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What Is a Cognitive Map? Organizing Knowledge for Flexible Behavior

Behrens, T. E. J., Muller, T. H., Whittington, J. C. R., Mark, S., Baram, A. B., Stachenfeld, K. L., & Kurth-Nelson, Z. (2018) · Neuron

Memory and Neural MechanismsSpatial Cognition and Navigation

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Reinforcement learning, fast and slow

Botvinick, M., Ritter, S., Wang, J. X., Kurth-Nelson, Z., Blundell, C., & Hassabis, D. (2019) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Reinforcement Learning in RoboticsNeural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

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Prefrontal cortex as a meta-reinforcement learning system

Wang, J. X., Kurth-Nelson, Z., Kumaran, D., Tirumala, D., Soyer, H., Leibo, J. Z., Hassabis, D., & Botvinick, M. (2018) · Nature Neuroscience

Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on BehaviorNeural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

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Learning to reinforcement learn

Wang, J. X., Kurth-Nelson, Z., Tirumala, D., Soyer, H., Leibo, J. Z., Munos, R., Blundell, C., Kumaran, D., & Botvinick, M. (2016) · arXiv

Reinforcement Learning in RoboticsDomain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning

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Human replay spontaneously reorganizes experience

Liu, Y., Dolan, R. J., Kurth-Nelson, Z., & Behrens, T. E. J. (2019) · Cell

Memory and Neural MechanismsSleep and Wakefulness Research

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Reconciling reinforcement learning models with behavioral extinction and renewal: implications for addiction, relapse, and problem gambling

Redish, A. D., Jensen, S., Johnson, A., & Kurth-Nelson, Z. (2007) · Psychological Review

Neural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesNeurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior

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Deep reinforcement learning and its neuroscientific implications

Botvinick, M., Wang, J. X., Dabney, W., Miller, K. J., & Kurth-Nelson, Z. (2020) · Neuron

Reinforcement Learning in RoboticsNeural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

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Single- and cross-commodity discounting among cocaine addicts: the commodity and its temporal location determine discounting rate

Bickel, W. K., Landes, R. D., Christensen, D. R., Jackson, L., Jones, B. A., Kurth-Nelson, Z., & Redish, A. D. (2011) · Psychopharmacology

Decision-Making and Behavioral EconomicsSubstance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes

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Causal Reasoning from Meta-reinforcement Learning

Dasgupta, I., Wang, J., Chiappa, S., Mitrovic, J., Ortega, P., Raposo, D., Hughes, E., Battaglia, P., Botvinick, M., & Kurth-Nelson, Z. (2019) · arXiv

Reinforcement Learning in RoboticsBayesian Modeling and Causal Inference

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The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants

Gabriel, I., Manzini, A., Keeling, G., Hendricks, L. A., Rieser, V., Iqbal, H., Tomašev, N., Ktena, I., Kenton, Z., Rodriguez, M., et al. (2024) · arXiv

Ethics and Social Impacts of AIArtificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education

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Technological folie à deux: feedback loops between AI chatbots and mental health

Dohnány, S., Kurth-Nelson, Z., Spens, E., Luettgau, L., Reid, A., Gabriel, I., Summerfield, C., Shanahan, M., & Nour, M. M. (2026) · Nature Mental Health

Digital Mental Health InterventionsEthics and Social Impacts of AI

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Meta-learning of Sequential Strategies

Ortega, P. A., Wang, J. X., Rowland, M., Genewein, T., Kurth-Nelson, Z., Pascanu, R., Heess, N., Veness, J., Pritzel, A., Sprechmann, P., et al. (2019) · arXiv

Reinforcement Learning in RoboticsDomain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning

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Technological folie à deux: Feedback Loops Between AI Chatbots and Mental Illness

Dohnány, S., Kurth-Nelson, Z., Spens, E., Luettgau, L., Reid, A., Gabriel, I., Summerfield, C., Shanahan, M., & Nour, M. M. (2025) · arXiv

Ethics and Social Impacts of AIDigital Mental Health Interventions

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Alchemy: A benchmark and analysis toolkit for meta-reinforcement learning agents

Wang, J. X., King, M., Porcel, N., Kurth-Nelson, Z., Zhu, T., Deck, C., Choy, P., Cassin, M., Reynolds, M., Song, F., et al. (2021) · arXiv

Reinforcement Learning in RoboticsDomain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning

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Increasing happiness through conversations with artificial intelligence

Heffner, J., Qin, C., Chadwick, M., Knutsen, C., Summerfield, C., Kurth-Nelson, Z., & Rutledge, R. B. (2025) · arXiv

Psychological Well-being and Life SatisfactionSocial Robot Interaction and HRI

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