List of works - Yael Niv

A Bayesian method for reducing bias in neural representational similarity analysis ⬇️

scientific article published in January 2016

A Neural Signature of Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning ⬇️

scientific article published on July 28, 2011

A Probability Distribution over Latent Causes, in the Orbitofrontal Cortex

scientific article published on July 2016

A free-choice premium in the basal ganglia

scientific article published on 2 October 2014

A normative perspective on motivation

scientific article published on 13 July 2006

A normative perspective on motivation

scientific article published on August 2006

A probability distribution over latent causes in the orbitofrontal cortex

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

scholarly article published 29 October 2017

Actor-critic models of the basal ganglia: new anatomical and computational perspectives

scientific article

Amplified selectivity in cognitive processing implements the neural gain model of norepinephrine function

scientific article published in January 2016

An Integrated Model of Action Selection: Distinct Modes of Cortical Control of Striatal Decision Making

scientific article published on 4 January 2019

Author Correction: Dopamine transients are sufficient and necessary for acquisition of model-based associations

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Causal Model Comparison Shows That Human Representation Learning Is Not Bayesian

scientific article published in January 2014

Choice values

scientific article published in August 2006

Complementary Task Structure Representations in Hippocampus and Orbitofrontal Cortex during an Odor Sequence Task

scientific article published on 03 October 2019

Computational approaches to fMRI analysis

scientific article published on February 2017

Context, learning, and extinction

scientific article published on January 2010

Correction: The computational nature of memory modification

scientific article published on 22 May 2017

Corrigendum: Dopamine transients are sufficient and necessary for acquisition of model-based associations.

scientific article

Corrigendum: Interaction between emotional state and learning underlies mood instability

scientific article

Cost, benefit, tonic, phasic: what do response rates tell us about dopamine and motivation?

scientific article published on 7 April 2007

DYT1 dystonia increases risk taking in humans

scientific article published on June 2016

Dialogues on prediction errors

scientific article published on 21 June 2008

Discovering latent causes in reinforcement learning

scholarly article by Samuel J Gershman et al published October 2015 in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Dissociable effects of surprising rewards on learning and memory

scientific article published on 19 March 2018

Divide and Conquer: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning and Task Decomposition in Humans

scholarly article published 2013

Do You See the Forest or the Tree? Neural Gain and Breadth Versus Focus in Perceptual Processing

scientific article published on 19 October 2016

Does mental context drift or shift?

scientific article published in September 2017

Dopamine transients are sufficient and necessary for acquisition of model-based associations

scientific article published on 03 April 2017

Dopamine transients do not act as model-free prediction errors during associative learning

scientific article published on 08 January 2020

Dopamine, uncertainty and TD learning

scientific article

Dynamic Interaction between Reinforcement Learning and Attention in Multidimensional Environments

scientific article

Erratum to Gershman and Niv (2012), Learning & Behavior, 40, 255-268

scientific article published on 15 May 2020

Evolution of reinforcement learning in uncertain environments: A simple explanation for complex foraging behaviors

scientific article published on January 2002

Expectancy-related changes in firing of dopamine neurons depend on orbitofrontal cortex

scientific article

Explaining compound generalization in associative and causal learning through rational principles of dimensional generalization

scientific article

Exploring a latent cause theory of classical conditioning ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 2012

From fear to safety and back: reversal of fear in the human brain

scientific article

Gradual extinction prevents the return of fear: implications for the discovery of state

scientific article

Hierarchical learning induces two simultaneous, but separable, prediction errors in human basal ganglia

scientific article published on March 2013

Hierarchically organized behavior and its neural foundations: a reinforcement learning perspective

scientific article published on 15 October 2008

Holistic Reinforcement Learning: The Role of Structure and Attention

scientific article published on 26 February 2019

How did the chicken cross the road? With her striatal cholinergic interneurons, of course

scientific article published on July 2013

How fast to work: Response vigor, motivation and tonic dopamine ⬇️

scientific article published in January 2006

How to divide and conquer the world, one step at a time

scientific article

Human Orbitofrontal Cortex Represents a Cognitive Map of State Space

scientific article

Inferring relevance in a changing world

scientific article published on January 2011

Intact Reinforcement Learning But Impaired Attentional Control During Multidimensional Probabilistic Learning in Older Adults

scientific article published on 11 December 2019

Interaction between emotional state and learning underlies mood instability

scientific article

Is Model Fitting Necessary for Model-Based fMRI?

scientific article published on 18 June 2015

Lateral Hypothalamic GABAergic Neurons Encode Reward Predictions that Are Relayed to the Ventral Tegmental Area to Regulate Learning

scientific article

Learning latent structure: carving nature at its joints

scientific article

Learning task-state representations

scientific article published on 24 September 2019

Model-based decision making and model-free learning

scientific article published on 01 August 2020

Model-based predictions for dopamine

scientific article published on 30 October 2017

Mood as Representation of Momentum

scientific article

Neural and psychological maturation of decision-making in adolescence and young adulthood

scientific article published on 16 July 2013

Neural prediction errors reveal a risk-sensitive reinforcement-learning process in the human brain

scientific article published in January 2012

Neuroscience: Dopamine ramps up.

scientific article

Novelty and Inductive Generalization in Human Reinforcement Learning

scientific article

On the value of information and other rewards ⬇️

scientific article published on August 26, 2011

Operant conditioning

article in Scholarpedia Journal 3:9

Optimal behavioral hierarchy

scientific article

Orbitofrontal cortex and learning predictions of state transitions

scientific article published in August 2021

Orbitofrontal cortex as a cognitive map of task space

scientific article published on January 2014

Perceptual estimation obeys Occam's razor

scientific article published on 23 September 2013

Rat Orbitofrontal Ensemble Activity Contains Multiplexed but Dissociable Representations of Value and Task Structure in an Odor Sequence Task

scientific article published on 28 February 2019

Reconsolidation-Extinction Interactions in Fear Memory Attenuation: The Role of Inter-Trial Interval Variability

scientific article

Reinforcement learning in multidimensional environments relies on attention mechanisms

scientific article published on May 2015

Reinforcement learning with Marr

scientific article

Reinforcement learning: the good, the bad and the ugly

scientific article published on April 2008

Representational structure or task structure? Bias in neural representational similarity analysis and a Bayesian method for reducing bias

article

Representational structure or task structure? Bias in neural representational similarity analysis and a Bayesian method for reducing bias

scientific article published on 24 May 2019

Rethinking Extinction

scientific article

Reward prediction errors create event boundaries in memory

scientific article published on 17 June 2020

Sequential replay of nonspatial task states in the human hippocampus

scientific article

Signed and unsigned reward prediction errors dynamically enhance learning and memory

scientific article published on 02 March 2021

Silencing the critics: understanding the effects of cocaine sensitization on dorsolateral and ventral striatum in the context of an actor/critic model

scientific article published on 09 July 2008

Stan: A Probabilistic Programming Language

scientific article published on 04 January 2021

State representation in mental illness

scientific article published on 30 April 2019

Statistical computations underlying the dynamics of memory updating

scientific article

Temporal Specificity of Reward Prediction Errors Signaled by Putative Dopamine Neurons in Rat VTA Depends on Ventral Striatum

scientific article published on 07 June 2016

The State of the Orbitofrontal Cortex

scientific article published on December 2015

The computational nature of memory modification

scientific article

The effects of aging on the interaction between reinforcement learning and attention

scientific article

The effects of neural gain on attention and learning

scientific article (publication date: August 2013)

The impact of orbitofrontal dysfunction on cocaine addiction

scientific article published on 22 January 2012

The misbehavior of value and the discipline of the will

scientific article published on 30 August 2006

Tonic dopamine: opportunity costs and the control of response vigor

scientific article published on 10 October 2006

Uncertainty-based competition between prefrontal and dorsolateral striatal systems for behavioral control

scientific article published on 6 November 2005

Uncovering the 'state': Tracing the hidden state representations that structure learning and decision-making

scientific article published on 02 August 2019

Ventral Striatum and Orbitofrontal Cortex Are Both Required for Model-Based, But Not Model-Free, Reinforcement Learning ⬇️

scientific article published on February 16, 2011

List of works by Yael Niv

A Bayesian method for reducing bias in neural representational similarity analysis ⬇️

A Neural Signature of Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning ⬇️

A Probability Distribution over Latent Causes, in the Orbitofrontal Cortex

A free-choice premium in the basal ganglia

A normative perspective on motivation

A normative perspective on motivation

A probability distribution over latent causes in the orbitofrontal cortex

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

Actor-critic models of the basal ganglia: new anatomical and computational perspectives

Amplified selectivity in cognitive processing implements the neural gain model of norepinephrine function

An Integrated Model of Action Selection: Distinct Modes of Cortical Control of Striatal Decision Making

Author Correction: Dopamine transients are sufficient and necessary for acquisition of model-based associations

Causal Model Comparison Shows That Human Representation Learning Is Not Bayesian

Choice values

Complementary Task Structure Representations in Hippocampus and Orbitofrontal Cortex during an Odor Sequence Task

Computational approaches to fMRI analysis

Context, learning, and extinction

Correction: The computational nature of memory modification

Corrigendum: Dopamine transients are sufficient and necessary for acquisition of model-based associations.

Corrigendum: Interaction between emotional state and learning underlies mood instability

Cost, benefit, tonic, phasic: what do response rates tell us about dopamine and motivation?

DYT1 dystonia increases risk taking in humans

Dialogues on prediction errors

Discovering latent causes in reinforcement learning

Dissociable effects of surprising rewards on learning and memory

Divide and Conquer: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning and Task Decomposition in Humans

Do You See the Forest or the Tree? Neural Gain and Breadth Versus Focus in Perceptual Processing

Does mental context drift or shift?

Dopamine transients are sufficient and necessary for acquisition of model-based associations

Dopamine transients do not act as model-free prediction errors during associative learning

Dopamine, uncertainty and TD learning

Dynamic Interaction between Reinforcement Learning and Attention in Multidimensional Environments

Erratum to Gershman and Niv (2012), Learning & Behavior, 40, 255-268

Evolution of reinforcement learning in uncertain environments: A simple explanation for complex foraging behaviors

Expectancy-related changes in firing of dopamine neurons depend on orbitofrontal cortex

Explaining compound generalization in associative and causal learning through rational principles of dimensional generalization

Exploring a latent cause theory of classical conditioning ⬇️

From fear to safety and back: reversal of fear in the human brain

Gradual extinction prevents the return of fear: implications for the discovery of state

Hierarchical learning induces two simultaneous, but separable, prediction errors in human basal ganglia

Hierarchically organized behavior and its neural foundations: a reinforcement learning perspective

Holistic Reinforcement Learning: The Role of Structure and Attention

How did the chicken cross the road? With her striatal cholinergic interneurons, of course

How fast to work: Response vigor, motivation and tonic dopamine ⬇️

How to divide and conquer the world, one step at a time

Human Orbitofrontal Cortex Represents a Cognitive Map of State Space

Inferring relevance in a changing world

Intact Reinforcement Learning But Impaired Attentional Control During Multidimensional Probabilistic Learning in Older Adults

Interaction between emotional state and learning underlies mood instability

Is Model Fitting Necessary for Model-Based fMRI?

Lateral Hypothalamic GABAergic Neurons Encode Reward Predictions that Are Relayed to the Ventral Tegmental Area to Regulate Learning

Learning latent structure: carving nature at its joints

Learning task-state representations

Model-based decision making and model-free learning

Model-based predictions for dopamine

Mood as Representation of Momentum

Neural and psychological maturation of decision-making in adolescence and young adulthood

Neural prediction errors reveal a risk-sensitive reinforcement-learning process in the human brain

Neuroscience: Dopamine ramps up.

Novelty and Inductive Generalization in Human Reinforcement Learning

On the value of information and other rewards ⬇️

Operant conditioning

Optimal behavioral hierarchy

Orbitofrontal cortex and learning predictions of state transitions

Orbitofrontal cortex as a cognitive map of task space

Perceptual estimation obeys Occam's razor

Rat Orbitofrontal Ensemble Activity Contains Multiplexed but Dissociable Representations of Value and Task Structure in an Odor Sequence Task

Reconsolidation-Extinction Interactions in Fear Memory Attenuation: The Role of Inter-Trial Interval Variability

Reinforcement learning in multidimensional environments relies on attention mechanisms

Reinforcement learning with Marr

Reinforcement learning: the good, the bad and the ugly

Representational structure or task structure? Bias in neural representational similarity analysis and a Bayesian method for reducing bias

Representational structure or task structure? Bias in neural representational similarity analysis and a Bayesian method for reducing bias

Rethinking Extinction

Reward prediction errors create event boundaries in memory

Sequential replay of nonspatial task states in the human hippocampus

Signed and unsigned reward prediction errors dynamically enhance learning and memory

Silencing the critics: understanding the effects of cocaine sensitization on dorsolateral and ventral striatum in the context of an actor/critic model

Stan: A Probabilistic Programming Language