Publications

Modirshanechi, A., Lin, W.-H., Xu, H. A., Herzog, M. H., & Gerstner, W. (2025). Novelty as a drive of human exploration in complex stochastic environments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(39), e2502193122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2502193122

Lin, W.-H., Da Cruz, J. R., Sandi, C., & Herzog, M. H. (2025). Neural markers of social dominance: A female-focused perspective. iScience, 28(8), 113109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.113109

Lin, W.-H., Pilz, K. S., Herzog, M. H., & Kunchulia, M. (2025). Intact reinforcement learning in healthy ageing. Experimental Brain Research, 243(8), 185. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-025-07092-x

Garobbio, S., Lin, W.-H., Kunchulia, M., & Herzog, M. H. (2025). To what extent do EEG measures reflect performance in perceptual tests? Behavioural Brain Research, 488, 115602. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2025.115602

Lin W-H, Roinishvili, M., Okruashvili, M., Chkonia, E., and Herzog, M.H. How abnormal dopamine levels may affect reinforcement learning in schizophrenia patients: A Q-learning study (submitted)

Lin W-H, Pilz KS, Herzog MH, Kunchulia M. (2023). Intact reinforcement learning in healthy ageing (preprint).
https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.25.542104

Gordillo, D., da Cruz, J.R., Chkonia, E., Lin, W.-H., Favrod, O., Brand, A., Figueiredo, P., Roinishvili, M., and Herzog, M.H. (2022). The EEG multiverse of schizophrenia. Cereb. Cortex, bhac309.
https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhac309

Modirshanechi, A., Xu, H.A., Lin, W.-H., Herzog, M.H., and Gerstner, W. (2022). The curse of optimism: a persistent distraction by novelty (Neuroscience)
https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.05.498835

Lin, W.-H., Gardner, J.L., and Wu, S.-W. (2020). Context effects on probability estimation. PLOS Biol. 18, e3000634.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000634

Conferences

Sept. 2023
Annual Meeting of the NeuroLeman Network and Doctoral Schools 2023
Oral presentation
Title: Behavioral and Neural Markers of Social Dominance: A Gender-Neutral Perspective

May. 2022
International Conference of Cognitive Neuroscience 2022, Finland
Poster presentation
Title: Social dominance and decision making

Sept. 2021
European Brain and Behavior Society 2021, Switzerland
Poster presentation
Title: Ageing and reinforcement learning

Jul. 2014
RIKEN BSI Summer Program 2014, Japan
Poster presentation
Title: Absolute or relative? Neural coding of reward
probability in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Jan. 2014
Taiwan Society of Cognitive Neuroscience 2014 Annual
Meeting, Taiwan
Poster presentation
Title: Absolute or relative? Examining the effect of context on neural coding of reward probability

Nov. 2013
Society for Neuroscience 43 rd Annual Meeting, USA
Poster presentation
Title: Absolute or relative? Examining the effect of context on neural coding of reward probability

Nov. 2011
The Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, USA
Title: Pitch Height Independently Modulates Perceived Time Durations