Cognitive Maps and Inference
Orloff M. A., Boorman E. D. (in press). Cognitive maps: Constructing a route with your snout. Current Biology.
Crivelli-Decker J., Clarke A., Park S.A., Huffman D.J., Boorman E.D., Ranganath C.R. (2023). Goal-centered representations in the human hippocampus. Nature Communications.
Yu L.Q. *, Park S.A. *, Sweigart S.C., Boorman E.D. ☨, Nassar M.R. ☨ (in press). Do grid codes afford generalization and flexible decision-making? Preprint ArXiv
*,☨ These authors contributed equally to this work.
Mızrak E., Bouffard N.R., Libby L.A., Boorman E.D., Ranganath C. (2021) The hippocampus and orbitofrontal cortex jointly represent task structure during memory-guided decision making. Cell Reports. 37(9):110065
Park, S. A., Miller, D.S., Boorman, E.D. (2021). Novel inferences in a Multidimensional Social Hierarchy Use a Grid-like Code. Nature Neuroscience, 24, 1292–1301.
News and Views by Du, M. and Parkinson, C. (2021). Navigating Social Knowledge. Nature Neuroscience, 24, 1195–1197.
Boorman, E.D., Sweigart, S.C., Park, S.A. (2021). Cognitive maps and novel inferences: a flexibility hierarchy. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 38, 141-149.
Park, S. A., Miller, D.S., Nili, H., Ranganath, C., Boorman, E.D. (2020) Map Making: Constructing, Combining, and Inferring on Abstract Cognitive Maps. Neuron, 107: 1–13.
Commentary by Bellmund J.L.S. (2020). Piecing Together Cognitive Maps One Dimension at a Time. Neuron, 107:996-999.
Boorman, E.D., Rushworth, M.F. (2009). Conceptual representation and the making of new decisions. Neuron, 63:721-3.
Causal Learning and Inference
Witkowski, P.P., Park, S.A., Boorman, E.D. (2022). Neural mechanisms of credit assignment for inferred relationships in a structured world. Neuron, 110(16): 2680-2690.
Boorman, E.D., Witkowski, P.P., Zhang, Y., Park, S.A. (2021). The orbital frontal cortex, task structure, and inference. Behavioral Neuroscience (special issue on "The Magical OFC").
Boorman, E.D., Rajendran, V., O’Reilly, J.X., Behrens, T.E. (2016). Two computationally and anatomically distinct learning signals predict changes to stimulus-outcome associations in hippocampus. Neuron, 89:1343-54.
Domain Generality: Reward-based and Social Learning
Park, S.A., Sesito, M, Boorman, E.D., Dreher, J.C (2019). Neural computations underlying strategic social decision-making in groups: Nature Communications, 10.1038.
Hill, M.R., Boorman, E.D., Fried, I. (2016). Observational learning computations in single neurons of the human anterior cingulate cortex. Nature Communications, 7:12722.
Boorman, E.D., O’Doherty, J.P., Adolphs, R., Rangel, A. (2013). The behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying the tracking of expertise. Neuron, 80:1558-71.
Behavioral Adaptation
Boorman, E.D., Rushworth, M.F., Behrens, T.E. (2013). Ventromedial prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortex adopt choice and default reference frames during sequential multialternative choice. Journal of Neuroscience, 33:2242-53.
Mobbs, D. Hassabis, D., Yu, R., Chu, C., Rushworth, M., Boorman, E., Dalgleish, T. (2013). Foraging under competition: The neural basis of input matching in humans. Journal of Neuroscience, 33: 9866-72.
Boorman, E.D., Behrens, T.E., Rushworth, M.F. (2011). Counterfactual choice and learning in a neural network centered on human lateral frontopolar cortex. PLoS Biology, 9:e1001093.
Boorman, E.D., Behrens, T.E., Woolrich, M.W., and Rushworth, M.F.S. (2009). How green is the grass on the other side? Frontopolar cortex and the representation of alternative courses of action. Neuron, 62:733-43.
Valuation and Choice
Croxson, P., Walton, M.E., Boorman, E.D., Rushworth, M.F., Bannerman, D.M. (2014). Unilateral medial frontal cortex lesions cause a cognitive decision-making deficit in rats. Eur J Neurosci, 40: 3757-65.
Rushworth, M.F., Noonan, M.P., Boorman, E.D., Walton, M.E., Behrens, T.E. (2011). Frontal cortex and reward-guided learning and decision-making. Neuron, 70:1054:69.
Boorman, E.D., Sallet, J. (2009). Mean-variance or prospect theory? The nature of value representations in the human brain. Journal of Neuroscience, 29:7945-7.
Boorman, E.D., O’Shea, J., Sebastian, C., Rushworth, M.F.S., Johansen-Berg, H. (2007). Individual Differences in White-Matter Microstructure Reflect Variation in Functional Connectivity during Choice. Current Biology, 17:1426-31.
Action Control
Higo, T., Mars, R.B., Boorman, E.D., Buch, E.R., Rushworth, M.F. (2011). Distributed and causal influence of frontal operculum in task control. PNAS, 108:4230-5.
Buch, E.R., Mars, R.B., Boorman, E.D., Rushworth, M.F. (2010). A network centered on ventral premotor cortex exerts both facilitatory and inhibitory control over primary motor cortex during action reprogramming. Journal of Neuroscience, 30:1395-401.
Mars, R.B., Klein, M.C., Neubert, F.X., Olivier, E., Buch, E.R., Boorman, E.D., Rushworth, M.F. (2009). Short-latency influence of medial frontal cortex over primary motor cortex during action selection under conflict. Journal of Neuroscience, 29:6926-31.
Siebner HR, Bergmann TO, Bestmann S, Massimini M, Johansen-Berg H, Mochizuki H, Bohning DE, Boorman ED, et al. (2009). Consensus paper: combining transcranial stimulation with neuroimaging. Brain Stimulation, 2:58-80.
O’Shea, J., Sebastian, C., Boorman, E.D., Johansen-Berg, H., and Rushworth, M.F.S. (2007). Functional specificity of premotor-motor cortical interactions during action selection. European Journal of Neuroscience, 26:2085-95.
Psychiatry
Bhagwagar Z, Wylezinska M, Jezzard P, Evans J, Boorman E, Matthews PM, Cowen P J (2008). Low GABA concentrations in occipital cortex and anterior cingulate cortex in medication-free, recovered depressed patients. Int J Neuropsychopharmacol, 11:255-60.
Peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings
Seongmin A. Park*, Jacob L. Russin*, Maryam Zolfaghar*, Randall C. O'Reilly, Erie D Boorman (* contributed equally). (2022). The geometry of map-like representations under dynamic cognitive control. Proceedings of the annual meeting of the cognitive science society (CogSci).
Jacob L. Russin, Maryam Zolfaghar, Seongmin A. Park, Erie D. Boorman, Randall C. O'Reilly. (2022). A neural network model of continual learning with cognitive control, Proceedings of the annual meeting of the cognitive science society (CogSci).
Seongmin A. Park*, Jacob L. Russin*, Maryam Zolfaghar*, Randall C O'Reilly, Erie D. Boorman (* contributed equally). (2022). The geometry of map-like representations under dynamic cognitive control, Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE).
Jacob L. Russin, Maryam Zolfaghar, Seongmin A Park, Erie D. Boorman, Randall C. O'Reilly, Complementary structure-learning neural networks for relational reasoning. (2021). Proceedings of the annual meeting of the cognitive science society (CogSci).
Seongmin A. Park, Douglas S. Miller, Erie D. Boorman, Hexadirectional coding of decision trajectories through abstract and discrete spaces. (2020). Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE).
Book Chapters
Jocham, G, Boorman, ED, Behrens, TE (2015). The neurobiology of value-based decision making. In: Robin Murphy and Rob Honey (Eds.) The Wiley handbook on the Cognitive Neuroscience of learning. Wiley-Blackwell.
Boorman, ED and Noonan, MP (2011). Contributions of ventromedial prefrontal and frontal polar cortex to reinforcement learning and value-based choice. In: Rogier Mars, Jerome Sallet, Matthew Rushworth, Nick Yeung (Eds.) Neural basis of motivational and cognitive control. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Rushworth, MFS, Boorman, E, Mars, RB (2009). Comparing brain connections in different species using diffusion-weighted imaging. In: Johansen-Berg H & Behrens TEJ (Eds.) Imaging brain pathways - Diffusion MRI: From quantitative measurement to in-vivo neuroanatomy. Amsterdam: Elsevier.