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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Batten, S. R.*, Bang, D.*, Kopell, B. H.*, Davis, A. N., Heflin, M., Fu, Q., Perl, O., Ziafat, K., Hasshemi, A., Saez, I., Barbosa, L. S., Twomey, T., Lohrenz, T., White, J. P., Dayan, P., Charney, A. W., Figee, M., Mayberg, H. S., Kishida, K. T., Gu, X., Montague, P. R. (2024). Dopamine and serotonin in human substantia nigra track social context and value signals during economic exchange. Nature Human Behaviour. [Journal briefing; supporting data and code available on GitHub]
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., Lohrenz, T., King-Casas, B., Chiu, P., Vannucci, M., Kishida K. T., Witcher, M. R., & Montague, P. R. (2023). Noradrenaline tracks emotional modulation of attention in human amygdala. Current Biology, 33(22), 5003-5010.e6. [Supporting data and code available on GitHub]
Mahmoodi, A., Nili, H., Harbison, C., Hamilton, S., Trudel, N., Bang, D.*, & Rushworth, M. F. S.* (2023). Causal role of a neural system for separating and selecting multidimensional social cognitive information. Neuron, 111(7), 1152-1164.e6. [Supporting data and code available on figshare]
Bang, D., Moran, R., Daw, N. D., & Fleming, S. M. (2022). Neurocomputational mechanisms of confidence in self and others. Nature Communications, 13, 4238. [Supporting data and code available on GitHub]
Bang, D.*, Kishida, K. T.*, Lohrenz, T., White, J. P., Laxton, A. W., Tatter, S. B., Fleming, S. M., & Montague, P. R. (2020) Sub-second dopamine and serotonin signalling in human striatum during perceptual decision-making. Neuron, 108(5), 999–1010. [Supporting data and code available on GitHub]
Bang, D., Ershadmanesh, S., Nili, H., & Fleming, S. M. (2020). Private-public mappings in human prefrontal cortex. eLife, 9, e56477. [Supporting data and code available on GitHub]
Bang, D., & Fleming, S. M. (2018). Distinct encoding of decision confidence in human medial prefrontal cortex. PNAS, 115(23), 6082-6087. [Supporting data and code available on GitHub]
Bang, D., Aitchison, L., Moran, R., Castañón, S. H., Rafiee, B., Mahmoodi, A., Lau, J. Y. F., Latham, P. E. Bahrami, B., & Summerfield, C. (2017). Confidence matching in group decision-making. Nature Human Behaviour, 1, 117. [Supporting data available on GitHub]
Aitchison, L.*, Bang, D.*, Bahrami, B., & Latham, P. E. (2015). Doubly Bayesian analysis of confidence in perceptual decision-making. PLOS Computational Biology, 11(10), e1004519.
ALL PUBLICATIONS
2025
Hartle, A.*, Kishida, K T..*, Sands, L. P.*, Batten, S. R., Barbosa, L. S., Bang, D., Lohrenz, T., White, J. P., Sohrabi, A. K., Calafiore, R. L., DiFeliceantonio, A. G., Laxton, A. W., Tatter, S. B., Witcher, M. R., Montague, P. R.*, & Howe, M. W.* (2025). Caudate serotonin signaling during social exchange distinguishes essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease patients. Nature Communications, 16, 7958. [supporting data and code available on GitHub]
Batten, S. R.*, Hartle, A.*, Barbosa, L. S.*, Hadj-Amar, B.*, Bang, D.*, Melville, N., Twomey, T. White, J. P., Torres, A., Celaya, X., McClure, S. M., Brewer, G. A., Lohrenz, T., Kishida, K. T., Bina, R. W., Witcher, M. R., Vannucci, M., Casas, B., Chiu, P., Montague, P. R.*, & Howe, M. W.* (2025). Emotional words evoke region- and valence-specific patterns of concurrent neuromodulator release in human thalamus and cortex. Cell Reports, 44(1), 115162. [supporting data and code available on GitHub]
2024
Friedemann, M., Bang, D., & Yeung, N. (2024). Normative and informational confidence matching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Advance online publication. [supporting data and code available on OSF; task code available on GitHub]
Batten, S. R.*, Bang, D.*, Kopell, B. H.*, Davis, A. N., Heflin, M., Fu, Q., Perl, O., Ziafat, K., Hasshemi, A., Saez, I., Barbosa, L. S., Twomey, T., Lohrenz, T., White, J. P., Dayan, P., Charney, A. W., Figee, M., Mayberg, H. S., Kishida, K. T., Gu, X., & Montague, P. R. (2024). Dopamine and serotonin in human substantia nigra track social context and value signals during economic exchange. Nature Human Behaviour. [Journal briefing; supporting data and code available on GitHub]
2023
Hansen, L., Rocca, R., Simonsen, A., Olsen, L., Parola, A., Bliksted, V., Ladegaard, N., Bang, D., Tylén, K., Weed, E., Østergaard, S. D., & Fusaroli, R. (2023). Speech- and text-based classification of neuropsychiatric conditions in a multidiagnostic setting. Nature Mental Health, 1, 971-981. [Paywall: pre-print available on arXiv]
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., Lohrenz, T., King-Casas, B., Chiu, P., Vannucci, M., Kishida K. T., Witcher, M. R., & Montague, P. R. (2023). Noradrenaline tracks emotional modulation of attention in human amygdala. Current Biology, 33(22), 5003-5010.e6. [Supporting data and code available on GitHub]
Mahmoodi, A., Nili, H., Harbison, C., Hamilton, S., Trudel, N., Bang, D.*, & Rushworth, M. F. S.* (2023). Causal role of a neural system for separating and selecting multidimensional social cognitive information. Neuron, 111(7), 1152-1164.e6. [Supporting data and code available on figshare]
Friedemann, M., Bang, D., & Yeung, N. (2014). Cognitive neuroscience of metacognition. In G. J. Boyle (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience. SAGE Publications. (Book chapter)
2022
van der Plas, E., Zhang, S., Dong, K., Bang, D., LI, J., Wright, N., & Fleming, S. M. (2022). Identifying cultural differences in metacognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(12), 3268–3280. [Paywall: pre-print available on PsyArXiv; supporting data and code available on GitHub]
Bang, D., Moran, R., Daw, N. D., & Fleming, S. M. (2022). Neurocomputational mechanisms of confidence in self and others. Nature Communications, 13, 4238. [Supporting data and code available on GitHub]
Mahmoodi, A., Nili, H., Bang, D.*, Mehring, C.*, & Bahrami, B.* (2022). Distinct neurocomputational mechanisms support informational and socially normative conformity. PLOS Biology, 20(3), e3001565. [Supporting data and code available on GitHub]
Gao, T., Han, X., Bang, D., Han, S. (2022). Cultural differences in neurocognitive mechanisms underlying believing. NeuroImage, 250, 118954. [Supporting data and code available on GitHub]
2020
Bang, D.*, Kishida, K. T.*, Lohrenz, T., White, J. P., Laxton, A. W., Tatter, S. B., Fleming, S. M., & Montague, P. R. (2020) Sub-second dopamine and serotonin signalling in human striatum during perceptual decision-making. Neuron, 108(5), 999–1010. [Supporting data and code available on GitHub]
Bang, D., Ershadmanesh, S., Nili, H., & Fleming, S. M. (2020). Private-public mappings in human prefrontal cortex. eLife, 9, e56477. [Supporting data and code available on GitHub]
Heyes, C., Bang, D., Shea, N., Frith, C. D., & Fleming, S. M. (2020). Knowing ourselves together: the cultural origins of metacognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24(5), 349–362.
2019
Castañón, S. H., Moran, R., Ding, J. Egner, T., Bang, D.*, & Summerfield, C.* (2019). Human noise blindness drives suboptimal cognitive inference. Nature Communications, 10, 1719. [Supporting data and code available on GitHub]
2018
Haller, S. P. W.*, Bang, D.*, Bahrami, B., & Lau, J. Y. F. (2018). Group decision-making is optimal in adolescence. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 15565. [Supporting data and code available on GitHub]
Fleming, S. M., & Bang, D. (2018). Shouldering responsibility. Science, 361(6401), 449-450.
Bang, D., & Fleming, S. M. (2018). Distinct encoding of decision confidence in human medial prefrontal cortex. PNAS, 115(23), 6082-6087. [Supporting data and code available on GitHub]
Sella, F., Blakey, R., Bang, D., Bahrami, B., & Cohen Kadosh, R. (2018). Who gains more: experts or novices? The benefits of interaction under uncertainty. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 44(8), 1228-1239.
2017
Bang, D., & Frith, C. D. (2017). Making better decisions in groups. Royal Society Open Science, 4(8), 170193. [We collaborated with the Royal Society to produce a short-card format and an educational graphical animation which summarises key points]
Bang, D., Aitchison, L., Moran, R., Castañón, S. H., Rafiee, B., Mahmoodi, A., Lau, J. Y. F., Latham, P. E. Bahrami, B., & Summerfield, C. (2017). Confidence matching in group decision-making. Nature Human Behaviour, 1, 117. [Supporting data available on GitHub]
Fusaroli, R., Lambrechts, A., Bang, D., Bowler, D., & Gaigg, S. (2017). Is voice a marker for Autism spectrum disorder? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Autism Research, 10(3), 384-407. [Free version available on bioRxiv]
2015
Aitchison, L.*, Bang, D.*, Bahrami, B., & Latham, P. E. (2015). Doubly Bayesian analysis of confidence in perceptual decision-making. PLOS Computational Biology, 11(10), e1004519.
Mahmoodi, A., Bang, D., Olsen, K., Zhao, Y. A., Shi, Z., Broberg, K., Safavi, S., Han, S., Nili Ahmadabadi, M., Frith, C. D., Roepstorff, A., Rees, G., & Bahrami, B. (2015). Equality bias impairs collective decision-making across cultures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(12), 3835–3840.
2014
Shea, N., Boldt, A., Bang, D., Yeung, N., Heyes, C., & Frith, C. D. (2014). Supra-personal cognitive control and metacognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 18(4), 186–193.
Bang, D., Fusaroli, R., Tylén, K., Olsen, K., Latham, P. E., Lau, J. Y. F. F., Roepstorff, A., Rees, G., Frith, C. D., & Bahrami, B. (2014). Does interaction matter? Testing whether a confidence heuristic can replace interaction in collective decision-making. Consciousness and Cognition, 26(1), 13–23.
Bang, D., Mahmoodi, A., Olsen, K., Roepstorff, A., Rees, G., Frith, C. D., & Bahrami, B. (2014). What failure in collective decision-making tells us about metacognition. In S. M. Fleming & C. D. Frith (Eds.), The Cognitive Neuroscience of Metacognition. Springer. (Book chapter)
Ma, Y., Bang, D., Wang, C., Allen, M., Frith, C., Roepstorff, A., & Han, S. (2014). Sociocultural patterning of neural activity during self-reflection. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9(1), 73–80.
2013
Mahmoodi, A., Bang, D., Ahmadabadi, M. N., & Bahrami, B. (2013). Learning to make collective decisions: the impact of confidence escalation. PLOS ONE, 8(12), e81195.
2012
Bahrami, B., Olsen, K., Bang, D., Roepstorff, A., Rees, G., & Frith, C. (2012). What failure in collective decision-making tells us about metacognition. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 367(1594), 1350–1365.
Bahrami, B., Olsen, K., Bang, D., Roepstorff, A., Rees, G., & Frith, C. D. (2012). Together, slowly but surely: the role of social interaction and feedback on the build-up of benefit in collective decision-making. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 38(1), 3–8.
Preprints
Olsen, K., Roepstorff, A., & Bang, D. Knowing whom to learn from: individual differences in metacognition and weighting of social information. PsyArXiv. [Supporting data and code available on GitHub]
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