert, M. M., Bellmund, J. L. S., Schuck, N. W., & Doeller, C. F. (2024). Grid-like entorhinal representation of an abstract value space during prospective decision making. Nature Communications, 15, Article 1198. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45127-z
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O’Leary, J. D., Bruckner, R., Autore, L., & Ryan, T. J. (2024). Natural forgetting reversibly modulates engram expression. eLife, 13, Article RP92860. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.92860.3
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Simony, E., Grossman, S., & Malach, R. (2024). Brain-machine convergent evolution: Why finding parallels between brain and artificial systems is informative. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(41), Article e2319709121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2319709121
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Wu, X., Ren, X., Liu, C., & Zhang, H. (2024). The motive cocktail in altruistic behaviors. Nature Computational Science, 4, 659–676. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-024-00685-6
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Zheng, X. Y., Hebart, M. N., Grill, F., Dolan, R. J., Doeller, C. F., Cools, R., & Garvert, M. M. (2024). Parallel cognitive maps for multiple knowledge structures in the hippocampal formation. Cerebral Cortex, 34(2), Article bhad485. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhad485
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Zika, O., Appel, J., Klinge, C., Shkreli, L., Browning, M., Wiech, K., & Reinecke, A. (2024). Reduction of aversive learning rates in Pavlovian conditioning by angiotensin II antagonist losartan: A randomized controlled trial. Biological Psychiatry, 96(4), 247–255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2024.01.020
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2023
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Baeuchl, C., Glöckner, F., Koch, C., Petzold, J., Schuck, N. W., Smolka, M. N., & Li, S.-C. (2023). Dopamine differentially modulates medial temporal lobe activity and behavior during spatial navigation in young and older adults. NeuroImage, 273, Article 120099. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120099
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Garvert, M. M., Saanum, T., Schulz, E., Schuck, N. W., & Doeller, C. F. (2023). Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization. Nature Neuroscience, 26, 615–626. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-023-01283-x
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Moneta, N., Garvert, M. M., Heekeren, H. R., & Schuck, N. W. (2023). Task state representations in vmPFC mediate relevant and irrelevant value signals and their behavioral influence. Nature Communications, 14, Article 3156. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38709-w
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Morriss, J., Abend, R., Zika, O., Bradford, D. E., & Mertens, G. (2023). Neural and psychophysiological markers of intolerance of uncertainty. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 184, 94–99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2023.01.003
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Muhle-Karbe, P. S., Sheahan, H., Pezzulo, G., Spiers, H. J., Chien, S., Schuck, N. W., & Summerfield, C. (2023). Goal-seeking compresses neural codes for space in the human hippocampus and orbitofrontal cortex. Neuron, 111(23), 3885–3899.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2023.08.021
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Petzka, M., Staresina, B. P., & Cairney, S. A. (2023). Better late than never: Sleep still supports memory consolidation after prolonged periods of wakefulness. Learning & Memory, 30(10), 245–249. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5dwzx
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Pupillo, F., & Bruckner, R. (2023). Signed and unsigned effects of prediction error on memory: Is it a matter of choice? Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 153, Article 105371. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105371
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Pupillo, F., Ortiz-Tudela, J., Bruckner, R., & Shing, Y. L. (2023). The effect of prediction error on episodic memory encoding is modulated by the outcome of the predictions. npj Science of Learning, 8, Article 18. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-023-00166-x
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Schreiner, T., Petzka, M., Staudigl, T., & Staresina, B. P. (2023). Respiration modultates sleep-oscillations and memory reactivation in humans. Nature Communications, 14, Article 8351. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43450-5
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Zika, O. (2023). The relationship between latent state inference and (intolerance of) uncertainty. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 152, Article 105321. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105321
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Zika, O., Wiech, K., Reinecke, A., Browning, M., & Schuck, N. W. (2023). Trait anxiety is associated with hidden state inference during aversive reversal learning. Nature Communications, 14, Article 4203. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39825-3
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2022
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Koch, C., Baeuchl, C., Glöckner, F., Riedel, P., Petzold, J., Smolka, M. N., Li, S.-C., & Schuck, N. W. (2022). L-DOPA enhances neural direction signals in younger and older adults. NeuroImage, 264, Article 119670. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119670
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Liu, Y., Nour, M. M., Schuck, N. W., Behrens, T. E. J., & Dolan, R. J. (2022). Decoding cognition from spontaneous neural activity. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 23, 204–214. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-022-00570-z
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Petzka, M., Chatburn, A., Charest, I., Balanos, G. M., & Staresina, B. P. (2022). Sleep spindles track cortical learning patterns for memory consolidation. Current Biology, 32(11), 2349–2356. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.04.045
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Pike, A. C., Atherton, K. E., Bauer, Y., Crittenden, B. M., van Ede, F., Hall-McMaster, S., von Lautz, A. H., Muhle-Karbe, P. S., Murray, A. M., Myers, N. E., Printzlau, F., Salaris, I., Spaak, E., Tankelevitch, L., Trübutschek, D., Wasmuht, D., & Noonan, M. A. P. (2022). 10 simple rules for a supportive lab environment. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 35(1), 44–48. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01928
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Schuck, N. W., Li, A. X., Wenke, D., Ay-Bryson, D. S., Loewe, A. T., Gaschler, R., & Shing, Y. L. (2022). Spontaneous discovery of novel task solutions in children. PLoS ONE, 17(5), Article e0266253. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266253
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2021
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Chan, S. C. Y., Schuck, N. W., Lopatina, N., Schoenbaum, G., & Niv, Y. (2021). Orbitofrontal cortex and learning predictions of state transitions. Behavioral Neuroscience, 135(4), 487–497. https://doi.org/10.1037/bne0000461
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Glöckner, F., Schuck, N. W., & Li, S. C. (2021). Differential prioritization of intramaze cue and boundary information during spatial navigation across the human lifespan. Scientific Reports, 11, Article 15257. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-94530-9
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Hall-McMaster, S., Dayan, P., & Schuck, N. W. (2021). Control over patch encounters changes foraging behavior. iScience, 24(9), Article 103005. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.103005
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Kumar, M., Anderson, M. J., Antony, J. W., Baldassano, C., Brooks, P. P., Cai, M. B., Chen, P.-H. C., Ellis, C. T., Henselman-Petrusek, G., Huberdeau, D., Hutchinson, J. B., Li, P. Y., Lu, Q., Manning, J. R., Mennen, A. C., Nastase, S. A., Richard, H., Schapiro, A. C., Schuck, N. W., Shvartsman, M., Sundaram, N., Suo, D., Turek, J. S., Vo, V. A., Wallace, G., Wang, Y., Zhang, H., Zhu, X., Capota, M., Cohen, J. D., Hasson, U., Li, K., Ramadge, P. J., Turk-Browne, N. B., Willke, T. L., & Norman, K. A. (2021). BrainIAK: The Brain Imaging Analysis Kit. Aperture Neuro, Article 42. https://doi.org/10.52294/31bb5b68-2184-411b-8c00-a1dacb61e1da
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Wittkuhn, L., Chien, S., Hall-McMaster, S., & Schuck, N. W. (2021). Replay in minds and machines. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 129, 367–388. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.08.002
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Wittkuhn, L., & Schuck, N. W. (2021). Dynamics of fMRI patterns reflect sub-second activation sequences and reveal replay in human visual cortex. Nature Communications, 12, Article 1795. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21970-2
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2020
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Allegra, M., Seyed-Allaei, S., Schuck, N. W., Amati, D., Laio, A., & Reverberi, C. (2020). Brain network dynamics during spontaneous strategy shifts and incremental task optimization. NeuroImage, 217, Article 116854. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116854
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Gagne, C., Zika, O., Dayan, P., & Bishop, S. J. (2020). Impaired adaptation of learning to contingency volatility in internalizing psychopathology. eLife, 9, Article e61387. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.61387
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Hebart, M. N., & Schuck, N. W. (2020). Current topics in computational cognitive neuroscience: Editorial. Neuropsychologia, 147, Article 107621. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107621
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Koch, C., Li, S.-C., Polk, T. A., & Schuck, N. W. (2020). Effects of aging on encoding of walking direction in the human brain. Neuropsychologia, 141, Article 107379. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107379
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Wu, C. M., Schulz, E., Garvert, M. M., Meder, B., & Schuck, N. W. (2020). Similarities and differences in spatial and non-spatial cognitive maps. PLoS Computational Biology, 16(9), Article e1008149. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008149
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2019
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Cai, M. B., Schuck, N. W., Pillow, J. W., & Niv, Y. (2019). Representational structure or task structure? Bias in neural representational similarity analysis and a Bayesian method for reducing bias. PLoS Computational Biology, 15(5), Article e1006299. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006299
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Gaschler, R., Schuck, N. W., Reverberi, C., Frensch, P. A., & Wenke, D. (2019). Incidental covariation learning leading to strategy change. PLoS ONE, 14(1), Article e0210597. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210597
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Hilliard, D., Passow, S., Thurm, F., Schuck, N. W., Garthe, A., Kempermann, G., & Li, S.-C. (2019). Noisy galvanic vestibular stimulation modulates spatial memory in young healthy adults. Scientific Reports, 9, Article 9310. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-45757-0
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Schuck, N. W., & Niv, Y. (2019). Sequential replay of nonspatial task states in the human hippocampus. Science, 364(6447), Article eaaw5181. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw5181
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Sharpe, M. J., Stalnaker, T., Schuck, N. W., Killcross, S., Schoenbaum, G., & Niv, Y. (2019). An integrated model of action selection: Distinct modes of cortical control of striatal decision making. Annual Review of Psychology, 70(1), 53–76. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-010418-102824
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Schuck, N. W., Petok, J. R., Meeter, M., Schjeide, B.-M. M., Schröder, J., Bertram, L., Gluck, M. A., & Li, S.-C. (2018). Aging and a genetic KIBRA polymorphism interactively affect feedback- and observation-based probabilistic classification learning. Neurobiology of Aging, 61, 36–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2017.08.026
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Schuck, N. W., Doeller, C. F., Polk, T. A., Lindenberger, U., & Li, S.-C. (2015). Human aging alters the neural computation and representation of space. NeuroImage, 117, 141–150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.05.031
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Schuck, N. W., Gaschler, R., Wenke, D., Heinzle, J., Frensch, P. A., Haynes, J.- D., & Reverberi, C. (2015). Medial prefrontal cortex predicts internally driven strategy shifts. Neuron, 86, 331–340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2015.03.015
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2019
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Schuck, N. W., Wilson, R., & Niv, Y. (2019). A state representation for reinforcement learning and decision-making in the orbitofrontal cortex. In R. Morris, A. Bornstein, & A. Shenhav (Eds.), Goal-directed decision making: Computations and neural circuits (pp. 259–278). Academic Press.
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2025
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Demircan, C., Saanum, T., Pettini, L., Binz, M., Baczkowski, B. M., Doeller, C. F., Garvert, M. M., & Schulz, E. (2025). Evaluating alignment between humans and neural network representations in image-based learning tasks. In A. Globerson, L. Mackey, D. Belgrave, A. Fan, U. Paquet, J. Tomczak, & C. Zhang (Eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37: 38th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024). Curran.
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