Article · 2026
Planning in the Brain: It's Not What You Think It Is
Publication
- Title
- Planning in the Brain: It's Not What You Think It Is
- Author
- Nathaniel Daw (Columbia College, Class of 1993)
- Form
- Article
- First published
- 2026
- Publisher
- Annual Review of Neuroscience
Complete works of Nathaniel Daw (84)
- 2000 Behavioral considerations suggest an average reward TD model of the dopamine system · Neurocomputing
- 2001 Operant behavior suggests attentional gating of dopamine system inputs · Neurocomputing
- 2002 Long-Term Reward Prediction in TD Models of the Dopamine System · Neural Computation
- 2002 Opponent interactions between serotonin and dopamine · Neural Networks
- 2004 Matchmaking · Science
- 2005 Uncertainty-based competition between prefrontal and dorsolateral striatal systems for behavioral control · Nature Neuroscience
- 2006 Choice values · Nature Neuroscience
- 2006 Planning and model-free versus model-driven behavior · PsycEXTRA Dataset
- 2006 The computational neurobiology of learning and reward · Current Opinion in Neurobiology
- 2007 Dopamine: at the intersection of reward and action · Nature Neuroscience
- 2008 Semi-rational models of conditioning: · The Probabilistic Mind:
- 2008 The Cognitive Neuroscience of Motivation and Learning · Social Cognition
- 2009 Computational cognitive neuroscience · Brain Research
- 2009 Human Reinforcement Learning Subdivides Structured Action Spaces by Learning Effector-Specific Values · The Journal of Neuroscience
- 2009 Multiple Forms of Value Learning and the Function of Dopamine · Neuroeconomics
- 2009 Reinforcement learning and higher level cognition: Introduction to special issue · Cognition
- 2010 A closer look at choice · Nature Neuroscience
- 2010 Serotonin and Dopamine: Unifying Affective, Activational, and Decision Functions · Neuropsychopharmacology
- 2010 States versus Rewards: Dissociable Neural Prediction Error Signals Underlying Model-Based and Model-Free Reinforcement Learning · Neuron
- 2011 Grid Cells, Place Cells, and Geodesic Generalization for Spatial Reinforcement Learning · PLoS Computational Biology
- 2011 Multiplicity of control in the basal ganglia: computational roles of striatal subregions · Current Opinion in Neurobiology
- 2011 Neural Correlates of Forward Planning in a Spatial Decision Task in Humans · The Journal of Neuroscience
- 2011 Signals in Human Striatum Are Appropriate for Policy Update Rather than Value Prediction · The Journal of Neuroscience
- 2011 Trial-by-trial data analysis using computational models · Decision Making, Affect, and Learning
- 2012 Dissociating hippocampal and striatal contributions to sequential prediction learning · European Journal of Neuroscience
- 2012 Dual-System Learning Models and Drugs of Abuse · Computational Neuroscience of Drug Addiction
- 2012 Dynamic Estimation of Task-Relevant Variance in Movement under Risk · The Journal of Neuroscience
- 2012 Generalization of value in reinforcement learning by humans · European Journal of Neuroscience
- 2012 Perception, Action, and Utility: The Tangled Skein · Principles of Brain Dynamics
- 2012 The ubiquity of model-based reinforcement learning · Current Opinion in Neurobiology
- 2013 Action selection in multi-effector decision making · NeuroImage
- 2013 Cortical and Hippocampal Correlates of Deliberation during Model-Based Decisions for Rewards in Humans · PLoS Computational Biology
- 2013 Extraversion differentiates between model-based and model-free strategies in a reinforcement learning task · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
- 2013 Testing Whether Humans Have an Accurate Model of Their Own Motor Uncertainty in a Speeded Reaching Task · PLoS Computational Biology
- 2013 The Irrationality of Categorical Perception · The Journal of Neuroscience
- 2014 Advanced Reinforcement Learning · Neuroeconomics
- 2014 Habits and Reinforcement Learning · The Cognitive Neurosciences
- 2014 Multiple Systems for Value Learning · Neuroeconomics
- 2014 The algorithmic anatomy of model-based evaluation · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- 2014 Value Learning through Reinforcement · Neuroeconomics
- 2015 Criterion Learning in an Orientation-discrimination Task · Journal of Vision
- 2015 Deciding How To Decide: Self-Control and Meta-Decision Making · Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- 2015 Depression: A Decision-Theoretic Analysis · Annual Review of Neuroscience
- 2015 Human representation of visuo-motor uncertainty as mixtures of orthogonal basis distributions · Nature Neuroscience
- 2015 Integrating memories to guide decisions · Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
- 2015 Learning Processes in Parkinson’s Disease and Healthy Aging (P6.063) · Neurology
- 2015 Learning the opportunity cost of time in a patch-foraging task · Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience
- 2015 Multiple memory systems as substrates for multiple decision systems · Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
- 2015 Of goals and habits · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 2016 Taking Psychiatry Research Online · Neuron
- 2016 The expanding role of dopamine · eLife
- 2017 A retrieved context model of the emotional modulation of memory
- 2017 Prioritized memory access explains planning and hippocampal replay
- 2017 Reinforcement Learning and Episodic Memory in Humans and Animals: An Integrative Framework · Annual Review of Psychology
- 2017 Self-evaluation of decision-making: A general Bayesian framework for metacognitive computation. · Psychological Review
- 2017 The opportunity cost of time modulates cognitive effort
- 2018 Are we of two minds? · Nature Neuroscience
- 2018 In for a penny, in for a pound: Examining motivated memory through the lens of retrieved context models
- 2018 Memory mechanisms predict sampling biases in sequential decision tasks · 2018 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience
- 2018 Surviving threats: neural circuit and computational implications of a new taxonomy of defensive behaviour · Nature Reviews Neuroscience
- 2018 T216. Deficient Belief Updating Explains Abnormal Information Seeking Associated With Delusions in Schizophrenia · Biological Psychiatry
- 2019 A particle filtering account of selective attention during learning · 2019 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience
- 2019 Linear reinforcement learning: Flexible reuse of computation in planning, grid fields, and cognitive control
- 2019 Rational Arbitration of Hippocampal Replay · 2019 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience
- 2020 A model for learning based on the joint estimation of stochasticity and volatility
- 2020 A simple model for learning in volatile environments · PLOS Computational Biology
- 2020 Anxiety, Avoidance, and Sequential Evaluation · Computational Psychiatry
- 2020 Beyond the Average View of Dopamine · Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- 2020 Biased belief updating and suboptimal choice in foraging decisions · Nature Communications
- 2020 Model-Based and Model-Free Learning in Anorexia Nervosa and Other Disorders · Biological Psychiatry
- 2021 Anxiety is Associated With Reduced Value of Control in Sequential Decision Making · Biological Psychiatry
- 2021 Context-sensitive valuation and learning · Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
- 2021 Linear reinforcement learning in planning, grid fields, and cognitive control · Nature Communications
- 2022 Author response: Uncertainty alters the balance between incremental learning and episodic memory
- 2022 Measuring Behavioral Arbitration of the Successor Representation · 2022 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience
- 2022 Uncertainty alters the balance between incremental learning and episodic memory
- 2023 Computational processes of simultaneous learning of stochasticity and volatility in humans
- 2023 Model based control can give rise to devaluation insensitive choice · Addiction Neuroscience
- 2024 Trial-by-trial learning of successor representations in human behavior
- 2025 Humans rationally balance detailed and temporally abstract world models · Communications Psychology
- 2025 Proactive and reactive construction of memory-based preferences · Nature Communications
- 2025 Publisher Correction: Humans rationally balance detailed and temporally abstract world models · Communications Psychology
- 2025 Reconciling flexibility and efficiency: medial entorhinal cortex represents a compositional cognitive map · Nature Communications
- 2026 Planning in the Brain: It's Not What You Think It Is · Annual Review of Neuroscience this record
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Daw, Nathaniel. Planning in the Brain: It's Not What You Think It Is. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 2026.
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