2022
Chan, SCY., Dasgupta, I., Kim J., Kumaran, D., Lampinen, AK., Hill, F. Transformers generalize differently from information stored in context vs in weights. NeurIPS Workshop
Dasgupta, I., Lampinen, AK., Chan, SCY., Creswell, A., Kumaran D., McClelland, JL., Hill, F. Language models show human-like content effects on reasoning. ArXiv (2207.07051)
2020
Benigno Uria, Borja Ibarz, Andrea Banino, Vinicius Zambaldi, Dharshan Kumaran, Demis Hassabis, Caswell Barry, Charles Blundell. Spatial Memory Pipeline: a model of egocentric to allocentric understanding in mammalian brains. BioArXiv
Andrea Banino, Adrià Puigdomènech Badia, Raphael Köster, Martin J Chadwick, Vinicius Zambaldi, Demis Hassabis, Caswell Barry, Matthew Botvinick, Dharshan Kumaran, Charles Blundell. Memo: a deep network for the flexible recombination of episodic memories (ICLR)
2019
Amir-Homayoun Javadi, Eva Zita Patai, Eugenia Marin-Garcia, Aaron Margois, Heng-Ru M Tan, Dharshan Kumaran, Marko Nardini, Will Penny, Emrah Duzel, Peter Dayan, Hugo J Spiers. Backtracking during navigation is correlated with enhanced anterior cingulate activity and suppression of alpha oscillations and the ‘default-mode’network. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286: 20191016
Amir-Homayoun Javadi, Eva Zita Patai, Eugenia Marin-Garcia, Aaron Margolis, Heng-Ru M Tan, Dharshan Kumaran, Marko Nardini, Will Penny, Emrah Duzel, Peter Dayan, Hugo J Spiers. Prefrontal dynamics associated with efficient detours and shortcuts: a combined functional magnetic resonance imaging and magnetoencenphalography study. J Cogn Neurosci 31: 1227-47.
2018
Silver, D., Hubert, T., Schrittwieser, J., Antonoglou, I., Lai, M., Guez, A., Lanctot, M., Sifre, L., Kumaran, D., Graepel, T. and Lillicrap, T., Simonyan K., Hassabis D. 2018. A general reinforcement learning algorithm that masters chess, shogi, and Go through self-play. Science, 362(6419), pp.1140-1144.
Koster, Raphael, Martin J. Chadwick, Yi Chen, David Berron, Andrea Banino, Emrah Düzel, Demis Hassabis, and Dharshan Kumaran. "Big-loop recurrence within the hippocampal system supports integration of information across episodes." Neuron 99, no. 6 (2018): 1342-1354.Editor's top pick in Science
Andrea Banino∗ , Caswell Barry∗ , Benigno Uria, Charles Blundell, Timothy Lillicrap, Piotr Mirowski, Alexander Pritzel, Martin J. Chadwick, Thomas Degris, Joseph Modayil , Greg Wayne, Hubert Soyer, Fabio Viola, Brian Zhang, Ross Goroshin, Neil Rabinowitz, Razvan Pascanu, Charlie Beattie, Stig Petersen, Amir Sadik, Stephen Gaffney, Helen King, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Demis Hassabis, Raia Hadsell , Dharshan Kumaran "Vector-based Navigation using Grid-like Representations in Artificial Agents" Nature (2018)
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Wang, Jane X., Zeb Kurth-Nelson, Dharshan Kumaran, Dhruva Tirumala, Hubert Soyer, Joel Z. Leibo, Demis Hassabis, and Matthew Botvinick. "Prefrontal cortex as a meta-reinforcement learning system." Nature neuroscience 21, no. 6 (2018): 860.
Patai, Eva Z., Amir-Homayoun Javadi, Aaron Margois, Heng-Ru Tan, Dharshan Kumaran, Marko Nardini, Will Penny, Emrah Duzel, Peter Dayan, and Hugo J. Spiers. "Neural signatures of detours, shortcuts and back-tracking during navigation." bioRxiv (2018): 362319.
Javadi, Amir-Homayoun, Eva Zita Patai, Aaron Margois, Heng-Ru Tan, Dharshan Kumaran, Marko Nardini, Will Penny, Emrah Duzel, Peter Dayan, and Hugo Spiers. "Spotting the path that leads nowhere: Modulation of human theta and alpha oscillations induced by trajectory changes during navigation." bioRxiv (2018): 301697.
Berron, D., Neumann, K., Maass, A., Schütze, H., Fliessbach, K., Kiven, V., Kumaran, D. Düzel, E. (2018). Age-related functional changes in domain-specific medial temporal lobe pathways. Neurobiology of Aging (In Press)
2017
Silver, D., Hubert, T., Schrittwieser, J., Antonoglou, I., Lai, M., Guez, A., Lanctot, M., Sifre, L., Kumaran, D., Graepel, T. and Lillicrap, T., 2017. Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm. arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.01815.
Hassabis, D., Kumaran, D., Summerfield, C., & Botvinick, M. (2017). Neuroscience-inspired artificial intelligence. Neuron, 95(2), 245-258.
Tarantola, T., Kumaran, D., Dayan, P., & De Martino, B. (2017). Prior preferences beneficially influence social and non-social learning. Nature Communications, 8(1), 817.
Kirkpatrick, J., Pascanu, R., Rabinowitz, N., Veness, J., Desjardins, G., Rusu, A., Milan, K., Quan, J., Ramalho, T., Grabska-Barwinska, A., Hassabis, D., Clopath, C., Kumaran, D., Hadsell, R 2017. Overcoming catastrophic forgetting in neural networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(13), pp.3521-3526.
Mirowski P, Pascanu R, Viola F, Soyer H, Ballard A, Banino A, Denil M, Goroshin R, Sifre L, Kavukcuoglu K, Kumaran D., Hadsell R. Learning to navigate in complex environments. International Conference on Learning Representations (2017). pdf
2016
Kumaran D., Banino, A.*, Blundell, C.*, Hassabis D., Dayan, P. Computations Underlying Social Hierarchy Learning: Distinct Mechanisms for Updating and Representing Self-Relevant Information. Neuron 76(3): 653-66 pdf
Wang, J.X., Kurth-Nelson, Z., Tirumala, D., Soyer, H., Leibo, J.Z., Munos, R., Blundell, C., Kumaran, D., Botvinick, M., 2016. Learning to reinforcement learn. arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.05763.
Kumaran D., Hassabis D., and McClelland J. L.. "What learning systems do intelligent agents need? Complementary Learning Systems Theory Updated." Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2016) 20: 512-534 pdf
Chadwick, M. J., Anjum, R. S., Kumaran, D., Schacter, D. L., Spiers, H. J., & Hassabis, D. (2016). Semantic representations in the temporal pole predict false memories. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201610686.pdf
Berron D., Schutze H., Maas A., Cardenas-Blanco A., Kuif H. J., Kumaran D.*, Duzel E*. Strong Evidence for Pattern Separation in Human Dentate Gyrus. The Journal of Neuroscience; 36 (29) 7659-7579. pdf
*=equal contribution
Loh, E., Kumaran, D., Koster, R., Berron, D., Dolan, R. and Duzel, E., 2015. Context-specific activation of hippocampus and SN/VTA by reward is related to enhanced long-term memory for embedded objects. Neurobiology of learning and memory (In Press) pdf
Banino A., Koster R., Hassabis D., Kumaran D. Retrieval-Based Model Accounts for Striking Profile of Episodic Memory and Generalization. Scientific Reports (in Press)pdf
2015
Garrido, M. I., Barnes, G. R., Kumaran, D., Maguire, E. A., & Dolan, R. J. (2015). Ventromedial prefrontal cortex drives hippocampal theta oscillations induced by mismatch computations. NeuroImage, 120, 362-370 pdf
Kumaran D.*., Warren D. E*., Tranel D. (2015). Damage to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex impairs learning from observed outcomes. Cerebral Cortex 25, 4504-18 pdf
*=equal contribution
Mnih V.*, Kavukcuoglu K.*, Silver D.*, Rusu A.A, Veness J, Bellemare M. G., Graves A., Riedmiller M., Fidjeland A., Ostrovski G., Petersen S., Beattie C., Sadik A., Antonoglou I., King H, Kumaran D., Daan Wierstra, Shane Legg, Demis Hassabis. Human-Level Control through Deep Reinforcement Learning. Nature; 518; 529-533. pdf
2014
Waskom M*., Kumaran D*., Gordon A., Rissman J., Wagner A. Frontoparietal representations of task context support the flexible control of goal-directed cognition. The Journal of Neuroscience; 34 (32) 10743-10755 pdf
*=equal contribution
2013
Kumaran D. and Melo H. Transitivity Performance, Relational Hierarchy Knowledge, and Awareness: Results of an Instructional Framing Manipulation. Hippocampus 23(12); 1259-68 pdf
Kumaran D. Schema-Driven Facilitation of New Hierarchy Learning in the Transitive Inference Paradigm. Learning and Memory 20(7); 388-94 pdf
Howard L., Kumaran D., Olafsdottir F. H., Spiers H. J. Dissociation between Dorsal and Ventral Posterior Parietal Cortex Responses to Incidental Changes in Natural Scenes. Plos One 8(7); e69788 pdf
2012
Kumaran D. Melo, H. and Duzel, E. The Emergence and Representation of Knowledge about Social and Non-Social Hierarchies. Neuron; 76(3): 653-66 pdf suppl
Bonnici H., Chadwick M., Kumaran D., Hassabis D., Weiskopf N., Maguire E.A. Multi-voxel pattern analysis in human hippocampal subfields. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience;6(2910)1-13 pdf
Kumaran D. and McClelland J. L. Generalization through the Recurrent Interaction of Episodic Memories: A Model of the Hippocampal System. Psychological Review 119(3);573-616. pdf
Kumaran D. What Representations and Computations Underpin the Hippocampal Contribution to Generalization and Inference? Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 6(157); 1-11 pdf
Bonnici H. M*., Kumaran D.*, Chadwick M., Weiskopf N., Hassabis D., Maguire E. A. Decoding Representations of Scenes in the Medial Temporal Lobes. Hippocampus 22(5); 1143-53 *=equal contribution pdf
2011
Howard L. R., Kumaran D., Olafsdottir H. F., Spiers H. J. Double Dissociation between Hippocampal and Parahippocampal Responses to Object-Background Context and Scene Novelty. Journal of Neuroscience 2011; 31(14): 5253-61 pdf
2009
Kumaran D., Summerfield J. J., Hassabis D., Maguire E. A. Tracking the Emergence of Conceptual Knowledge during Human Decision Making. Neuron 2009; 63(6): 889-901. pdfsuppl
Kumaran D. and Wagner A. D. It’s in My Eyes, but it Doesn’t Look that Way to Me. Neuron 2009; 63(5): 561-3. pdf
Maguire E. A., Kumaran D., Hassabis D., Kopelman M. D. Autobiographical Memory in Semantic Dementia: a Longitudinal MRI Study. Neuropsychologia pdf
Roiser J. P., De Martino B., Tan G. C. Y., Kumaran D., Seymour B., Wood N.W., Dolan R. J. A Genetically Mediated Bias in Decision-Making Driven by Failure of Amygdala Control. Journal of Neuroscience 2009; 29(18): 5985-91 pdf
De Martino B., Kumaran D., Holt B., Dolan R.J. The Neurobiology of Reference-Dependent Value Computation. Journal of Neuroscience 2009; 29(12): 3833-42 pdf
Kumaran D. and Maguire E.A. Novelty Signals: A Window into Hippocampal Information Processing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2009; 13(2): 47-54. pdf
2008
Kumaran D. and Duzel E. The Hippocampus and Dopaminergic Midbrain: Old Couple, New Insights. Neuron 2008; 60(2): 197-200. pdf
Kumaran D. Short-Term Memory and The Human Hippocampus. Journal of Neuroscience 2008; 28(15): 3837-8. pdf
2007
Hassabis D., Kumaran D., Maguire E.A. Using Imagination to Understand the Neural Basis of Episodic Memory. Journal of Neuroscience 2007; 27(52): 14365-74. pdf
Kumaran D., Maguire E.A. Match-Mismatch Processes Underlie Hippocampal Responses to Novelty. Journal of Neuroscience 2007; 27(32): 8517-24. pdf
Kumaran D., Hassabis D., Spiers H.J., Vann S.D., Vargha-Khadem F., Maguire E.A. Impaired spatial and non-spatial configural learning in patients with hippocampal pathology. Neuropsychologia 2007 45(12): 2699-711 pdf
Kumaran D., Maguire E.A. Which computational mechanisms operate in the hippocampus during novelty detection? Hippocampus 2007 17(9): 735-48. pdf
Hassabis D., Kumaran D., Vann S.D., Maguire E.A. Patients with hippocampal amnesia cannot imagine new experiences. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 104(5):1726-31. pdf
2006
Kumaran D., Maguire E.A. An unexpected sequence of events: mismatch detection in the human hippocampus. PLoS Biology. 2006 4(12): e424. pdf
De Martino B., Kumaran D., Seymour B., Dolan R.J. Frames, biases, and rational decision-making in the human brain. Science. 2006 313(5787):684-7. pdf
Kumaran D., Maguire E.A. (2006) The Dynamics of Hippocampal Activation during Encoding of Overlapping Sequences. Neuron 49(4) 617-29. pdf
2005
Kumaran D., Maguire E.A. (2005) The Human Hippocampus: Cognitive Maps or Relational Memory?. Journal of Neuroscience 25(31) 7254-9. pdf
Honey G.D., Honey R.A., Sharar S.R., Turner D.C., Pomarol-Clotet E., Kumaran D., Simons J.S., Hu X., Rugg M.D., Bullmore E.T., Fletcher P.C. (2005) Impairment of specific episodic memory processes by sub-psychotic doses of ketamine: the effects of levels of processing at encoding and of the subsequent retrieval task. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 181(3) 445-57.
Honey G.D., Honey R.A., O’Loughlin C., Sharar S.R., Kumaran D., Suckling J., Menon D.K., Sleator.C., Bullmore E.T., Fletcher P.C. (2005) Ketamine disrupts frontal and hippocampal contribution to encoding and retrieval of episodic memory: an fMRI study. Cerebral Cortex 15(6) 749-59.
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Honey R.A., Honey G.D., O’Loughlin C., Sharar S.R., Kumaran D., Bullmore E.T., Menon D.K., Donovan T., Lupson V.C., Bisbrown-Chippendale R., Fletcher P.C. (2004) Neuropsychopharmacology 29(6) 1203-14.
Honey R.A., Turner D.C., Honey G.D., Sharar S.R., Kumaran D., Pomarol-Clotet E., McKenna P., Sahakian B.J., Robbins T.W., Fletcher P.C. (2003) Neuropsychopharmacology 28(11) 2037-44.
Haniffa M., Kumaran D., Tamin S.S., Alexander G. (2002). Junior doctors' experience of percutaneous liver biopsy. Clinical Medicine 2(4) 379-80.
SELECTED CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS
Kumaran D., McClelland J. Generalization through Recurrence: An Interactive Model of the Hippocampus. Society for Neuroscience (2010) pdf
PHD THESIS (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, London - Eleanor Maguire (Supervisor))
PhD Thesis (pdf)