Publications

Modeling Cognitive Biases in Experience-Dependent Decision Making Under Uncertainty: The Florida-And-Georgia (FLAG) Gambling Task

Wang, Wilson, Ebner and Lighthall (2025)

PsyArXiv

The dynamics of explore-exploit decisions suggest a threshold mechanism for reduced random exploration in older adults

Phelps, Frisvold, Sreeram, ..., Wilson (2025)

bioRxiv

Deep Learning Improves Parameter Estimation in Reinforcement Learning Models

Xiong, An, Mattar and Wilson (2025)

bioRxiv

Large Language Models Think Too Fast To Explore Effectively

Pan, Xie and Wilson (2025)

arXiv

Individuals with methamphetamine use disorder show reduced directed exploration and learning rates independent of an aversive interoceptive state induction

Goldman, Takahashi, Lavalley, ..., Wilson, ..., Smith (2025)

medRxiv

Directed exploration is reduced by an aversive interoceptive state induction in healthy individuals but not in those with affective disorders

Li, Lavalley, Chou, ..., Wilson, ..., Smith (2025)

Molecular Psychiatry

Distilling human decision-making dynamics: a comparative analysis of low-dimensional architectures

Xiong, An, Mattar and Wilson (2024)

NeurIPS 2023 AI for Science Workshop

From Strategic Narratives to Code-Like Cognitive Models: An LLM-Based Approach in A Sorting Task

Xie, Xiong and Wilson (2024)

First Conference on Language Modeling

Evaluating Predictive Performance and Learning Efficiency of Large Language Models with Think Aloud in Risky Decision Making

Xie, Xiong and Wilson (2024)

CCN

Semantic Influences on Object Detection: Drift Diffusion Modeling Provides Insights Regarding Mechanism

Xue, Wilson and Peterson (2024)

bioRxiv

Age-group differences in trust-related decision-making and learning

Horta, Shoenfelt, Lighthall, ..., Wilson, ..., Ebner (2024)

Scientific Reports

Individual differences in information demand have a low dimensional structure predicted by some curiosity traits

Jach, Cools, Frisvold, ..., Wilson, ..., Gottlieb (2024)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The psychophysiology of Mastermind: Characterizing response times and blinking in a high‐stakes television game show

Wyly, Jinon, Francis, ..., Wilson (2024)

Psychophysiology

Separating random and deterministic sources of computational noise in explore-exploit decisions

Wang and Wilson (2024)

PsyArXiv

The influence of anxiety on exploration: A review of computational modeling studies

Chou, Wilson and Smith (2024)

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Phishing vulnerability compounded by older age, apolipoprotein E e4 genotype, and lower cognition

Pehlivanoglu, Shoenfelt, Hakim, ..., Wilson, ..., Ebner (2024)

PNAS nexus

Interoceptive Accuracy Enhances Deception Detection in Older Adults

Heemskerk, Lin, Pehlivanoglu, ..., Wilson, ..., Ebner (2024)

The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Differential impacts of healthy cognitive aging on directed and random exploration

Mizell, Wang, Frisvold, ..., Wilson (2024)

Psychology and Aging

The structure and development of explore-exploit decision making

Harms, Xu, Green, ..., Wilson, ..., Pollak (2024)

Cognitive psychology

Facial trustworthiness perception across the adult life span

Pehlivanoglu, Lin, Lighthall, ..., Wilson, ..., Ebner (2023)

The Journals of Gerontology: Series B

Childhood unpredictability and the development of exploration

Xu, Harms, Green, ..., Wilson, ..., Pollak (2023)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Interoceptive accuracy enhances deception detection with greater age

Heemskerk, Lin, Pehlivanoglu, ..., Wilson, ..., Ebner (2023)

PsyArXiv

Frontal-midline theta and posterior alpha oscillations index early processing of spatial representations during active navigation

Du, Liang, McAvan, ..., Wilson, ..., Ekstrom (2023)

Cortex

The effects of time horizon and guided choices on explore–exploit decisions in rodents.

Wang, Gerken, Wieland, ..., Wilson, ..., Fellous (2023)

Behavioral neuroscience

Phishing vulnerability compounded by older age, APOE4 genotype, and lower cognition

Pehlivanoglu, Shoenfelt, Hakim, ..., Wilson, ..., Ebner (2023)

PsyArXiv

Text2Decision: Decoding latent variables in risky decision making from think aloud text

Xie, Xiong and Wilson (2023)

NeurIPS 2023 AI for Science Workshop

On the dimensionality and predictability of phishing susceptibility

Hakim, Pehlivanoglu, Ebner, ..., Wilson (2022)

PsyArXiv

Computational accounts of reinforcement learning and decision making in psychiatric disorders

Chase, Wilson and Waltz (2022)

Frontiers in Psychiatry

A drift diffusion model of figure-ground perception

Xue, Peterson and Wilson (2022)

Journal of Vision

Lower levels of directed exploration and reflective thinking are associated with greater anxiety and depression

Smith, Taylor, Wilson, ..., Killgore (2022)

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Combination and competition between path integration and landmark navigation in the estimation of heading direction

Harootonian, Ekstrom and Wilson (2022)

PLoS computational biology

Adaptive learning is structure learning in time

Yu, Wilson and Nassar (2021)

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

The Phishing Email Suspicion Test (PEST) a lab-based task for evaluating the cognitive mechanisms of phishing detection

Hakim, Ebner, Oliveira, ..., Wilson (2021)

Behavior research methods

Balancing exploration and exploitation with information and randomization

Wilson, Bonawitz, Costa and Ebitz (2021)

Current opinion in behavioral sciences

Human inference in changing environments with temporal structure.

Carrabin, Wilson, Cohen and Silveira (2021)

Psychological Review

The dynamics of explore–exploit decisions reveal a signal-to-noise mechanism for random exploration

Feng, Wang, Zarnescu and Wilson (2021)

Scientific reports

Is this phishing? Older age is associated with greater difficulty discriminating between safe and malicious emails

Grilli, McVeigh, Hakim, ..., Wilson (2021)

The Journals of Gerontology: Series B

Temporal discounting correlates with directed exploration but not with random exploration

Sadeghiyeh, Wang, Alberhasky, ..., Wilson (2020)

Scientific reports

A divisive model of evidence accumulation explains uneven weighting of evidence over time

Keung, Hagen and Wilson (2020)

Nature Communications

On the Psychology of the Psychology Subject Pool

Sadeghiyeh, Wang, Kyllo, ..., Wilson (2020)

Journal of Individual Differences

Path integration in large-scale space and with novel geometries: Comparing vector addition and encoding-error models

Harootonian, Wilson, Hejtmánek, ..., Ekstrom (2020)

PLoS computational biology

Differential effects of psychotic illness on directed and random exploration

Waltz, Wilson, Albrecht, ..., Gold (2020)

Computational Psychiatry

Transcranial magnetic stimulation reveals diminished homoeostatic metaplasticity in cognitively impaired adults

Sundman, Lim, That, ..., Wilson, ..., Chou (2020)

Brain Communications

Deep exploration as a unifying account of explore-exploit behavior

Wilson, Wang, Sadeghiyeh and Cohen (2020)

PsyArXiv

LCMS measurement of steroid biomarkers collected from palmar sweat

Runyon, Hyde, Staroschak, ..., Wilson, ..., Sternberg (2020)

ChemRxiv

Prevalence-induced concept change in older adults

Devine, Neumann, Levari, ..., Wilson, ..., Eppinger (2020)

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Kane, Bornstein, Shenhav, ..., Wilson, ..., Cohen (2019)

eLife

Ten simple rules for the computational modeling of behavioral data

Wilson and Collins (2019)

eLife

The eighty five percent rule for optimal learning

Wilson, Shenhav, Straccia and Cohen (2019)

Nature communications

Regulation of evidence accumulation by pupil-linked arousal processes

Keung, Hagen and Wilson (2019)

Nature Human Behaviour

Prediction in infants and adults: A pupillometry study

Zhang, Dax, Wilson and Emberson (2019)

Developmental science

Divergent effects on cortical excitability observed in healthy older adults during active voluntary contraction following motor cortex iTBS

Sundman, Lim, Mizell, ..., Wilson, ..., Chou (2019)

Brain Stimulation: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation

Lessons from a “failed” replication: The importance of taking action in exploration

Sadeghiyeh, Wang and Wilson (2018)

PsyArXiv

Any way the brain blows? The nature of decision noise in random exploration

Wang and Wilson (2018)

PsyArXiv

A state representation for reinforcement learning and decision-making in the orbitofrontal cortex

Schuck, Wilson and Niv (2018)

Goal-directed decision making

Sequential choice effects predict prevalence-induced concept change

Wilson (2018)

PsyArXiv

Adaptive response priors in context-dependent decision-making

Lositsky, Shvartsman, Wilson and Cohen (2017)

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Charting the Expansion of Strategic Exploratory Behavior During Adolescence

Somerville, Sasse, Garrad, ..., Wilson (2017)

Journal of experimental psychology. General

The effect of atomoxetine on random and directed exploration in humans

Warren, Wilson, Wee, ..., Nieuwenhuis (2017)

PloS one

Strategies for exploration in the domain of losses

Krueger, Wilson and Cohen (2017)

Judgment and Decision Making

Increased locus coeruleus tonic activity causes disengagement from a patch-foraging task

Kane, Vazey, Wilson, ..., Cohen (2017)

Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience

A causal role for right frontopolar cortex in directed, but not random, exploration.

Zajkowski, Kossut and Wilson (2017)

eLife

Mechanisms of overharvesting in patch foraging

Kane, Bornstein, Daw, ..., Wilson, ..., Shenhav (2017)

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Boredom, information-seeking and exploration

Geana, Wilson, Daw and Cohen (2016)

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Catecholamine-mediated increases in gain enhance the precision of cortical representations

Warren, Eldar, Brink, ..., Wilson, ..., Nieuwenhuis (2016)

Journal of Neuroscience

Spontaneous Blink Rate Correlates With Financial Risk Taking

Sherman and Wilson (2016)

bioRxiv

Bayesian modeling of the dynamics of phase modulations and their application to auditory event related potentials at different loudness scales

Mortezapouraghdam, Wilson, Schwabe and Strauss (2016)

Frontiers in computational neuroscience

Information-seeking, learning and the marginal value theorem: a normative approach to adaptive exploration

Geana, Wilson, Daw and Cohen (2016)

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Human orbitofrontal cortex represents a cognitive map of state space

Schuck, Cai, Wilson and Niv (2016)

Neuron

A drift diffusion model of proactive and reactive control in a context-dependent two-alternative forced choice task

Lositsky, Wilson, Shvartsman and Cohen (2015)

The Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making

Increased Neural Gain Improves the Precision of Cortical Representations

Warren, Eldar, Brink, ..., Wilson, ..., Nieuwenhuis (2015)

Is Model Fitting Necessary for Model-Based fMRI?

Wilson and Niv (2015)

PLoS Comput Biol

Reinforcement learning in multidimensional environments relies on attention mechanisms

Niv, Daniel, Geana, ..., Wilson (2015)

Journal of Neuroscience

Orbitofrontal cortex as a cognitive map of task space

Wilson, Takahashi, Schoenbaum and Niv (2014)

Neuron

Humans use directed and random exploration to solve the explore–exploit dilemma.

Wilson, Geana, White, ..., Cohen (2014)

Journal of experimental psychology: General

A mixture of delta-rules approximation to bayesian inference in change-point problems

Wilson, Nassar and Gold (2013)

PLoS computational biology

Towards optimization of a human-inspired heuristic for solving explore-exploit problems

Reverdy, Wilson, Holmes and Leonard (2012)

51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)

Rational regulation of learning dynamics by pupil-linked arousal systems

Nassar, Rumsey, Wilson, ..., Gold (2012)

Nature neuroscience

Inferring relevance in a changing world

Wilson and Niv (2012)

Frontiers in human neuroscience

Takahashi, Roesch, Wilson, ..., Schoenbaum (2011)

Nature neuroscience

The neural costs of optimal control

Gershman and Wilson (2010)

Advances in neural information processing systems

Bayesian online learning of the hazard rate in change-point problems

Wilson, Nassar and Gold (2010)

Neural computation

An approximately Bayesian delta-rule model explains the dynamics of belief updating in a changing environment

Nassar, Wilson, Heasly and Gold (2010)

Journal of Neuroscience

Bayesian Online Learning of the Hazard Rate in Change-Point Problems

Nassar, Wilson and Gold (2010)

Neural computation

A neural implementation of the Kalman filter

Wilson and Finkel (2009)

Advances in neural information processing systems

Parallel hopfield networks

Wilson (2009)

Neural computation

Sensitivity to motion features in point light displays of biological motion

Das, Lazarewicz, Wilson and Finkel (2009)

Spatial Vision

Dynamic Bayesian inference in the brain

Wilson (2009)

PhD Thesis

Relationship between internal gradient, diffusion and T2 in sedimentary rocks

Wilson and Hürlimann (2007)

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Sensitivity to motion features in upright and inverted point-light displays

Das, Lazarewicz, Wilson and Finkel (2006)

Journal of Vision

Two-stage PCA extracts spatiotemporal features for gait recognition.

Das, Wilson, Lazarewicz and Finkel (2006)

J. Multim.

Relationship between susceptibility induced field inhomogeneities, restricted diffusion, and relaxation in sedimentary rocks

Wilson and Hürlimann (2006)

Journal of Magnetic Resonance