Mattar, Marcelo G.

Prioritized memory access explains planning and hippocampal replay

Mattar, M. G., & Daw, N. D. (2018) · Nature Neuroscience

Memory and Neural MechanismsMemory Processes and Influences

Cited by 393

Optimal trajectories of brain state transitions

Gu, S., Betzel, R. F., Mattar, M. G., Cieslak, M., Delio, P. R., Grafton, S. T., Pasqualetti, F., & Bassett, D. S. (2017) · NeuroImage

Functional Brain Connectivity StudiesNeural dynamics and brain function

Cited by 183

A foundation model to predict and capture human cognition

Binz, M., Akata, E., Bethge, M., Brändle, F., Callaway, F., Coda-Forno, J., Dayan, P., Demircan, C., Eckstein, M. K., Éltető, N., et al. (2025) · Nature

Cognitive Science and Education ResearchDecision-Making and Behavioral Economics

Cited by 119

Discovering cognitive strategies with tiny recurrent neural networks

Ji-An, L., Benna, M. K., & Mattar, M. G. (2025) · Nature

Neural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesDecision-Making and Behavioral Economics

Cited by 64

Episodic retrieval for model-based evaluation in sequential decision tasks

Zhou, C. Y., Talmi, D., Daw, N., & Mattar, M. G. (2023) · Psychological Review

Memory Processes and InfluencesMemory and Neural Mechanisms

Cited by 21

Episodic retrieval for model-based evaluation in sequential decision tasks.

Zhou, C. Y., Talmi, D., Daw, N. D., & Mattar, M. G. (2025) · Psychological Review

Memory Processes and InfluencesMemory and Neural Mechanisms

Cited by 21

Time spent thinking in online chess reflects the value of computation

Russek, E., Acosta-Kane, D., van Opheusden, B., Mattar, M. G., & Griffiths, T. (2022) · Cognitive Science

Decision-Making and Behavioral EconomicsArtificial Intelligence in Games

Cited by 18

Language Models Are Capable of Metacognitive Monitoring and Control of Their Internal Activations

Li, J.-A., Xiong, H., Wilson, R., Mattar, M. G., & Benna, M. K. (2025) · Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38

Topic ModelingNatural Language Processing Techniques

Cited by 1

Interpretable abstractions of artificial neural networks predict behavior and neural activity during human information gathering

D’Ambrogio, S., Grohn, J., Khalighinejad, N., Mattar, M. G., Hunt, L., & Rushworth, M. F. S. (2026) · Nature Neuroscience

Neural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesDecision-Making and Behavioral Economics

Cited by 1