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Dr Ben Seymour, Center for Information and Neural Networks, National Institute for Information and Communications Technology (NICT), 1-3 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.

seymour AT cinet.jp / bjs49 AT cam.ac.uk

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2013

Wako Yoshida, Ben Seymour, Martin Koltzenburg and Ray Dolan.
Uncertainty increases pain: evidence for a novel mechanism of pain modulation involving the periaqueductal grey.
Journal of Neuroscience. 2013 Mar 27;33(13):5638-46

Ivo Vlaev, Ben Seymour, Nick Chater, Joel Winston, Wako Yoshida, Nicolas Wright, Mkael Symmonds, Ray Dolan. Prices Need No Preferences: Social Trends Determine Decisions in Experimental Markets for Pain Relief. Health Psychology. In Press


2012

Tamara Shiner, Ben Seymour, Mkael Symmonds, Peter Dayan, Khalaish Bhatia, Ray Dolan.
The effect of motivation on movement: a study of bradykinesia in Parkinson's disease.
PLoS One. In press.

Ben Seymour and Ivo Vlaev.

Can, and should, behavioural neuroscience influence public policy.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Sep;16(9):449-51. .

Ben Seymour.
Hodgkin and Huxley's Legacy - the Science of Neural Supercomputing.
Brain2012. In press.

Ben Seymour and Ray Dolan.
Emotion, Motivation, and Pain.
Wall and Melzack's Textbook of Pain2012. Ch. 17. Eds. Kotzenburg and McMahaon. Elsevier. In press

Ben Seymour, Nathaniel Daw, Jon Roiser, Peter Dayan, Ray Dolan.
Serotonin selectively modulates reward value in human decision-making
Journal of Neuroscience, 2012. 32(17):5833–5842-5833 

Ben Seymour.
The maladaptive Brain: excitable pathways to chronic pain.
Brain2012, 135 (2) 316-318

Tamara Shiner, Ben Seymour, Klaus Wunderlich, Ciaran Hill, Kailash Bhatia, Peter Dayan, Ray Dolan.
Dopamine and performance in a reinforcement learning task – evidence from Parkinson’s disease.
Brain. 2012. Apr 15 epub. 

 

2011

Nathaniel Daw, Sam Gershman, Ben Seymour, Peter Dayan, Ray Dolan.
Model-­‐based choices on humans’ choices and striatal prediction errors.
Neuron. Mar 24. 2011. 69(6) 1204-­‐15.

Crockett MJ, Clark L, Roiser JP, Robinson OJ, Cools R, Chase HW, den Ouden H, Apergis-Schoute A, Campbell-Meikeljohn D, Seymour B, Sahakian BJ, Rogers RD, Robbins TW.
Converging evidence for central 5-HT effects in acute tryptophan depletion.
Molecular Psychiatry. 2011 Aug 30. doi: 10.1038.

Ben Seymour, Wako Yoshida.
The computational neuroscience of pain.
Japanese Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 2011


2010

Tom Fitzgerald, Ben Seymour, Dominic Bach, Ray Dolan.
Differentiable Neural Substrates for Learnt and Described Value and Risk.
Current Biology2010 Oct 26;20(20):1823-9.

Rongyun Yu, Dean Mobbs, Ben Seymour, Andrew Calder.
Insula and Striatum Mediate the Default Bias.
Journal of Neuroscience. 2010. 2010 Nov 3;30(44):14702-7.

Wako Yoshida, Ben Seymour, Karl Friston, Ray Dolan.
Neural mechanisms of belief inference during cooperative games.
Journal of Neuroscience. 2010 Aug 11;30(32):10744-51.

Irma Kurniawan, Ben Seymour, Debbie Talmi, Wako Yoshida, Nick Chater, Ray Dolan.
Choosing to make an effort: the role of striatum in signaling physical effort of a chosen action.
Journal of Neurophysiology. 2010 Jul;104(1):313-21. 

Alex Pine, Tamara Shiner, Ben Seymour, Ray Dolan.
Dopamine, time, and impulsivity in humans..
Journal of Neuroscience 2010 Jun 30;30(26):8888-96. 

Irma Kurniawan, Ben Seymour, Ivo Vlaev, Julia Trommershäuser, Ray Dolan, Nick Chater
Pain relativity in motor control.
Psychological Science2010 Jun;21(6):840-7. 


2009

Ben Seymour, Wako Yoshida, Ray Dolan.
Altruistic Learning.
Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience2009. 

Alex Pine, Ben Seymour, Jon Roiser, Peter Bossaerts, Val Curran, Ray Dolan.
Encoding of marginal utility across time in the human brain.
Journal of NeuroScience. Jul 2009; 29: 9575 - 9581 . 

Dean Mobbs, Demis Hassabis, Ben Seymour, Jen Marchant, Nikolaus Weiskopf, Ray Dolan, and Chris Frith.
Choking on the money: reward-based performance decrements are associated with midbrain activity.
Psychological Science2009 AOP. 

Tom Fitzgerald, Ben Seymour, and Ray Dolan.
The role of human orbitofrontal cortex in value comparison for incommensurable objects.
Journal of NeuroscienceJul 2009; 29: 8388 - 8395. 

Jon Roiser, Benedetto de Martino, Geoffrey Tan, Dharsh Kumaran, Ben Seymour, Nick Wood, and Ray Dolan.
A genetically mediated bias in decision making driven by failure of amygdala control.
Journal of NeuroscienceMay 2009; 29: 5985 - 5991.

Dean Mobbs, Jen Marchant, Demis Hassabis, Ben Seymour, Geoff Tan, Marcus Gray, Pedrag Petrovic, Ray Dolan, Chris Frith.
From threat to fear: the neural organization of defensive fear systems in humans.
Journal of Neuroscience. 2009 Sep 30;29(39):12236-43.

Dean Mobbs, Rongyun Yu, Marcel Meyer, Luca Passamonti, Ben Seymour, Andrew Calder, Susanne Schweizer, Chris Frith, Tim Dagleish.
A key role for similarity in vicarious reward.
Science2009 324. pp900

Ivo Vlaev and Ben Seymour, Ray Dolan, Nick Chater.
The price of pain and the value of suffering.
Psychological Science2009 Feb 23. 

Dominik Bach, Ben Seymour and Ray Dolan.
Neural activity associated with the passive prediction of ambiguity and risk for aversive events.
Journal of NeuroscienceFebruary 11, 2009, 29(6):1648-1656. 


2008

Predrag Petrovic, Burkhard Pleger, Ben Seymour, Stefan Kloppel, Benedetto De Martino, Hugo Critchley, Ray Dolan.
Blocking central opiate function modulates hedonic impact and anterior cingulate response to rewards and losses.
Journal of Neuroscience. October 15, 2008 • 28(42):10509 –10516. 

Chris Brown, Ben Seymour, Wael El-Deredy, Anthony Jones.
Confidence in beliefs about pain predicts expectancy effects on pain perception and anticipatory processing in right anterior insula.
Pain2008. 

Ben Seymour and Sam McClure.
Anchors, scales and the relative coding of value in the brain.
Current Opinion in Neurobiology2008. 

Bianca Wittmann, Nathaniel Daw, Ben Seymour and Ray Dolan.
Striatal activity underlies novelty-based choice in humans.
Neuron58, 967–973, June 26, 2008. 

Ben Seymour and Ray Dolan.
Emotion, decision-making and the amygdala.
Neuron58, June 12, 2008. 

Peter Dayan and Ben Seymour.
Values and actions in aversion.
in 'Neuroeconomics: Decision making and the brain2008 eds Glimcher, Camerer, Fehr and Poldrack. 

Debbie Talmi, Ben Seymour, Peter Dayan and Ray Dolan.
Human Pavlovian-instrumental transfer.
Journal of NeuroscienceJan 2008 28(2): 360-368 


2007

Dean Mobbs, Predrag Petrovic, Jennifer Marchant, Demis Hassabis, Nikolaus Weiskopf, Ben Seymour, Ray Dolan, Chris Frith.
When Fear Is Near: Threat Imminence Elicits Prefrontal– Periaqueductal Gray Shifts in Humans.
Science 2007 Aug 24;317:1079-83. 
Commentary by Stephen Maren.

Chris Brown,Ben Seymour, Yvonne Boyle, Wael El-Deredy, Anthony Jones.
Modulation of pain ratings by expectation and uncertainty: Behavioral characteristics and anticipatory neural correlates.
PainJune 2007 

Ben Seymour, Nathaniel Daw, Peter Dayan, Tania Singer, Ray Dolan.
Differential encoding of losses and gains in the human striatum.
Journal of Neuroscience. 2007 May 2;27(18):4826-31. 

Ben Seymour, Tania Singer, Ray Dolan.
The neurobiology of punishment.
Nature Reviews: NeuroscienceApril 2007 Vol 8; pp300-311 


2006

Peter Dayan, Yael Niv, Ben Seymour, Nathaniel Daw.
The Misbehavior of Value and the Discipline of the Will.
Neural Networks2006 Aug 26. 

Raffael Kalisch, Elian Korenfeld, Klaas E. Stephan, Nikolaus Weiskopf, Ben Seymour, and Ray Dolan.
Context-Dependent Human Extinction Memory Is Mediated by a Ventromedial Prefrontal and Hippocampal Network.
Journal of Neuroscience2006 Sept 13 Vol 26 pp9503-11. 

Mathias Pesseglione, Ben Seymour, Guillaume Flandin, Ray Dolan, Chris Frith.
Dopamine-dependent prediction errors underpin reward-seeking behaviour in humans.
Nature2006 Aug 31;442(7106):1042-5.

Benedetto De Martino, Dharsh Kumaran, Ben Seymour, Ray Dolan.
Frames, biases and decision making in the human brain.
Science. 2006 Aug 4;313(5787):684-7. 
Commentary by Daniel Kahneman and Shane Frederick.

Nathaniel Daw, John O'Doherty, Peter Dayan, Ben Seymour, Ray Dolan.
Cortical substrates for exploratory decisions in humans.
Nature 2006 Jun 15;441(7095):876-9. 
Commentary by Daeyeol Lee.

Ben Seymour.
Carry on eating: neural pathways mediating conditioned potentiation of feeding.
Journal of Neuroscience2006 Jan 25;26(4):1061-2. 

John O'Doherty, Tony Buchannen, Ben Seymour, Ray Dolan.
Predictive neural coding of reward preference involves dissociable responses in human ventral midbrain and ventral striatum.
Neuron 2006 Jan 5;49(1):157-66. 

Tania Singer, Ben Seymour, John O'Doherty, Klaas Stephan, Ray Dolan, Chris Frith.
Empathic neural responses are modulated by the perceived fairness of others.
Nature. 2006 Jan 26;439(7075):466-9. Epub 2006 Jan 18. 


2005

McKell Carter, John O'Doherty, Ben Seymour, Christof Koch, Ray Dolan.
Contingency awareness in human aversive conditioning involves the middle frontal gyrus.
Neuroimage. 2005 Oct;27:pp.

Ben Seymour, John O'Doherty, Martin Koltzenburg, Katya Wiech, Richard Frackowiak, Karl Friston, Ray Dolan. 
Opponent appetitive-aversive neural processes underlie predictive learning of pain relief.
Nature Neuroscience. 2005 Sep;8(9):1234-40. Epub 2005 Aug 21.

Katya Wiech, Ben Seymour, Raffael Kalisch, Klass Stephan, Martin Koltzenburg, Jon Driver, Ray Dolan.
Modulation of pain processing in hyperalgesia by cognitive demand.
Neuroimage. 2005 Aug 1;27(1):59-69.

Raffael Kalisch, Katya Wiech, Hugo Critchley, Ben Seymour, John O'Doherty, David Oakley, Phil Allen, Ray Dolan.
Anxiety reduction through detachment: subjective, physiological, and neural effects.
J Cogn Neurosci. 2005 Jun;17(6):874-83.


2004

Ben Seymour, John O'Doherty, Peter Dayan, Martin Koltzenburg, Anthony Jones, Ray Dolan, Karl Friston, Richard Frackowiak.
Temporal difference models describe higher-order learning in humans.
Nature. 2004 Jun 10;429(6992):664-7.

Tania Singer, Ben Seymour, John O'Doherty, Holger Kaube, Ray Dolan, Chris Frith.
Empathy for pain involves the affective but not sensory components of pain.
Science. 2004 Feb 20;303(5661):1157-62.

 

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