Publications

This is a selected list of publications. You can find a full listing of our work on pubmed.

preprints / in press

Hebbian context gating for
continual learning
Flesch et al
arXiv preprint
Control of working memory in a recurrent neural network
Piwek et al
BioRxiv preprint

Neural knowldege assembly in humans and deep networks
Nelli et al
biorxiv preprint
Continual task learning in natural and artificial agents
Flesch et al
arXiv preprint

2022

Rich and lazy learning in brains and neural networks
Flesch et al
Neuron
Curriculum learning for human compositional generalisation
Dekker et al
PNAS

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Brain
Annals of Improbable Research
Model sharing in the human medial temporal lobe
Glitz et al
J Neurosci
How do (perceptual) distracters
distract?
Dumbalska et al
PLOS Computational Biology

2021

Neural state space alignment for humans and neural networks.
Sheahan et al
Neuron
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

2020

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

2019

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

2018

Gain control explains the effects of distraction
Li et al
PNAS
Continual learning in minds and machines
Flesch et al
PNAS

2017

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

2016

Hierarchical planning in a virtual subway network
Balaguer et al
Neuron
Encoding of stimulus probability in macaque IT
Bell et al
Current Biology
Differentiable Neural Computing
Graves et al
Nature
Feature based attention and expectation
Summerfield & Egner
TICS
Irrational and optimal economic decisions
Tsetsos et al
PNAS
Near-optimal integration of approximate number
Tickle et al
J Cog. Neuro

2015

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

2014

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

2013

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

2012

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

earlier

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