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Nassar M, McGuire J, Ritz H, Kable J. Dissociable explanations for uncertainty driven changes in representation across the brain (in press) Journal of Neuroscience, [preprint on biorxiv]

Ritz H, Nassar M, Frank M, Shenhav A. A Control Theoretic Model of Adaptive Learning in Dynamic Environments (2018) Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience [preprint on biorxiv].

Nassar M, Helmers J, Frank M. Chunking as a rational strategy for lossy data compression in visual working memory. (2018) Psychological Review [preprint on biorxiv].

van den Bos W, Bruckner R, Lorenz R, Nassar M, Mata R, & Eppinger B. (2017) Computational models for Lifespan Cognitive Neuroscience: the missing link. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

*Krishnamurthy K, *Nassar M, Sarode S, Gold J. Adaptive, arousal-related adjustments of perceptual biases optimize perception in a dynamic environment. (2017) Nature Human Behaviour (* = equal contribution). [full text (NHB); preprint]

Nassar M., Bruckner R., Eppinger B. What do we GANE with age: Implications of the GANE model for effective learning and decision-making across healthy aging. (2016) Behavioral and Brain Sciences [commentary on target article by Mather et al.]

Jepma M, Murphy P, Nassar M, Brown S, van den Maagdenberg A, Koelewijn S, de Vries B, Rangel-Gomez M, Meeter M, Nieuwenhuis S. (2016) Noradrenergic regulation of learning rate in a dynamic environment. PLOS Computational Biology 12(10): e1005171. [full text (PLOS)]

Nassar M, Bruckner R, Gold J, Li SC, Hauke H, Eppinger B. (2016) Age differences in learning emerge from an insufficient representation of uncertainty in older adults. Nature Communications 10(7):11609. [full text (NC)]

Nassar M, Frank M. (2016) Taming the beast: Extracting generalizable knowledge from computational models of cognition. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 11, 49-54. [full text (COBS); full text (Author copy)]

Liu D, Zhang Y, Gharavi R, Park H, Lee J, Siddiqui S, Tellejohan R, Nassar M, Cutler R, Jiang H, Becker K, Mattson M. (2015). The Mitochondrial Uncoupler DNP Triggers Brain Cell mTOR Signaling Network Reprogramming and CREB Pathway Upregulation. Journal of Neurochemistry. 134(4),677-92. [full text (PMC)]

*McGuire J, *Nassar M, Gold J, Kable J. (2014) Functionally dissociable influences on learning rate in a dynamic environment. Neuron 84, 870-881 (* = equal contribution). [full text (Neuron); full text (PMC); preview by Fischer and Ullsperger]

Wilson R, Nassar M, Gold J. (2013) A mixture of Delta-rules approximation to Bayesian inference in change-point problems. PLOS Computational Biology 9(7): e1003150. [full text (PLOS)]

Nassar M, Gold J. (2013) A healthy fear of the unknown: perspectives on the interpretation of parameter fits from computational models in neuroscience. PLOS Computational Biology 9(4): e1003015. [full text (PLOS)]

Nassar M, Rumsey K, Wilson R, Parikh K, Heasly B, Gold J. (2012) Rational regulation of learning dynamics by pupil-linked arousal systems. Nature Neuroscience 12:1040–1046. [full text (NN); full text (PMC); preview by Angela Yu]

Nassar M, Wilson R, Heasly B, Gold J. (2010) An approximately Bayesian delta-rule model explains the dynamics of belief updating in a changing environment. Journal of Neuroscience. 30(37): 12366-12378. [full text (JoN); full text (PMC)]

Wilson R, Nassar M, Gold J. (2010). Bayesian On-line Learning of the Hazard Rate in Change-Point Problems. Neural Computation. 22:2452–2476. [full text (NC); full text (SC)]

Tang S, Arumugam T, Cutler R, Jo D, Magnus T, Chan S, Mughal M, Telljohann R, Nassar M, Ouyang X, Calderan A, Ruzza P, Guiotto A, Mattson M. (2007). Neuroprotective actions of a histidine analogue in models of ischemic stroke. J neurochem. 101(3):729-36. [full text]

Johnson J, Summer W, Cutler R, Martin B, Hyun D, Dixit V, Pearson M, Nassar M, Tellejohan R, Maudsley S, Carson O, John S, Laub D, Mattson M. (2007). Alternate day calorie restriction improves clinical findings and reduces markers of oxidative stress and inflammation in overweight adults with moderate asthma. Free radic biol med. 42(5):665-74. [full text]

*Authors contributed equally and listed alphabetically

Preprints

*Jang A, *Nassar M, Dillon D, Frank M. Dissociable effects of feedback valence and learning rate on encoding and consolidation of episodic memory (submitted) [preprint on biorxiv]