Publications of Charley M. Wu

Wu, C. M., Deffner, D., Kahl, B., Meder, B., Ho, M. H., & Kurvers, R. H. J. M. (2025). Adaptive mechanisms of social and asocial learning in immersive collective foraging. Nature Communications, 16, Article 3539. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58365-6

Wu, C. M., Meder, B., & Schulz, E. (2025). Unifying principles of generalization: Past, present, and future. Annual Review of Psychology, 76, 275–302. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-021524-110810

Deffner, D., Mezey, D., Kahl, B., Schakowski, A., Romanczuk, P., Wu, C. M., & Kurvers, R. H. J. M. (2024). Collective incentives reduce over-exploitation of social information in unconstrained human groups. Nature Communications, 15, Article 2683. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47010-3

Giron, A. P., Ciranka, S., Schulz, E., van den Bos, W., Ruggeri, A., Meder, B., & Wu, C. M. (2023). Developmental changes in exploration resemble stochastic optimization. Nature Human Behaviour, 7, 1955–1967. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01662-1

Ciranka, S., Linde-Domingo, J., Padezhki, I., Wicharz, C., Wu, C. M., & Spitzer, B. (2022). Asymmetric reinforcement learning facilitates human inference of transitive relations. Nature Human Behaviour, 6, 555–564. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01263-w

Wu, C. M., Schulz, E., Pleskac, T. J., & Speekenbrink, M. (2022). Time pressure changes how people explore and respond to uncertainty. Scientific Reports, 12, Article 4122. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-07901-1

Meder, B., Wu, C. M., Schulz, E., & Ruggeri, A. (2021). Development of directed and random exploration in children. Developmental Science, 24(4), Article e13095. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13095

Wu, C. M., Schulz, E., & Gershman, S. J. (2021). Inference and search on graph-structured spaces. Computational Brain & Behavior, 4, 125–147. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42113-020-00091-x

Zuberer, A., Kucyi, A., Yamashita, A., Wu, C. M., Walter, M., Valera, E. M., & Esterman, M. (2021). Integration and segregation across large-scale intrinsic brain networks as a marker of sustained attention and task-unrelated thought. NeuroImage, 229, Article 117610. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117610

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