Publications

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// 2026

Confirmation Bias Exists in the Face of False Information Razi, H., Sambrook, T. & Garrett, N. BioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.07.723487
Humans are more prosocial in poor foraging environments Vogel, T. A., Priestley, L., Cutler, J., Hogg, T., Khalighinejad, N., Garrett, N., et al. Nature Communications, 17(1), 483

Testing a neurocomputational framework for restrictive eating in anorexia nervosa Muratore, A., Siegel, J., Foerde, K., Garrett, N., Uniacke, B., Han, X., Touzeau, C., et al. Biological Psychiatry, 97(9), S233

There is no belief update bias for neutral events: failure to replicate Burton et al. (2022) Garrett, N. & Sharot, T. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 35(8), 876–886
Anhedonia and sensitivity to punishment in schizophrenia, depression and opiate use disorder Ossola, P., Garrett, N., Biso, L., Bishara, A. & Marchesi, C. Journal of Affective Disorders, 330, 319–328
Model-based control can give rise to devaluation-insensitive choice Garrett, N., Allan, S. & Daw, N. D. Addiction Neuroscience, 6, 100070
Decision heuristics in contexts integrating action selection and execution Dundon, N. M., Colas, J. T., Garrett, N., Babenko, V., Rizor, E., Yang, D., et al. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 6486

A guideline and cautionary note: how to use the belief update task correctly Sharot, T. & Garrett, N. Methods in Psychology, 6, 100091
Quantifying the heritability of belief formation Vellani, V., Garrett, N., Gaule, A., Patil, K. R. & Sharot, T. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 11833
Model sharing in the human medial temporal lobe Glitz, L., Juechems, K., Summerfield, C. & Garrett, N. Journal of Neuroscience, 42(27), 5410–5426

A habenula-insular circuit encodes the willingness to act Khalighinejad, N., Garrett, N., Priestley, L., Lockwood, P. & Rushworth, M. F. S. Nature Communications, 12(1), 6329

Belief updating in bipolar disorder predicts time of recurrence Ossola, P., Garrett, N., Sharot, T. & Marchesi, C. eLife, 9, e58891
Sympathetic involvement in time-constrained sequential foraging Dundon, N. M., Garrett, N., Babenko, V., Cieslak, M., Daw, N. D. & Grafton, S. T. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 20(4), 730–745
Biased belief updating and suboptimal choice in foraging decisions Garrett, N. & Daw, N. D. Nature Communications, 11, 3417

Updating beliefs under perceived threat Garrett, N., González-Garzón, A. M., Foulkes, L., Levita, L. & Sharot, T. Journal of Neuroscience, 38(36), 7901–7911

The brain adapts to dishonesty Garrett, N., Lazzaro, S. C., Ariely, D. & Sharot, T. Nature Neuroscience, 19(12), 1727–1732
Forming beliefs: why valence matters Sharot, T. & Garrett, N. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20(1), 25–33
Integrating information into beliefs: good and bad news Garrett, N. J. PhD thesis, University College London

Human frontal–subcortical circuit and asymmetric belief updating Moutsiana, C., Charpentier, C. J., Garrett, N., Cohen, M. X. & Sharot, T. Journal of Neuroscience, 35(42), 14077–14085

Losing the rose-tinted glasses: neural substrates of unbiased belief updating in depression Garrett, N., Sharot, T., Faulkner, P., Korn, C. W., Roiser, J. P. & Dolan, R. J. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 639
How robust is the optimistic update bias for estimating self-risk and population base rates? Garrett, N. & Sharot, T. PLOS ONE, 9(6), e98848
The brain's temporal dynamics from a collective decision to individual action Charpentier, C. J., Moutsiana, C., Garrett, N. & Sharot, T. Journal of Neuroscience, 34(17), 5816–5823

Human development of the ability to learn from bad news Moutsiana, C., Garrett, N., Clarke, R. C., Lotto, R. B., Blakemore, S. J. & Sharot, T. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(41), 16396–16401
Confidence in value-based choice De Martino, B., Fleming, S. M., Garrett, N. & Dolan, R. J. Nature Neuroscience, 16(1), 105–110

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