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Books<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Stefana Broadbent, Florian Forestier, Mehdi Khamassi, C\u00e9lia Zolynski. Pour une nouvelle culture de l’attention: Que faire de ces r\u00e9seaux sociaux qui nous \u00e9puisent ? Editions Odile Jacob, 2024. Released on 17 April 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mehdi Khamassi (Dir.). Neurosciences cognitives. \u00c9ditions de Boeck Sup\u00e9rieur. ISBN : 978-2-8073-2921-8. Released on 12 October 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All my publications can be accessed by clicking on this link to access HAL<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected recent publications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Neuroscience<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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  • Nemeth, R., Chartouny, A., Jedlovzky, K., Freire, I.T. and Khamassi, M. (2025). The hippocampus as an epistemic forager: When curiosity and reward jointly steer exploration and hippocampal replay. bioRxiv<\/strong>, 2025.10.31.685837.<\/li>\n\n\n
  • Khamassi, M., Peyrache, A., Benchenane, K., Hopkins, D.A., Lebas, N., Douchamps, V., Droulez, J., Battaglia, F.P. and Wiener, S.I. (2024). Rat anterior cingulate neurons responsive to rule or strategy changes are modulated by the hippocampal theta rhythm and sharp-wave ripples. European Journal of Neuroscience<\/strong>, doi:10.1111\/ejn.16496.<\/li>\n\n\n
  • Lobato, I.N., Aleman-Zapata, A., Samanta, A., Bogers, M., Narayanan, S., Rayan, A., Alonso, A., van der Meij, J., Khamassi, M., Khan, Z.U., Genzel, L. (2023). Increased cortical plasticity leads to memory interference and enhanced hippocampal-cortical interactions. eLife<\/strong>, 12:e84911.<\/li>\n\n\n
  • Wittmann, M.K., Fouragnan, E., Folloni, D., Klein-Fl\u00fcgge, M.C., Chau, B., Khamassi, M. and Rushworth, M.F.S. (2020). Global reward state affects learning, the raphe nucleus, and anterior insula in monkeys. Nature Communications<\/strong>, 11(1):1-17.<\/li>\n\n\n
  • Cinotti, F.* and Fresno, V.* and Aklil, N. and Coutureau, E. and Girard, B. and Marchand, A.\u00b0 and Khamassi, M.\u00b0 (2019). Dopamine blockade impairs the exploration-exploitation trade-off in rats. Scientific Reports<\/strong>, 9:6770. (* equally contributing authors) (\u00b0 equally contributing senior authors)<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Computational experimental psychology<\/h4>\n\n
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    • Griessinger, T., Coricelli, G.* and Khamassi, M.* (2026). Belief over Reward in Human and AI Competition. Nature Computational Science<\/strong>. To appear (* equal contribution)<\/li>\n\n\n
    • Lakhlifi, C., Kouzy, R., Lejeune, F. X., Beuzon, N., Mawet, J., Roos, C., Khamassi, M., Rohaut, B. and Rouault, M. (2026). Physicians\u2019 metacognition in medical decision-making. Neuroscience of Consciousness<\/strong>. To appear.<\/li>\n\n\n
    • Beaumont, S., Khamassi, M., and Domenech, P. (2025). Recasting adaptation as strategy inference. bioRxiv<\/strong>, 2025-03.<\/li>\n\n\n
    • Chartouny, A., Girard, B. and Khamassi, M. (2025). A model-based introduction to curiosity. arXiv<\/strong>, 2025.11.19.689250.<\/li>\n\n\n
    • Lakhlifi, C., Lejeune, F.-X., Rouault, M., Khamassi, M. and Rohaut, B. (2023). Illusion of knowledge in statistics among clinicians: Evaluating the alignment between objective accuracy and subjective confidence, an online survey. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications<\/strong>, 8(1), 23. Featured in an editorial of the British Journal of Psychiatry, 223:341-342 (2023): \u201cIn work to make both David Dunning and Justin Kruger proud, Lakhlifi et al ask the smarter question \u2026\u201d<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n

      Robotics<\/h4>\n\n\n
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      • Lavault, S.*, Desmons, C.*, Hajage, D., Mazel, A., Plumet, F., Gauthier, P., Peiffer, C., Chetouani, M., Ni\u00e9rat, M.-C., Pelachaud, C., Khamassi, M., Similowski, T. (2026). Breathing life into robots: pseudo-respiration enhances human-robot interaction \u2013 a behavioural study. International Journal of Social Robotics<\/strong>, 18(59), doi: 10.1007\/s12369-026-01388-w. (* equal contribution)<\/li>\n\n\n
      • Chartouny, A., Amini, K., Khamassi, M., Girard, B. (2024). A new paradigm to study social and physical affordances as model-based reinforcement learning. Cognitive Robotics<\/strong>, 4:142-155.<\/li>\n\n\n
      • Dromnelle, R., Renaudo, E., Chetouani, M., Maragos, P., Chatila, R., Girard, B. and Khamassi, M. (2023). Reducing computational cost during robot navigation and human-robot interaction with a human-inspired reinforcement learning architecture. International Journal of Social Robotics<\/strong>, 15:1297-1323.<\/li>\n\n\n
      • Massi, E., Barth\u00e9lemy, J., Mailly, J., Dromnelle, R., Canitrot, J., Poniatowski, E., Girard, B. and Khamassi, M. (2022). Model-Based and Model-Free Replay Mechanisms for Reinforcement Learning in Neurorobotics. Frontiers in Neurorobotics<\/strong>, 2022, 16, 864380.<\/li>\n\n\n
      • Zaraki, A.*, Khamassi, M.*, Wood, L., Lakatos, G., Tzafestas, C., Amirabdollahian, F., Robins, B. and Dautenhahn, K. (2020). A Novel Reinforcement-Based Paradigm for Children to Teach the Humanoid Kaspar Robot. <\/span>International Journal of Social Robotics<\/strong>, 12(3):709-720.<\/span> (* equally contributing authors)<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n

        Philosophy of AI and Ethics of AI<\/h4>\n\n\n
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        • Freire, I.T.*, Nahon, G.*, van Lier, M., Evans, K., Bazin, H., Farisco, M., Evers, K., Chatila, R. and Khamassi, M. (2026). Anthropomorphism in the age of Large Language Models: An overview of potential risks and mitigations. arXiv<\/strong>, 2609.38486. (* equally contributing authors)<\/li>\n\n\n
        • Evers, K., Farisco, M., Chatila, R., Earp, B., Freire, I., Hamker, F., N\u00e9meth, R., Verschure, P.F.M.J. and Khamassi, M. (2025). Preliminaries to artificial consciousness: A multidimensional heuristic approach Physics of Life Reviews<\/strong>, 52:180-193.<\/li>\n\n\n
        • Morlat, G., Nahon, M., Chartouny, A., Chatila, R., Freire, I.T.* and Khamassi, M.* (2025). Morality is Contextual: Learning Interpretable Moral Contexts from Human Data with Probabilistic Clustering and Large Language Models. arXiv<\/strong>, 2512.21439. (* equally contributing authors)<\/li>\n\n\n
        • Khamassi, M., Nahon, M. and Chatila, R. (2024). Strong and weak alignment of large language models with human values. Scientific Reports<\/strong>, 14, Article number: 19399.<\/li>\n\n\n
        • Khamassi, M. (2021). Quelques questions \u00e9thiques autour du d\u00e9veloppement de l\u2019autonomie d\u00e9cisionnelle en intelligence artificielle et en robotique. Cahiers de TESaCo<\/strong>, n\u00b02, pp.23-31.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n

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