Publications

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Pre-Prints

  • Plonsky, O., Shiponi, D., Hertz, U., & Roth, Y. Learning to choose between advisors, algorithmic and human, over repeated interactions. In PsyArXiv. [Read]
  • Nafcha, O., Heimer O., Rotshtein P., Hertz U., Group-dependent learning and decision neural signals underlie the persistence of intergroup bias. In PsyArXiv. [Read]
  • Hertz, U., Culture sets us apart: Cultural evolution as a solution to the challenges of social relationships. In SocArXiv. [Read]
  • Anlló, H., Bahrami, B., Hertz, U., & Palminteri, S., Uncovering the semantics of teaching in experiential learning with Large Language Models. In PsyArXiv. [Read]

Published and In-Press

2026
  • Barkay, G., Gabay, S., Hertz, U. (2026). Pupil Size Response Within direct and random exploration and exploitation Behaviors selectively reflects value of control. Frontiers in Psychology, 17, 1752586. [Read]
2025
  • Gazit, L., Arazy, O., Hertz, U. (2025). Whose agent are you? Relational norms shape expectation from algorithmic and human advisors in social decisions. Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans, 100218. [Read]
  • Hertz, U. (2025). Increased complexity of social category markers leads to diverse rule-based categorizations and reduced intergroup bias. Proceedings of Royal Society B, 292(2051), 20250659. [Read]
  • Gabay, Y., Jacob, L., Mansour, A., Hertz, U. (2025). Computational markers show specific deficits for dyslexia and ADHD in complex learning settings. NPJ Science of Learning, 9(1), 4. [Read]
  • Hertz, U., Köster, R., Janssen, M. A., & Leibo, J. Z. (2025). Beyond the matrix: Experimental approaches to studying cognitive agents in social-ecological systems. Cognition, 254, 105993. [Read] [Accepted version]
2024
  • Hertz, U. (2024). A cognitive approach to learning, monitoring, and shifting social norms. Current Opinion in Psychology, 101917. [Read] [Accepted]
  • Bar-Sella, A., Sayda, D., Mansour, M., Nof, A., Hertz, U., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2024). Changing attachment orientation: Uncovering the role of shifting the emotion regulation tendency. Journal of Counseling Psychology. [Read]
  • Anlló, H., Bavard, S., Benmarrakchi, F., Bonagura, D., Cerrotti, F., Cicue, M., Gueguen, M., Guzmán, E. J., Kadieva, D., Kobayashi, M., Lukumon, G., Sartorio, M., Yang, J., Zinchenko, O., Bahrami, B., Silva Concha, J., Hertz, U., Konova, A. B., Li, J., … Palminteri, S. (2024). Comparing experience- and description-based economic preferences across 11 countries. Nature Human Behaviour, 1–14. [Read]
  • Nafcha, O., & Hertz, U. (2024). Asymmetric cognitive learning mechanisms underlying the persistence of intergroup bias. Communications Psychology, 2(1), 1–12. [Read]
  • Pereg, M., Hertz, U., Ben-Artzi, I., Shahar, N. (2024). Disentangling the contribution of individual and social learning processes in human advice-taking behavior. NPJ Science of Learning, 9(1), 4. [Read]
  • Heimer, O., Hertz, U. (2024). The spread of affective and semantic valence representations across states. Cognition, 244, 105714. [Read]
  • Anlló, H., Salamander, G., Raihani, N., Palminteri, S., Hertz, U. (2024). Experience and advice consequences shape information sharing strategies. Communications Psychology, 2(1), 1–13. [Read]
  • Kozakevich Arbel, E., Shamay-Tsoory, S. G., Hertz, U. (2024). Adaptive empathic response selection is sensitive to multiple dimensions of social interaction. Communications Psychology, 2(1), 1–14. [Read]
2023
  • Gazit, L., Arazy, O., Hertz, U. (2023). Choosing between human and algorithmic advisors: The role of responsibility sharing. Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans, 100009. [Journal] [Preprint]
  • Hertz, U., Jia, F., & Francis, K. B. (2023). Moral judgement and decision-making: theoretical predictions and null results. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 1–3. [Read]
  • Heimer, O., Kron, A., & Hertz, U. (2023). Temporal dynamics of the semantic versus affective representations of valence during reversal learning. Cognition, 236, 105423. [Read]
  • Nissan, N., Hertz, U., Shahar, N., & Gabay, Y. (2023). Distinct reinforcement learning profiles distinguish between language and attentional neurodevelopmental disorders. Behavioral and Brain Functions: BBF, 19(1), 6. [Read]
2022
  • Shamay-Tsoory, S. G., Hertz, U. (2022). Adaptive Empathy: A Model for Learning Empathic Responses in Response to Feedback. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17456916211031926. [Read]
  • Hertz, U., Snider-Levy, K. L. G., Canetti, D., Gross, M. L. (2022). To shoot or not to shoot: experiments on moral injury in the context of West Bank checkpoints and COVID-19 restrictions enforcement. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 13(1), 2013651. [Read]
  • Mizrahi, S., Ben-Eliyahu, A., Cohen, N., Hertz, U., Miller-Mor, R., Mishor, E., & Vigoda-Gadot, E. (2022). Public management during a crisis: when are citizens willing to contribute to institutional emergency preparedness? Public Management Review, 1–25. [Read]
  • Fintz, M., Osadchy, M., & Hertz, U. (2022). Using deep learning to predict human decisions and using cognitive models to explain deep learning models. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 4736. [Read]
  • Nafcha, O., & Hertz, U. (2022). The devil is in the task structure. eLife, 11, e78930. (Invited insight paper) [Read]
  • Zaatri, S., Aderka, I. M., Hertz, U. (2022). Blend in or stand out: social anxiety levels shape information-sharing strategies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289(1975), 20220476. [Read]
  • Lachman, I., Hadar, I., Hertz, U. (2022). Cost–benefit considerations have limited effect on the decision to exert cognitive effort in real-world computer-programming tasks. Royal Society Open Science, 9(6), 211885. [Read]
  • Agassi, O. D., Hertz, U., Shani, R., Derakshan, N., Wiener, A., Okon-Singer, H. (2022). Using clustering algorithms to examine the association between working memory training trajectories and therapeutic outcomes among psychiatric and healthy populations. Psychological Research. [Read]
  • Jiryis, T., Magal, N., Fructher, E., Hertz, U., Admon, R. (2022). Resting-state heart rate variability (HRV) mediates the association between perceived chronic stress and ambiguity avoidance. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 17645. [Read]
2021
  • Hertz, U. (2021). Learning how to behave: cognitive learning processes account for asymmetries in adaptation to social norms. Proceedings of Royal Society B. (Featured in PNAS Journal Club, June 18th 2021) [Read]
  • Kozakevich-Arbel, E., Shamay-Tsoory, S., Hertz, U. (2021). Adaptive Empathy: Empathic response selection as a dynamic, feedback-based learning process. Frontiers in Psychology. [Read]
  • Hertz, U., Bell, V., Raihani, N. (2021). Trusting and learning from others: immediate and long-term effects of learning from observation and advice. Proceedings of Royal Society B, 288, 20211414. [Read]
  • Hemed, E., Mark-Tavger, I., Hertz, U., Bakbani-Elkayam, S., Eitam, B. (2021). Automatically Controlled: Task-Irrelevance Fully Cancels Otherwise Automatic Imitation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. [Read]
  • Kurvers, R. H. J. M., Hertz, U., Karpus, J., Balode, M. P., Jayles, B., Binmore, K., Bahrami, B. (2021). How to sway voters: Strategic dishonesty outperforms truth-telling in competition for social influence. iScience 24, 103505. (Kurvers, Hertz and Karpus contributed equally) [Read]
2020
  • Hertz, U., Blakemore, C., Frith, C. D. (2020). The effect of hints on object perception in ambiguous images. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. [Read] [Preprint]
  • Cohen, N., Hertz, U. (2020). Street-Level Bureaucrats' Social Value Orientation under the New Public Management. Public Administration Review. [Read]
  • Zacharopoulos, G., Hertz, U., Kanai, R., Bahrami, B. (2020). The effect of feedback valence and source on perception and metacognition: an fMRI investigation. Cognitive Neuroscience. [Read]
  • Hertz, U., Tyropoulou, E., Olesen, C., Bahrami, B. (2020). Self-Competence Increases the Willingness to Pay for Social Influence. Scientific Reports. [Read]
  • Hertz, U., Bell, V., Barnby, J., McQuillin, A., Bahrami, B. (2020). The communication of metacognition for social strategy in psychosis: an exploratory study. Schizophrenia Bulletin Open. [Read]
2019
  • Farmer, H., Hertz, U., Hamilton, A. (2019). The Neural Basis of Shared Preference Learning. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. [Read] [Preprint]
  • Lachman, I., Hadar, I., Hertz, U. (2019). The Subjective Cost of Writing Reusable Code: The Case of Functions. International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, 29–39. [Read]
2018
  • Hertz, U., Bahrami, B., Keramati, M. (2018). Stochastic satisficing account of choice and confidence in uncertain value-based decisions. PLoS ONE. [Read]
2017
  • Hertz, U., Palminteri, S., Brunetti, S., Olesen, C., Frith, C. D., Bahrami, B. (2017). Neural computations underpinning the strategic management of influence in advice giving. Nature Communications, 8(1), 2191. [Read]
2016
  • Hertz, U., Romand-Monnier, M., Kyriakopoulou, K., Bahrami, B. (2016). Social influence protects collective decision making from equality bias. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42(2), 164. [Read]
  • Hertz, U., Kelly, M., Rutledge, R. B., Winston, J., Wright, N., Dolan, R. J., Bahrami, B. (2016). Oxytocin Effect on Collective Decision Making: A Randomized Placebo Controlled Study. PLoS ONE, 11(4), e0153352. [Read]
  • Peer, M., Abboud, S., Hertz, U., Amedi, A., Arzy, S. (2016). Intensity-based masking of fMRI BOLD signal for improving functional connectivity measures. Human Brain Mapping, 37(7), 2407–2418. [PubMed]
2015 and before
  • Zeharia, N., Hertz, U., Flash, T., Amedi, A. (2015). New Whole-body Sensory-Motor Gradients Revealed Using Phase-Locked Analysis and Verified using MVPA and Functional Connectivity. Journal of Neuroscience, 35(7), 2845–2859. [DOI] [PubMed]
  • Hertz, U., Amedi, A. (2014). Flexibility and stability in sensory processing revealed using visual-to-auditory sensory substitution. Cerebral Cortex, 25(8), 2049–2064. [DOI] [PubMed]
  • Zeharia, N., Hertz, U., Flash, T., Amedi, A. (2012). The negative BOLD homunculus and somatotopic information in the negative and positive BOLD signal in M1 and the SMA. PNAS, 109(45), 18565–18570. [DOI] [PubMed]
  • Striem-Amit, E., Hertz, U., Amedi, A. (2011). Extensive cochleotopic mapping of human auditory cortical fields obtained with phase-encoding fMRI. PLoS ONE, 6(3), e17832. (Striem-Amit and Hertz contributed equally) [DOI] [PubMed]
  • Hertz, U., Amedi, A. (2010). Disentangling unisensory and multisensory components in audiovisual integration using a novel multi-frequency fMRI spectral analysis. Neuroimage, 52(2), 617–632. [DOI] [PubMed]