QUEEN'S NEUROECONOMICS LABORATORY

Forthcoming

Varga, M.*, Tusche, A.*, Gier, N., Albuquerque, P., Weber, B. & Plassmann, H. Predicting sales of new consumer products with fMRI, survey, and market data.

Schulreich, S., Tusche, A., Kanske, P. & Schwabe, L. Higher subjective socioeconomic status is linked to increased altruism and mentalizing-related neural value coding.

2023

Tusche, A., Spunt, R., Tyszka, M., Paul, L., & Adolphs, R. (in press) Neural activation patterns evoked by social inference in the laboratory predict real-life social network index. Nature Communications.

2022

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