_{Publications:
Department for Computational Neuroscience}

Brochard, J.; Dayan, P.; Bach, D.: Critical intelligence: computing defensive behaviour. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 174, 106213 (2025)

Akata, E.; Schulz, L.; Coda-Forno, J.; Oh, S.; Bethge, M.; Schulz, E.: Playing repeated games with Large Language Models. Nature Human Behaviour Epub ahead (2025)

Buendía, V.: Mesoscopic Theory for Coupled Stochastic Oscillators. Physical Review Letters 134, 197201 (2025)

Granwald, T.; Dayan, P.; Lengyel, M.; Guitart-Masip, M.: A task-invariant prior explains trial-by-trial active avoidance behaviour across gain and loss tasks. Communications Psychology 3 (1), 82 (2025)

Harkin, E.; Grossman, C.; Cohen, J.; Béïque, J.-C.; Naud, R.: A prospective code for value in the serotonin system. Nature 641 (8064), pp. 952 - 959 (2025)

Lynn, M.; Geddes, S.; Chahrour, M.; Maillé, S.; Caya-Bissonnette, L.; Harkin, E.; Harvey-Girard, E.; Haj-Dahmane, S.; Naud, R.; Béïque, J.-C.: Nonlinear recurrent inhibition through facilitating serotonin release in the raphe. Nature Neuroscience 28 (5), pp. 1024 - 1037 (2025)

Schulz, L.; Schulz, E.; Bhui, R.; Dayan, P.: Mechanisms of Mistrust: A Bayesian Account of Misinformation Learning. PLOS Computational Biology 21 (5), e1012814 (2025)

Schulze, C.; Aka, A.; Bartels, D.; Bucher, S.; Embrey, J.; Gureckis, T.; Häubl, G.; Ho, M.; Krajbich, I.; Moore, A. et al.; Oettingen, I.; Moore, A.; Oettingen, G.; Ongchoco, J.; Oprea, R.; Reinholtz, N.; Newell, B.: A Timeline of Cognitive Costs in Decision Making. Trends in Cognitive Sciences Epub ahead (2025)

Antonov, G.; Dayan, P.: Exploring Replay. Nature Communications 16 (1), 1657 (2025)

Basgol, H.; Dayan, P.; Franz, V.: Violation of Auditory Regularities is Reflected in Pupil Dynamics. Cortex 183, pp. 66 - 86 (2025)

Chernov, G.: The Alternative Factors Leading to Replication Crisis: Prediction and Evaluation. Evaluation Review 49 (1), pp. 147 - 164 (2025)

Ershadmanesh, S.; Rajabi, S.; Rostami, R.; Moran, R.; Dayan, P.: Noradrenergic and Dopaminergic modulation of meta-cognition and meta-control. PLOS Computational Biology 21 (2), e1012675 (2025)

Solopchuk, O.; Dayan, P.: Multifaceted confidence in exploratory choice. PLOS ONE 20 (1), e0304923 (2025)

Wu, S.; Thalmann, M.; Schulz, E.: Two types of motifs enhance human recall and generalization of long sequences. Communications Psychology 3 (1), 3 (2025)

Rachum, R.; Nakar, Y.; Tomlinson, B.; Alon, N.; Mirsky, R.: Emergent Dominance Hierarchies in Reinforcement Learning Agents. In: Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems XVII: International Workshop, COINE 2024, Auckland, New Zealand, May 7, 2024, pp. 41 - 56 (Eds. Cranefield, S.; Nardin, L.; Lloyd, N.). International Workshop Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems XVII (COINE 2024) , Auckland, New Zealand, May 07, 2024. Springer, Cham, Switzerland (2025)

Eschenko, O.: The Activity Dynamics of the Locus Coeruleus Noradrenergic Neurons during Sleep and its Role in Systems-Level Memory Consolidation. In Neuroforum, 31 (1 Supplement), S35-2, p. 240. 16th Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society, 40th Göttingen Neurobiology Conference, Göttingen, Germany, March 26, 2025 - March 29, 2025. De Gruyter, Berlin (2025)

Eschenko, O.; Mednick, S.: New perspectives on the locus coeruleus: noradrenergic activity during sleep and its role in memory function. 16th Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society, 40th Göttingen Neurobiology Conference, Göttingen, Germany (2025)

Demircan, C.; Saanum, T.; Jagadish, A.; Binz, M.; Schulz, E.: Sparse Autoencoders Reveal Temporal Difference Learning in Large Language Models. Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025), Singapore (2025)

Wu, S.; Thalmann, M.; Dayan, P.; Akata, Z.; Schulz, E.: Building, Reusing, and Generalizing Abstract Representations from Concrete Sequences. Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025), Singapore (2025)

Basgol, H.; Raab, F.; Dayan, P.; Franz, V.: Violations of spatiotemporal visual regularities lead to pupil dilation responsess. 67th Conference of Experimental Psychologists: TeaP 2025: Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog:innen, Frankfurt/Main, Germany (2025)

Castro, P.; Tomasev, N.; Anand, A.; Sharma, N.; Mohanta, R.; Dev, A.; Novikov, A.; Perlin, K.; Elteto, N.; Jain, S. et al.; Levin, K.; Eckstein, M.; Dabney, W.; Turner, G.; Daw, N.; Stachenfeld, K.; Miller, K.: Automated discovery of interpretable cognitive programs underlying reward-guided behavior. Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting (COSYNE 2025), Montreal, Canada (2025)

Harkin, E.; Grossman, C.; Cohen, J.; Beique, J.-C.; Naud, R.: A prospective code for value in the serotonin system. Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting (COSYNE 2025), Montreal, Canada (2025)

Kastner, D.; Dayan, P.: Data-driven evaluation of interpretive framework for model-based planning. Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting (COSYNE 2025), Montreal, Canada (2025)

Pan Vazquez, A.; Zimmermann, C.; McMannon, B.; Louka, M.; West, S.; Faulkner, M.; International Brain Laboratory; Dayan, P.: Midbrain dopamine activity produces regionally localized decision substrates. Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting (COSYNE 2025), Montreal, Canada (2025)

Tessereau, C.; Xuan, F.; Mellor, J.; Dayan, P.; Dombeck, D.: Unpredictable Rewards, Predictable Maps: Reward uncertainty induces hippocampal place cell remapping in parallel reference-frames. Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting (COSYNE 2025), Montreal, Canada (2025)

Baumann, T.; Eschenko, O.: Synchronization between the hippocampus and the thalamic nucleus reuniens accompanies spatial decision making. 16th Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society, 40th Göttingen Neurobiology Conference, Göttingen, Germany (2025)

Fisher, E.; Sajid, N.; Convertino, L.; Hohwy, J.: Computational Psychiatry and Its Challenges: An Optimistic Outlook. (submitted)

Modirshanechi, A.; Dayan, P.; Schulz, E.: An integrative framework for the human sense of control. (submitted)

Satti, M.; Wille, K.; Nassar, M.; Cichy, R.; Schuck, N.; Dayan, P.; Bruckner, R.: Absence of Systematic Effects of Internalizing Psychopathology on Learning Under Uncertainty. (submitted)

Wu, S.; Alaniz, S.; Karthik, S.; Dayan, P.; Schulz, E.; Akata, Z.: Concept-Guided Interpretability via Neural Chunking. (submitted)

Teckentrup, V.; Ludwig, M.; Seibt, J.; Hartig, R.; Preissl, H.; Schuppert, M.; Avdievich, N.; Scheffler, K.; Priovoulos, N.; Ehses, M. et al.; Poser, B.; Wiggins, C.; Trautner, P.; Honerbach, W.; Jacobs, H.; Speck, O.; Hämmerer, D.; Kroemer, N.: Assessing a stimulator modification for simultaneous non-invasive auricular vagus nerve stimulation and magnetic resonance imaging. (submitted)

Valton, V.; Mkrtchian, A.; Moses-Payne, M.; Gray, A.; Kieslich, K.; VanUrk, S.; Samborska, V.; Halahakoon, D.; Manohar, S.; Dayan, P. et al.; Husain, M.; Roiser, J.: A computational approach to understanding effort-based decision-making in depression. (submitted)

Safavi, S.; Dayan, P.: A decision-theoretic model of perceptual multistability: perceptual switches as internal actions. (submitted)

Castro, P.; Tomasev, N.; Anand, A.; Sharma, N.; Mohanta, R.; Dev, A.; Perlin, K.; Jain, S.; Levin, K.; Éltetö, N. et al.; Dabney, W.; Novikov, A.; Turner, G.; Eckstein, M.; Daw, N.; Miller, K.; Stachenfeld, K.: Discovering Symbolic Cognitive Models from Human and Animal Behavior. (submitted)

Mahajan, P.; Dayan, P.; Seymour, B.: Homeostasis After Injury: How Intertwined Inference and Control Underpin Post-Injury Pain and Behaviour. (submitted)

Senta, J.; Collins, A.; Dayan, P.; Bishop, S.: Latent subdimensions of anxiety and depression differentially influence exertion of effort in pursuit of reward versus avoidance of threat. (submitted)

Chebolu, S.; Dayan, P.: Weighting waiting: A decision-theoretic taxonomy of delay, pacing and procrastination. (submitted)

Miranda, B.; Butler, J.; Nishantha Malalasekera, W.; Behrens, T.; Dayan, P.; Kennerley, S.: Neural signatures of model-based and model-free reinforcement learning across prefrontal cortex and striatum. (submitted)

Modirshanechi, A.; Lin, W.-H.; Xu, H.-A.; Herzog, M.; Gerstner, W.: Even if suboptimal, novelty drives human exploration. (submitted)

Nagy, D.; Orban, G.; Wu, C.: Interplay of episodic and semantic memory arises from adaptive compression. (submitted)

Shani, D.; Dayan, P.: Composing egocentric and allocentric maps for flexible navigation. (submitted)

Tessereau, C.; Xuan, F.; Mellor, X.; Dayan, P.; Dombeck, D.: Navigating uncertainty: reward location variability induces reorganization of hippocampal spatial representations. (submitted)