Publications

2026

1. preprint A synaptic locus of song learning
   Drew C Schreiner, Samuel Brudner, Amanda Li, John Pearson, and Richard Mooney (2026).
   bioRxiv
   
2. preprint Selective encoding of priors for flexible categorization but not Bayesian inference in the frontal eye field
   Divya Subramanian, John M Pearson, and Marc A Sommer (2026).
   bioRxiv
   
3. preprint Dynamic Compression Flows for Neuroscience Data
   Ganchao Wei, Daniela de Albuquerque, Miles Martinez, Shiyang Pan, and John Pearson (2026).
   bioRxiv
   

2025

1. conference Inflationary flows: Calibrated bayesian inference with diffusion-based models
   Daniela de Albuquerque, and John Pearson (2025).
   Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37
   
2. preprint Representational Similarity and Pattern Classification of Fifteen Emotional States Induced by Movie Clips and Text Scenarios
   Yaohui Ding, Nathan M Muncy, John L Graner, Joel S White, Alisa C Schutz, Leonard Faul, John M Pearson, and Kevin S LaBar (2025).
   bioRxiv
   
3. journal A software platform for real-time and adaptive neuroscience experiments
   Anne Draelos, Matthew D Loring, Maxim Nikitchenko, Chaichontat Sriworarat, Pranjal Gupta, Daniel Y Sprague, Eftychios Pnevmatikakis, Andrea Giovannucci, Tyler Benster, Karl Deisseroth, John M Pearson, and Eva A Naumann (2025).
   Nature Communications 16(1)
   
4. journal Modeling of control over task switching and cross-task interference supports a two-dimensional model of cognitive stability and flexibility
   Raphael Geddert, Seth Madlon-Kay, Kevin O’Neill, John Pearson, and Tobias Egner (2025).
   Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 32 (6) 32(6)
   
5. preprint Correctness is its own reward: bootstrapping error signals in self-guided reinforcement learning
   Ziyi Gong, Fabiola Duarte, Richard Mooney, and John Pearson (2025).
   bioRxiv
   
6. preprint Motor Cortical Output Integrates Distorted Proprioceptive Feedback
   Yi Li, X Hermione Xu, Shiyang Pan, Xu An, Patrick J Mulcahey, Zixuan Qiu, Shengli Zhao, Nuo Li, John Pearson, and Z Josh Huang (2025).
   bioRxiv
   
7. journal Dual neuromodulatory dynamics underlie birdsong learning
   Jiaxuan Qi, Drew C Schreiner, Miles Martinez, John Pearson, and Richard Mooney (2025).
   Nature 641(8063)
   

2024

1. journal Vocalization modulates the mouse auditory cortex even in the absence of hearing
   Thomas C Harmon, Seth Madlon-Kay, John Pearson, and Richard Mooney (2024).
   Cell Reports 43(8)
   
2. conference Optimal decision-making under task uncertainty: a computational basis for cognitive stability versus flexibility
   Seth Madlon-Kay, John Pearson, and Tobias Egner (2024).
   Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 46
   
3. journal Modeling confidence in causal judgments.
   Kevin O'Neill, Paul Henne, John Pearson, and Felipe De Brigard (2024).
   Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 153(8)
   

2023

1. journal Generative models of birdsong learning link circadian fluctuations in song variability to changes in performance
   Samuel Brudner, John Pearson, and Richard Mooney (2023).
   PLOS Computational Biology 19(5)
   
2. journal Social cognitive processes explain bias in juror decisions
   Jaime J Castrellon, Shabnam Hakimi, Jacob M Parelman, Lun Yin, Jonathan R Law, Jesse AG Skene, David A Ball, Artemis Malekpour, Donald H Beskind, Neil Vidmar, John M Pearson, JH Pate Skene, and R McKell Carter (2023).
   Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 18(1)
   
3. journal Neuronal mechanisms of dynamic strategic competition
   Yaoguang Jiang, Kelsey R McDonald, John M Pearson, and Michael L Platt (2023).
   Research Square
   
4. journal Sophisticated models, minimum descriptions, and the Goldilocks zone of behavior: Comment on" Beyond simple laboratory studies: Developing sophisticated models to study rich behavior" by Maselli et al
   John Pearson, and Achint Kumar (2023).
   Physics of life reviews 47
   
5. journal Bayesian and Discriminative Models for Active Visual Perception across Saccades
   Divya Subramanian, John M Pearson, and Marc A Sommer (2023).
   eNeuro
   

2022

1. journal Neural support for contributions of utility and narrative processing of evidence in juror decision making
   Jaime J Castrellon, Shabnam Hakimi, Jacob M Parelman, Lun Yin, Jonathan R Law, Jesse AG Skene, David A Ball, Artemis Malekpour, Donald H Beskind, Neil Vidmar, John M Pearson, R McKell Carter, and JH Pate Skene (2022).
   Journal of Neuroscience 42(40)
   
2. preprint Between heuristics and optimality: Flexible integration of cost and evidence during information sampling
   Abigail Hsiung, John M Pearson, Jia-Hou Poh, Shabnam Hakimi, R Alison Adcock, and Scott A Huettel (2022).
   bioRxiv
   
3. conference Efficient coding, channel capacity, and the emergence of retinal mosaics
   Na Young Jun, Greg Field, and John Pearson (2022).
   Advances in neural information processing systems 35
   
4. journal Confidence and gradation in causal judgment
   Kevin O'Neill, Paul Henne, Paul Bello, John Pearson, and Felipe De Brigard (2022).
   Cognition 223
   
5. conference Measuring and modeling confidence in human causal judgment
   Kevin O’Neill, Paul Henne, John Pearson, and Felipe DeBrigard (2022).
   Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
   

2021

1. journal Neurons in primate prefrontal cortex signal valuable social information during natural viewing
   Geoffrey K Adams, Wei Song Ong, John M Pearson, Karli K Watson, and Michael L Platt (2021).
   Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 376(1819)
   
2. journal Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and the explore/exploit trade-off
   Merideth A Addicott, John M Pearson, Julia C Schechter, Jeffrey J Sapyta, Margaret D Weiss, and Scott H Kollins (2021).
   Neuropsychopharmacology 46(3)
   
3. conference Deep Generative Analysis for Task-Based Functional MRI Experiments
   Daniela de Albuquerque, Jack Goffinet, Rachael Wright, and John Pearson (2021).
   Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference
   
4. journal Neural dynamics underlying birdsong practice and performance
   Jonnathan Singh Alvarado, Jack Goffinet, Valerie Michael, William Liberti III, Jordan Hatfield, Timothy Gardner, John Pearson, and Richard Mooney (2021).
   Nature 599(7886)
   
5. journal Distributions. jl: Definition and modeling of probability distributions in the JuliaStats ecosystem
   Mathieu Besançon, Theodore Papamarkou, David Anthoff, Alex Arslan, Simon Byrne, Dahua Lin, and John Pearson (2021).
   Journal of Statistical Software 98
   
6. conference Bubblewrap: Online tiling and real-time flow prediction on neural manifolds
   Anne Draelos, Pranjal Gupta, Na Young Jun, Chaichontat Sriworarat, and John Pearson (2021).
   Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34
   
7. journal Low-dimensional learned feature spaces quantify individual and group differences in vocal repertoires
   Jack Goffinet, Samuel Brudner, Richard Mooney, and John Pearson (2021).
   eLife 10
   
8. conference Scene statistics and noise determine the relative arrangement of receptive field mosaics
   Na Young Jun, Greg D Field, and John Pearson (2021).
   Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118(39)
   
9. journal Reproducible, incremental representation learning with Rosetta VAE
   Miles Martinez, and John Pearson (2021).
   
   
10. journal Inter-mosaic coordination of retinal receptive fields
    Suva Roy, Na Young Jun, Emily L Davis, John Pearson, and Greg D Field (2021).
    Nature 592(7854)
    
11. preprint Encoding of odors by mammalian olfactory receptors
    Aashutosh Vihani, Maira H Nagai, Conan Juan, Claire A de March, Xiaoyang S Hu, John Pearson, and Hiroaki Matsunami (2021).
    bioRxiv
    
12. journal Machine learning prediction of neurocognitive impairment among people with HIV using clinical and multimodal magnetic resonance imaging data
    Yunan Xu, Yizi Lin, Ryan P Bell, Sheri L Towe, John M Pearson, Tauseef Nadeem, Cliburn Chan, and Christina S Meade (2021).
    Journal of neurovirology 27(1)
    
13. journal Continuous decisions
    Seng Bum Michael Yoo, Benjamin Yost Hayden, and John M Pearson (2021).
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 376(1819)
    

2020

1. preprint Online neural connectivity estimation with ensemble stimulation
   Anne Draelos, Eva A Naumann, and John M Pearson (2020).
   arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.13911
   
2. journal Dorsolateral and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex track distinct properties of dynamic social behavior
   Kelsey R McDonald, John M Pearson, and Scott A Huettel (2020).
   Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 15(4)
   
3. journal Circuit and synaptic organization of forebrain-to-midbrain pathways that promote and suppress vocalization
   Valerie Michael, Jack Goffinet, John Pearson, Fan Wang, Katherine Tschida, and Richard Mooney (2020).
   eLife 9
   
4. journal Monkeys and humans implement causal inference to simultaneously localize auditory and visual stimuli
   Jeff T Mohl, John M Pearson, and Jennifer M Groh (2020).
   Journal of Neurophysiology 124(3)
   

2019

1. journal Latent goal models for dynamic strategic interaction
   Shariq N Iqbal, Lun Yin, Caroline B Drucker, Qian Kuang, Jean-François Gariépy, Michael L Platt, and John M Pearson (2019).
   PLoS computational biology 15(3)
   
2. journal Bayesian nonparametric models characterize instantaneous strategies in a competitive dynamic game
   Kelsey R McDonald, William F Broderick, Scott A Huettel, and John M Pearson (2019).
   Nature communications 10(1)
   
3. journal Cognitive bots and algorithmic humans: toward a shared understanding of social intelligence
   Kelsey R McDonald, and John M Pearson (2019).
   Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 29
   

2018

1. journal Feedback-based learning in aging: Contributions and trajectories of change in striatal and hippocampal systems
   Nichole R Lighthall, John M Pearson, Scott A Huettel, and Roberto Cabeza (2018).
   Journal of Neuroscience 38(39)
   
2. journal Mobile Gaze Mapping: A Python package for mapping mobile gaze data to a fixed target stimulus
   Jeff J MacInnes, Shariq Iqbal, John Pearson, and Elizabeth N Johnson (2018).
   Journal of Open Source Software 3(31)
   
3. preprint Wearable Eye-tracking for Research: Automated dynamic gaze mapping and accuracy/precision comparisons across devices
   Jeff J Macinnes, Shariq Iqbal, John Pearson, and Elizabeth N Johnson (2018).
   bioRxiv
   
4. journal Modelling the effects of crime type and evidence on judgments about guilt
   John M Pearson, Jonathan R Law, Jesse AG Skene, Donald H Beskind, Neil Vidmar, David A Ball, Artemis Malekpour, R McKell Carter, and JH Pate Skene (2018).
   Nature human behaviour 2(11)
   
5. journal Queuing cues in rapid cortical processing
   John Pearson (2018).
   Nature human behaviour 2(9)
   

2017

1. journal A primer on foraging and the explore/exploit trade-off for psychiatry research
   Merideth A Addicott, John M Pearson, Maggie M Sweitzer, David L Barack, and Michael L Platt (2017).
   Neuropsychopharmacology 42(10)
   
2. journal Neuron’s eye view: Inferring features of complex stimuli from neural responses
   Xin Chen, Jeffrey M Beck, and John M Pearson (2017).
   PLoS computational biology 13(8)
   
3. journal Decoding working memory content from attentional biases
   Emma Wu Dowd, John M Pearson, and Tobias Egner (2017).
   Psychonomic bulletin & review 24(4)
   
4. preprint A goal-based movement model for continuous multi-agent tasks
   Shariq Iqbal, and John Pearson (2017).
   arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.07319
   
5. journal Local fields in human subthalamic nucleus track the lead-up to impulsive choices
   John M Pearson, Patrick T Hickey, Shivanand P Lad, Michael L Platt, and Dennis A Turner (2017).
   Frontiers in neuroscience 11
   
6. journal 9-S: Presentation Style Affects Decision Processes: a Dietary Choice Study
   Mona Prakash, Jonathan Winkle, Nicolette Sullivan, Gavan Fitzsimons, John Pearson, and Scott Huettel (2017).
   ACR North American Advances
   

2016

1. journal Altruistic traits are predicted by neural responses to monetary outcomes for self vs charity
   René San Martín, Youngbin Kwak, John M Pearson, Marty G Woldorff, and Scott A Huettel (2016).
   Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 11(6)
   
2. conference Dopamine: Context and counterfactuals
   Michael L Platt, and John M Pearson (2016).
   Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113(1)
   

2015

1. journal Suboptimal foraging behavior: A new perspective on gambling.
   Merideth A Addicott, John M Pearson, Nicole Kaiser, Michael L Platt, and F Joseph McClernon (2015).
   Behavioral neuroscience 129(5)
   
2. conference Neural mechanisms of social decision-making in the primate amygdala
   Steve WC Chang, Nicholas A Fagan, Koji Toda, Amanda V Utevsky, John M Pearson, and Michael L Platt (2015).
   Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(52)
   
3. journal Mind-reading without the scanner: Behavioural decoding of working memory content
   Emma Wu Dowd, John M Pearson, and Tobias Egner (2015).
   Visual Cognition 23(7)
   
4. journal THE IMPACT OF FEEDBACK TIMING ON VALUE LEARNING IN AGING
   N Lighthall, JM Pearson, S Huettel, and R Cabeza (2015).
   GERONTOLOGIST 55
   

2014

1. journal Smoking automaticity and tolerance moderate brain activation during explore–exploit behavior
   Merideth A Addicott, John M Pearson, Brett Froeliger, Michael L Platt, and F Joseph McClernon (2014).
   Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 224(3)
   
2. journal Pupil size and social vigilance in rhesus macaques
   R Becket Ebitz, John M Pearson, and Michael L Platt (2014).
   Frontiers in neuroscience 8
   
3. journal Lemurs and macaques show similar numerical sensitivity
   Sarah M Jones, John Pearson, Nicholas K DeWind, David Paulsen, Ana-Maria Tenekedjieva, and Elizabeth M Brannon (2014).
   Animal Cognition 17(3)
   
4. journal Differential reward learning for self and others predicts self-reported altruism
   Youngbin Kwak, John Pearson, and Scott A Huettel (2014).
   PLoS One 9(9)
   
5. journal Decision making: the neuroethological turn
   John M Pearson, Karli K Watson, and Michael L Platt (2014).
   Neuron 82 (5) 82(5)
   

2013

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

2012

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

2011

1. journal Neuronal basis of sequential foraging decisions in a patchy environment
   Benjamin Y Hayden, John M Pearson, and Michael L Platt (2011).
   Nature neuroscience 14(7)
   
2. journal Surprise signals in anterior cingulate cortex: neuronal encoding of unsigned reward prediction errors driving adjustment in behavior
   Benjamin Y Hayden, Sarah R Heilbronner, John M Pearson, and Michael L Platt (2011).
   Journal of Neuroscience 31(11)
   
3. journal Posterior cingulate cortex: adapting behavior to a changing world
   John M Pearson, Sarah R Heilbronner, David L Barack, Benjamin Y Hayden, and Michael L Platt (2011).
   Trends in cognitive sciences 15 (4) 15(4)
   
4. journal A role for posterior cingulate cortex in policy switching and cognitive control
   J Pearson, B Hayden, and M Platt (2011).
   Mars R, Sallet J, Rushworth S, Yeung N (eds), Neural Basis of Motivational and Cognitive Control. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
   

2010

1. journal Explicit information reduces discounting behavior in monkeys
   John M Pearson, Benjamin Y Hayden, and Michael L Platt (2010).
   Frontiers in psychology 1
   
2. journal A physiologically-inspired model of numerical classification based on graded stimulus coding
   John Pearson, Jamie D Roitman, Elizabeth M Brannon, Michael Platt, and Sridhar Raghavachari (2010).
   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 4
   

2009

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

2004

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

2003

1. journal Tracing the string: BMN correspondence at finite J2/N
   John Pearson, Marcus Spradlin, Diana Vaman, Herman Verlinde, and Anastasia Volovich (2003).
   Journal of High Energy Physics 2003(05)
   

2002

1. journal Brane/flux annihilation and the string dual of a non-supersymmetric field theory
   Shamit Kachru, John Pearson, and Herman Verlinde (2002).
   Journal of High Energy Physics 2002(06)
   

1999

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

1. journal TOWARDS A COMPUTATIONAL PSYCHIATRY OF TRANSDIAGNOSTIC DEFICITS IN COGNITIVE CONTROL
   Christina Bejjani, Tobias Egner, John Pearson, Terrie E Moffitt, Avshalom Caspi, and Alison Adcock ().
   
   
2. journal Bayesian nonparametric models characterize social sensitivity in a competitive dynamic game
   Kelsey McDonald, Scott Huettel, and John Pearson ().
   
   
3. journal Gaussian Process Models Characterize Other-Regarding Strategies Over Multiple Timescales in a Dynamic Social Game
   Kelsey McDonald, William F Broderick, Scott Huettel, and John Pearson ().