Preprints
Conceição*, V. A., Petzschner*, F. H., Cole, D. M., Wellstein, K. V., Müller, D., Raman, S., & Maia, T. V. (2023). Serotonin reduces belief stickiness. bioRxiv 2023.12.08.570769. *Authors contributed equally. [AI-generated audio summary by ScienceCast.]
Journal Articles
Portêlo, A., Shiban, Y., & Maia, T. V. (2021). Mathematical characterization of changes in fear during exposure therapy. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, Vol. 6, No. 11, pp. 1090-1099. [Supplementary material.]
Farinha, A. C., & Maia, T. V. (2021). People exert more effort to avoid losses than to obtain gains. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Vol. 150, No. 9, pp. 1837-1853. [Supplementary text; supplementary figures.]
Maia, T. V., & Frank, M. J. (2017). An integrative perspective on the role of dopamine in schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry, Vol. 81, No. 1, pp. 52–66. [Supplementary material.]
Huys*, Q. J. M., Maia*, T. V., & Frank, M. J. (2016). Computational psychiatry as a bridge from neuroscience to clinical applications. Nature Neuroscience, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 404–413. *Authors contributed equally.
Huys, Q. J. M., Maia, T. V., & Paulus, M. P. (2016). Computational psychiatry: from mechanistic insights to the development of new treatments. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, Vol. 1, No. 5, pp. 382–385.
Paulus, M. P., Huys, Q. J. M., & Maia, T. V. (2016). A roadmap for the development of applied computational psychiatry. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, Vol. 1, No. 5, pp. 386-392.
Maia, T. V. (2015). Introduction to the series on computational psychiatry. Clinical Psychological Science, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 374-377.
Maia, T. V.* & Cano-Colino, M.* (2015). The role of serotonin in orbitofrontal function and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Clinical Psychological Science, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 460-482. *Authors contributed equally.
Horga*, G., Maia*, T. V., Marsh, R., Hao, X., Xu, D., Duan, Y., Tau, G. Z., Graniello, B., Wang, Z., Kangarlu, A., Martinez, D., Packard, M. G., Peterson, B. S. (2015). Changes in corticostriatal connectivity during reinforcement learning in humans. Human Brain Mapping, Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 793-803. *Authors contributed equally.
Steingroever, H., Hasker, D., Fridberg, D. J., Horstmann, A., Kjome, K. L., Kumari, V., Lane, S. D., Maia, T. V., McClelland, J. L., Pachur, T., Premkumar, P., Stout, J., Wetzels, R., Wood, S., Worthy, D. A., Wagenmakers, E. J. (2015). Data from 617 healthy participants performing the Iowa Gambling Task: a “many labs” collaboration. Journal of Open Psychology Data, 3:e5, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jopd.ak.
Posner, J., Marsh, R., Maia, T. V., Peterson, B. S., Gruber, A., & Simpson, H. B. (2014). Reduced functional connectivity within the limbic cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical loop in unmedicated adults with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Human Brain Mapping, Vol. 35, No. 6, pp. 2852-2860.
Dombrowski, P. A., Maia, T. V., Boschen, S. L., Bortolanza, M., Wendler, E., Schwarting, R. K. W., Brandão, M. L., Winn, P., Blaha, C. D., & Da Cunha, C. (2013). Evidence that conditioned avoidance responses are reinforced by positive prediction errors signaled by striatal dopamine. Behavioural Brain Research, Vol. 241, pp. 112-119.
Horga*, G. & Maia*, T. V. (2012). Conscious and unconscious processes in cognitive control: a theoretical perspective and a novel empirical approach. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Vol. 6:199, pp. 1-7. *Authors contributed equally.
Maia, T. V., & McClelland, J. L. (2012). A neurocomputational approach to obsessive-compulsive disorder. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 14-15.
Wang, Z., Maia, T. V., Marsh, R., Colibazzi, T., Gerber, A., & Peterson, B. S. (2011). The neural circuits that generate tics in Tourette’s syndrome. American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 168, No. 12, pp. 1326-1337. [See also spotlight on this article by Greene and Schlaggar (2012), Insights for treatment in Tourette syndrome from fMRI, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 15-16.]
Horga, G., Maia, T. V., Wang, P., Wang, Z., Marsh, R., & Peterson, B. S. (2011). Adaptation to conflict via context-driven anticipatory signals in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 31, No. 45, pp. 16208 –16216.
Posner, J., Maia, T. V., Fair, D., Peterson, B. S., Sonuga-Barke, E. J., & Nagel, B. J. (2011). The attenuation of dysfunctional emotional processing with stimulant medication: An fMRI study of adolescents with ADHD. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, Vol. 193, No. 3, pp. 151-160.
Posner, J., Nagel, B. J., Maia, T. V., Mechling, A., Oh, M., Wang, Z., & Peterson, B. S. (2011). Abnormal amygdalar activation and connectivity in adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Vol. 50, No. 8, pp. 828-837.
Maia, T. V., & Frank, M. J. (2011). From reinforcement learning models to psychiatric and neurological disorders. Nature Neuroscience, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 154-162.
Sobel, L. J., Bansal, R., Maia, T. V., Sanchez, J., Mazzone, L., Durkin, K., Liu, J., Hao, X., Ivanov, I., Miller, A., Greenhill, L. L., & Peterson, B. S. (2010). Basal ganglia surface morphology and the effects of stimulant medications in youth with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 167, No. 8, pp. 977-986.
Maia, T. V. (2010). Two-factor theory, the actor-critic model, and conditioned avoidance. Learning & Behavior, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 50-67.
Maia, T. V. (2009). Reinforcement learning, conditioning, and the brain: successes and challenges. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 343-364.
Maia, T. V. (2009). Fear conditioning and social groups: statistics, not genetics. Cognitive Science, Vol. 33, No. 7, pp. 1232-1251. (Selected by the editor as a top article in Cognitive Science, highlighted in the e-news of the Cognitive Science Society of 12/21/09.)
Marsh, R., Maia, T. V., & Peterson, B. S. (2009). Functional disturbances within frontostriatal circuits across multiple childhood psychopathologies. American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 166, No. 6, pp. 664-674.
Maia, T. V., Cooney, R. E., & Peterson, B. S. (2008). The neural bases of obsessive-compulsive disorder in children and adults. Development and Psychopathology, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 1251-1283.
Maia, T. V., & Cleeremans, A. (2005). Consciousness: converging insights from connectionist modeling and neuroscience. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 9, No. 8, pp. 397-404. (Most read article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences in the 3rd quarter of 2005.)
Maia, T. V., & McClelland, J. L. (2005). The somatic marker hypothesis: still many questions but no answers. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 162-164.
Maia, T. V., & McClelland, J. L. (2004). A reexamination of the evidence for the somatic marker hypothesis: What participants really know in the Iowa gambling task. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), Vol. 101, No. 45, pp. 16075-16080. (Featured in the journal cover; accompanied by an editorial commentary; featured as a ‘Must Read’ in Faculty of 1000 Biology Reports.)
McClelland, J. L., Plaut, D. C., Gotts, S. J., & Maia, T. V. (2003). Developing a domain-general framework for cognition: What is the best approach? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 26, No. 5, pp. 611-614.
Book Chapters
Conceição, V. A., & Maia, T. V. (2020). Tourette syndrome from a computational perspective. In P. Seriès (ed.), Computational Psychiatry: A Primer, pp. 205-246, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Roberts, A. C., Goldstein, R. Z., Badre, D., Balleine, B. W., Critchley, H. D., Fotopoulou, A., Frangou, S., Friston, K. J., Maia, T. V., & Stein, E. A. (2020). Systems approach to intrusive experiences. In P. W. Kalivas & M. P. Paulus (eds.), Intrusive Thinking: From Molecules to Free Will, Strüngmann Forum Reports, Vol. 30, J. R. Lupp (series ed.), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Totah, N., Akil, H., Huys, Q. J. M. Krystal, J. H., MacDonald III, A. W., Maia, T. V., Malenka, R. C., & Pauli, W. M. (2016). Complexity and heterogeneity in psychiatric disorders: opportunities for computational psychiatry. In A. D. Redish & J. A. Gordon (eds.), Computational Psychiatry: New Perspectives on Mental Illness, Strüngmann Forum Reports, Vol. 20, J. R. Lupp (series ed.), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [Book; Strüngmann Forum Reports.]
Maia, T. V. (2012). Avoidance learning. In N. M. Seel (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, pp. 403-406, Springer.
Dubin, M. J., Maia, T. V., & Peterson, B. S. (2010). Cognitive control in the service of self-regulation. In G. F. Koob, M. Le Moal, & R. F. Thompson (eds.), Encyclopedia of Behavioral Neuroscience, Vol. 1, pp. 288-293. Oxford: Academic Press.
Articles in Refereed Conference Proceedings
Chang, N. C., & Maia, T. V. (2001). Learning grammatical constructions. In J. D. Moore and K. Stenning (eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 176-181. Edinburgh: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Maia, T. V., & Chang, N. C. (2001). Grounding the acquisition of grammar in sensorimotor representations. In P. R. Cohen & T. Oates (eds.), Learning Grounded Representations: Papers from the 2001 AAAI Spring Symposium, pp. 39-45. The American Association for Artificial Intelligence Press.
Chang, N. C., & Maia, T. V. (2001). Grounded learning of grammatical constructions. In P. R. Cohen & T. Oates (eds.), Learning Grounded Representations: Papers from the 2001 AAAI Spring Symposium, pp. 10-15. The American Association for Artificial Intelligence Press.
Doctoral Dissertation
Maia, T. V. (2007). A reinforcement learning theory of avoidance. Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
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