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Overview

John P. O'Doherty is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology, with notable contributions to Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Applied Psychology, and General Decision Sciences.

The scientist's work covers a variety of main topics including Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Neural dynamics and brain function, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Mental Health Research Topics, Aesthetic Perception and Analysis, and the Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment.

O'Doherty's recent notable papers include:

  • Aesthetic preference for art can be predicted from a mixture of low- and high-level visual features, 2021, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Reinforcement-learning in fronto-striatal circuits, 2021, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • A Neuro-computational Account of Arbitration between Choice Imitation and Goal Emulation during Human Observational Learning, 2020, Neuron
  • The value of what's to come: Neural mechanisms coupling prediction error and the utility of anticipation, 2020, Science Advances
  • Using deep reinforcement learning to reveal how the brain encodes abstract state-space representations in high-dimensional environments, 2020, Neuron

Frequent co-authors collaborating with O'Doherty include Jeffrey Cockburn, Kiyohito Iigaya, Logan Cross, Reza Tadayonnejad, and Caroline J. Charpentier.

In terms of publication venues, the scientist has published extensively in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Neuroscience, Neuron, Nature Communications, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Best Publications

  • Empathy for Pain Involves the Affective but not Sensory Components of Pain

    Tania Singer;Ben Seymour;John O'Doherty;Holger Kaube

  • Cortical substrates for exploratory decisions in humans

    Nathaniel D. Daw;John P. O'Doherty;Peter Dayan;Ben Seymour

  • Abstract reward and punishment representations in the human orbitofrontal cortex.

    J. O'Doherty;M. L. Kringelbach;M. L. Kringelbach;E. T. Rolls;J. Hornak

  • Dissociable roles of ventral and dorsal striatum in instrumental conditioning

    John O'Doherty;Peter Dayan;Johannes Schultz;Ralf Deichmann

  • Empathic neural responses are modulated by the perceived fairness of others

    Tania Singer;Ben Seymour;John P. O'Doherty;Klaas E. Stephan

  • Human and rodent homologies in action control: corticostriatal determinants of goal-directed and habitual action

    Bernard W Balleine;John P O'Doherty;John P O'Doherty

  • Temporal difference models and reward-related learning in the human brain

    John P. O'Doherty;Peter Dayan;Karl Friston;Hugo Critchley

  • Reward representations and reward-related learning in the human brain: insights from neuroimaging.

    John P O’Doherty

  • Marketing actions can modulate neural representations of experienced pleasantness

    Hilke Plassmann;John O'Doherty;Baba Shiv;Antonio Rangel

  • Encoding predictive reward value in human amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex

    Jay A. Gottfried;John O'Doherty;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Human cingulate cortex and autonomic control: converging neuroimaging and clinical evidence

    Hugo D. Critchley;Christopher J. Mathias;Oliver Josephs;John O'Doherty

  • States versus Rewards: Dissociable Neural Prediction Error Signals Underlying Model-Based and Model-Free Reinforcement Learning

    Jan Gläscher;Nathaniel Douglass Daw;Peter Dayan;John P. O'Doherty;John P. O'Doherty

  • Automatic and intentional brain responses during evaluation of trustworthiness of faces.

    J. S. Winston;B. A. Strange;J. O'Doherty;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Neural responses during anticipation of a primary taste reward.

    John P. O'Doherty;Ralf Deichmann;Hugo D. Critchley;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Beauty in a smile: The role of medial orbitofrontal cortex in facial attractiveness

    J. O'Doherty;J. Winston;H. Critchley;D. Perrett

  • Orbitofrontal Cortex Encodes Willingness to Pay in Everyday Economic Transactions

    Hilke Plassmann;John O'Doherty;Antonio Rangel

  • Activation of the Human Orbitofrontal Cortex to a Liquid Food Stimulus is Correlated with its Subjective Pleasantness

    M.L. Kringelbach;J. O’Doherty;E.T. Rolls;C. Andrews

  • Neurolinguistics: structural plasticity in the bilingual brain.

    Andrea Mechelli;Jenny T. Crinion;Uta Noppeney;John O'Doherty

  • Dissociating the Role of the Orbitofrontal Cortex and the Striatum in the Computation of Goal Values and Prediction Errors

    Todd A. Hare;John P. O'Doherty;Colin F. Camerer;Wolfram Schultz

  • A specific role for posterior dorsolateral striatum in human habit learning

    Elizabeth Tricomi;Bernard W. Balleine;Bernard W. Balleine;John P. O’Doherty;John P. O’Doherty

  • Changes in emotion after circumscribed surgical lesions of the orbitofrontal and cingulate cortices

    J. Hornak;J. Bramham;E. T. Rolls;R. G. Morris

Frequent Co-Authors

Raymond J. Dolan
Raymond J. Dolan University College London
Antonio Rangel
Antonio Rangel California Institute of Technology
Shinsuke Shimojo
Shinsuke Shimojo California Institute of Technology
Bernard W. Balleine
Bernard W. Balleine University of New South Wales
Edmund T. Rolls
Edmund T. Rolls University of Warwick
Wolfram Schultz
Wolfram Schultz University of Cambridge
Nathaniel D. Daw
Nathaniel D. Daw Princeton University
Hugo D. Critchley
Hugo D. Critchley Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Ben Seymour
Ben Seymour University of Oxford
Jan Gläscher
Jan Gläscher Universität Hamburg

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