Publications

A Ferguson, L., Soukupová, M., Bouret, S., Palminteri, S. & L Parkes, S. (2026). Reference-point dependent reinforcement learning in humans and rats. Nature communications, 822. doi:10.1038/s41467-026-73623-x

Almeras, C., Chambon, V. & Wyart, V. (2026). Competing cognitive pressures on human exploration in the absence of trade-off with exploitation. Nature communications, 17(1), 883. doi:10.1038/s41467-026-68639-2

Bastug, B., G Rajendran, V., Bianco, R. , Agus, T., Chait, M. & Pressnitzer, D. (2026). Memory for repeated auditory textures. Cognition, 268, 106350. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106350

Baumard, N. & Andre, J. (2026). Evolved psychology, eco-phenotypic feedbacks and the social construction of culture. Evolved psychology, eco-phenotypic feedbacks and the social construction of culture, Evolution and Human Behavior, 106844. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2026.106844

Boucher, J., Shamma, S. & Boubenec, Y. (2026). Premotor cortex hemodynamic responses primarily reflect perceptual rather than specific motor aspects of decision making. PLoS Biol, 24(5), e3003768. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3003768

Bourgeois-Gironde, S. (2026). Structural constraints and the diffusion of responsibility. European Journal of Law and Economics. doi:10.1007/s10657-026-09874-2

Bouton, S., Chambon, V., Golestani, N., Formisano, E., Proix, T. & Giraud, A. (2026). Aligning statistical models with inference goals in the neuroscience of language: A dual-dependency taxonomy. Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.), 4 IMAG.a.1132. doi:10.1162/IMAG.a.1132

Brunsberg, S. & Ramus, F. (2026). Technical comment on Romero, A., Blanch, A., & Chopik, W. J. (2026). Male and female empathy across 24 countries and 60 latitudinal degrees. Personality and Individual Differences, 257, 113790. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2026.113790

Carbuccia, L., Heim, A., Barone, C. & Chevallier, C. (2026). A randomized controlled trial on the effect of administrative burden and information costs on social inequalities in early childcare access in France. Nature human behaviour, 10(1), 64-79. doi:10.1038/s41562-025-02293-4

Cecchi, R. & Palminteri, S. (2026). Genuine learning biases persist after accounting for temporally decreasing learning rates: Insight from fitting six datasets. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 123(6), e2534141123. doi:10.1073/pnas.2534141123

Chaix-Eichel, N., Guerillon, A., Bourgeois-Gironde, S., P Rougier, N., Boraud, T. & Ballesta, S. (2026). Social hierarchy influences monkeys' risky decisions. Communications biology, . doi:10.1038/s42003-026-09817-2

Ciranka, S., Chevallier, C. & Nettle, D. (2026). Low socioeconomic status amplifies the perceived rarity of large rewards. Cognition, 270, 106409. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106409

Cleret de Langavant, L., Mouton , A., de Gardelle, V., Kouider, S., Bachoud-Levi, A., Fenelon, G. & Remy, P. (2026). Visual misperceptions in favour of living beings in Parkinson's disease: A psychophysical study. Revue Neurologique, . doi:10.1016/j.neurol.2025.12.005

Darcy, G., Karabegovic , M. & Mercier, H. (2026). The Property in Intellectual Property: Reputation Is Harder to Share Than Ideas. Cognitive science, 50(3), e70192. doi:10.1111/cogs.70192

Dogonasheva, O., Giraud, A., Zakharov, D. & Gutkin, B. (2026). Neuro-oscillatory models of cortical speech processing. Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society, 195. doi:10.1016/j.neunet.2025.108194

Dubourg, E. & Scrivner, C. (2026). Vulnerability and the computational logic of fear: insights from the horror genre. Evolution and Human Behavior, 47(1), 106813. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106813

Dubourg, E. & Baumard, N. (2026). Distinguishing regulatory variables and ecological affordances: Prioritizing goals versus implementing action. The Behavioral and brain sciences, 49(e65). doi:10.1017/S0140525X2510321X

Fraticelli, M., Klaus, M. & Lorenzi, C. (2026). Auditory detection of flowing water by humans in a natural habitat: Psychophysical and modelling data. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 159, 3999–4020. doi:10.1121/10.0043729

Gurgand, L., Peyre, H., Thierry, X. & Ramus, F. (2026). Gender and behavior biases in teachers’ perceived academic level of students. Learning and Instruction, 104, 102391. doi:10.1016/j.learninstruc.2026.102391

Kandemir, E. , Esposito, E., Gurgand, L. & Ramus, F. (2026). A Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Feedback Timing on Learning Outcomes in Computer-Assisted Learning. Educational Psychology Review, 38(1), 13. doi:10.1007/s10648-026-10117-8

Klopfenstein, A. & Mercier, H. (2026). Explaining is not enough: Appealing explanations should also be surprising. Psychonomic bulletin & review, 33(1), 35. doi:10.3758/s13423-025-02789-0

Miller-Viacava, N., Régis, F., Friedman, N. , Mullet, T. , Sueur, J. , Willie, J. & Lorenzi, C. (2026). Spectro-temporal modulation templates for human perception of animal vocalisations in natural soundscapes. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Nasioulas, A., Potier, E., Cerrotti, F., Lebreton, M. & Palminteri, S. (2026). Feedback-induced attitudinal changes in risk preferences. Nature communications, 17(1), 992. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-67729-x

Palminteri, S. & M Wu, C. (2026). Beyond computational equivalence: the behavioral inference principle for machine consciousness. Neuroscience of consciousness, 2026(1), niag002. doi:10.1093/nc/niag002

Peperkamp, S. & Sundara, M. (2026). Reassessing the labial-coronal asymmetry in infants’ discrimination of medial consonants. Language Development Research, 6(1). doi:10.34842/LDR2025-971

Schlenker, P., Lamberton, J., Lan, N., Geraci, C., Salis, A., Ravaux, L., Grüter, C., J Ryder, R. & Chemla, E. (2026). Ancestral iconicity: the dance language of bees revisited. Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, . doi:10.1002/brv.70164

Shamma, S. (2026). Ecological soundscapes viewed through auditory cortical representations. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 159, 4602–4611

Tuan Rémy Nguyen, Q., Titeux, H., Riad, R., Massart, R., Morgado, G., Youssov, K., Dupoux, E. & Bachoud-Levi, A. (2026). Development and validation of a machine learning model to detect psychiatric symptoms in Huntington's disease using speech analysis. PloS one, 21(7), e0350118. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0350118

Varnet, L., Baga, T. & Spinelli, E. (2026). Grammatical Gender Biases Interpretation of Masculine, but Not Feminine, Hybrid Nouns. , 36( e10), 1–23. doi:10.1017/S0959269526100283

Wanek, E., Mari, A., Bourgeois-Gironde, S. & Mercier, H. (2026). Contextual expectations and norms of evidential disclosure in assertion. Journal of Pragmatics, 257, 39-50. doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2026.02.010