Differential reward learning for self and others predicts self-reported altruism
Youngbin Kwak, John Pearson, and Scott A. Huettel
PLoS ONE 9(9): e107621 (2014) html
Decision making: the neuroethological turn
John M. Pearson, Karli K. Watson, and Michael L. Platt
Neuron 82(5) (2014) html pdf
Pupil size and social vigilance in rhesus macaques
R. Becket Ebitz, John M. Pearson, and Michael L. Platt
Frontiers in Neuroscience 8:100 (2014) html
Lemurs and macaques show similar numerical sensitivity
Sarah M. Jones, John M. Pearson, Nicholas K. DeWind, David Paulsen, Ana-Maria Tenekedjieva, and Elizabeth M. Brannon
Animal Cognition 17(3) (2014) html pdf
Individual differences in social information gathering revealed through Bayesian hierarchical models
John M. Pearson, Karli K. Watson, Jeffrey T. Klein, R. Becket Ebitz, and Michael L. Platt
Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience (2013) html
Post-reward delays and systematic biases in measures of animal temporal discounting
Tommy C. Blanchard, John M. Pearson, and Benjamin Y. Hayden
PNAS (2013) html pdf
Through their eyes: selective attention in peahens during courtship
Jessica L. Yorzinski, Gail L. Patricelli, Jason S. Babcock, John M. Pearson, and Michael L. Platt
Journal of Experimental Biology (2013) html pdf preview bbc wired
Neuroethology of primate social behavior
Steve W.C. Chang, Lauren J.N. Brent, Geoffrey K. Adams, Jeffrey T. Klein, John M. Pearson, Karli K. Watson, and Michael L. Platt
PNAS (2013) html pdf
Rapid brain responses independently predict gain maximization and loss minimization during economic decision making
René San Martín, Lawrence G. Appelbaum, John M. Pearson, Scott A. Huettel, and Marty G. Woldorff
Journal of Neuroscience (2013) html pdf
Smoking and the bandit: A preliminary study of smoker and non-smoker differences in exploratory behavior measured with a multi-armed bandit task
Merideth A. Addicott, John M. Pearson, Jessica Wilson, Michael L. Platt, and F. Joseph McClernon
Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology (2013) html pdf
Change detection, multiple controllers, and dynamic environments: Insights from the brain
John M. Pearson and Michael L. Platt
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (2012) html pdf
Neuroethology of Decision-making
Geoffrey K. Adams, Karli K. Watson, John M. Pearson, and Michael L. Platt
Current Opinion in Neurobiology (2012) vol. 22(6), pp 982-989 PMCID: PMC3510321 html pdf
Neuronal basis of sequential foraging decisions in a patchy environment
Benjamin Y. Hayden, John M. Pearson, Michael L. Platt
Nature Neuroscience (2011) vol. 14, pp 933-939, PMID: 21642973 html pdf
Posterior cingulate cortex: adapting behavior to a changing world
John M. Pearson, Sarah R. Heilbronner, David L. Barack, Benjamin Y. Hayden, Michael L. Platt
Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2011) vol. 15(4), pp 143-151, PMCID: PMC3153841 html pdf
Surprise signals in anterior cingulate cortex: neuronal encoding of unsigned reward prediction errors driving adjustment in behavior
Benjamin Y. Hayden, Sarah R. Heilbronner, John M. Pearson, Michael L. Platt
The Journal of Neuroscience (2011) vol. 31 (11), pp 4178-4187, PMCID: PMC3070460 html pdf
Explicit information reduces discounting behavior in monkeys
John M. Pearson, Benjamin Y. Hayden, Michael L. Platt
Frontiers in Psychology (2010) vol. 1, article 237, PMCID: PMC3070460 html
A physiologically-inspired model of numerical classification based on graded stimulus coding
John M. Pearson, Jamie D. Roitman, Elizabeth M. Brannon, Michael L. Platt, Sridhar Raghavachari
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (2010) vol. 4 (0), 12pp, PMCID: PMC2814553 html
Neurons in posterior cingulate cortex signal exploratory decisions in a dynamic multi-option choice task
John M. Pearson, Benjamin Y. Hayden, Sridhar Raghavachari, Michael L. Platt
Current Biology (2009) vol. 19 (18), pp 1-6, PMID: 19733074 html pdf
Fictive learning signals in anterior cingulate cortex
Benjamin Y. Hayden, John M. Pearson, and Michael L. Platt
Science (2009) vol. 324 (5929) p. 948-950. PMCID: PMC3096846 html pdf NYT
Gravitons, Inflatons, Twisted Bits: A Noncommutative Bestiary
John M. Pearson
PhD Thesis (accepted, May 2004) pdf
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Tracing the String: BMN correspondence at Finite J^2/N
John Pearson, Marcus Spradlin, Diana Vaman, Anastasia Volovich, Herman Verlinde
JHEP 0305 (2003) 022 arXiv
Brane/Flux Annihilation and the String Dual of a Non-Supersymmetric Field Theory
Shamit Kachru, John Pearson, Herman Verlinde
JHEP 0206 (2002) 021 arXiv
Semiclassical Corrections to the Oscillation Frequencies of a Trapped Bose-Enstein Condensate
Eric Braaten, John Pearson
Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 255-258 (1999) arXiv
Dopamine: burning the candle at both ends
John M. Pearson and Michael L. Platt
Neuron (2013) html pdf
Neuroethology of Decision Making
Geoffrey K. Adams, Karli K. Watson, John M. Pearson, and Michael L. Platt
Evolution and the Mechanisms of Decision Making, Hammerstein and Stevens, eds. (2012) pdf
Dynamic decision making in the brain
John M. Pearson and Michael L. Platt
Nature Neuroscience (2012) vol. 15(3), pp 341-342 html pdf
A role for posterior cingulate cortex in policy switching and cognitive control
John M. Pearson, Benjamin Y. Hayden, Michael L. Platt
in Neural Basis of Motivational and Cognitive Control Attention and Performance XXIV, Mars, Sallett, Rushworth, and Yeung eds. (2011) html
Confidence and corrections: how we make and un-make up our minds
John M. Pearson and Michael L. Platt
Neuron (2009) vol. 63 (6), pp 724-726 html pdf