Below is a list of original articles published in peer-reviewed international journals.

Please refer to my Google Scholar profile for more info.



The online metacognitive control of decisions

J. Bénon, D. Lee, W. Hopper, M. Verdeil, M. Pessiglione, F. Vinckier, S. Bouret, M. Rouault, R. Lebouc, G. Pezzulo, C. Schreiweis, E. Burguière, J. Daunizeau

Nat. Com. Psychol. (2024), 2: 23. [DOI]


Mood fluctuations shift cost–benefit tradeoffs in economic decisions

R. Heerema, P. Carrillo, J. Daunizeau, F. Vinckier, M. Pessiglione

Scientific Reports (2023), 13: 18173 [DOI]


A single case neuroimaging study of tickertape synesthesia

F. Hauw, M. El Soudany, C. Rosso, J. Daunizeau, L. Cohen

Scientific Reports (2023), 13: 12185. [DOI]


Learning rules of engagement in social exchange within and between groups

M. Rojek-Giffin, M. Lebreton, J. Daunizeau, A. Fariña, J. Gross, C. K.W. De Dreu

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (2023), 9, 120 (19): e2218443120 [DOI]


Evidence or Confidence: What is really monitored during a decision?

D. Lee, J. Daunizeau, G. Pezzulo

Psychonomic Bull. (2023), 30: 1360–1379 [DOI].


Origins and consequences of mood flexibility: a computational perspective

M. Pessiglione, R. Heerema, J. Daunizeau, F. Vinckier 

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (2023), 147: 105084. [DOI]


Effort avoidance as a core mechanism of apathy in frontotemporal dementia

R. Le Bouc, N. Borderies, G. Carle, C. Robriquet, F. Vinckier, J. Daunizeau, C. Azuar, R. Levy, M. Pessiglione

Brain (2022), awac427 [DOI]


Elevated effort cost identified by computational modeling as a distinctive feature explaining multiple behaviors in patients with depression

F. Vinckier, C. Jaffre, C. Gauthier, S. Smajda, P. Abdel-Ahad, R. Lebouc, J. Daunizeau, M. Fefeu, N. Borderies, M. Plaze, R. Gaillard, M. Pessiglione

Biological Psychiatry : CNNI (2022), 11:1158-1169. [DOI]


Dissecting the functional contributions of the social brain to strategic behavior

A. Konovalov, C. Hill, J. Daunizeau, C. Ruff

Neuron (2021), S0896-6273(21)00569-9. [DOI]


Trading mental effort for confidence in the metacognitive control of value-based decision making

D. Lee,  J. Daunizeau

eLife (2021), 10: e63282 [DOI]


An overcomplete approach to fitting drift-diffusion decision models to trial-by-trial data

Q. Feltgen, J. Daunizeau

Frontiers in AI (2021), 4: 531316. [DOI]


Bridging across functional models: the OFC as a value-making neural network

M. Pessiglione, J. Daunizeau

Behavioral Neuroscience (2021), 135(2): 277-290 [DOI]


How choice-induced preference change might actually be instrumental to decision-making

D. Lee, J. Daunizeau

PLoS ONE (2020), 15(5): e0231081. [DOI]


Social behavioural adaptation in Autism

B. Forgeot d'Arc, M. Devaine,  J. Daunizeau

PLoS Comp. Biol. (2020), 16(3): e1007700. [DOI]


Assessing inter-individual differences with task-related functional neuroimaging

M. Lebreton, S. Bavard, J. Daunizeau, S. Palminteri

Nature Hum. Behav. (2019), 3: 897–905. [DOI]


Sour grapes and sweet victories: how actions shape preferences

F. Vinckier, L. Rigoux, I. T. Kurniawan, C. Hu,  S. Bourgeois-Gironde, J. Daunizeau, M. Pessiglione

PLoS Comp. Biol. (2018), 15(1): e1006499. [DOI]


A plea for "variational neuroethology"

J. Daunizeau

Phys. Life Rev. (2018), 24: 56–58 [PDF]


Reading wild minds: a computational assay of Theory of Mind sophistication across seven primate species

M. Devaine, A. San-Galli, C. Trapanese, G. Bardino, C. Hano,  M. St Jalme, S. Bouret, S. Masi, J. Daunizeau

PLoS Comp. Biol. (2017), 13(11): e1005833. [DOI]


Choose, rate or squeeze: Comparison of economic value functions elicited by different behavioral tasks

A. Lopez-Persem , L. Rigoux, S. Bourgeois-Gironde, J. Daunizeau, M. Pessiglione

PLoS Comp. Biol. (2017), 13(11): e1005848. [DOI]


Why not try harder? Computational approach to motivation deficits in neuro-psychiatric diseases

M. Pessiglione, F. Vinckier, J. Daunizeau, S. Bouret, R. Le Bouc

Brain (2017), 3: 629–650. [DOI]


Learning about and from others' prudence, impatience or laziness: the computational bases of attitude alignment

M. Devaine, J. Daunizeau

PLoS Comp. Biol. (2017), 13(3): e1005422. [DOI] [France TV-info video]


Does the way we read others' mind change over the lifespan? Insights from a massive web poll of cognitive skills from childhood to late adulthood.

D. Klindt, M. Devaine, J. Daunizeau

Cortex (2016), 86: 205-215. [PDF]


Computational Neuroimaging Strategies for Single Patient Predictions

K. E. Stephan, F. Schlagenhauf, Q. J. Huys, S. Raman, E. A. Aponte, K. H. Brodersen, L. Rigoux, R. J. Moran, J. Daunizeau, R. J. Dolan, K. J. Friston, A. Heinz

Neuroimage (2016), 145: 180-199. [DOI]


Computational dissection of dopamine motor and motivational functions in humans

R. Le Bouc, L. Rigoux, L. Schmidt, B. Degos, M.-L. Welter, M. Vidailhet, J. Daunizeau, M. Pessiglione

J. Neurosci. (2016), 36(25):6623-6633. [DOI]


Automatic integration of confidence in the brain valuation signal

M. Lebreton, R. Abitbol, J. Daunizeau, M. Pessiglione

Nature Neurosci. (2015), 18(8):1159-67. [DOI]


Dynamic Causal Modelling of brain-behaviour relationships

L. Rigoux, J. Daunizeau

Neuroimage (2015), 117: 202-221. [PDF]


The social Bayesian brain: does mentalizing make a difference when we learn?

M. Devaine, G. Hollard, J. Daunizeau

PLoS Comp. Biol. (2014), 10(12): e1003992. [DOI] [note on "influence learning"]


Uncertainty in perception and the Hierarchical Gaussian Filter

C. Mathys, E. Lomakina, J. Daunizeau, S. Iglesias, K. Brodersen, K. Friston, K. Stephan

Front. Hum. Neurosci.(2014), 8:825. [DOI]


Inferring on the intentions of others by hierarchical Bayesian learning

A. O. Diaconescu, C. Mathys, L. A. E. Weber, J. Daunizeau, L. Kasper, E. I. Lomakina, E. Fehr, K. E. Stephan

PLoS Comp. Biol. (2014), 10(9): e1003810. [DOI]


Theory of Mind: did evolution fool us?

M. Devaine, G. Hollard, J. Daunizeau

PLoS ONE (2014), 9(2): e87619. [DOI] [note on k-ToM models]


Toward a new application of real-time electrophysiology: online optimization of cognitive neurosciences hypothesis testing.

G Sanchez, J Daunizeau, E Maby, O Bertrand, A Bompas, J Mattout

Brain Sci. (2014), 4(1), 49-72. [DOI]


VBA: a probabilistic treatment of nonlinear models for neurobiological and behavioural data

J. Daunizeau, V. Adam, L. Rigoux

PLoS Comput Biol (2014), 10(1): e1003441. [DOI]


Bayesian model selection for group studies - revisited

L. Rigoux, K. E. Stephan, K. J. Friston, J. Daunizeau

Neuroimage (2014), 84: 971-985. [PDF] [technical note on family comparison] 


A Neurocomputational Model of the mismatch negativity

F. Lieder, K. E. Stephan, J. Daunizeau, M. I. Garrido, K. J. Friston

PLoS Comput Biol (2013), 9(11): e1003288. [DOI] [erratum]


Variational Bayesian mixed-effects inference for classification studies

K. Brodersen, J. Daunizeau, C. Mathys, J. R. Chumbley, J. Buhmann, K.E. Stephan

Neuroimage (2013), 76(1): 345-361. [PDF]


An electrophysiological validation of stochastic DCM for fMRI

J. Daunizeau, A. Vaudano, L. Lemieux, K. J. Friston, K. E. Stephan

Frontiers Comput. Neurosci. (2013), 6: 103 [DOI]


Modelling Trial-by-Trial Changes in the Mismatch Negativity

F. Lieder, J. Daunizeau, M. Garrido, K. J. Friston, K. E. Stephan

PLoS Comput. Biol. (2013), 9(2): e1002911 [DOI]


A neuro-computational account of how the human brain decides when to have a break

F. Meyniel, C. Sergent, L. Rigoux, J. Daunizeau, M. Pessiglione

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (2013), 110(7): 2641–2646 [DOI]


Is non-recognition of choreic movements in Huntington disease always pathological?

D. Justo, P. Charles, J. Daunizeau, C. Delmaire, M. Gargiulo, V. Hahn-Barma, L. Naccache, A. Durr

Neuropsychologia (2013), 51(4):748-759. [PDF]


Spatial attention, precision and Bayesian inference: a study of saccadic response speed

S. Vossel, C. Mathys, J. Daunizeau, M. Bauer, J. Driver, K. J. Friston, K. E. Stephan

Cereb. Cortex (2013), 24(6):1436-1450. [PDF]


Model selection and gobbledygook: response to Lohman et al.

K. Friston, J. Daunizeau, K. E. Stephan

Neuroimage (2013), 75:275-8. [PDF]


Mixed-effects inference on classification performance in hierarchical datasets

K. H. Brodersen, C. Mathys, J. R. Chumbley, J. Daunizeau, C. S. Ong, J. M. Buhmann, K. E. Stephan

J. Machine Learn. Res. (2012), 13: 3133-3176. [PDF]


Stochastic Dynamic Causal Modelling of fMRI data: should we care about neural noise?

J. Daunizeau, K. E. Stephan, K. J. Friston

Neuroimage (2012),62: 464-481. [PDF] [supplementary material]


Your goal is mine: unraveling mimetic desires in the human brain.

M. Lebreton, S. Kawa, B. Forgeot d’Arc, J. Daunizeau, M. Pessiglione

J Neurosci. (2012), 32(21): 7146-7157 [PDF]


Neural mechanisms underlying motivation of mental versus physical effort

L. Schmidt, M. Lebreton, M-L. Clery-Melin, J. Daunizeau, M. Pessiglione

PLoS Biol. (2012), 10(2): e1001266. [DOI]


Learning and generalization under ambiguity: an fMRI study

J. Chumbley, G. Flandin, D. Bach, J. Daunizeau, E. Fehr, R. Dolan, K. Friston

PLoS Comput. Biol. (2012), 8(1): e1002346 [DOI]


Optimizing experimental design for comparing models of brain function

J. Daunizeau, K. Preuschoff, K. J. Friston, K. E. Stephan

PLoS Comput. Biol. (2011), 7(11): e1002280 [DOI]


Generalized filtering and stochastic DCM for fMRI

B. Li, J. Daunizeau, K. E. Stephan, W. Penny, D. Hu, K. J. Friston

Neuroimage (2011), 58(2): 442-457. [PDF]


Effective connectivity: influence, causality and biophysical modelling

P. Valdes-Sosa, A. Roebroeck, J. Daunizeau, K. Friston

Neuroimage (2011), 58(2): 339-361. [PDF]


Dynamic Causal Modelling: a critical review of the biophysical and statistical foundations

J. Daunizeau, O. David, K. E. Stephan

Neuroimage (2011), 58: 312-322. [PDF] [erratum]


A Bayesian foundation for learning under uncertainty

C. Mathys, J. Daunizeau, K. Friston, K. Stephan

Frontiers Hum. Neurosci. (2011), 5: 39. [DOI]


Concepts of connectivity and human epileptic activity

L. Lemieux, J. Daunizeau, M. Walker

Frontiers Syst. Neurosci. (2011), 5: 12. [DOI]


Network discovery with DCM

K. J. Friston, B. Li, J. Daunizeau, K. E. Stephan

Neuroimage (2011), 56: 1202-1221. [PDF]


EEG and MEG data analysis in SPM8

V. Litvak, J. Mattout, S. Kiebel, C. Phillips, R. N. Henson, J. Kilner, G. Barnes, R. Oostenveld, J. Daunizeau, G. Flandin, W. Penny, K. J. Friston

Comput. Intell. Neurosci. (2011), Article ID 852961. [PDF]


Observing the observer (II): deciding when to decide

J. Daunizeau, H. E. M. Den Ouden, M. Pessiglione, S. J. Kiebel, K. J. Friston, K. E. Stephan

PLoS ONE (2010), 5(12): e15555. [DOI] [supplementary material] [erratum]


Observing the observer (I): meta-Bayesian models of learning and decision-making

J. Daunizeau, H. E. M. Den Ouden, M. Pessiglione, K. E. Stephan, S. J. Kiebel, K. J. Friston

PLoS ONE (2010), 5(12): e15554. [DOI] [supplementary material] [erratum]


EEG-fMRI integration : a critical review of biophysical modelling and data analysis approaches

M. J. Rosa, J. Daunizeau, K. J. Friston

J. Integrative Neurosci. (2010), 9(4): 453-476. [PDF]


Generalized filtering

K. Friston, K. E. Stephan, B. Li, J. Daunizeau

Math. Probl. Eng. (2010), 2010: 621670. [PDF]


Dynamic causal modelling of anticipatory skin conductance responses

D. R. Bach, J. Daunizeau, K. J. Friston, R. J. Dolan

Biol. Psychol. (2010), 163-170. [PDF]


Dynamic causal modelling of spontaneous fluctuations in skin conductance

D. Bach, J. Daunizeau, N. Kuelzow, K.J. Friston, R.J. Dolan

Psycholphysiol. (2010), 1-6. [PDF]


Action and behaviour: a free energy formulation

K. J. Friston, J. Daunizeau, J. Kilner, S. J. Kiebel

Bio. Cybern. (2010), 102: 227-260. [PDF]


Comparing Families of Dynamic Causal Models

W. Penny, M. Joao, G. Flandin, J. Daunizeau, K. E. Stephan, K. J. Friston, T. Schofield, A. P. Leff

PLoS Comput. Biol. (2010), 6(3): e1000709. [PDF] [supplementary material]


Striatal prediction error modulates cortical coupling

H. E. M. Den Ouden, J. Daunizeau, J. Roiser, K. J. Friston, K. E. Stephan

J. Neurosci (2010), 30: 3210-3219. [PDF] [supplementary material]


Ten simple rules for dynamic causal modelling

K. E. Stephan, W.D. Penny, R. J. Moran, H. E. Den Ouden, J. Daunizeau, K. J. Friston

Neuroimage (2010): 49: 3099-3109. [PDF]


Variational Bayesian identification and prediction of stochastic nonlinear dynamic causal models

J. Daunizeau, K.J. Friston, S.J. Kiebel

Physica D: nonlinear phenomena (2009), 238: 2089-2118. [DOI] [technical note] [erratum]


The combination of EEG source imaging and EEG-correlated functional MRI to map epileptic networks

S. Vulliemoz, L. Lemieux, J. Daunizeau, C. M. Michel, J. S. Duncan

Epilepsia (2009), 50: 1-15. [PDF]


Recognizing sequences of sequences

S.J. Kiebel, K. von Kriegstein, J. Daunizeau, K.J. Friston

PLoS Comp. Biol. (2009), 5(8): e1000464. [PDF]


Bayesian multi-modal model comparison: a case study on the generators of the spike and the wave in Generalized Spike-Wave complexes

J. Daunizeau, A. Vaudano, L. Lemieux

Neuroimage (2009), 49: 656-667 [PDF]


Reinforcement learning or active inference

K. J. Friston, J. Daunizeau, S.J. Kiebel

PLoS ONE (2009), 4(7): e6421. [PDF]


Perception and hierarchical dynamics

S.J. Kiebel, J. Daunizeau, K. J. Friston

Frontiers in Neuroinf. (2009), 3: 20. [PDF]


Dynamic causal modeling of distributed electromagnetic responses

J. Daunizeau, S. J. Kiebel, K. J. Friston

Neuroimage (2009), 47: 590-601 [PDF] [erratum]


Bayesian model selection for group studies

K. E. Stephan, W. D. Penny, J. Daunizeau, R. J. Moran, K. J. Friston

Neuroimage (2009), 46: 1004-1017. [PDF]


Population dynamics under the Laplace assumption

A. C. Marreiros, S. Kiebel, J. Daunizeau, L. Harrison, K. J. Friston

Neuroimage (2008), 44: 701-714. [PDF]


A hierarchy of time scales and the brain

S.J. Kiebel, J. Daunizeau, K.J. Friston

PLoS Comput. Biol. (2008) 4(11): e1000209. [PDF]


Integrated Bayesian models of learning and decision making for saccadic eye movements

K. H. Brodersen, W. D. Penny, L. M. Harrison, J. Daunizeau, C. Ruff, E. Duzel, K. J. Friston, K. E. Stephan

Neural Netw. (2008), 21: 1247-1260. [PDF]


Subliminal instrumental conditioning demonstrated in the Human brain

M. Pessiglione, P. Petrovic, J. Daunizeau, S. Palminteri, R. J. Dolan, C. D. Frith

Neuron (2008), 59: 561-567. [PDF]


Nonlinear dynamic causal models for fMRI

K. E. Stephan, L.M. Harrison, L. Kasper, M. Breakspear, J. Daunizeau, H. Den Ouden, K.J. Friston

Neuroimage (2008), 42: 649-662. [PDF]


Population dynamics: variance and the sigmoid activation function

A. C. Marreiros, J. Daunizeau, S. J. Kiebel, K. J. Friston

Neuroimage (2008),42: 147-157. [PDF]


DEM: a variational treatment of dynamic systems

K. J. Friston, N. J. Trujillo, J. Daunizeau

Neuroimage (2008), 41: 849-885. [PDF]


Diffusion-based priors for single subject functional magnetic resonance images

L. M. Harrison, W. Penny, J. Daunizeau, K.J. Friston

Neuroimage (2008), 41: 408-423. [PDF]


Recent advances in recording electrophysiological data simultaneously with magnetic resonance imaging

H. Laufs, J. Daunizeau, D. W. Carmichael, A. Kleinschmidt

Neuroimage (2008), 40: 515-528. [PDF]


Assessing the concordance between distributed EEG source localization and simultaneous EEG-fMRI studies of epileptic spikes

C. Grova, J. Daunizeau, E. Kobayashi, A.P. Bagshaw, J. M. Lina, F. Dubeau, J. Gotman

NeuroImage (2008),39: 755-774. [PDF]


Accurate anisotropic fast marching for diffusion-based geodesic tractography

S. Jbabdi, P. Bellec, R. Toro, J. Daunizeau, M. Pelegrini-Issac, H. Benali

Int. J. Biomed. Imag. (2007), doi:10.1155/2008/320195. [PDF]


Multiple sparse priors for the M/EEG inverse problem

K. Friston, L. M. Harrison, J. Daunizeau, S. Kiebel, C. Phillips, N. Trujillo-Barreto, R. Henson, J. Mattout

Neuroimage (2007), 39 : 1104-1120. [PDF]


Variational Bayesian inversion of the equivalent current dipole model in EEG/MEG

S.J Kiebel, J. Daunizeau, C. Philips, K. J. Friston

Neuroimage (2007), 39: 728:741. [PDF]


A mesostate-space model for EEG and MEG

J. Daunizeau, K. Friston

Neuroimage (2007), 38 : 67-81. [PDF]


A neural mass model of spectral responses in electrophysiology

R. J. Moran, S.J. Kiebel, K.E. Stefan, R.B. Reilly, J. Daunizeau, K. J. Friston

Neuroimage (2007), 37 : 706-720. [PDF]


Symmetrical event-related EEG/fMRI information fusion in a variational Bayesian framework

J. Daunizeau, C. Grova, G. Marrelec, J. Mattout, S. Jbabdi, M. Pélégrini-Issac, J.M. Lina, H. Benali

NeuroImage (2007), 3 : 69-87. [PDF] [erratum]


Bayesian spatio-temporal approach for EEG sources reconstruction: conciliating ECD and distributed models

J. Daunizeau, J. Mattout, D. Clonda, B. Goulard, H. Benali, J. M. Lina

IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. (2006), 53 : 503-516. [PDF]


Evaluation of EEG localization methods using realistic simulations of interictal spikes

C. Grova, J. Daunizeau, C. Bénar, H. Benali, J. Gotman

Neuroimage (2006), 29 : 734-753. [PDF]


Assessing the relevance of fMRI-based prior in the EEG inverse problem: a Bayesian model comparison approach

J. Daunizeau, C. Grova, J. Mattout, G. Marrelec, D. Clonda, B. Goulard, J. M. Lina, H. Benali

IEEE Trans. Sign. Process. (2005), 53 : 3461-3472. [PDF]


Conditional Correlation as a Measure of Mediated Interactivity in fMRI and MEG/EEG

G. Marrelec, J. Daunizeau, M. Pélégrini-Issac, J. Doyon, H. Benali

IEEE Trans. Sign. Process. (2005), 53 : 3503-3516. [PDF]