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preprints & in press​

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Bowers JS, Puebla G, Thorat S, Tsetsos K, & Ludwig CJH. Centaur: A model without a theory. PsyArXiv.​

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Cao Y, & Tsetsos K. Decision bias and sampling asymmetry in reward-guided learning. bioRχiν.​

 

​Toso A, Arazi A, de la Rocha J, Tsetsos K, & Donner TH. Competing neural decision variables in the human frontal cortex shape decision confidence. bioRχiν.

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Siems M, Cao Y, Donner TH, Tsetsos K*, & Engel AK*. Inter-areal coupling for cognition through coincident oscillatory transients. bioRχiν (*co-senior authorship).

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Olschewski, S., Scheibehenne, B.*, & Tsetsos, K.* Being Risk Averse and Risk Seeking: An Apparent Preference Reversal in Valuations and Decisions from Experience. PsyArXiv. (*co-senior authorship).

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2026

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​Siems M, Cao Y, Tohidi-Moghaddam M, Donner TH, & Tsetsos K. Rhythmic sampling of multiple decision alternatives in the human            brain. Nature Communications .  [TICS spotlight]​

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Ludwig CJH, Tsetsos K, & Bowers JS. Collective illusions of understanding in neuroAI. Computational Brain & Behavior.

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2025​​​

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Pessach G, Tsetsos K, Regenwetter M, & Usher M. Within-alternative processing supports transitivity of preferences in multi-attribute choice. Psychological Review.

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Tohidi-Moghaddam M, & Tsetsos K. The timescale and functional form of context-dependence during value-learning. Communications Psychology.

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Lee DG, Tsetsos K, Pezzulo G, Shahar N, & Usher M. Variability and accessibility of information guide gaze dynamics in decision-making. Decision.

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Boag RJ et al.  An expert guide to planning experimental tasks for evidence accumulation modelling. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.​​

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Tsetsos K, & Cao Y.  Perspectives on the mechanistic underpinnings of choice biases. In: Ettinger, U., Heinrichs, B., Murawski, C. (eds) Decision Making. Studies in Neuroscience, Psychology and Behavioral Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-00880-0_5

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2023 

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Tickle H, Tsetsos K, Speekenbrink M, Summerfield C. Optional Stopping in a Heteroscedastic World. Psychological  Review.

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Pirrone A, & Tsetsos K. Towards an atlas of canonical cognitive mechanisms. Cognitive Science.

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Tsetsos K. Unlocking a new dimension in the speed-accuracy trade-off. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.​

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Siems M, Donner TH, & Tsetsos K. GABA induced changes of functional connectivity dissociate amplitude-and phase-coupling during task but not rest.  Clinical Neurophysiology.

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2022

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Cao Y, & Tsetsos K. Clarifying the role of an unavailable distractor in human multiattribute choice. eLife.

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Pirrone A, & Tsetsos K. On multiple sources of value sensitivity. PNAS.

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2021

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Talluri BC, Urai AE, Bronfman Z, Brezis N, Tsetsos K*, Usher M*, & Donner TH*. Choices Change the Temporal Weighting of Decision Evidence. Journal of Neurophysiology (*co-senior authorship).

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Pfeffer T,  Ponce-Alvarez A, Tsetsos K, Meindertsma T, Gahnström C,  van den Brink RL, Nolte G,  Engel AK, Deco G, Donner TH. Circuit mechanisms for the chemical modulation of cortex-wide network interactions and behavioral variability. Science Advances.

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2020

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 Tsvetomira D, Li V, Tsetsos K, Summerfield C. A map of decoy influence in human multi-attribute choice. PNAS. 

 

de Gee JW, Tsetsos K, Schwabe L, Urai AE, McCormick DA, McGinley MJ, & Donner TH. Pupil-linked phasic arousal predicts a reduction of choice bias across species and decision domains. eLife.

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Summerfield C,  & Tsetsos K. Rationality and Efficiency in Human Decision Making. The Cognitive Neurosciences, 6th Ed., D. Poeppel, G. R. Mangun, M. S. Gazzaniga, Eds. (MIT Press).

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Luyckx F, Spitzer B, Blangero A, Tsetsos K*, & Summerfield C*. Selective integration during sequential sampling in posterior neural signals. Cerebral Cortex. (*co-senior authorship). 

            

2019 

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Usher M, Tsetsos K, Glickman M, & Chater N. Selective-Integration: an attentional theory of choice biases and adaptive choice. Current Directions in Psychological Science.

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Urai AE, de Gee JW, Tsetsos K*, & Donner TH*. Choice history biases subsequent evidence accumulation. eLife. (*co-senior authorship).

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2018

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Moran R, & Tsetsos K. The Standard Bayesian Model is Normatively Invalid for Biological Brains. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

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Turner MB, Schley RD, Muller C, & Tsetsos K. Competing theories of multi-alternative, multi-attribute preferential choice. Psychological Review.

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Glickman M, Tsetsos K, & Usher M. Attentional selection mediates framing and risk-bias effects. Psychological Science.

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Talluri BC, Urai AE, Tsetsos K*, Usher M*, & Donner TH*. Confirmation Bias Through Selective Overweighting of Choice-Consistent Evidence. Current Biology (*co-senior authorship).

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2017

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Tsetsos K. The dynamics of selective integration during rapid experiential decisions. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

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Kunar MA, Watson DG, Tsetsos K, & Chater N. The influence of attention on value integration. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.

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2016

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Tsetsos K, Moran R, Moreland J, Chater N, Usher M, & Summerfield C. Reply to Davis-Stober et al.: Violations of rationality in a psychophysical task are not aggregation artifacts. PNAS.

 

Tsetsos K, Moran R, Moreland J, Chater N, Usher M, & Summerfield C. Economic irrationality is optimal during noisy decision making. PNAS. [press coverage: Pacific Standard, Daily Mail, Medical Daily].

 

Tickle H, Speekenbrink M, Tsetsos K, Michael E, & Summerfield C. Near-optimal integration of magnitude in the human parietal cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

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2015

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Tsetsos K, Chater N, & Usher M. Examining the mechanisms underlying contextual preference reversal: Comment on Trueblood, Brown, & Heathcote, 2014. Psychological Review.

 

Tsetsos K*, Pfeffer T*, Jentgens P* & Donner TH. Action planning and the timescale of evidence accumulation. PLoS ONE. (*equal contribution).

 

Bronfman ZZ, Brezis N, Moran R, Tsetsos K, Donner TH & Usher M. Decisions reduce sensitivity to subsequent information. Proceedings of Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences.

 

Summerfield C & Tsetsos K. Do humans make good decisions? Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

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2014

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Tsetsos K, Wyart V, Shorkey SP & Summerfield C. Neural mechanisms of economic commitment in the human medial prefrontal cortex. eLife.

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Cheadle S, Wyart V, Tsetsos K, Myers N, de Gardelle V, Herce Castañón S & Summerfield C. Adaptive gain control during human perceptual choice. Neuron.​

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2013

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Ossmy O, Moran R, Pfeffer T, Tsetsos K, Usher M & Donner TH. The timescale of perceptual evidence integration can be adapted to the environment. Current Biology.

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Usher M, Tsetsos K, Yu CE & Lagnado DA. Dynamics of decision-making: from evidence accumulation to preference and belief. Frontiers in Psychology.

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2012

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Tsetsos K, Chater N, & Usher M. Salience driven value integration explains decision biases and preference reversal. PNAS.

 

Tsetsos K*, Gao J*, McClelland JL & Usher M. Using time-varying evidence to test models of decision dynamics: bounded diffusion vs. the leaky competing accumulator model. Frontiers in Neuroscience. (*equal contribution)

 

Summerfield C, & Tsetsos K. Building bridges between perceptual and economic decision-making: neural and computational mechanisms. Frontiers in Neuroscience.

 

Olivola CY, Sussman AB, Tsetsos K, Kang OE, & Todorov A. Republicans prefer Republican-looking leaders: Political facial stereotypes predict candidate electoral success among right-leaning voters. Social Psychological and Personality Science.

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<2012

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Tsetsos K, Usher M, & McClelland JL. Testing multi-alternative decision models with non-stationary evidence (2011). Frontiers in Neuroscience.

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Usher M, Tsetsos K, & Chater N. Postscript: Contrasting predictions for preference reversal (2010). Psychological Review.

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Tsetsos K, Usher M, & Chater N. Preference reversal in multiattribute choice (2010). Psychological Review.

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