Publications (cog / neuro)

This is a selected list of publications focussed on cognitive science / neuroscience. You can find a full listing of our work on Google Scholar.

2025 / In Press

- Curriculum learning for complex tasks
- Dumbalska et al
- PsyarXiv
- Goal-directed navigation strategies in humans and deep meta-learning agents
- Lan, Hunt & Summerfield
- PLOS Biology (2025)
- Early learning of the optimal constant solution in neural networks and humans
- Rubruck et al
- CCN Proceedings (2025)
- Humans and neural networks show similar patterns of transfer and interference during continual learning
- Holton et al
- Nature Human Behaviour (in press)
- Human curriculum learning of a cue combination task
- Mi and Summerfield
- PsyArXiv
- Do humans learn like transformer networks?
- Pesnot-Lerousseau & Summerfield
- Nature Human Behaviour (in press)
- Distinct roles of hippocampus and neocortex in symbolic compositional generalization
- Liang et al
- BioRxiv
- Hybrid Neural-Cognitive Models Reveal How Memory Shapes Human Reward Learning
- Eckstein et al
- Nature Human Behaviour (in press)

- Abrupt and spontaneous strategy switches in neural networks
- Lowe et al
- PLOS Computational Biology
- Neural networks with fast and bounded units learn flexible task abstractions
- Bauer et al
- NeurIPS Proceedings
- Understanding human meta-control and its pathologies using deep neural networks
- Sandbrink et al
- PsyArXiv
- Zero-shot counting with a dual-stream neural network model
- Thompson et al
- Neuron
- Modelling cognitive flexibility with deep neural networks
- Sandbrink & Summerfield
- Curr. Op. Behav. Sci.
- Space as scaffold for temporal generalisation
- Pesnot-Larrousseau & Summerfield
- Elife
- Using games to understand the mind
- Allen et al
- Nature Human Behaviour

- Control of working memory in a recurrent neural network
- Piwek et al
- PLOS Computational Biology
- Goal-seeking compresses neural codes for space in the human hippocampus + OFC
- Muhle-Karbe et al
- Neuron
- Thinking beyond the ventral stream: Comment on Bowers et al.
- Summerfield et al
- Behavioral and Brain Sciences
- Hebbian context gating for continual learning
- Flesch et al
- PLOS Computational Biology
- Neural knowledge assembly in humans and deep networks
- Nelli et al
- Neuron
- Continual task learning in natural and artificial agents
- Flesch et al
- TINS

- Rich and lazy learning in brains and neural networks
- Flesch et al
- Neuron
- Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Brain
- Annals of Improbable Research
- Model sharing in the human medial temporal lobe
- Glitz et al
- J Neurosci
- Curriculum learning for human compositional generalisation
- Dekker et al
- PNAS
- How do (perceptual) distracters distract?
- Dumbalska et al
- PLOS Computational Biology

- Neural state space alignment for humans and neural networks.
- Sheahan et al
- Neuro
- Optimal utility functions under noisy decisions
- Juechems et al
- PNAS
- Optional stopping in a heteroscedastic world
- Tickle et al
- Psychological Review
- Normative principles in natural environments
- Parpart & Summerfield
- Annual Review of Psychology
- A normative account of confirmatory bias in RL
- Lefevre et al
- Neural Computation
- Hippocampal place cells encode global not local space
- Duvelle et al
- Current Biology
- Unsupervised concept learning in macaque IT cortex
- Higgins et al
- Nature Communications

- How can neuroscientists respond to the climate emergency?
- Aron et al
- Neuron
- Neural mechanisms of selective integration
- Luyckx et al
- Cerebral Cortex
- Structure learning and the parietal cortex
- Summerfield et al
- Prog. Neurobiology
- A map of decoy influence in human choice
- Dumbalska et al
- PNAS
- If deep learning is the answer, what is the question?
- Saxe et al
- Nature Reviews Neuroscience
- A space of candidate learning rules for deep networks
- Cao et al
- NeurIPS

- Neural structure mapping during reward learning
- Luyckx et al
- Elife
- Human noise blindness and suboptimal inference
- Herce-Castanon et al
- Nature Comms
- Where does value come from?
- Juechems et al
- TICS
- Causal inference in the multisensory brain
- Cao et al
- Neuron
- A network for computing value equilibrium
- Juechems et al
- Neuron

- Neuroscience-inspired artificial intelligence
- Hassabis et al
- Neuron
- Robust averaging protects against neural noise
- Li et al
- PLOS Comp. Biol.
- Ventromedial PFC encodes cumulative reward
- Juechems et al
- Neuron
- Decisions in rodents, monkeys and humans
- Hanks & Summerfield
- Neuron
- Robust sampling of decision information
- Vandormael et al
- PNAS
- Selective overweighting of numerical magnitudes
- Spitzer et al
- Nature Hum Behav
- Confidence matching in group decision-making
- Bang et al
- Nature Hum Behav

- Feature expectation heightens visual sensitivity
- Cheadle et al
- J. Vision
- Do humans make good decisions?
- Tsetsos & Summerfield
- TICS
- Decisions under focused and divided attention
- Wyart et al
- J. Neurosci
- Two sources of uncertainty in decision-making
- Michael et al
- Cerebral Cortex

- Adaptive gain control during decision-making
- Cheadle et al
- Neuron
- Expectation in perceptual decision-making
- Summerfield & de Lange
- Nat. Rev. Neurosci
- Priming by the variability of visual information
- Michael et al
- PNAS
- Neural mechanisms of economic commitment
- Tsetsos et al
- Elife

- Repetition enhancement and suppression in vision
- de Gardelle et al
- Cerebral Cortex
- Attention sharpens neural codes for expectation
- Jiang et al
- J. Neurosci
- Overlapping neural patterns for expectations
- de Gardelle et al
- Front Hum Neurosci

- Expectation sharpens perceptual decisions
- Wyart et al
- PNAS
- Rhythmic fluctuations in evidence accumulation
- Wyart et al
- Neuron
- Bridging perceptual and economic decisions
- Tsetsos et al
- Front Hum Neurosci

- Decisions in a rapidly changing environment
- Summerfield et al
- Neuron
- Robust averaging during perceptual judgement
- de Gardelle et al
- PNAS
- Economic bias in perceptual decisions
- Summerfield et al
- Front Hum Neurosci
- Expectation suppression in visual cortex
- Egner et al
- J Neurosc
- Two mechanisms for task switching in the PFC
- Hyafil et al
- J Neurosci
- Expectation and adaptation in visual cortex
- Summerfield et al
- Nature Neurosci
- A neural representation of prior information
- Summerfield et al
- Neuron
- An information theoretic model of PFC function
- Koechlin & Summerfield
- TICS
- Predictive codes in the prefrontal cortex
- Summerfield et al
- Science