Social networks/group decision making
Liu, J., Au, C., Philippe, R., Li, S., Derrington, E., Corgnet, B., & Dreher, J.C. Oxytocin Modulates the Neurocomputational Mechanisms Engaged in Learning Social Hierarchy. https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4514360
Guigon, V., Villeval, M.C. & Dreher, J.C. (2024). Metacognition biases information seeking in assessing ambiguous news. Communications Psychology, 2, 122.
Khalvati, K., Park, S.A., Philippe, R., Sestito, M., Dreher*, J.C., & Rao*, P.N. (2019). Modeling other minds: Bayesian inference explains human choices in group decision-making. Science Advances, Vol. 5, no. 11, eaax8783. *: co-last author
Park, S.A., Sestito, M., Boorman, E.D., & Dreher, J.C. (2019). Neural computations underlying strategic social decision-making in groups. Nature Communications, 10:5287.
Khalvati, K., Mirbagheri, S., Park, S.A., Dreher, J.C., & Rao, R.P. (2019). A Bayesian Theory of Conformity in Collective Decision Making. Advances in Neural Information Systems 32 (NIPS 2019).
Bortolini, T., Bado, P., Hoefle, S., Engel, A., Zahn, R., de Oliveira Souza, R., Dreher*, J.C., & Moll*, J. (2017). Neural bases of ingroup altruistic motivation in soccer fans. Scientific reports, 7(1), 16122. (*: co-last author)
Park, S. A., Goïame, S., O'Connor, D. A., & Dreher, J. C. (2017). Integration of individual and social information for decision-making in groups of different sizes. PLOS biology, 15(6), e2001958.
Social hierarchy/social decisions
Qu, C., Huang, Y., Philippe, R., Cai, S., Derrington, E., Moisan, F., Shi, M., & Dreher, J.C. (2024) Transcranial direct current stimulation suggests a causal role of the medial prefrontal cortex in learning social hierarchy. Communications Biology. 7(1), 304.
Galusca, C. I., Mermillod, M., Dreher, J. C., van der Henst, J. B., & Pascalis, O. (2023). Toddlers' sensitivity to dominance traits from faces. Scientific reports, 13(1), 22292.
Miao, C., Li, X., Derrington, E., Moisan, F., Li, Y., & Dreher, J. C. (2022). ERPs responses to dominance features from human faces. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.06.487309
Foncelle, A., Barat, E., Dreher, J.C., Van der Henst, J.B. (2022). Rank reversal aversion and perceived fairness in hierarchies. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 8, 520-537.
Feng, C., Zhu, Z., Cui, Z., Ushakov, V., Dreher, J.C., Luo, W., ... & Krueger, F. (2020) Prediction of trust propensity from intrinsic brain morphology and functional connectome, Human Brain Mapping, 42(1), 175-191.
Barat, E., Wirth, S., & Duhamel, J. R. (2018). Face cells in orbitofrontal cortex represent social categories. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201806165.
Costa, M., Gomez, A., Barat, E., Lio, G., Duhamel, J. R., & Sirigu, A. (2018). Implicit preference for human trustworthy faces in macaque monkeys. Nature communications, 9(1), 4529.
Qu, C., & Dreher, J. C. (2018). Sociobiology: Changing the Dominance Hierarchy. Current Biology, 28(4), R167-R169.
Qu, C., Ligneul, R., Van der Henst, J. B., & Dreher, J. C. (2017). An integrative interdisciplinary perspective on social dominance hierarchies. Trends in cognitive sciences. 21(11):893-908.
Ligneul, R., Girard, R., & Dreher, J. C. (2017). Social brains and divides: the interplay between social dominance orientation and the neural sensitivity to hierarchical ranks. Scientific Reports, 7, 45920.
Ligneul, R., Obeso, I., Ruff, C. C., & Dreher, J. C. (2016). Dynamical representation of dominance relationships in the human rostromedial prefrontal cortex. Current Biology, 26(23), 3107-3115.
Computational models of theory of Mind
Nong, T., Li, Y., Qu, C. Hyung Woo, J., Wang, Y., Miao, C., Liu, X., Liu, Q., van der Henst, J.B., Derrington, E., Soltani, A., & Dreher, J.C. Computational mechanisms underlying the emergence of theory of mind in children.
Khalvati, K., Park, S.A., Philippe, R., Sestito, M., Dreher*, J.C., & Rao*, P.N. (2019). Modeling other minds: Bayesian inference explains human choices in group decision-making. Science Advances, Vol. 5, no. 11, eaax8783. *: co-last author
Khalvati, K., Mirbagheri, S., Park, S.A., Dreher, J.C., & Rao, R.P. (2019). A Bayesian Theory of Conformity in Collective Decision Making. Advances in Neural Information Systems 32 (NIPS 2019).
Park, S.A., Sestito, M., Boorman, E.D., & Dreher, J.C. (2019). Neural computations underlying strategic social decision-making in groups. Nature Communications, 10:5287.
Philippe, R., Janet, R., Khalvati, K., Rao, R.P.N., Lee, D., Dreher, J.C. (2024). Neurocomputational mechanisms engaged in detecting cooperative and competitive intentions of others. Nature Communications, 15, 3189.
Khalvati, K., Park, S. A., Dreher, J. C., & Rao, R. P. (2016). A probabilistic model of social decision making based on reward maximization. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (pp. 2901-2909).
Moral decisions and moral learning
Benistant, J., Guigon, V., Nicolas, A., Derrington, E., & Dreher, J.C. Dynamic valuation bias explains social influence on cheating behavior. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.21.594859
Qiu, S., Tang, Y., Yu, H., Xie, H., Dreher, J.C., Hu, Y., & Zhou, X. (2025) Toward a Computational Understanding of Bribe-taking Behavior. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 10.1111/nyas.15294.
Lockwood, P., Van Den Bos, W., & Dreher, J.C. (2025). Moral learning and decision-making across the lifespan. Annual Reviews of Psychology, 76, 475-500.
Liu, J., Derrington, E., Bénistant, J., Tang, Z., Der Henst, V., Qu, C., & Dreher, J. C. (2023). Cross-cultural study of kinship premium and Social Discounting of Generosity. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 394.
Tang, Z., Qu, C., Hu, Y., Bénistant, J., Moisan, F., Derrington, E. & Dreher, J.C. (2023). Strengths of social ties modulate brain computations for third‑party punishment. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 10510.
Li, Y., Liu, Z., Wang, Y., Derrington, E., Moisan, F., & Dreher, J. C. (2023). Spillover effects of competition outcome on future risky cooperation. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 5535.
Hu, Y., Philippe, R., Guigon, V., Zhao, S., Derrington, E., Corgnet, B., Bonaiuto, J., & Dreher, J. C. (2022). Perturbation of Right Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Makes Power Holders Less Resistant to Tempting Bribes. Psychological Science.
Qu, C., Bénistant, J., & Dreher, J.C. (2022). Neurocomputational mechanisms engaged in moral choices and moral learning, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 132, 50-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.11.023
Hu, Y., Hu, C., Derrington, B., Corgnet, B., Qu, C., & Dreher, J.C. (2021). Neural basis of corruption in power-holders, eLife, 10:e63922. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.63922
Qu, C., Hu, Y., Tang, X., Derrington, E., & Dreher, J.C. (2020). Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying immoral decisions benefiting self or others. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 15(2), 135-149. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaa029
Qu, C., Météreau, E., Butera, L., Villeval, M. C., & Dreher, J. C. (2019). Neurocomputational mechanisms at play when weighing concerns for extrinsic rewards, moral values, and social image. PLOS Biology, 17(6), e3000283.
Obeso, I., Moisa, M., Ruff, C.C., Dreher, J.C. (2018) A causal role for right temporo-parietal junction in signaling moral conflict. eLife 7:e40671.
Hu, Y., He, L., Zhang, L., Wölk, T., Dreher, J. C., & Weber, B. (2018). Spreading inequality: Neural computations underlying paying-it-forward reciprocity. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience.
Reward and decision making
Carpio, A., Dreher, J. C., Ferrera, D., Galán, D., Mercado, F., & Obeso, I. (2024). Causal computations of supplementary motor area on spatial impulsivity. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 17040.
O'Connor, D., Janet, R., Guigon, V., Belle, A., Vincent, B.T., Bromberg, U., Peters, J., Corgnet, B, & Dreher, J.C. (2021). The proximity effect: rewards that are near increase impulsive action, iScience 24, 102292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102292
Janet, R., Fournel, A., Fouillen, M., Derrington, E., Corgnet, B., Bensafi, M., & Dreher, J. C. (2021) Cognitive and hormonal regulation of appetite for food presented in the olfactory and visual modalities. Neuroimage. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.117811
Li, Y., Wang, Z., Boileau, I., Dreher, J. C., Gelskov, S., Genauck, A., ... & Sescousse, G. (2019). Altered orbitofrontal sulcogyral patterns in gambling disorder: a multicenter study. Translational Psychiatry, 9:186.
Bottemanne, L. C., & Dreher, J. C. (2019). Vicarious rewards modulate the drift rate of evidence accumulation from the drift diffusion model. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 13, 142.
Domenech, P., Redouté, J., Koechlin, E., & Dreher, J. C. (2018). The neuro-computational architecture of value-based selection in the human brain. Cerebral Cortex, 28(2), 585-601.
Challet-Bouju, G., Bruneau, M., IGNACE-consortium: Dreher JC et al., Victorri-Vigneau, C., Grall-Bronnec, M., Hardouin, J. B., Tessier, P., ... & Fatséas, M. (2017). Cognitive Remediation Interventions for Gambling Disorder: A Systematic Review. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1961.
Li, Y., Vanni-Mercier, G., Isnard, J., Mauguière, F., & Dreher, J. C. (2016). The neural dynamics of reward value and risk coding in the human orbitofrontal cortex. Brain, 139(4), 1295-1309.
Li, Y., Sescousse, G., Amiez, C., & Dreher, J. C. (2015). Local morphology predicts functional organization of experienced value signals in the human orbitofrontal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 35(4), 1648-1658.
Metereau, E., & Dreher, J. C. (2015). The medial orbitofrontal cortex encodes a general unsigned value signal during anticipation of both appetitive and aversive events. Cortex, 63, 42-54.
Burke, C. J., Dreher, J. C., Seymour, B., & Tobler, P. N. (2014). State-dependent value representation: evidence from the striatum. Frontiers in neuroscience, 8, 193.
Sescousse, G., Li, Y., & Dreher, J. C. (2014). A common currency for the computation of motivational values in the human striatum. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 10(4), 467-473.
Rabl, U., Meyer, B. M., Diers, K., Bartova, L., Berger, A., Mandorfer, D., ... & Pail, G. (2014). Additive gene–environment effects on hippocampal structure in healthy humans. Journal of Neuroscience, 34(30), 9917-9926.
Sescousse, G., Barbalat, G., Domenech, P., & Dreher, J. C. (2013). Imbalance in the sensitivity to different types of rewards in pathological gambling. Brain, 136(8), 2527-2538.
Ligneul, R., Sescousse, G., Barbalat, G., Domenech, P., & Dreher, J. C. (2013). Shifted risk preferences in pathological gambling. Psychological medicine, 43(5), 1059-1068.
Sescousse, G., Caldú, X., Segura, B., & Dreher, J. C. (2013). Processing of primary and secondary rewards: a quantitative meta-analysis and review of human functional neuroimaging studies. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 37(4), 681-696.
Dreher, J. C. (2013). Neural coding of computational factors affecting decision making. Progress in Brain Research (202), 289-320.
Thomas, J., Vanni-Mercier, G., & Dreher, J. C. (2013). Neural dynamics of reward probability coding: a Magnetoencephalographic study in humans. Frontiers in neuroscience, 7, 214.
Metereau, E., & Dreher, J. C. (2013). Cerebral correlates of salient prediction error for different rewards and punishments. Cerebral Cortex, 23(2), 477-487.
Capa, R. L., Bouquet, C. A., Dreher, J. C., & Dufour, A. (2013). Long-lasting effects of performance-contingent unconscious and conscious reward incentives during cued task-switching. Cortex, 49(7), 1943-1954.
Sescousse, G., Redouté, J., & Dreher, J. C. (2010). The architecture of reward value coding in the human orbitofrontal cortex. Journal of neuroscience, 30(39), 13095-13104.
Domenech, P., & Dreher, J. C. (2010). Decision threshold modulation in the human brain. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(43), 14305-14317.
Prévost, C., Pessiglione, M., Météreau, E., Cléry-Melin, M. L., & Dreher, J. C. (2010). Separate valuation subsystems for delay and effort decision costs. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(42), 14080-14090.
Vanni-Mercier, G., Mauguiere, F., Isnard, J., & Dreher, J. C. (2009). The hippocampus codes the uncertainty of cue–outcome associations: an intracranial electrophysiological study in humans. Journal of Neuroscience, 29(16), 5287-5294.
Lachaux, J. P., Jung, J., Mainy, N., Dreher, J. C., Bertrand, O., Baciu, M., ... & Kahane, P. (2008). Silence is golden: transient neural deactivation in the prefrontal cortex during attentive reading. Cerebral Cortex, 18(2), 443-450.
Dreher, J. C., Koechlin, E., Tierney, M., & Grafman, J. (2008). Damage to the fronto-polar cortex is associated with impaired multitasking. PLOS One, 3(9), e3227.
Dreher, J. C. (2007). Sensitivity of the brain to loss aversion during risky gambles. Trends in cognitive sciences, 11(7), 270-272.
Dreher, J. C., Kohn, P., & Berman, K. F. (2006). Neural coding of distinct statistical properties of reward information in humans. Cerebral Cortex, 16(4), 561-573.
Dreher, J. C., & Grafman, J. (2003). Dissociating the roles of the rostral anterior cingulate and the lateral prefrontal cortices in performing two tasks simultaneously or successively. Cerebral cortex, 13(4), 329-339.
Dreher, J. C., & Berman, K. F. (2002). Fractionating the neural substrate of cognitive control processes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99(22), 14595-14600.
Dreher, J. C., & Grafman, J. (2002). The roles of the cerebellum and basal ganglia in timing and error prediction. European Journal of Neuroscience, 16(8), 1609-1619.
Dreher, J. C., Koechlin, E., Ali, S. O., & Grafman, J. (2002). The roles of timing and task order during task switching. Neuroimage, 17(1), 95-109.
Hormones, reward and decision making
Janet, R., Derrington, E., & Dreher, J. C. (2024). Relationships between Serotonin Transporter Availability and the Global Efficiency of the Executive Control Brain Network. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 25(11), 5713.
Janet, R., Costes, N., Mérida, I., Derrington, E., Dreher, J.C. (2023). Relationships between serotonin availability and frontolimbic response to fearful and threatening faces. Scientific reports, 13(1), 1558.
Janet, R., Ligneul, R., Losecaat-Vermeer, A., Philippe, R., Bellucci, G., Derrington, E., Park, S., Dreher, J.C. (2022). Regulation of social hierarchy learning by serotonin transporter availability. Neuropsychopharmacology, 1-8.
Comments Schafer M. & Schiller D. (2022). Neuropsychopharmacology.
Li, Y. , & Dreher, J.C. (2021). A review of the impact of hormone therapy on the prefrontal structure and function at menopause, Climacteric, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/13697137.2021.1889500
Janet, R., Fournel, A., Fouillen, M., Derrington, E., Corgnet, B., Bensafi, M., & Dreher, J. C. (2021) Cognitive and hormonal regulation of appetite for food presented in the olfactory and visual modalities. Neuroimage. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.117811
Li, Y., Ramoz, N., Derrington, E., & Dreher, J.C. (2020) Hormonal responses in gambling versus substance abuse: a review of human studies. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry, vol. 100, 109880.
Li, Y., Météreau, E., Obeso, I., Butera, L. Villeval, M.C., & Dreher, J.C. (2020) Endogenous testosterone is associated with increased striatal response to audience effects during prosocial choices, Psychoneuroendocrinology, 104872.
Caldú, X., Ottino, J., Sánchez-Garre, C., Hernan, I., Tor, E., Sender-Palacios, M.J., Dreher, J.-C., Garolera, M., & Jurado, M.A. (2019). Effect of the catechol-O-methyltransferase Val 158Met polymorphism on theory of mind in obesity. Eur Eat Disord Rev. Feb 13. doi: 10.1002/erv.2665
Girard, R., Météreau, E., Thomas, J., Pugeat, M., Qu, C., & Dreher, J. C. (2017). Hormone therapy at early post-menopause increases cognitive control-related prefrontal activity. Scientific Reports, 7, 44917.
Victorri-Vigneau, C., Spiers, A., Caillet, P., Bruneau, M., IGNACE-consortium: Dreher JC et al., Challet-Bouju, G., & Grall-Bronnec, M. (2018). Opioid antagonists for pharmacological treatment of gambling disorder: Are they relevant?. Current neuropharmacology, , 16(10), 1418-1432.
Dreher, J. C., Dunne, S., Pazderska, A., Frodl, T., Nolan, J. J., & O’Doherty, J. P. (2016). Testosterone causes both prosocial and antisocial status-enhancing behaviors in human males. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(41), 11633-11638.
Thomas, J., Météreau, E., Déchaud, H., Pugeat, M., & Dreher, J. C. (2014). Hormonal treatment increases the response of the reward system at the menopause transition: A counterbalanced randomized placebo-controlled fMRI study. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 50, 167-180.
Li, Y., Sescousse, G., & Dreher, J. C. (2014). Endogenous cortisol levels are associated with an imbalanced striatal sensitivity to monetary versus non-monetary cues in pathological gamblers. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 8, 83.
Caldu, X., & DREHER, J. C. (2007). Hormonal and genetic influences on processing reward and social information. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1118(1), 43-73.
Dreher, J. C., Schmidt, P. J., Kohn, P., Furman, D., Rubinow, D., & Berman, K. F. (2007). Menstrual cycle phase modulates reward-related neural function in women. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(7), 2465-2470.
Dopamine and serotonin functions: computational models and fMRI studies
Janet, R., Derrington, E., & Dreher, J. C. (2024). Relationships between Serotonin Transporter Availability and the Global Efficiency of the Executive Control Brain Network. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 25(11), 5713.
Dreher, J. C., Kohn, P., Kolachana, B., Weinberger, D. R., & Berman, K. F. (2009). Variation in dopamine genes influences responsivity of the human reward system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(2), 617-622.
Janet, R., Ligneul, R., Losecaat-Vermeer, A., Philippe, R., Bellucci, G., Derrington, E., Park, S., Dreher, J.C. (2022). Regulation of social hierarchy learning by serotonin transporter availability. Neuropsychopharmacology, 1-8.
Comments Schafer M. & Schiller D. (2022). Neuropsychopharmacology.
Janet, R., Costes, N., Mérida, I., Derrington, E., Dreher, J.C. (2023). Relationships between serotonin availability and frontolimbic response to fearful and threatening faces. Scientific reports, 13(1), 1558.
Dreher, J. C., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., Kohn, P., & Berman, K. F. (2008). Age-related changes in midbrain dopaminergic regulation of the human reward system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(39), 15106-15111.
Dreher, J. C., Guigon, E., & Burnod, Y. (2002). A model of prefrontal cortex dopaminergic modulation during the delayed alternation task. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 14(6), 853-865.
Dreher, J. C., & Burnod, Y. (2002). An integrative theory of the phasic and tonic modes of dopamine modulation in the prefrontal cortex. Neural networks, 15(4-6), 583-602.
Neurobiology of diseases/gambling disorders
Hu, Y., Pereira, A.M., Gao, X., Campos, B.M., Derrington, E., Corgnet, B., Zhou, X., Cendes, F., & Dreher, J.C. (2021) Right temporoparietal junction underlies avoidance of moral transgression in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Journal of Neuroscience, 41(8), 1699-1715. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1237-20.2020
Dreher, J.C (2021). Dysfonctionnements du système de récompense et biais cognitifs chez les joueurs pathologiques, Bull Acad Natl Med, 613, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.banm.2021.05.010
Li, Y., Wang, Z., Boileau, I., Dreher, J. C., Gelskov, S., Genauck, A., ... & Sescousse, G. (2019). Altered orbitofrontal sulcogyral patterns in gambling disorder: a multicenter study. Translational Psychiatry, 9:186.
Girard, R., Obeso, I., Thobois, S., Park, S.A., Vidal, T., Favre, E., Ulla, M., Broussolle, E., Krack, P., Durif, F., & Dreher, J.C. (2019). Wait and you shall see: sexual delay discounting in hypersexual Parkinson’s disease. Brain, 142(1), 146-162.
Pereira, A. M., Campos, B. M., Coan, A. C., Pegoraro, L. F., Rezende, T. J., Obeso, I., Dalgalarrondo, P., Costa da Costa, J., Dreher, J.C., & Cendes, F. (2018). Differences in cortical structure and functional MRI connectivity in high functioning autism. Frontiers in Neurology, 9, 539.
Li, Y., Sescousse, G., & Dreher, J. C. (2014). Endogenous cortisol levels are associated with an imbalanced striatal sensitivity to monetary versus non-monetary cues in pathological gamblers. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 8, 83.
Sescousse, G., Barbalat, G., Domenech, P., & Dreher, J. C. (2013). Imbalance in the sensitivity to different types of rewards in pathological gambling. Brain, 136(8), 2527-2538.
Dreher, J. C., Koch, P., Kohn, P., Apud, J., Weinberger, D. R., & Berman, K. F. (2012). Common and differential pathophysiological features accompany comparable cognitive impairments in medication-free patients with schizophrenia and in healthy aging subjects. Biological psychiatry, 71(10), 890-897.
Ligneul, R., Sescousse, G., Barbalat, G., Domenech, P., & Dreher, J. C. (2013). Shifted risk preferences in pathological gambling. Psychological medicine, 43(5), 1059-1068.
Dreher, J. C., Banquet, J. P., Allilaire, J. F., Paillère-Martinot, M. L., Dubois, B., & Burnod, Y. (2001). Temporal order and spatial memory in schizophrenia: a parametric study. Schizophrenia Research, 51(2-3), 137-147.
Dreher, J. C., Trapp, W., Banquet, J. P., Keil, M., Günther, W., & Burnod, Y. (1999). Planning dysfunction in schizophrenia: impairment of potentials preceding fixed/free and single/sequence of self-initiated finger movements. Experimental Brain Research, 124(2), 200-214.