QUEEN'S NEUROECONOMICS LABORATORY

Forthcoming

Açıl, D., Andrews-Hanna, J. R., Lopez-Sola, M., van Buuren, M., Krabbendam, L., et al. Brain neuromarkers predict self- and other-related mentalizing across adult, clinical, and developmental samples (2025, Mar 12). Preprint available here: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11952459/

Alldritt, S., Ramirez, J. S., de Wael, R. V., Bethlehem, R., Seidlitz, J., Wang, Z., … & Sharma, K. K. (2024). Brain Charts for the Rhesus Macaque Lifespan. BioRxiv. Preprint available here: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.28.610193

Bas, L.M., Wang, R., Smallwood, J., & Tusche, A. A Window into Social Preferences: Common Thought Patterns Reflect Generosity, Fairness, and Context.

Stietz, J., Baeuchl, C., Kurtz, M., Pollerhoff, L., Tusche, A., Li, S.-C., Reiter, A.M.F., & Kanske, P. The aging social brain: investigating the neural bases of adult age differences in social affect and cognition.

Fernandes, P., Kable, JW., Almeida, J., Tusche, A., Ruff, CC., Bergström, F. Subliminal beauty engages the brain’s valuation circuits. Preprint available here: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.17.688735.

Pinheiro, S., Tusche, A., Hancock, B., MacGowan, T., Karasewich, T., Montana, S., Bukovsky, D. & Kulmeiner, V. Click to Share: developmental Signatures of Fairness and Reputation in the Virtual World.

2026

Wang, R., Janet, R., Morawetz, C. & Tusche, A. (2026). Emotion regulation success involves systematic gradient-based reconfigurations of large-scale activation patterns in the human brain. PLOS Biology, in press. Preprint available here: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.09.663978

Albuquerque, P.*, Tusche, A.*, Varga, M.*, Gier, N., Weber, B. & Plassmann, H. Do fMRI data improve predictions of product adoption by store managers and sales per store of consumer packaged goods? Journal of Marketing Research (JMR), in press. Preprint available here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5742344

Wang, R., Bas, L. M., Janet, R., Smallwood, J., Xu, Y., Morawetz, C., & Tusche, A. (2026). Patterns of Ongoing Thought Shape Emotion Regulation and Well-Being in Daily Life. Affective Science, in press. Preprint available here: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/487uq_v1

Sandhu, T., Saju, S. R., Wang, R., & Tusche, A. (2026). Prosociality and the Brain: Understanding When and Why We Help, Share, and Cooperate. Chapter in Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions, Eds. Smith, D., Fareri, D., & Lockwood. Springer Nature, p. 427-450. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-02925-6

2025

Rouhani, N., Grossman, C.D., Feusner, J. & Tusche, A. (2025). Eating disorder symptoms and emotional arousal modulate food biases during reward learning in females. Nature Communications 16:2938 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57872-w

Bas, L.M., Roberts, I.D., & Hutcherson, C.A., & Tusche, A.(2025). A neurocomputational account of the link between social perception and social action. eLife, 12, RP92539. https://elifesciences.org/articles/92539

Pollerhoff, L. Saulin, A., Kurtz, M., Stietz, J., Peng, X.-R., Hein, G. Tusche, A., Kanske, P., Li S.-C. & Reiter, A.M.F. (2025). Adult age differences in the integration of values for self and other. Scientific Reports 15, 12776 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-96656-6

2024

Janet, R., Smallwood, J., Hutcherson, C. A., Plassmann, H., Mckeown, B. & Tusche, A. (2024). Body mass index-dependent shifts along large-scale gradients in human cortical organization explain dietary regulatory success. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 121 (18), https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2314224121

Pearce, C., Bukovsky, D., Douchant, K., Katoch, A., Greenlaw, J., Sjaarda, C., Gale, D.J., Nashed, J., Kuhlmeier, V., Sabbagh, M., Blohm, G., De Felice, F., Pare. M., Cook, D.J., Scott, S., Munoz, D.P., Tusche, A., Sheth, P.M., Winterborn, A., Boehnke, S., & Gallivan, J.P. (2024). Changes in social environment impact primate gut microbiota composition. Animale Microbiome, 6 (66), https://doi.org/10.1186/s42523-024-00355-y

2023

Tusche, A., Spunt, R., Tyszka, M., Paul, L., & Adolphs, R. (2023). Neural activation patterns evoked by social inference in the laboratory predict real-life social network index. Nature Communications, 14:4399.  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40078-3.

Bas, L.M., Roberts, I.D., & Hutcherson, C.A. & Tusche, A. (2023). A neurocomputational account of the link between social perception and social action. eLife, 12: RP92539. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.92539.1

Schulreich, S., Tusche, A., Kanske, P. & Schwabe, L. (2023). Higher subjective socioeconomic status is linked to increased altruism and mentalizing-related neural value coding. NeuroImage, 279, 120315. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120315

2022

Hutcherson, C. & Tusche, A. (2022). Evidence accumulation, not ‘self-control’, explains why the DLPFC activates during normative choice. eLife, 11: e65661.

Schulreich, S., Tusche, A., Kanske, P. & Schwabe, L. (2022). Altruism under stress: cortisol predicts lower charitable giving and neural value representations in better mentalizers. Journal of Neuroscience, 42(16): 3445-3460. doi:10.1523/jneurosci.1870-21.2022.

Campbell, D., Tusche, A., & Bo O’Connor, B. (2022). Imagination and the Prosocial Personality: Mapping the Effect of Episodic Simulation on Helping Across Prosocial Traits. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 36(3), 685–698. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3954.

2021

Tusche, A. & Bas, L.M. (2021). Neurocomputational models of altruistic decision-making and social motives: Advances, pitfalls, and future directions. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 12(6), e1571. doi: 10.1002/wcs.1571.

2018

Tusche, A. & Hutcherson, C. (2018). Cognitive regulation alters social and dietary choice by changing attribute representations in domain-general and domain-specific brain circuits. eLife: e31185.

Schmidt, L., Tusche, A., Manoharan, N., Hutcherson, C., Hare, T. & Plassmann, H. (2018). Neuroanatomy of the vmPFC and dlPFC predicts individual differences in cognitive regulation during dietary self-control across regulation strategies. Journal of Neuroscience, 38(25):5799-5806.

Boeckler, A., Tusche, A., Peter Schmidt, & Singer, T. (2018). Distinct mental trainings differentially affect altruistically motivated, norm motivated, and self-reported prosocial behaviour. Scientific Reports, 8(1): 13560.

2017

Adolphs, R. & Tusche, A. (2017). How attention to faces guides prosocial behavior. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26(3): 282-287.

Boeckler, A., Tusche, A. & Singer, T. (2017). The Structure of Human Prosociality Revisited: Corrigendum and Addendum to Böckler, Tusche, and Singer (2016). Social Psychological and Personality Science, 9(6): 754-759.

2016

Tusche, A., Boeckler, A., Kanske, P., Trautwein, F.-M. & Singer, T. (2016). Decoding the charitable brain: Empathy, perspective taking, and attention shifts differentially predict altruistic giving. The Journal of Neuroscience, 36(17): 4719-4732.

Corradi-Dell’Acqua, C.*, Tusche, A.*, Vuilleumier, P. & Singer, T. (2016). Cross-modal representations of first-hand and vicarious pain, disgust and fairness in insular and cingulate cortex. Nature Communications, 7: 10904.
* Authors equally contributed to the study, shared first-authorship

Boeckler, A., Tusche, A. & Singer, T. (2016). The structure of human prosociality: Evidence for independent sub-components differentiating altruistically-, norm-, and strategically motivated behavior, and self-reports. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7(6): 530-541.

2015

Wisniewski, D., Reverberi, C., Tusche, A. & Haynes, J.-D. (2015). The Neural Representation of Voluntary Task-Set Selection in Dynamic Environments. Cerebral Cortex, 25(12): 4715-4726.

2014

Tusche, A., Smallwood, J., Bernhardt, B.C. & Singer T. (2014). Classifying the wandering mind: revealing the affective content of thoughts during task-free rest periods. NeuroImage, 97: 107-116.

Singer, T., & Tusche, A. (2013). Understanding others: Brain mechanisms of theory of mind and empathy. In P. W. Glimcher, & E. Fehr (Eds.), Neuroeconomics: Decision making and the brain (2nd ed., pp. 513-532). London, UK: Academic Press.

Engert, V., Merla, A., Grant, J.A., Cardone, D., Tusche, A. & Singer, T. (2014). Exploring the use of thermal infrared imaging in human stress research. PLoS One, 9(3): e90782.

Bernhardt, B.C., Smallwood, J., Tusche, A., Ruby, F.J., Engen, H.G., Steinbeis, N. & Singer, T. (2014). Medial prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortical thickness predicts shared individual differences in self-generated thought and temporal discounting. NeuroImage, 90: 290-297.

2013

Tusche, A., Kahnt, T., Wisniewski, D. & Haynes, J.-D. (2013). Automatic processing of political preferences in the human brain. NeuroImage, 72: 174-182.

2012

Tusche, A. (2012). Neural Encoding of Real-world Preferences During Automatic Processing. [www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/6ZKCIVAM72TL4E5NR3IV6K3EN7ODIZ32].

Heinzle, J., Anders, S., Bode, S., Bogler, C., Chen, Y., Cichy, R. M., Hackmack, K., Kahnt, T., Kalberlah, C., Reverberi, C., Soon, C. S., Tusche, A., Weygandt, M. & Haynes, J.-D. (2012). Multivariate decoding of fMRI data: Towards a content-based cognitive neuroscience. e-Neuroforum: Reviews in Neuroscience, 3(1): 1-16.

2010

Tusche, A., Bode, S. & Haynes, J.-D. (2010). Neural responses to unattended products predict later consumer choices. The Journal of Neuroscience, 30(23): 8024-8031.