Peer-reviewed Publications

  • Wittmann MK*, Scheuplein M*, Gibbons SG, Noonan MP. Local and global reward learning in the lateral frontal cortex show differential development during human adolescence. PLOS Biol. 2023;21: e3002010. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3002010 [link]

  • Trudel N, Lockwood PL, Rushworth MF*, Wittmann MK*. Neural activity tracking identity and confidence in social information. eLife. 2023;12: e71315. doi:10.7554/eLife.71315 [link] [code]

  • Lockwood PL, Wittmann MK, Nili H, Matsumoto-Ryan M, Abdurahman A, Cutler J, et al. Distinct neural representations for prosocial and self-benefiting effort. Curr Biol. 2022; S0960982222012878. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2022.08.010 [link] [code]

  • Wittmann MK, Faber NS, Lamm C. A neuroscientific perspective on the computational theory of social groups. Behav Brain Sci. 2022/07/07 ed. 2022;45: e126. doi:10.1017/S0140525X2100128X [link]

  • Folloni D, Fouragnan E, Wittmann MK, Roumazeilles L, Tankelevitch L, Verhagen L, et al. Ultrasound modulation of macaque prefrontal cortex selectively alters credit assignment–related activity and behavior. Science Advances. 2021;7: eabg7700. doi:10.1126/sciadv.abg7700 [link]

  • Wittmann MK, Trudel N, Trier HA, Klein-Flügge MC, Sel A, Verhagen L, et al. Causal manipulation of self-other mergence in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex. Neuron. 2021; S0896627321003809. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2021.05.027 [link] [code]

  • Cutler J, Wittmann MK, Abdurahman A, Hargitai LD, Drew D, Husain M, et al. Ageing is associated with disrupted reinforcement learning whilst learning to help others is preserved. Nat Commun. 2021;12: 4440. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-24576-w [link]

  • Miyamoto K, Trudel N, Kamermans K, Lim MC, Lazari A, Verhagen L, Wittmann MK, Rushworth MFS. Identification and disruption of a neural mechanism for accumulating prospective metacognitive information prior to decision-making. Neuron. 2021; S0896627321001240. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2021.02.024 [link]

  • Trudel N, Scholl J, Klein-Flügge MC, Fouragnan E, Tankelevitch L, Wittmann MK*, Rushworth MFS*. Polarity of uncertainty representation during exploration and exploitation in ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Nat Hum Behav. 2020. doi:10.1038/s41562-020-0929-3 [link] [code]

  • Wittmann MK, Fouragnan E, Folloni D, Klein-Flügge MC, Chau BKH, Khamassi M, et al. Global reward state affects learning and activity in raphe nucleus and anterior insula in monkeys. Nat Commun. 2020;11: 3771. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-17343-w [link] [code]

  • Klein-Flügge MC, Wittmann MK, Shpektor A, Jensen DEA, Rushworth MFS. Multiple associative structures created by reinforcement and incidental statistical learning mechanisms. Nat Commun. 2019;10: 4835. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-12557-z [link] [code]

  • Wittmann MK*, Lockwood PL*, Rushworth MFS. Neural Mechanisms of Social Cognition in Primates. Annu Rev Neurosci. 2018;41: 99–118. doi:10.1146/annurev-neuro-080317-061450 [link]

  • Lockwood PL*, Wittmann MK*, Apps MAJ, Klein-Flügge MC, Crockett MJ, Humphreys GW, et al. Neural mechanisms for learning self and other ownership. Nat Commun. 2018;9: 4747. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-07231-9 [link]

  • Lockwood PL, Wittmann MK. Ventral anterior cingulate cortex and social decision-making. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 2018;92: 187–191. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2018.05.030 [link]

  • Papageorgiou GK, Sallet J, Wittmann MK, Chau BKH, Schuffelgen U, Buckley MJ, et al. Inverted activity patterns in ventromedial prefrontal cortex during value-guided decision-making in a less-is-more task. Nat Commun. 2017;8: 1886. doi:10.1038/s41467-017-01833-5 [link]

  • Meder D, Kolling N, Verhagen L, Wittmann MK, Scholl J, Madsen KH, et al. Simultaneous representation of a spectrum of dynamically changing value estimates during decision making. Nat Commun. 2017;8: 1942. doi:10.1038/s41467-017-02169-w [link]

  • Wittmann MK, Kolling N, Faber NS, Scholl J, Nelissen N, Rushworth MF. Self-Other Mergence in the Frontal Cortex during Cooperation and Competition. Neuron. 2016;91: 482–93. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2016.06.022 [link]

  • Wittmann MK, Kolling N, Akaishi R, Chau BK, Brown JW, Nelissen N, et al. Predictive decision making driven by multiple time-linked reward representations in the anterior cingulate cortex. Nat Commun. 2016;7: 12327. doi:10.1038/ncomms12327 [link]

  • Kolling N, Wittmann MK, Behrens TE, Boorman ED, Mars RB, Rushworth MF. Value, search, persistence and model updating in anterior cingulate cortex. Nat Neurosci. 2016;19: 1280–5. doi:10.1038/nn.4382 [link]

  • Kolling N, Behrens T, Wittmann MK, Rushworth M. Multiple signals in anterior cingulate cortex. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2016;37: 36–43. doi:10.1016/j.conb.2015.12.007 [link]

  • Scholl J, Kolling N, Nelissen N, Wittmann MK, Harmer CJ, Rushworth MF. The Good, the Bad, and the Irrelevant: Neural Mechanisms of Learning Real and Hypothetical Rewards and Effort. J Neurosci. 2015;35: 11233–51. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0396-15.2015 [link]

  • Ondobaka S, de Lange FP, Wittmann M, Frith CD, Bekkering H. Interplay Between Conceptual Expectations and Movement Predictions Underlies Action Understanding. Cereb Cortex. 2015;25: 2566–73. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhu056 [link]

  • Schubotz RI, Wurm MF, Wittmann MK, von Cramon DY. Objects tell us what action we can expect: dissociating brain areas for retrieval and exploitation of action knowledge during action observation in fMRI. Front Psychol. 2014;5: 636. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00636 [link]

  • Kolling N, Wittmann M, Rushworth MFS. Multiple neural mechanisms of decision making and their competition under changing risk pressure. Neuron. 2014;81: 1190–1202. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2014.01.033 [link]

  • Proske JH, Wittmann M, Galizia CG. Olfactory sensor processing in neural networks: lessons from modeling the fruit fly antennal lobe. Front Neuroeng. 2012;5: 2. doi:10.3389/fneng.2012.00002 [link]