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Batten, S.R., Bang, D., Kopell, B.H. et al. Dopamine and serotonin in human substantia nigra track social context and value signals during economic exchangeNat Hum Behav (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01831-w. [PDF Download]

Briefing: Neuromodulators in the human brain track context and value during social interaction. Nat Hum Behav (2024). 

Zerban, M., Puhlmann, L. M. C., Lassri, D., Fonagy, P., Montague, P. R., Kiselnikova, N., Lorenzini, N., Desatnik, A., Kalisch, R., & Nolte, T. (2023). What helps the helpers? Resilience and risk factors for general and profession-specific mental health problems in psychotherapists during the COVID-19 pandemicFrontiers in psychology14, 1272199. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1272199. [PDF Download]

Luo, Y., Pluta, D., Brodrick, B. B., Palka, J. M., McCoy, J., Lohrenz, T., Gu, X., Vannucci, M., Montague, P. R., & McAdams, C. J. (2023). Diminished Adaptation, Satisfaction, and Neural Responses to Advantageous Social Signals in Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia NervosaBiological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging, S2451-9022(23)00307-5. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2023.10.010

Liebenow, B., Wilson, T., Maas, B., Aladnani, E., Moran, R. J., White, J., Lohrenz, T., Haq, I. U., Siddiqui, M. S., Laxton, A. W., Tatter, S. B., Montague, P. R., & Kishida, K. T. (2023). Sub-second Dopamine Signals during Risky Decision-Making in Patients with Impulse Control DisorderbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2023.09.11.557178. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.11.557178. [PDF Download]

Sands, L. P., Jiang, A., Liebenow, B., DiMarco, E., Laxton, A. W., Tatter, S. B., Montague, P. R., & Kishida, K. T. (2023). Subsecond fluctuations in extracellular dopamine encode reward and punishment prediction errors in humansScience advances9(48), eadi4927. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adi4927. [PDF Download]

Bang, D., Luo, Y., Barbosa, L. S., Batten, S. R., Hadj-Amar, B., Twomey, T., Melville, N., White, J. P., Torres, A., Celaya, X., Ramaiah, P., McClure, S. M., Brewer, G. A., Bina, R. W., Lohrenz, T., Casas, B., Chiu, P. H., Vannucci, M., Kishida, K. T., Witcher, M. R., … Montague, P. R. (2023). Noradrenaline tracks emotional modulation of attention in human amygdala. Current biology : CB33(22), 5003–5010.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.09.074. [PDF Download]

COMMENTARY: Kim, A. J. (2023). Noradrenaline: Can we now directly measure in humans?. Current Biology33(24), R1294-R1296]

Wendt, L. P., Jankowsky, K., Schroeders, U., London Personality and Mood Disorder Research Consortium, Nolte, T., Fonagy, P., Montague, P. R., Zimmermann, J., & Olaru, G. (2023). Mapping established psychopathology scales onto the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP). Personality and mental health17(2), 117–134. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmh.1566. [PDF Download]

Yang, R., Ma, Y., Pan, B. B., Bhatt, M. A., Lohrenz, T., Gu, H. G., Kanen, J. W., Camerer, C. F., Montague, P. R., & Luo, Q. (2022). Dynamic neural reconfiguration for distinct strategies during competitive social interactionsNeuroImage263, 119585. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119585. [PDF Download]

Yip, S. W., Barch, D. M., Chase, H. W., Flagel, S., Huys, Q. J. M., Konova, A. B., Montague, P. R., & Paulus, M. (2022). From Computation to Clinic. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsgos.2022.03.011[PDF Download]

Stagaki, M., Nolte, T., Feigenbaum, J., King-Casas, B., Lohrenz, T., Fonagy, P., & Montague, P. R. (2022). The mediating role of attachment and mentalising in the relationship between childhood maltreatment, self-harm and suicidalityChild abuse & neglect128, 105576. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2022.105576. [PDF Download]

Holmes, N., Rea, M., Hill, R. M., Boto, E., Leggett, J., Edwards, L. J., Rhodes, N., Shah, V., Osborne, J., Fromhold, T. M., Glover, P., Montague, P. R., Brookes, M. J., & Bowtell, R. (2023). Naturalistic Hyperscanning with Wearable MagnetoencephalographySensors (Basel, Switzerland)23(12), 5454. https://doi.org/10.3390/s23125454

Twomey, T., Barbosa, L., Lohrenz, T., & Montague, P. R. (2022). Deep Learning Architectures for FCSV, a Comparison. arXiv Preprints, arXiv:2212.01960. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2212.01960. [PDF Download]

O'Driscoll, C., Nolte, T., Pilling, S., Feigenbaum, J., King-Casas, B., Leibowitz, J., … Montague, R. (2022, July 11). The Effects of Diagnostic Group on the Association Between Personality and Psychopathological Symptoms: A Moderated Network Analysis. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/gsz8q. [PDF Download]

Mancinelli, F., Nolte, T., Griem, J., Lohrenz, T., Feigenbaum, J., King-Casas, B., Montague, R., Fonagy, P., & Mathys, C. (2022). A Move-by-Move Paradigm for the Computational Characterization of Attachment Style and Personality Disorder. PsyArXiv Preprints. https://psyarxiv.com/qa4t5/. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/qa4t5. [PDF Download]

Moran, R., Stephan, K. E., Botvinick, M., Breakspear, M., Carter, C. S., Kalivas, P. W., Montague , P. R., Paulus, M. P., & Petzschner, F. (2022). Candidate Examples for a Computational Approach to Address Practical Problems in Psychiatry . In Computational Psychiatry: New Perspectives on Mental Illness (Vol. 20, pp. 223–241). essay, MIT Press.

Manavalan, M., Song, X., Nolte, T., Fonagy, P., Montague, P. R., & Vilares, I. (2022). Bayesian Decision-Making Under Uncertainty in Borderline Personality Disorder. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nsyh6. [PDF Download]

Zhao, Z., Hampson, M., Nolte, T., Fonagy, P., Network, L. P. a. M. D. R., King-Casas, B., … Montague, P. R. (2022). Transdiagnostic Brain Connectivity Markers of Dissociation during Resting State. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/jxays. [PDF Download]

Eltahir, A., White, J., Lohrenz, T., & Montague, P. R. (2021). Low Amplitude Burst Detection of CatecholaminesbioRxiv Preprints, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.02.454747. [PDF Download]

Lahnakoski, J. M., Nolte, T., Solway, A., Vilares, I., Hula, A., Feigenbaum, J., Lohrenz, T., Fonagy, P., Montague, P. R., & Schilbach, L. (2021). Multiscale Classification Reveals a Multivariate Functional Connectivity Marker for Borderline Personality DisorderOSF Preprints, 1-34. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/gdqru. [PDF Download]

Rifkin-Zybutz, R.P., Moran, P., Nolte, T. et al. Impaired mentalizing in depression and the effects of borderline personality disorder on this relationshipbord personal disord emot dysregul 8, 15 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40479-021-00153-x. [PDF Download]

Michael J, Chennells M, Nolte T, Ooi J, Griem J, London Personality and Mood Disorder Research Network, Christensen W, Feigenbaum J, King-Casas B, Fonagy P, & Montague PR. (2021). Probing commitment in individuals with borderline personality disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research 137: 335-341. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.02.062[PDF Download]

Stagaki, M., Nolte, T., Feigenbaum, J., King-Casas, B., Lohrenz, T., Fonagy, P., & Montague, P. R. (2021). The Mediating Role of Attachment and Mentalising in the Relationship between Childhood Trauma, Self-Harm and Suicidality. PsyArXiv Preprints, 1-53. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/d6j89. [PDF Download]

Luo, Y., Shuster, A., Chung, D., O'Brien, M., Heflin, M., Perl, O., Kulkarni, K., Na, S., Fiore, V. G., Montague, P. R., & Gu, X. (2021). Altruism in a Time of Crisis: Dissociable Social Valuation and Perception During Covid-19 in the United States. PsyArXiv Preprints, 1-35. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/kb9tu. [PDF Download]

Luo, Y., Mendoza, C., Pelfrey, S., Lohrenz, T., Gu, X., Montague, P. R., & McAdams, C. J. (2022). Elevated Neurobehavioral Responses to Negative Social Interactions in Women With Bulimia NervosaBiological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging7(7), 696–705. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2021.01.011. [PDF Download]

Farah, MJ, Sternberg, S, Nichols, TA, Duda, JT, Lohrenz, T, Luo, Y, Sonnier, ME, Ramey, SL, Montague, P, & Ramey, CT. (2021). Randomized Manipulation of Early Cognitive Experience Impacts Adult Brain Structure. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01709[PDF Download]

Wendt, L. P., Jankowsky, K., Zimmermann, J., Schroeders, U., Nolte, T., Fonagy, P., Montague, P. R., & Olaru, G. (2021). Established Self-Report Questionnaires of Psychopathology Can Be Efficiently Summarized with HiTOP. PsyArXiv Preprints, 1-39.

Bang, D, Kishida, KT, Lohrenz, T, White, JP, Laxton, AW, Tatter, SB, Fleming, SM, & Montague, PR. (2020). Sub-second Dopamine and Serotonin Signaling in Human Striatum During Perceptual Decision-MakingNeuron 108: 1-12. [PDF Download]

Hula, A, Moutoussis, M, Will, G-J, Kokorikou, D, Reiter, A, Ziegler, G, NSPN Consortium, Bullmore, E, Jones, P, Goodyer, I, Fonagy, P, Montague, PR, & Dolan, RJ. (2020). Multi-Round Trust Game Quantifies Inter-Individual Differences in Social Exchange from Adolescence to AdulthoodPsyArXiv Preprints, 1-20. [PDF Download]

Jones OD, Montague PR, Yaffe G. (2020). Detecting Mens Rea in the Brain. 169 University of Pennsylvania Law Review. [PDF Download]

Huang YL, Fonagy P, Feigenbaum J, Montague PR, Nolte T, & London Personality and Mood Disorder Research Consortium. (2020). Multidirectional Pathways between Attachment, Mentalizing, and Posttraumatic Stress Symptomatology in the Context of Childhood Trauma. Psychopathology: 1-11. doi: 10.1159/000506406. [PDF Download]

Wendt LP, Wright AGC, Pilkonis PA, Nolte T, Fonagy P, Montague PR, Benecke C, Krieger T, Zimmermann, J. (2019). The latent structure of interpersonal problems: Validity of dimensional, categorical, and hybrid models. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 12(8): 823-839. [PDF Download]

Solway A, Lohrenz T, Montague PR. (2019). Loss aversion correlates with the propensity to deploy model-based control. Frontiers in Neuroscience 13(915). [PDF Download]

Kappes A, Harvey A, Lohrenz T, Montague PR, Sharot T. (2019). Confirmation Bias in the Utilization of Others’ Opinion Strength. Nature Neuroscience: doi:10.1038/s41593-019-0549-2. [PDF Download]

Kirk U, Pagnoni G, Hétu S, Montague PR. (2019). Short-term mindfulness practice attenuates reward prediction errors signals in the brain. Scientific Reports 9(1): 6964. [PDF Download]

Montague PR, Kishida KT. (2019). Computational Underpinnings of Neuromodulation in Humans. Cold Spring Harbor symposia on quantitative biology: pii: 038166. doi: 10.1101/sqb.2018.83.038166. [PDF Download]

Euler S, Nolte T, Constantinou M, Griem J, Montague PR, Fonagy P. (2019). Interpersonal Problems in Borderline Personality Disorder: Associations with Mentalizing, Emotion Regulation, and Impulsiveness. Journal of Personality Disorders: 1-17. [PDF Download]

Montague, PR, Lohrenz, T, White, JP, Moran, RJ, & Kishida, KT. (2019). Random Burst Sensing of NeurotransmittersbioRxiv Preprints: 1 - 15. [PDF Download]

Kishida KT, De Asis-Cruz J, Treadwell-Deering D, Liebenow B, Beauchamp MS, Montague PR. (2019). Diminished single-stimulus response in vmPFC to favorite people in children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Biological Psychology 145: 174 - 184. [PDF Download]

Luo Y, Hétu S, Lohrenz T, Hula A, Dayan P, Ramey SL, Sonnier-Netto L, Lisinski J, LaConte S, Nolte T, Fonagy P, Rahmani E, Montague PR, Ramey C. (2018). Early childhood investment impacts social decision-making four decades later. Nature Communications 9(1): 4705. [PDF Download]

Hula A, Vilares I, Dayan P, Montague PR. (2018). A Model of Risk and Mental State Shifts During Social Interaction. PLOS Computational Biology 14(2): e1005935. [PDF Download]

Montague PR. (2018). Dorcas Cummings Lecture: Connecting Mind and Brain in a Computational Age. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology 83: 229-236. doi: 10.1101/sqb.2018.83.038091. [PDF Download]

Moran RJ, Kishida KT, Lohrenz T, Saez I, Laxton AW, Witcher MR, Tatter SB, Ellis TL, Phillips PE, Dayan P, Montague PR. (2018). The Protective Action Encoding of Serotonin Transients in the Human Brain. Neuropsychopharmacology 43: 1425-1435. [PDF Download]

Montague PR. (2017). Computational Phenotypes Revealed by Interactive Economic Games. In: Anticevic A, Murray JD, Krystal JH (Ed.), Computational Psychiatry: Mathematical Modeling of Mental Illness. (pp. 273-292):Elsevier. [PDF Download]

Hétu S, Luo Y, D'Ardenne K, Lohrenz T, Montague PR. (2017). Human substantia nigra and ventral tegmental area involvement in computing social error signals during the ultimatum game. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 12(12): 1972-1982. doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsx097. [PDF Download]

Solway A, Gu X, Montague PR. (2017). Forgetting to Be Addicted: Reconsolidation and the Disconnection of Things Past. Biological Psychiatry 82(11): 774-775. [PDF Download]

Vilares I, Wesley MJ, Ahn WJ, Bonnie RJ, Hoffman M, Jones OD, Morse SJ, Yaffe G, Lohrenz T, Montague PR. (2017). Predicting the knowledge–recklessness distinction in the human brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 114(12): 3222-3227. doi:10.1073/pnas.1619385114. [PDF Download]

Luo Q, Ma Y, Bhatt M, Montague PR, Feng J. (2017). The Functional Architecture of the Brain Underlies Strategic Deception in Impression Management. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 11: 513. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00513. [PDF Download]

Solway A, Lohrenz T, Montague PR. (2017). Simulating future value in intertemporal choice. Scientific Reports 7: 43119. doi: 10.1038/srep43119. [PDF Download]

Montague PR, Kishida KT, Moran RJ, Lohrenz TM. (2016). An efficiency framework for valence processing systems inspired by soft cross-wiring. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 11: 121-129. [PDF Download]

Lohrenz T, Kishida KT, Montague PR. (2016). BOLD and its connection to dopamine release in human striatum: a cross-cohort comparison. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Biological Sciences 371(1705): 20150352. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0352. [PDF Download]

Koffarnus MK, Johnson MW, Thompson-Lake DGY, Wesley MJ, Lohrenz T, Montague PR, Bickel WK. (2016). Cocaine-Dependent Adults and Recreational Cocaine Users Are More Likely Than Controls to Choose Immediate Unsafe Sex Over Delayed Safer Sex. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology 24(4): 297-304. doi: 10.1037/pha0000080. [PDF Download]

Hétu S, Luo Y, Saez I, D'Ardenne K, Lohrenz T, Montague PR. (2016). Asymmetry in Functional Connectivity of the Human Habenula Revealed by High-Resolution Cardiac-Gated Resting State Imaging. Human Brain Mapping 37(7): 2602-2615. doi: 10.1002/hbm.23194. [PDF Download]

Gu X, Lohrenz T, Salas R, Baldwin PR, Soltani A, Kirk U, Cinciripini P, Montague PR. (2016). Belief about Nicotine Modulates Subjective Craving and Insula Activity in Deprived Smokers. Frontiers in Psychiatry 7: 126. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2016.00126. eCollection 2016. [PDF Download]

McAdams CJ, Jeon-Slaughter H, Evans S, Lohrenz T, Montague PR, Krawczyk DC. (2016). Neural differences in self-perception during illness and after weight-recovery in anorexia nervosa. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 11(11): 1823-1831. [PDF Download]

Kirk U, Gu X, Sharp C, Hula A, Fonagy P, Montague PR. (2016). Mindfulness training increases cooperative decision making in economic exchanges: Evidence from fMRI. NeuroImage 138: 274-283. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.05.075. Epub 2016 Jun 4. [PDF Download]

Wagner A, Bonnie RJ, Casey BJ, Davis A, Faigman DL, Hoffman MB, Jones OD, Montague PR, Morse SJ, Raichle ME, Richeson JA, Scott ES, Steinberg L, Taylor-Thompson K, Yaffe G. (2016). fMRI and Lie Detection: A Knowledge Brief of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience. The MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience[PDF Download]

Kishida KT, Saez I, Lohrenz TM, Witcher MR, Laxton AW, Tatter SB, White JP, Ellis TL, Phillips PEM, Montague PR. (2016). Subsecond dopamine fluctuations in human striatum encode superposed error signals about actual and counterfactual reward. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 113(1): 200-205. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1513619112. [PDF Download]
[COMMENTARY: Platt, ML, & Pearson, JM. (2016). Dopamine: Context and Counterfactuals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(1), 22-23.] [PDF]

Stephan KE, Binder EB, Breakspear M, Dayan P, Johnstone EC, Meyer-Linderberg A, Schnyder U, Wang X, Bach DR, Fletcher PC, Flint J, Frank MJ, Heinz A, Huys QJM, Montague PR, Owen MJ, Friston KJ. (2015). Charting the landscape of priority problems in psychiatry, part 2: pathogenesis and aetiology. The Lancet Psychiatry 3(1): 84-90. doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(15)00361-2. [PDF Download]

Stephan KE, Bach DR, Fletcher PC, Flint J, Frank MJ, Friston KJ, Heinz A, Huys QJM, Owen MJ, Binder EB, Dayan P, Johnstone EC, Meyer-Lindenberg A, Montague PR, Schnyder U, Wang X, Breakspear M. (2015). Charting the landscape of priority problems in psychiatry, part 1: classification and diagnosis. The Lancet Psychiatry 3(1): 84-90. doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(15)00360-0. [PDF Download]

Dayan P, Dolan RJ, Friston KJ, Montague PR. (2015). Taming the shrewdness of neural function: methodological challenges in computational psychiatry. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 5: 128-132. [PDF Download]

McAdams CJ, Lohrenz T, Montague PR. (2015). Neural responses to kindness and malevolence differ in illness and recovery in women with anorexia nervosa. Human Brain Mapping 36(12): 5207-5219. doi: 10.1002/hbm.23005. [PDF Download]

Hula A, Montague PR, Dayan P. (2015). Monte Carlo Planning Method Estimates Planning Horizons during Interactive Social Exchange. PLOS Computational Biology 11(6): e1004254. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004254. [PDF Download]

Montague PR, Lohrenz T, Dayan, P. (2015). The three R's of trust. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 3: 102-106. [PDF Download]

Kirk U, Montague PR. (2015). Mindfulness meditation modulates reward prediction errors in a passive conditioning task. Frontiers in Psychology 6: 90. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00090. [PDF Download]

Gu X, Lohrenz T, Salas R, Baldwin PR, Soltani A, Kirk U, Cinciripini PM, Montague PR. (2015). Belief about nicotine selectively modulates value and reward prediction error signals in smokers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (USA) 112(8): 2529-2544. Pii201416639. [PDF Download]
[COMMENTARY: Volkow, ND, & Baler, R. (2015). Beliefs Modulate the Effects of Drugs on the Human Brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(8), 2301.] [PDF]

Koffarnus MN, Johnson MW, Wesley MJ, Lohrenz T, Montague PR, Bickel WK. (2015). Cocaine-dependent adults are more likely than controls to choose immediate unsafe sex over delayed safe sex. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 146: e161. [PDF Download]

Gu X, Wang X, Hula, A, Wang S, Xu S, Lohrenz, T, Knight R, Gao Z, Dayan P, Montague PR. (2015). Necessary, yet dissociable contributions of the insular and ventromedial prefrontal cortices to norm adaption: computational and lesion evidence in humans. The Journal of Neuroscience 35(2): 467-473. [PDF Download]

Lu JT, Kishida KT, De Asis-Cruz J, Lohrenz T, Treadwell-Deering D, Beauchamp M, Montague PR. (2015). Single-stimulus functional MRI produces a neural individual difference measure for autism spectrum disorder. Clinical Psychological Science 3(3): 422-432. doi: 10.1177/2167702614562042. [PDF Download]

Ahn WY, Kishida KT, Gu X, Lohrenz T, Harvey A, Alford JR, Smith KB, Yaffe G, Hibbing JR, Dayan P, Montague PR. (2014). Nonpolitical images evoke neural predictors of political ideology. Current Biology 24(22): 2693-2699. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.09.050. Epub 2014 Nov 17. [PDF Download]

Jones OD, Bonnie RJ, Casey BJ, Davis A, Faigman DL, Hoffman M, Montague PR, Morse SJ, Raichle ME, Richeson JA, Scott E, Steinberg L, Taylor-Thompson K, Wagner A, Yaffe G. (2014). Law and Neuroscience: Recommendations Submitted to the President's Bioethics Commission. J Law Biosci: 224-6. [PDF Download]

Wesley MJ, Lohrenz T, Koffarnus MN, McClure SM, De La Garza R 2nd, Salas R, Thompson-Lake DG, Newton TF, Bickel WK, Montague PR. (2014). Choosing Money over Drugs: The Neural Underpinnings of Difficult Choice in Chronic Cocaine Users. Journal of Addiction 2014: 189853. doi: 10.1155/2014/189853. [PDF Download]

Smith A, Lohrenz T, King J, Montague PR, Camerer CF. (2014). Irrational exuberance and neural crash warning signals during endogenous experimental market bubbles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (USA) 111(29): 10503-10508. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1318416111. [PDF Download]

Friston KJ, Stephan KE, Montague PR, Dolan RJ. (2014). Computational psychiatry: the brain as a phantastic organ. The Lancet Psychiatry 1(2): 148-158. [PDF Download]

Kirk U, Gu X, Harvey AH, Fonagy, P, Montague PR. (2014). Mindfulness training modulates value signals in ventromedial prefrontal cortex through input from insular cortex. NeuroImage 100: 254-262. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.06.035. Epub 2014 Jun 21. [PDF Download]

Bickel WK, Wesley MJ, Shin J, Koffarnus MN, Lohrenz T, Montague PR. (2014). Neural correlates of cross-commodity discounting in cocaine users and controls. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences[PDF Download]

D'Ardenne K, Lohrenz T, Bartley KA, Montague PR. (2013). Computational heterogeneity in the human mesencephalic dopamine system. Cognitive Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience 13(4): 747-756. [PDF Download]

Lohrenz T, Bhatt M, Apple N, Montague PR. (2013). Keeping up with the Joneses: Interpersonal Prediction Errors and the Correlation of Behavior in a Tandem Sequential Choice Task. PLOS Computational Biology 9(10): doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003275. [PDF Download]

Kishida KT, Montague PR. (2013). Economic probes of mental function and the extraction of computational phenotypes. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 94: 234–241. [PDF Download]

Gu X, Kirk U, Lohrenz T, Montague PR. (2013). Cognitive Strategies Regulate Fictive, but not Reward Prediction Error Signals in a Sequential Investment Task. Human Brain Mapping 35(8): 3738-3740. doi: 10.1002/hbm.22433. Epub 2013 Dec 31. [PDF Download]

Xiang T, Lohrenz T, Montague PR. (2013). Computational Substrates of Norms and Their Violations during Social Exchange. Journal of Neuroscience 33(3): 1099-1108. [PDF Download]
[COMMENTARY: Chang, LJ, & Koban, L. (2013). Modeling Emotion and Learning of Norms in Social Interactions. The Journal of Neuroscience, 33(18), 7615-7617.] [PDF]

Montague PR. (2013). Drug addiction and the problem of free will. In: Sinnott-Armstrong W (Ed.), Moral Psychology: Volume 4: Free Will and Moral Responsibility. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [PDF Download]

Xiang T, Ray D, Lohrenz T, Dayan P, Montague PR. (2012). Computational Phenotyping of Two-Person Interactions Reveals Differential Neural Response to Depth-of-Thought. PLOS Computational Biology 8(12): e1002841. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002841. [PDF Download]

Friston K, Adams, R, Montague PR. (2012). What is value-accumulated reward or evidence? Frontiers in Neurorobotics 6: 11. doi: 10.3389/fnbot.2012.00011. [PDF Download]

Friston K, Samothrakis S, Montague PR. (2012). Active inference and agency: optimal control without cost functions. Biological Cybernetics 106(8): 523-541. [PDF Download]

Kishida KT, Montague PR. (2012). Imaging Models of Valuation During Social Interaction in Humans. Biological Psychiatry 72(2): 93-100. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.02.037. [PDF Download]

Sharp C, Monterosso J, Montague PR. (2012). Neuroeconomics: A Bridge for Translational Research. Biological Psychiatry 72(2): 87-92. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.02.029. [PDF Download]

Montague PR. (2012). The Scylla and Charybdis of Neuroeconomic Approaches to Psychopathology. Biological Psychiatry 72(2): 80-81. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.02.029. [PDF Download]

Bhatt MA, Lohrenz TM, Camerer CF, Montague PR. (2012). Distinct contributions of the amygdala and parahippocampal gyrus to suspicion in a repeated bargaining game. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (USA) 109(22): 8728-8733. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1200738109. [PDF Download]

Kishida KT, Li J, Schwind J, Montague PR. (2012). New approaches to investigating social gestures in autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders 4(1): 14. doi: 10.1186.1866-1955-4-14. [PDF Download]

Kishida KT, Yang D, Quartz KH, Quartz SR, Montague PR. (2012). Implicit signals in small group settings and their impact on the expression of cognitive capacity and associated brain responses. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Biological Sciences 367(1589): 704-716. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0267. [PDF Download]

Montague PR, Dolan RJ, Friston KJ, Dayan P. (2012). Computational Psychiatry. Trends in Cognitive Science 16(1): 72-80. [PDF Download]

Downar J, Bhatt M, Montague PR. (2011). Neural correlates of effective learning in experienced medical decision-makers. PLOS ONE 6(11): e27768. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027768. [PDF Download]

Kirk U, Harvey A, Montague PR. (2011). Domain expertise insulates against judgment bias by monetary favors through a modulation of ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (USA) 108(25): 10332-10336. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1019332108. [PDF Download]

Kirk U, Downar J, Montague PR. (2011). Interoception drives increased rational decision-making in meditators playing the ultimatum game. Frontiers in Neuroscience 5: 49. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2011.00049. [PDF Download]

Kishida KT, Sandberg SG, Lohrenz T, Comair YG, Saez IG, Phillips PEM, Montague PR. (2011). Sub-second dopamine detection in human striatum. PLOS ONE 6(8): e23291. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023291. [PDF Download]

Helekar SA, Shin JC, Mattson BJ, Bartley K, Stosic M, Saldana-King T, Montague PR, Hutton GJ. (2010). Functional brain network changes associated with maintenance of cognitive function in multiple sclerosis. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 4: 219. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2010.00219. [PDF Download]

Bhatt MA, Lohrenz T, Camerer CF, Montague PR. (2010). Neural signatures of strategic types in a two-person bargaining game. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (USA) 107(46): 19720-19725. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1009625107. [PDF Download]

Koshelev M, Lohrenz T, Vannucci M, Montague PR. (2010). Biosensor approach to psychopathology classification. PLOS Computational Biology 6(10): e1000966. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000966. [PDF Download]

Salas R, Baldwin P, de Biasi M, Montague PR. (2010). BOLD Responses to Negative Reward Prediction Errors in Human Habenula. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 4: 36. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2010.00036. [PDF Download]

Harvey AH, Kirk U, Denfield GH, Montague PR. (2010). Monetary favors and their influence on neural responses and revealed preference. Journal of Neuroscience 30(28): 9597-9602. [PDF Download]

Kishida KT, King-Casas B, Montague PR. (2010). Neuroeconomic approaches to mental disorders. Neuron 67(4): 543-554. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.07.021. [PDF Download]

Strathearn L, Fonagy P, Amico J, Montague PR. (2009). Adult Attachment Predicts Maternal Brain and Oxytocin Response to Infant Cues. Neuropsychopharmacology 34(13): 2655-2666. doi:10.1030/npp.2009.103. [PDF Download]

Martin LE, Potts GF, Burton PC, Montague PR. (2009). Electrophysiological and hemodynamic responses to reward prediction violation. Neuroreport 20(13): 1140-1143. [PDF Download]

Li J, Xiao E, Houser D, Montague PR. (2009). Neural responses to sanction threats in two-party economic exchange. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 106(39): 16835-16840. [PDF Download]

Cui X, Stetson C, Montague PR, Eagleman DM. (2009). Ready...go: Amplitude of the FMRI signal encodes expectation of cue arrival time. PLOS Biology 7(8): e1000167. [PDF Download]

Chiu PH, Kayali MA, Kishida KT, Tomlin D, Klinger LG, Klinger MR, Montague PR. (2008). Self responses along cingulate cortex reveal quantitative neural phenotype for high-functioning autism. Neuron 57(3): 463-473. [PDF Download]
[COMMENTARY: Frith, CD, & Frith, U. (2008). The Self and Its Reputation in Autism. Neuron, 57(3), 331-332. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2008.01.014] [PDF]

Ray D, King-Casas B, Montague PR, Dayan P. (2008). Bayesian Model of Behaviour in Economic Games. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 21: 1345-1353. [PDF Download]

Rangel A, Camerer C, Montague PR. (2008). A framework for studying the neurobiology of value-based decision making. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 9: 545-556. [PDF Download]

Montague PR. (2008). Free will. Current Biology 18(14): R584-R585. [PDF Download]

King-Casas B, Sharp C, Lomax-Bream L, Lohrenz T, Fonagy P, Montague PR. (2008). The rupture and repair of cooperation in borderline personality disorder. Science 321: 806-810. [PDF Download]

Chiu PH, Lohrenz TM, Montague PR. (2008). Smokers' brains compute, but ignore, a fictive error signal in a sequential investment task. Nature Neuroscience 11(4): 514-520. [PDF Download]

Van den Bos W, Li J, Lau T, Maskin E, Cohen JD, Montague PR, McClure SM. (2008). The value of victory: social origins of the winner's curse in common value auctions. Judgment and Decision Making 3: 483-492. [PDF Download]

Strathearn L, Li J, Fonagy P, Montague PR. (2008). What's in a smile? Maternal brain responses to infant facial cues. Pediatrics 122(1): 40-51. [PDF Download]

Montague PR, Lohrenz T. (2007). To detect and correct: norm violations and their enforcement. Neuron 56(1): 14-18. [PDF Download]

Dani JA, Montague PR. (2007). Disrupting addiction through the loss of drug-associated internal states. Nature Neuroscience 10(4): 403-404. [PDF Download]

Montague PR, King-Casas B. (2007). Efficient statistics, common currencies and the problem of reward-harvesting. Trends in Cognitive Science 11(12): 514-519. [PDF Download]

Montague PR. (2007). The first wave. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 11(10): 407-409. [PDF Download]

Montague PR, Chiu P. (2007). For goodness' sake. Nature Neuroscience 10(2): 137-138. [PDF Download]

Lohrenz T, McCabe K, Camerer CF, Montague PR. (2007). Neural signature of fictive learning signals in a sequential investment task. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 104(22): 9493-9498. [PDF Download]

Montague PR. (2007). Neuroeconomics: A View from Neuroscience. Functional Neurology 22(4): 219-234. [PDF Download]

Bogacz R, McClure SM, Li J, Cohen JD, Montague PR. (2007). Short-term memory traces for action bias in human reinforcement learning. Brain Research 1153: 111-121. [PDF Download]

Cui X, Jeter C, Yang D, Montague PR, Eagleman DM. (2007). Vividness of mental imagery: Individual variation can be measured objectively. Vision Research 41(4): 474-478. [PDF Download]

Li J, McClure SM, King-Casas B, Montague PR. (2006). Policy adjustment in dynamic economic game. PLOS ONE 1(1): e103. [PDF Download]

Potts GF, Martin LE, Burton P, Montague PR. (2006). When things are better or worse than expected: the medial frontal cortex and the allocation of processing resources. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 18: 1112-1119. [PDF Download]

Tomlin D, Kayali MA, King-Casas B, Anen C, Camerer C, Quartz S, Montague PR. (2006). Agent-specific responses in the cingulate cortex during economic exchanges. Science 312: 1047-1050. [PDF Download]

Montague PR, King-Casas B, Cohen JD. (2006). Imaging valuation models in human choice. Annual Review of Neuroscience 29: 417-448. [PDF Download]

Stetson C, Cui X, Eagleman DM, Montague PR. (2006). Motor-sensory recalibration leads to an illusory reversal of action and sensation. Neuron 51: 651-659. [PDF Download]

King-Casas B, Tomlin D, Anen C, Camerer CF, Quartz SR, Montague PR. (2005). Getting to know you: Reputation and trust in a two-person economic exchange. Science 308: 78-83. doi: 10.1126/science.308.5718.36a. [PDF Download]
[COMMENTARY: Miller, G. (2005). Economic Game Shows How the Brain Builds Trust. Science, 308(5718), 36.] [PDF]

Montague PR, Hyman SE, Cohen JD. (2004). Computational roles for dopamine in behavioural control. Nature 431: 760-767. [PDF Download]

Montague PR, McClure SM, Baldwin PR, Phillips PEM, Budygin EA, Kilpatrick M, Stuber G, Wightman RM. (2004). Dynamic gain control of dopamine delivery in freely moving animals. Journal of Neuroscience 24(7): 1754-1759. [PDF Download]

McClure SM, Li J, Tomlin D, Cypert KS, Montague LM, Montague PR. (2004). Neural correlates of behavioral preference for culturally familiar drinks. Neuron 44: 379-387. [PDF Download]

McClure SM, York MK, Montague PR. (2004). The neural substrates of reward processing in humans: The modern role of fMRI. The Neuroscientist 10(3): 260-268.

McClure SM, Daw N, Montague PR. (2003). A computational substrate for incentive salience. Trends in Neuroscience 26(8): 423-428. [PDF Download]

McClure SM, Berns GS, Montague PR. (2003). Temporal prediction errors in a passive learning task activate human striatum. Neuron 38(2): 339-346. [PDF Download]
[COMMENTARY: Braver, TS, & Brown, JW. (2003). Principles of Pleasure Prediction: Specifying the Neural Dynamics of Human Reward Learning. Neuron, 38(2), 150-152.] [PDF]

Montague PR. (2003). Uncertainty rules. Nature 424: 371-372. [PDF Download]

Pagnoni G, Zink CF, Montague PR, Berns GS. (2002). Activity in human ventral striatum locked to errors in reward prediction. Nature Neuroscience 5(2): 97-98. [PDF Download]

Montague PR, Berns GS, Cohen JD, McClure SM, Pagnoni G, Dhamala M, Wiest MC, Karpov I, King RD, Apple N, Fisher RE. (2002). Hyperscanning: simultaneous fMRI during linked social interactions. NeuroImage 16(4): 1159-1164. [PDF Download]

Eagleman DM, Montague PR. (2002). Models of learning and memory. Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: 806-812.New York. [PDF Download]

Montague PR, Berns GS. (2002). Neural economics and the biological substrates of valuation. Neuron 36: 265-284. [PDF Download]

Montague PR, Eagleman DM, McClure SM, Berns GS. (2002). Reinforcement Learning. Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: 908-913.London. [PDF Download]

Montague PR. (2002). Uniting the Confederation. Trends in Neuroscience 25(11): 595-596. [PDF Download]

King RD, Wiest MC, Montague PR. (2001). Extracellular calcium depletion as a mechanism for short-term synaptic depression. J. Neurophysiology 85(5): 1952-1959. [PDF Download]

Perrett S, Dudek S, Eagleman D, Montague PR, Friedlander MJ. (2001). LTD Induction in Adult Visual Cortex: Role of Stimulus Timing and Inhibition. Journal of Neuroscience 21(7): 2308-2319. [PDF Download]

Berns GS, McClure SM, Montague PR. (2001). Predictability modulates human brain response to reward. J. Neuroscience 21(8): 2793-2798. [PDF Download]

Wiest MC, Eagleman DM, King RD, Montague PR. (2000). Dendritic spikes and their influence on extracellular calcium signaling. Journal of Neurophysiology 83(3): 1329-1337. [PDF Download]

King RD, Wiest M, Eagleman DM, Montague PR. (2000). Do extracellular calcium signals carry information through neural tissue? Trends in Neuroscience 23(1): 12-13. [PDF Download]

Dayan P, Kakade S, Montague PR. (2000). Learning and selective attention. Nature Neuroscience 3: 1218-1223. [PDF Download]

Egelman DM, Montague PR. (1999). Calcium dynamics in the extracellular space of mammalian neural tissue. Biophysical Journal 76(4): 1856-1857. [PDF Download]

Montague PR, Quartz SR. (1999). Computational approaches to neural reward and development. Mental Retardation & Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews 5: 86-99. [PDF Download]

Montague PR. (1999). Review of Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction. Trends in Cognitive Science 3(9): 360-361. [PDF Download]

Egelman DM, Montague PR. (1998). Computational properties of peri-dendritic calcium fluctuations. J. Neuroscience 18(21): 8580-8589. [PDF Download]

Egelman DM, Person C, Montague PR. (1998). A computational role for dopamine delivery in human decision-making. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 10(5): 623-630. [PDF Download]

Egelman DM, King RD, Montague PR. (1998). Interaction of nitric oxide and external calcium fluctuations: A possible substrate for rapid information retrieval. Progress in Brain Research 118: 199-211. [PDF Download]

Montague PR, Dayan P. (1998). Neurobiological modeling: squeezing top down to meet bottom up. A Companion to Cognitive Science: 526-542.Oxford. [PDF Download]

Montague PR. (1997). Biological substrates of predictive mechanisms in learning and action choice. Neural-Network Approaches to Cognition - Biobehavioral Foundations: 406-421. 

Montague PR. (1997). The cerebral code is still encrypted. A review of The Cerebral Code. Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy 14(1): 67-68. [PDF Download]

Goodhill GJ, Bates KR, Montague PR. (1997). Influences on the global structure of cortical maps. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B 264: 1-7. [PDF Download]

Schultz W, Dayan P, Montague PR. (1997). A neural substrate of prediction and reward. Science 275: 1593-1599. [PDF Download]

Montague PR, Dayan P, Sejnowski TJ. (1996). A framework for mesencephalic dopamine systems based on predictive hebbian learning. Journal of Neuroscience 16(5): 1936-1947. [PDF Download]

Montague PR. (1996). General properties of the resource consumption principle of neural function. Journal of Physiology (Paris) 90(3): 239-242. [PDF Download]

Montague PR. (1996). The resource consumption principle: Attention and memory in volumes of neural tissue. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 93(8): 3619-3623. [PDF Download]

Person C, Egelman DM, King RD, Montague PR. (1996). Three-dimensional synaptic distributions influence neural processing through the resource consumption principle. Journal of Physiology (Paris) 90(5): 323-325. [PDF Download]

Montague PR, Dayan P, Person C, Sejnowski TJ. (1995). Bee foraging in uncertain environments using predictive Hebbian learning. Nature 377: 725-728. [PDF Download]
[COMMENTARY: Douglas RJ. Neurobiology. The bee's needs. Nature. 1995 Oct 26;377(6551):683-4. doi: 10.1038/377683a0. PMID: 7477257.] [PDF]

Montague PR. (1995). Integrating information at single synaptic connections. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 92: 2424-2425. [PDF Download]

Sejnowski TJ, Dayan P, Montague PR. (1995). Predictive hebbian learning. Proceedings of Eighth ACM Conference on Computational Learning Theory: 15-18.Santa Cruz, CA, New York, NY. [PDF Download]

Montague PR, Dayan P, Person C, Sejnowski TJ. (1994). Foraging in an Uncertain Environment Using Predictive Hebbian Learning. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 6: 598-605.San Mateo, CA. [PDF Download]

Montague PR, Sejnowksi TJ. (1994). The predictive brain: Temporal coincidence and temporal order in synaptic learning mechanisms. Learning and Memory 1(1): 1-33. [PDF Download]

Montague PR, Gancayco C, Winn MJ, Marchase RB, Friedlander MJ. (1994). Role of NO production in NMDA receptor-mediated neurotransmitter release in cerebral cortex. Science 263: 973-977. [PDF Download]

Montague, PR. (1993). The NO hypothesis. Encyclopedia of Neuroscience 3: 100-103.Cambridge, MA. 

Montague, PR. (1993). Transforming sensory experience into structural change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 90(14): 6379-6380. [PDF Download]

Montague, PR, Dayan, P, Nowlan, SJ, Pouget, A, and Sejnowski, TJ. (1993). Using aperiodic reinforcement for directed self-organization. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 5: 969-976.San Mateo, CA. [PDF Download]

Montague, PR, Dayan, P, Sejnowski, TJ. (1993). Volume learning: Signaling covariance through neural tissue. Computation and Neural Systems: 377-382.Norwall, MA. [PDF Download]

Montague PR, Friedlander MJ. (1991). Morphogenesis and territorial coverage by isolated mammalian retinal ganglion cells. Journal of Neuroscience 11(5): 1440-1457. [PDF Download]

Montague PR, Gally JA, Edelman GM. (1991). Spatial signaling in the development and function of neural connections. Cerebral Cortex 1(3): 199-220. [PDF Download]

Gally JA, Montague PR, Reeke GN, Edelman GM. (1990). The NO hypothesis: Possible effects of a short-lived rapidly diffusible signal in the development and function of the nervous system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 87: 3547-3551. [PDF Download]

Montague PR, Friedlander MJ. (1989). Expression of an intrinsic growth strategy by mammalian retinal neurons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 86: 7223-7227. [PDF Download]