See also my google scholar profile. Students underlined, shared contributions:* or +.

Preprints

Peer reviewed

2025

 Spiering L, Trier HA, O’Reilly J, Kolling N, Wittmann MK, Rushworth MFS*, Scholl J* (in revision) Controllability and cause in human collaboration. Preprint 

   Trier HA, O’Reilly J, Spiering L, Ma SM, Kolling N, Rushworth MFS*, Scholl J* (2025) Emotions and individual differences shape foraging under threat.   Nature Mental Health 

Trier HA, Khalighinejad N, Priestley L, Hamilton S, Harbison C, Laubach M, Scholl J*, Rushworth MFS* (2025) An ancient subcortical circuit regulates the switching and re-orienting of behaviour to threat in humans. PNAS

 Scholl J, Panchal P, Nelissen N, Atkinson L, Kolling N, Saunders K, Geddes J, Rushworth MFS, Nobre AC, Harrison P, Harmer CJ (2025) Bipolar symptoms and lithium treatment affect neural signatures of adaptation of risk-taking to past outcomes during reward-guided decision-making. Molecular Psychiatry 

Zich C, Nowak M, Hinson EL, Lasbareilles C, Mancini V, Pogosyan A, Puicar O, Grigoras IF, Cambalova P, Scholl J, Josephs L, Quinn AJ, Woolrich MW, Stagg CJ (2025). Human motor cortical gamma activity relates to GABAergic intracortical inhibition and motor learning. Imaging Neuroscience. 

Barakat N, Brunelin J, Abrial E, Neige C, Chalancon B, Scholl J, Fourier A, Brossaud J, Hermand M, Besch V, Simon L, Magnin C, Leaune E, Poulet E (2025). Suicide reattempts in adolescents and young adults after a first suicide attempt. Results from the SURAYA prospective cohort study. L'Encéphale.

2024

Palmer T, Kadri K, Fakra E, Scholl J*, Fouragnan E* (2024) Differential Relationship between meditation methods and psychotic-like and mystical experiences. PLoS One

2023

Van der Velden AM*, Scholl J*, Elmholdth E-M, Fjorback LO, Harmer, CJ, Lazar SW, O’Toole MS, Smallwood J, Roepstorff A+, Kuyken W+ (2023) Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy changes the neural expression of rumination: a randomized controlled trial Biological Psychiatry

2022

Scholl J, Trier HA, Rushworth MFS*, Kolling N* (2022) Prospection, inflexibility and pre-emption in sequential decision making in health and disease  PLoS Biology

2021 

Petitet P, Scholl J, Attaallah B, Drew D, Manohar S, Husain M. (2021) The relationship between apathy and impulsivity in large population samples. Scientific reports

2020

Trudel N, Scholl J, Klein-Flügge MC, Fouragnan E, Tankelevitch L, Wittmann MK*, Rushworth MFS* (2020). Polarity of uncertainty representation during exploration and exploitation in ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Nature Human Behaviour 

2018

Kolling N*, Scholl J*, Chekroud A, Trier HA, Rushworth MFS (2018) Prospection, perseverance and insight in sequential behaviour. Neuron 

 Günthner J, Scholl J, Kiefer F, Reinecke A (2018). Single dose hydrocortisone administration does not enhance motor sequence learning or reward learning humans. Journal of Psychopharmacology

2017

Meder D, Kolling N, Verhagen L, Wittmann MK, Scholl J, Madsen KH, Hulme OJ, Behrens TEJ, Rushworth MFS (2017) Simultaneous representation of a spectrum of dynamically changing value estimates during decision making. Nature Communications 

Scholl J*, Kolling N*, Nelissen N, Stagg C, Harmer CJ+, Rushworth MFS+ (2017) Excitation and inhibition in anterior cingulate predict use of past experiences. eLife 

Scholl J, Kolling N, Nelissen N, Browning M, Rushworth MFS, Harmer CJ (2017) Beyond negative valence: 2-week administration of a serotonergic antidepressant enhances both reward and effort learning. PLoS Biology

2016

Günthner J*, Scholl J*, Favaron E, Harmer CJ, Johansen-Berg H, Reinecke A (2016) The NMDA receptor partial agonist d-cycloserine does not enhance motor learning. Journal of Psychopharmacology

Wittman MK, Kolling N, Faber NS, Scholl J, Nelissen N, Rushworth MFS (2016) Self-other mergence in the frontal cortex during cooperation and competition. Neuron 

2015

Scholl J*, Kolling N*, Nelissen N, Wittmann MK, Harmer CJ, Rushworth MFS (2015) The good, the bad, and the irrelevant: Neural mechanisms of learning real and hypothetical rewards and effort. Journal of Neuroscience 

2014

 Scholl J, Günthner, Kolling N, Favaron E, Rushworth MFS, Harmer CJ, Reinecke A (2014) A role beyond learning for NMDA receptors in reward-based decision-making – a pharmacological study using d-cycloserine. Neuropsychopharamcology 

2012 

Wyart V, de Gardelle V, Scholl J, Summerfield C (2012) Rhythmic fluctuations in evidence accumulation during decision making in the human brain. Neuron 

Reviews/ optinion articles

   Kolling N, Scholl J (2025) On the role of behavioural modes during temporally extended decision making and their neural substrates. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 

Hunt LT, Daw ND, Kaanders P, MacIver MA, Mugan U, Procyk E, Redish AD, Russo E, Scholl J, Stachenfeld K, Wilson CR, Kolling N (2021) Formalizing planning and information search in naturalistic decision-making. Nature neuroscience. 2021 

Scholl J, Klein-Flügge MC (2018) Understanding psychiatric disease by capturing ecologically relevant features of learning and decision-making. Behavioural Brain Research 

Scholl J, Rushworth MFS (2017) Obsessing about uncertainty? Neuron 

Media and public engagement

Vinatier hospital (Lyon, France) open day – presentation of poster and 3 minute quick-fire talk to introduce research to hospital staff

Podcast with Tamar Gur (2023) for Biological Psychiatry live!

Pariente, N., & PLOS Biology Staff Editors. (2022). Premiering pre-registration at PLOS Biology.

Lindsay Morton (2022) In conversation with PLOS Biology experimental psychology authors Jacqueline Scholl and Nils Kolling 

Fischer, A. G. (2018). Planning your Way: How humans strategically evaluate prospective decisions. Neuron preview