Publications

Hall-McMaster, S., Wittkuhn, L., Verra, L., Hedrich, N. L., Irie, K., Dayan, P., Gershman, S. J., & Schuck, N. W. (2026). Entorhinal cortex signals dimensions of past experience that can be generalised in a novel environment. The Journal of Neuroscience. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1492-25.2025

Rewitz, K., Schuck, N. W., & Wolff, W. (2026). The explore-exploit trade-off in sports and exercise: A primer on empirical and computational approaches. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 83, Article 103036. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.103036

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

Hall-McMaster, S., Tomov, M. S., Gershman, S. J., & Schuck, N. W. (2025). Neural evidence that humans reuse strategies to solve new tasks. PLoS Biology, 23(6), Article e3003174. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003174

Löwe, A. T., Petzka, M., Tzegka, M. M., & Schuck, N. W. (2025). N2 sleep promotes the occurrence of 'aha' moments in a perceptual insight task. PLoS Biology, 23(6), Article e3003185. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003185

Wittkuhn, L., Krippner, L. M., Koch, C., & Schuck, N. W. (2025). Replay in the human visual cortex during brief task pauses is linked to implicit learning of successor representations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(34), Article e2507516122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2507516122

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

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

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

Moneta, N., Grossman, S., & Schuck, N. W. (2024). Representational spaces in orbitofrontal and ventromedial prefrontal cortex: Task states, values, and beyond. Trends in Neurosciences, 47(12), 1055–1069. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tins.2024.10.005

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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