Publications of A Modirshanechi

Becker, S.; Modirshanechi, A.; Gerstner, W.: Representational similarity modulates neural and behavioral signatures of novelty. Neuron 114 (10), pp. 1863 - 1876 (2026)

Modirshanechi, A.; Lin, W.-H.; Xu, H.; Herzog, M.; Gerstner, W.: Novelty as a drive of human exploration in complex stochastic environments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122 (39), e2502193122 (2025)

Binz, M.; Akata, E.; Bethge, M.; Brändle, F.; Callaway, F.; Coda-Forno, J.; Dayan, P.; Demircan, C.; Eckstein, M.; Éltetö, N. et al.; Griffiths, T.; Haridi, S.; Jagadish, A.; Li, J.-A.; Kipnis, A.; Kumar, S.; Ludwig, T.; Mathony, M.; Mattar, M.; Modirshanechi, A.; Nath, S.; Peterson, J.; Rmus, M.; Russek, E.; Saanum, T.; Schubert, J.; Schulze Buschoff, L.; Singhi, N.; Sui, X.; Thalmann, M.; Theis, F.; Truong, V.; Udandarao, V.; Voudouris, K.; Wilson, R.; Witte, K.; Wu, S.; Wulff, D.; Xiong, H.; Schulz, E.: A foundation model to predict and capture human cognition. Nature 644 (8078), pp. 1002 - 1009 (2025)

Gruaz, L.; Modirshanechi, A.; Becker, S.; Brea, J.: Merits of curiosity: a simulation study. Open mind: discoveries in cognitive science 9, pp. 1037 - 1065 (2025)

Dayan, P.; Modirshanechi, A.; Zamfir, E.; Schulz, E.: Three Facets of Control. Freie Universität Berlin: Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany (2026)

Chen, N.; Modirshanechi, A.; Dayan, P.: How Different Facets of Information Elicit Curiosity Over Time. Thirteenth Symposium on Biology of Decision-Making (SBDM 2026), Paris, France (2026)

Modirshanechi, A.; Dayan, P.; Schulz, E.: An integrative framework for the human sense of control. Thirteenth Symposium on Biology of Decision-Making (SBDM 2026), Paris, France (2026)

Modirshanechi, A.; Dayan, P.; Schulz, E.: Testing an integrative framework for the human sense of control. Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting (COSYNE 2026), Lisbon, Portugal (2026)

Modirshanechi, A.; Dayan, P.; Schulz, E.: Testing an Integrative Framework for the Sense of Control. 8th Annual Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN 2025), Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2025)

Modirshanechi, A.; Dayan, P.; Schulz, E.: Seeking a sense of control: A normative perspective. 6th Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM 2025), Dublin, Ireland (2025)

Binz, M.; Akata, E.; Almaatouq, A.; Alsobay, M.; Ariasov, O.; Brändle, F.; Broska, D.; Burton, J.; Busch, N.; Callaway, F. et al.; Cheung, V.; Christian, B.; Coda-Forno, J.; Demircan, C.; Dentella, V.; Eckstein, M.; Éltetö, N.; Franke, M.; Griffiths, T.; Günther, F.; Haridi, S.; Hellmann, S.; Herytash, S.; Hof, L.; Holton, E.; Hoxha, I.; Hussain, Z.; Jagadish, A.; Kara, E.; Kriegmair, V.; Leivada, E.; Ji-An, L.; Ludwig, T.; Maier, M.; Mattar, M.; Mathony, M.; Modirshanechi, A.; Na, R.; Nadverniuk, M.; Nasioulas, A.; Nath, S.; Niemeyer, H.; Nussenbaum, K.; Olschewski, S.; Pachur, T.; Palminteri, S.; Petrenco, A.; Phaneuf-Hadd, C.; Pirrone, A.; Rausch, M.; Raveling, L.; Reddy, S.; Rmus, M.; Russek, E.; Saanum, T.; Sandbrink, K.; Schiekiera, L.; Schubert, J.; Schulze Buschoff, L.; Singhi, N.; Somerville, L.; Spektor, M.; Sui, X.; Summerfield, C.; Thalmann, M.; Thoma, A.; Tikhomirova, T.; Truong, V.; Tsvilodub, P.; Voudouris, K.; Wilson, R.; Witte, K.; Wu, S.; Wulff, D.; Xiong, H.-D.; Xu, S.; Ying, L.; Zhang, X.; Zhu, J.-Q.; Schulz, E.: Post-training makes large language models less human-like. (submitted)

Modirshanechi, A.; Eysenbach, B.; Dayan, P.; Schulz, E.: Unifying Goal-Conditioned RL and Unsupervised Skill Learning via Control-Maximization. (submitted)

Nath, S.; Modirshanechi, A.; Dayan, P.: A Compositional Model of Semantic Fluency. (submitted)

Modirshanechi, A.; Dayan, P.; Schulz, E.: An integrative framework for the human sense of control. (submitted)

Modirshanechi, A.; Lin, W.-H.; Xu, H.-A.; Herzog, M.; Gerstner, W.: Even if suboptimal, novelty drives human exploration. (submitted)