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Working papers (indicative titles; partial drafts available upon request)
Bernardic U~, Lebreton M~, Lideikyte-Huber G~, Peter H~ and Ugazio G~. The role of tax subsidies for incentivizing charitable giving in a real effort experiment
Couto J, van Maanen L** and Lebreton M**. Risky decisions under various levels of engagement: neurocomputational dissociation of preference decisions and expected-value maximization.
Preprints (submitted work & papers under revision):
Salem-Garcia N, Massoni S** and Lebreton M** (2025). Deciphering the effects of incentive motivation on probabilistic judgments.
Cerrotti F, Salvador A, Hamroun S, Lebreton M & Palminteri S (2025). Dissociating the functional role of the parahippocampal and the parietal cortex in human multi-step reinforcement learning
Hamroun S, Lebreton M* & Palminteri S* (2022). Dissociation between task structure learning and performance in human model-based reinforcement learning. psyArXiv
Published articles in peer-reviewed journals:
2025
Qian C, Parisi A, Bouleau C, Tsai V, Lebreton M & Dixon L (2025) To Mask or to Mirror: Human-AI Alignment in Collective Reasoning. EMNLP
Bouleau C~, Jacquemet N~ & Lebreton M~ (2025). Large-scale investgation of the reliability of confidence measures. Communications Psychology, in press
Nasioulas A, Potier E, Cerrotti F, Lebreton M and Palminteri S (2025). Feedback anticipation induces dispositional changes in risk preferences: the roles of curiosity and regret. Nature Communications, in press
Hoven M, Lebreton M, van Holst RJ (2025). Behavioral and computational signatures of reinforcement learning and confidence biases in gambling disorder. Journal of Behavioral Addictions
Vrizzi S, Najar A, Lemogne C, Palminteri S** and Lebreton M** (2025). Behavioral, computational and self-reported measures of reward and punishment sensitivity as predictors of mental health characteristics. Nature Mental Health
2024
Engelmann JB*, Lebreton M*, Salem-Garcia N*, Schwardman P*, & Van de Weele J* (2024) Anticipatory Anxiety and Wishful Thinking. American Economic Review 114(4), 926–960
Couto J, Lebreton M** & van Maanen L** (2024). Specificity and sensitivity of the fixed-point test for binary mixture distributions. Behavioral Research Methods 56, 2977–2991
Maltagliati S, Sarrazin P, Fessler L, Lebreton M* & Cheval B* (2024). Why people should run after positive affective experiences, not health benefits. Journal of Sports and Health Sciences Volume 13(4) 445-450
2023
Ting CC, Salem-Garcia N, Palminteri S, JB Engelmann** & Lebreton M** (2023). Neural and computational underpinnings of biased confidence in human reinforcement learning. Nature Communications 14, 6896
Salem-Garcia N, Palminteri S and Lebreton M (2023). Linking confidence biases to reinforcement-learning processes. Psychological Review 130(4), 1017–1043
Rojek-Giffin M*, Lebreton M*, Daunizeau J, Farina A, Gross J, and de Dreu CKW (2023). Learning rules of engagement for social exchange within and between groups. Proc Natl Acad Sci 120(19) e2218443120
Garcia B, Lebreton M, Bourgeois-Gironde S & Palminteri S (2023). The impassable gap between experiential and symbolic values. Nature Human Behavior 7, 611–626
Atkinson-Clement C, Lebreton M, Patsalides L, de Liege A, Klein Y, Hartmann A, Palminteri S and Worbe Y (2023) Decision-making under risk and ambiguity in Tourette syndrome. Psychological Medecine 53 (11), 5256-5266
2022
Palminteri S and Lebreton M (2022) The computational roots of positivity and confirmation biases in reinforcement learning. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 26, 607–621
Hoven M, De Boer N, Goudriaan A, Denys D, van Holst R*, Luigjes J* & Lebreton M* (2022). How motivational signals disrupt metacognitive signals in the human VMPFC. Communication Biology, 5:244
Rouault M*, Lebreton M* and Pessiglione M (2022). A shared brain system for confidence judgements across cognitive domains. Cerebral Cortex 33(4), 1426–1439
Hoven M, de Boer N, Goudriaan A, Denys D, Lebreton M, van Holst R* & Luigjes J* (2022) Metacognition and the effect of incentive motivation in two compulsive disorders: gambling disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience 76(9), 437-449
2021
Palminteri S and Lebreton M (2021) Context-dependent outcome encoding in human reinforcement learning. Current Opinion in Behavioral Science, 41, 144–151
Ting CC, Palminteri S, Lebreton M* & Engelmann JB* (2021) The elusive effects of anxiety on reinforcement learning. JEP: LM&C, 48(5), 619–642
2020
Ting CC, Palminteri S, Engelmann JB* & Lebreton M* (2020) Robust valence-induced biases on motor response and confidence in human reinforcement learning. Cogn. Aff. Behav. Neuro, 20(6), 1184-1199 [code and data]
Couto J, van Maanen L**, Lebreton M**. Investigating the origin and consequences of endogenous default options in repeated economic choices (2020) PLoS ONE, 15(8):e023238 [code and data]
Rojek-Giffin M, Lebreton M, Scholte SH, van Winden F, Ridderinkhof KR, De Dreu CKW (2020) Neurocognitive Underpinnings of Aggressive Predation in Economic Contests. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 32 (7), 1276-1288 [code and data] [fMRIdata]
Rhanev D, (…), Lebreton M, (…) et al. (2020) A database of confidence studies. Nature Human Behavior 4 (3), 317-325 [code and data]
2019
Hoven H, Lebreton M, Engelmann JB, Denys D, Luigjes J & van Holst R (2019) Abnormalities of confidence in psychiatry: an overview and future perspectives. Translational Psychiatry 9(1), 1–18
Lebreton M, Bavard S, Daunizeau J & Palminteri S. (2019) Assessing inter-individual differences with task-related functional neuroimaging. Nature Human Behavior 3(9), 897–905
Fontanesi L, Lebreton M* and Palminteri S* (2019). Decomposing the effects of context valence and feedback information on speed and accuracy during reinforcement learning: A meta-analytical approach using diffusion decision modeling. Cogn. Aff. Behav. Neuro. 19(3), 490-502. [code and data]
Lebreton M, Bacily K, Palminteri S* & JB Engelmann* (2019). Contextual influence on confidence judgments in human reinforcement learning. PLoS Computational Biology, 15(4): e1006973 [code and data] [press release]
Karlsson Linnér R, Biroli P, Kong E, Meddens FW, Wedow R, Fontana MA, Lebreton M, (…) et al. (2019) . GWAS of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over one million individuals identify hundreds of loci and reveal shared genetic influences. Nature Genetics, 51:245–257 [data]
2018
Correa CMC, Noorman S, Jiang J, Palminteri S, Cohen MX, Lebreton M*, van Gaal S* (2018). How the level of reward awareness changes the computational and electrophysiological signatures of reinforcement learning. Journal of Neuroscience, 38(48):10338 –10348 [code and data]
Bavard S*, Lebreton M*, Khamassi M, Coricelli G, & Palminteri S. (2018). Reference-point centering and range-adaptation enhance human reinforcement learning at the cost of irrational preferences. Nature Communications. 9 (4503) [code and data]
Lebreton M, Langdon S, Slieker MJ, Nooitgedacht JS, Goudriaan AE, Denys D, Luigjes J*, van Holst RJ* (2018). Two sides of the same coin: monetary incentives concurrently improve and bias confidence judgments. Science Advances. 4, eaaq0668 [code and data] [press release]
2017
Lefebvre G, Lebreton M, Meyniel F, Bourgeois-Gironde S and Palminteri S. (2017) Behavioural and neural characterization of optimistic reinforcement learning. Nature Human Behaviour. 1, 0067 [code and data] [fMRI data]
2016
van Maanen L, Couto J, Lebreton M (2016). Three Boundary Conditions for Computing the Fixed-Point Property in Binary Mixture Data. PLoS one, 11(11): e0167377 [software]
Forgeot d’Arc B, Vinckier F, Lebreton M, Soulières I, Mottron L and Pessiglione M (2016) Mimetic Desire in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Molecular Autism 7(1): 45
Okbay A*, Beauchamp JP*, Fontana MA*, Lee JJ*, Pers TH*, Rietveld CA*, Turley P*,... Lebreton M,... Visscher PM**, Esko T**, Koellinger PD**, Cesarini D**, Benjamin DJ** (2016) Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment. Nature 533(7604): 539-542 [data]
2015
Lebreton M, Abitbol R, Daunizeau J, and Pessiglione M. (2015). Automatic integration of confidence in the brain valuation signal. Nature Neuroscience 18, 1159–1167
News and Views by: Barron HC, Garvert MM, and Behrens TEJ. (2015). Reassessing VMPFC: full of confidence? Nature Neuroscience 18, 1064–1066
Abitbol R, Lebreton M, Hollard G, Richmond B, Bouret S, and Pessiglione M. (2015). Neural mechanisms underlying contextual dependency of subjective values: converging evidence from monkeys and humans. Journal of Neuroscience 35(5): 2308-2320
2013
Lebreton M, Bertoux M, Boutet C, Lehericy S, Dubois B, Fossati P & Pessiglione M (2013). A Critical Role for the Hippocampus in the Valuation of Imagined Outcomes. PLoS Biology, 11(10):e1001684
2012
Lebreton M, Kawa S, Forgeot d’Arc B, Daunizeau J and Pessiglione M (2012). Your goal is mine: unraveling mimetic desires in the human brain. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(21):7146-57
Schmidt L*, Lebreton M*, Cléry-Melin M*, Daunizeau J and Pessiglione M (2012). Neural mechanisms underlying motivation of mental versus physical effort. PLoS Biology,10(2):e1001266
News and Views by: Liljeholm M, and O’Doherty JP (2012). Anything You Can Do, You Can Do Better: Neural Substrates of Incentive-Based Performance Enhancement. PLoS Biology 10, e1001272
2011
Palminteri S, Lebreton M, Worbe Y, Hartmann A, Lehéricy S, Vidailhet M, Grabli D, Pessiglione M (2011). Dopamine-dependent reinforcement of motor skill learning: evidence from Gilles de la Tourette syndrome. Brain, 134(Pt 8):2287-301
2009
Lebreton M*, Jorge S*, Michel V, Thirion B, Pessiglione M (2009). An automatic valuation system in the human brain: evidence from functional neuroimaging. Neuron, 12;64(3):431-9
Palminteri S, Lebreton M, Worbe Y, Grabli D, Hartmann A, Pessiglione M (2009). Pharmacological modulation of subliminal learning in Parkinson's and Tourette's syndromes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 10;106(45):19179-84
Lebreton M, Barnes A, Miettunen J, (…), Bullmore ET, Murray GK. (2009). The brain structural disposition to social interaction. European Journal of Neurosciences, 29(11):2247-52
Invited book chapters
2021
Bernardic U, Lebreton M, Lideikyte-Huber G, Peter H and Ugazio G (2021). Behavioural Philanthropy: Harnessing behavioural sciences to design more effective tax incentives for philanthropy. In Routledge Handbook of Taxation and Philanthropy, H. Peter and G Lideikyte-Huber, eds. (Routledge: London), pp. 354-376
Lebreton M. and Lopez-Persem A (2021). Anatomy and disorders of decision-making. In Encyclopedia of Behavioural Neuroscience 2e, S. Della Sala, eds. (Elsevier), pp. 289–297 [link]
2019
Lebreton M. and Preuschoff K (2019). Neuroeconomics: Data Analysis. In Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Experimental Economics, A. Schram and A. Ule, eds. (Edgar Elgar), pp. 194-213
2015
Pessiglione M and Lebreton M. (2015). From the reward circuit to the valuation system: how the brain motivates the behavior. In Handbook of Biobehavioral Approaches to Self-Regulation, G.H.E. Gendolla, M. Tops, and S.L. Koole, eds. (Springer New York), pp. 157–173