Marcelo G. Mattar

According to our database, Marcelo G. Mattar authored at least 37 papers between 2011 and 2026.

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2026

Reason to Play: Behavioral and Brain Alignment Between Frontier LRMs and Human Game Learners.

Botos Csaba, Sreejan Kumar, Austin Tudor David Andrews, Laurence Hunt, Chris Summerfield, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Rui Ponte Costa, Marcelo G. Mattar, Momchil S. Tomov

CoRR, May, 2026

Post-training makes large language models less human-like.

Marcel Binz, Elif Akata, Abdullah Almaatouq, Mohammed Alsobay, Oleksii Ariasov, Franziska Brändle, David Broska, Jason W. Burton, Nuno Busch, Frederick Callaway, Vanessa Cheung, Brian R. Christian, Julian Coda-Forno, Can Demircan, Vittoria Dentella, Maria K. Eckstein, Noémi Élteto, Michael Franke, Thomas L. Griffiths, Fritz Günther, Susanne Haridi, Sebastian Hellmann, Stefan Herytash, Linus Hof, Eleanor Holton, Isabelle Hoxha, Zak Hussain, Akshay K. Jagadish, Elif Kara, Valentin Kriegmair, Evelina Leivada, Ji-An Li, Tobias Ludwig, Maximilian Maier, Marcelo G. Mattar, Marvin Mathony, Alireza Modirshanechi, Robin Na, Mariia Nadverniuk, Antonios Nasioulas, Surabhi S. Nath, Helen Niemeyer, Kate Nussenbaum, Sebastian Olschewski, Thorsten Pachur, Stefano Palminteri, Aliona Petrenco, Camille V. Phaneuf-Hadd, Angelo Pirrone, Manuel Rausch, Laura Raveling, Shashank Reddy, Milena Rmus, Evan M. Russek, Tankred Saanum, Kai Sandbrink, Louis Schiekiera, Johannes A. Schubert, Luca M. Schulze Buschoff, Nishad Singhi, Leah H. Somerville, Mikhail S. Spektor, Xin Sui, Christopher Summerfield, Mirko Thalmann, Anna Isabel Thoma, Taisiia Tikhomirova, Vuong Truong, Polina Tsvilodub, Konstantinos Voudouris, Kristin Witte, Shuchen Wu, Dirk U. Wulff, Huadong Xiong, Songlin Xu, Lance Ying, Xinyu Zhang, Jian-Qiao Zhu, Eric Schulz

CoRR, May, 2026

The Position Curse: LLMs Struggle to Locate the Last Few Items in a List.

Zhanqi Zhang, Hua-Dong Xiong, Robert C. Wilson, Mikio Aoi, Marcelo G. Mattar, Ji-An Li

CoRR, May, 2026

Extracting Search Trees from LLM Reasoning Traces Reveals Myopic Planning.

Sixing Chen, Ji-An Li, Saner Cakir, Sinan Akcali, Kayla Lee, Marcelo G. Mattar

CoRR, May, 2026

Adversarial construction as a potential solution to the experiment design problem in large task spaces.

Prakhar Godara, Frederick Callaway, Marcelo G. Mattar

CoRR, February, 2026

2025

A foundation model to predict and capture human cognition.

Marcel Binz, Elif Akata, Matthias Bethge, Franziska Brändle, Fred Callaway, Julian Coda-Forno, Peter Dayan, Can Demircan, Maria K. Eckstein, Noémi Élteto, Thomas L. Griffiths, Susanne Haridi, Akshay K. Jagadish, Ji-An Li, Alexander Kipnis, Sreejan Kumar, Tobias Ludwig, Marvin Mathony, Marcelo G. Mattar, Alireza Modirshanechi, Surabhi S. Nath, Joshua C. Peterson, Milena Rmus, Evan M. Russek, Tankred Saanum, Johannes A. Schubert, Luca M. Schulze Buschoff, Nishad Singhi, Xin Sui, Mirko Thalmann, Fabian J. Theis, Vuong Truong, Vishaal Udandarao, Konstantinos Voudouris, Robert C. Wilson, Kristin Witte, Shuchen Wu, Dirk U. Wulff, Huadong Xiong, Eric Schulz

Nat., August, 2025

Language Models Are Capable of Metacognitive Monitoring and Control of Their Internal Activations.

Ji-An Li, Huadong Xiong, Robert C. Wilson, Marcelo G. Mattar, Marcus K. Benna

CoRR, May, 2025

Time Spent Thinking in Online Chess Reflects the Value of Computation.

Evan M. Russek, Daniel Acosta-kane, Bas van Opheusden, Marcelo G. Mattar, Thomas L. Griffiths

Cogn. Sci., 2025

Humans Select Subgoals That Balance Immediate and Future Cognitive Costs During Physical Assembly.

Felix J. Binder, Marcelo Gomes Mattar, David Kirsh, Judith E. Fan

Cogn. Sci., 2025

Counterfactual error-monitoring in human planning.

Doris Yu, Frederick Callaway, Marcelo G. Mattar

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

A Variational Neural Network Model of Resource-Rational Reward Encoding in Human Planning.

Zhuojun Ying, Frederick Callaway, Roy Fox, Anastasia Kiyonaga, Marcelo G. Mattar

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Human Adaptation of Learning Strategies Resembles Policy Gradients.

Huadong Xiong, Ji-An Li, Marcelo G. Mattar, Robert C. Wilson

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Humans Learn to Weight Evidence Unevenly Over Time.

Huadong Xiong, Ji-An Li, Marcelo G. Mattar, Robert C. Wilson

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

DynamicRL: Data-Driven Estimation of Trial-by-Trial Reinforcement Learning Parameters.

Huadong Xiong, Ji-An Li, Marcelo G. Mattar, Robert C. Wilson

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Learning in online chess increases with more time spent thinking and diversity of experience.

Lisa Schut, Evan M. Russek, Ionatan Kuperwajs, Marcelo G. Mattar, Wei Ji Ma, Tom Griffiths

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Characterizing Human Planning on Large, Real-World Conceptual Networks.

Denis C. L. Lan, Marcelo G. Mattar

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Exploring resource-rational planning under time pressure in online chess.

Ionatan Kuperwajs, Evan M. Russek, Lisa Schut, Yotam Sagiv, Marcelo G. Mattar, Wei Ji Ma, Tom Griffiths

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

2024

Centaur: a foundation model of human cognition.

Marcel Binz, Elif Akata, Matthias Bethge, Franziska Brändle, Fred Callaway, Julian Coda-Forno, Peter Dayan, Can Demircan, Maria K. Eckstein, Noémi Élteto, Thomas L. Griffiths, Susanne Haridi, Akshay K. Jagadish, Ji-An Li, Alexander Kipnis, Sreejan Kumar, Tobias Ludwig, Marvin Mathony, Marcelo G. Mattar, Alireza Modirshanechi, Surabhi S. Nath, Joshua C. Peterson, Milena Rmus, Evan M. Russek, Tankred Saanum, Natalia Scharfenberg, Johannes A. Schubert, Luca M. Schulze Buschoff, Nishad Singhi, Xin Sui, Mirko Thalmann, Fabian J. Theis, Vuong Truong, Vishaal Udandarao, Konstantinos Voudouris, Robert C. Wilson, Kristin Witte, Shuchen Wu, Dirk U. Wulff, Huadong Xiong, Eric Schulz

CoRR, 2024

Linking In-context Learning in Transformers to Human Episodic Memory.

Ji-An Li, Corey Yishan Zhou, Marcus K. Benna, Marcelo G. Mattar

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2024, 2024

Temporally extended decision-making through episodic sampling.

Corey Yishan Zhou, Deborah Talmi, Nathaniel D. Daw, Marcelo G. Mattar

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

Resource-Rational Encoding of Reward Information in Planning.

Zhuojun Ying, Frederick Callaway, Anastasia Kiyonaga, Marcelo G. Mattar

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

Temporal Persistence Explains Mice Exploration in a Labyrinth.

Umesh K. Singla, Marcelo G. Mattar

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

Humans use episodic memory to access features of past experience for flexible decision making.

Jonathan Nicholas, Marcelo G. Mattar

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

A neural network model trained on free recall learns the method of loci.

Moufan Li, Kristopher T. Jensen, Marcelo G. Mattar

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

Some and Done? Temporally extended decisions with very few rollouts.

Sixing Chen, Kristopher T. Jensen, Marcelo G. Mattar

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

Revealing human planning strategies with eye-tracking.

Frederick Callaway, Miaomiao Yu, Marcelo G. Mattar

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

2023

How does the mind discover useful abstractions?

Marcelo Gomes Mattar, Judith E. Fan, Wai Keen Vong, Lionel Wong

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

Humans choose visual subgoals to reduce cognitive cost.

Felix Jedidja Binder, Marcelo Gomes Mattar, David Kirsh, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

2021

Connecting perceptual and procedural abstractions in physical construction.

William P. McCarthy, Marcelo Gomes Mattar, David Kirsh, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

Visual scoping operations for physical assembly.

Felix Jedidja Binder, Marcelo Gomes Mattar, David Kirsh, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

2018

Brain state flexibility accompanies motor-skill acquisition.

Pranav G. Reddy, Marcelo Gomes Mattar, Andrew C. Murphy, Nicholas F. Wymbs, Scott T. Grafton, Theodore D. Satterthwaite, Danielle S. Bassett

NeuroImage, 2018

Predicting future learning from baseline network architecture.

Marcelo Gomes Mattar, Nicholas F. Wymbs, Andrew S. Bock, Geoffrey Karl Aguirre, Scott T. Grafton, Danielle S. Bassett

NeuroImage, 2018

Beyond modularity: Fine-scale mechanisms and rules for brain network reconfiguration.

Ankit N. Khambhati, Marcelo Gomes Mattar, Nicholas F. Wymbs, Scott T. Grafton, Danielle S. Bassett

NeuroImage, 2018

2017

Optimal trajectories of brain state transitions.

Shi Gu, Richard F. Betzel, Marcelo Gomes Mattar, Matthew Cieslak, Philip R. Delio, Scott T. Grafton, Fabio Pasqualetti, Danielle S. Bassett

NeuroImage, 2017

The energy landscape underpinning module dynamics in the human brain connectome.

Arian Ashourvan, Shi Gu, Marcelo Gomes Mattar, Jean M. Vettel, Danielle S. Bassett

NeuroImage, 2017

2015

A Functional Cartography of Cognitive Systems.

Marcelo Gomes Mattar, Michael W. Cole, Sharon L. Thompson-Schill, Danielle S. Bassett

PLoS Comput. Biol., 2015

2011

de Bruijn cycles for neural decoding.

Geoffrey Karl Aguirre, Marcelo Gomes Mattar, Lucía Magis-Weinberg

NeuroImage, 2011