Publications

Recent articles

2016

  1. Altruistic traits are predicted by neural responses to monetary outcomes for self versus charity.
    San Martín, René; Kwak, Youngbin; Pearson, John M; Woldorff, Marty G; Huettel, Scott A; (2016).
    Social cognitive and affective neuroscience
  2. Dopamine: Context and counterfactuals
    Platt, Michael L; Pearson, John M; (2016).
    Proceedings of the national academy of sciences 113(1)

2015

  1. THE IMPACT OF FEEDBACK TIMING ON VALUE LEARNING IN AGING
    Lighthall, N; Pearson, JM; Huettel, S; Cabeza, R; (2015).
    Gerontologist 55
  2. Neuron's Eye View: Inferring Features of Complex Stimuli from Neural Responses
    Pearson, John M; Beck, Jeffrey M; (2015).
    Arxiv preprint arxiv:1512.01408
  3. Neural mechanisms of social decision-making in the primate amygdala
    Chang, Steve WC; Fagan, Nicholas A; Toda, Koji; Utevsky, Amanda V; Pearson, John M; Platt, Michael L; (2015).
    Proceedings of the national academy of sciences 112(52)
  4. Mind-reading without the scanner: Behavioural decoding of working memory content
    Dowd, Emma Wu; Pearson, John M; Egner, Tobias; (2015).
    Visual cognition 23(7)
  5. Suboptimal foraging behavior: A new perspective on gambling.
    Addicott, Merideth A; Pearson, John M; Kaiser, Nicole; Platt, Michael L; McClernon, F Joseph; (2015).
    Behavioral neuroscience 129(5)
  6. Pupil size and social vigilance in rhesus macaques
    Ebitz, R Becket; Pearson, John M; Platt, Michael L; (2015).
    Neural basis of social learning, social deciding, and other-regarding preferences

2014

  1. Smoking automaticity and tolerance moderate brain activation during explore–exploit behavior
    Addicott, Merideth A; Pearson, John M; Froeliger, Brett; Platt, Michael L; McClernon, F Joseph; (2014).
    Psychiatry research: neuroimaging 224(3)
  2. Differential Reward Learning for Self and Others Predicts Self-Reported Altruism
    Kwak, Youngbin; Pearson, John; Huettel, Scott A; (2014).
    Plos one 9(9)
  3. Decision making: the neuroethological turn
    Pearson, John M; Watson, Karli K; Platt, Michael L; (2014).
    Neuron 82(5)
  4. Lemurs and macaques show similar numerical sensitivity
    Jones, Sarah M; Pearson, John; DeWind, Nicholas K; Paulsen, David; Tenekedjieva, Ana-Maria; Brannon, Elizabeth M; (2014).
    Animal cognition 17(3)

2013

  1. DEL COMPORTAMIENTO SOCIAL DE LOS PRIMATES
    CHANG, STEVE WC; BRENT, LAUREN JN; ADAMS, GEOFFREY K; KLEIN, JEFFREY T; PEARSON, JOHN M; PLATT, MICHAEL L; (2013).
    Ludus vitalis 21(40)
  2. Change detection, multiple controllers, and dynamic environments: insights from the brain
    Pearson, John M; Platt, Michael L; (2013).
    Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior 99(1)
  3. Postreward delays and systematic biases in measures of animal temporal discounting
    Blanchard, Tommy C; Pearson, John M; Hayden, Benjamin Y; (2013).
    Proceedings of the national academy of sciences 110(38)
  4. Individual differences in social information gathering revealed through Bayesian hierarchical models
    Pearson, John; Watson, Karli K; Klein, Jeffrey T; Ebitz, R Becket; Platt, Michael L; (2013).
    Frontiers in neuroscience 7
  5. Dopamine: burning the candle at both ends
    Pearson, John M; Platt, Michael L; (2013).
    Neuron 79(5)
  6. Smoking and the bandit: A preliminary study of smoker and nonsmoker differences in exploratory behavior measured with a multiarmed bandit task.
    Addicott, Merideth A; Pearson, John M; Wilson, Jessica; Platt, Michael L; McClernon, F Joseph; (2013).
    Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology 21(1)
  7. Rapid brain responses independently predict gain maximization and loss minimization during economic decision making
    San Martín, René; Appelbaum, Lawrence G; Pearson, John M; Huettel, Scott A; Woldorff, Marty G; (2013).
    The journal of neuroscience 33(16)
  8. Neuroethology of primate social behavior
    Chang, Steve WC; Brent, Lauren JN; Adams, Geoffrey K; Klein, Jeffrey T; Pearson, John M; Watson, Karli K; Platt, Michael L; (2013).
    Proceedings of the national academy of sciences 110(Supplement 2)
  9. Through their eyes: selective attention in peahens during courtship
    Yorzinski, Jessica L; Patricelli, Gail L; Babcock, Jason S; Pearson, John M; Platt, Michael L; (2013).
    Journal of experimental biology 216(16)

2012

  1. Dynamic decision making in the brain
    Pearson, John; Platt, Michael L; (2012).
    Nature neuroscience 15(3)
  2. Neuroethology of decision-making
    Adams, Geoffrey K; Watson, Karli K; Pearson, John; Platt, Michael L; (2012).
    Current opinion in neurobiology 22(6)

2011

  1. A Role for Posterior Cingulate Cortex in Policy Switching and Cognitive Control
    Pearson, John M; Hayden, Benjamin Y; Platt, Michael L; (2011).
    Neural basis of motivational and cognitive control
  2. Posterior cingulate cortex: adapting behavior to a changing world
    Pearson, John M; Heilbronner, Sarah R; Barack, David L; Hayden, Benjamin Y; Platt, Michael L; (2011).
    Trends in cognitive sciences 15(4)
  3. Neuronal basis of sequential foraging decisions in a patchy environment
    Hayden, Benjamin Y; Pearson, John M; Platt, Michael L; (2011).
    Nature neuroscience 14(7)
  4. Surprise signals in anterior cingulate cortex: neuronal encoding of unsigned reward prediction errors driving adjustment in behavior
    Hayden, Benjamin Y; Heilbronner, Sarah R; Pearson, John M; Platt, Michael L; (2011).
    The journal of neuroscience 31(11)

2010

  1. Explicit information reduces discounting behavior in monkeys
    Pearson, John; Hayden, Benjamin; Platt, Michael; (2010).
    Frontiers in psychology 1
  2. A physiologically-inspired model of numerical classification based on graded stimulus coding
    Pearson, John; Roitman, JD; Brannon, EM; Platt, ML; Raghavachari, Sridhar; (2010).
    Neuroeconomics

2009

  1. Confidence and corrections: how we make and un-make up our minds
    Pearson, John; Platt, Michael L; (2009).
    Neuron 63(6)
  2. Neurons in posterior cingulate cortex signal exploratory decisions in a dynamic multioption choice task
    Pearson, John M; Hayden, Benjamin Y; Raghavachari, Sridhar; Platt, Michael L; (2009).
    Current biology 19(18)
  3. Fictive reward signals in the anterior cingulate cortex
    Hayden, Benjamin Y; Pearson, John M; Platt, Michael L; (2009).
    Science 324(5929)

2004

  1. Gravitons, inflatons, twisted bits: A noncommutative bestiary
    Pearson, John; (2004).

2003

  1. Tracing the string: BMN correspondence at finite J2/N
    Pearson, John; Spradlin, Marcus; Vaman, Diana; Verlinde, Herman; Volovich, Anastasia; (2003).
    Journal of high energy physics 2003(5)

2002

  1. Brane/flux annihilation and the string dual of a non-supersymmetric field theory
    Kachru, Shamit; Pearson, John; Verlinde, Herman; (2002).
    Journal of high energy physics 2002(6)

1999

  1. Semiclassical corrections to the oscillation frequencies of a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate
    Braaten, Eric; Pearson, John; (1999).
    Physical review letters 82(2)