Selected publications

Neural mechanisms underlying the hierarchical construction of perceived aesthetic value

Nature Communications, 14, 127 (2023)

K Iigaya, S Yi, IA Wahle, K Tanwisuth, L Cross, JP O'Doherty

Aesthetic preference for art can be predicted from a mixture of low- and high-level visual features

Nature Human Behaviour (2021)

News and Views: Beauty is in the eye of the machine

K Iigaya, S Yi, IA Wahle, K Tanwisuth, JP O’Doherty

The Hierarchical Construction of Value

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 41, 71 (2021)

JP O’Doherty, U Rutishauser, K Iigaya

Why and how the brain weights contributions from a mixture of experts

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 123, 14 (2021)

JP O’Doherty, S Lee, R Tadayonnejad, J Cockburn, K Iigaya, C Charpentier

Progress and Promise in Neuroaesthetics

Neuron 108 (4), 594-596 (2020)

K Iigaya, JP O’Doherty, GG Starr

The value of what's to come: Neural mechanisms coupling prediction error and the utility of anticipation

Science Advances, 6, 25 (2020)
Media: The brain seeks information to boost the joy of anticipation.

K Iigaya, TU Hauser, Z Kurth-Nelson, JP O’Doherty, P Dayan*, RJ Dolan*

*co-senior authors

Aesthetic preference for art emerges from a weighted integration over hierarchically structured visual features in the brain

bioRxiv (2020)
Media: Science: "Do you like weird art? Blame your brain"

K Iigaya, S Yi, IA Wahle, K Tanwisuth, JP O’Doherty

A Neuro-computational Account of Arbitration between Choice Imitation and Goal Emulation during Human Observational Learning

Neuron 106 (4) 687-699 (2020)

CJ Charpentier, K Iigaya, JP O’Doherty

Hippocampus Is What Happens while You’re Busy Making Other Plans

Neuron,102 (3) 517-519 (2019)

K Iigaya, JP O’Doherty

Deviation from the matching law reflects an optimal strategy involving learning over multiple timescales

Nature Communications, 1466, 14 (2019)
Editors’ Highlights: From Brain to Behavior

K Iigaya, Y Ahmadian, LP Sugrue, GS Corrado, Y Loewenstein, WT Newsome, S Fusi

An effect of serotonergic stimulation on learning rates for rewards apparent after long intertrial intervals

Nature Communications, 9, 2477 (2018)

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K Iigaya, MS Fonseca, M Murakami, ZF Mainen, P Dayan

Cognitive Bias in Ambiguity Judgements: Using Computational Models to Dissect the Effects of Mild Mood Manipulation in Humans

PLoS One 11(11): e0165840 (2016)

K Iigaya*, A Jolivald*, W Jitkrittum, ID Gilchrist, P Dayan**, E Paul**, M Mendl**

* equal contributions

**co-senior authors

Adaptive learning and decision-making under uncertainty by metaplastic synapses guided by a surprise detection system

eLife, 5, e18073 (2016)

K Iigaya

The Modulation of Savouring by Prediction Error and its Effects on Choice

eLife, 5, e13747 (2016)

K Iigaya, GW Story, Z Kurth-Nelson, RJ Dolan, P Dayan

Dynamical regimes in neural network models of matching behavior

Neural computation, 25:1–20 (2013)

K Iigaya, S Fusi