| Collins AGE, Shenhav A. "Advances in modeling learning and decision-making in neuroscience." Neuropsychopharmacology, vol. 47, no. 1, 2022, pp. 104-118. |
| Shenhav A, Fahey MP, Grahek I. "Decomposing the motivation to exert mental effort." Current Directions in Psychological Science, vol. 30, no. 4, 2021, pp. 307-314. |
| Frömer R, Lin H, Dean Wolf CK, Inzlicht M, Shenhav A. "Expectations of reward and efficacy guide cognitive control allocation." Nature Communications, vol. 12, no. 1, 2021, pp. 1030. |
| Grahek, Ivan, Musslick, Sebastian, Shenhav, Amitai. "A computational perspective on the roles of affect in cognitive control." International Journal of Psychophysiology, vol. 151, 2020, pp. 25-34. |
| Ritz H, Frömer R, Shenhav A. "Bridging Motor and Cognitive Control: It's About Time!." Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 24, no. 1, 2020, pp. 6-8. |
| Sadeghiyeh, Hashem, Wang, Siyu, Alberhasky, Maxwell R., Kyllo, Hannah M., Shenhav, Amitai, Wilson, Robert C. "Temporal discounting correlates with directed exploration but not with random exploration." Scientific Reports, vol. 10, no. 1, 2020. |
| Shenhav A, Karmarkar UR. "Dissociable components of the reward circuit are involved in appraisal versus choice." Scientific reports, vol. 9, no. 1, 2019, pp. 1958. |
| Frömer R, Dean Wolf CK, Shenhav A. "Goal congruency dominates reward value in accounting for behavioral and neural correlates of value-based decision-making." Nature Communications, vol. 10, no. 1, 2019, pp. 4926. |
| Miller, Kevin J., Shenhav, Amitai, Ludvig, Elliot A. "Habits without values." Psychological Review, vol. 126, no. 2, 2019, pp. 292-311. |
| Grahek, Ivan, Shenhav, Amitai, Musslick, Sebastian, Krebs, Ruth M., Koster, Ernst H.W. "Motivation and cognitive control in depression." Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, vol. 102, 2019, pp. 371-381. |
| Kane GA, Bornstein AM, Shenhav A, Wilson RC, Daw ND, Cohen JD. "Rats exhibit similar biases in foraging and intertemporal choice tasks." eLife, vol. 8, 2019. |
| FeldmanHall, Oriel, Shenhav, Amitai. "Resolving uncertainty in a social world." Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 3, no. 5, 2019, pp. 426-435. |
| Wilson, Robert C., Shenhav, Amitai, Straccia, Mark, Cohen, Jonathan D. "The Eighty Five Percent Rule for optimal learning." Nature Communications, vol. 10, no. 1, 2019. |
| Ritz H, Nassar MR, Frank MJ, Shenhav A. "A Control Theoretic Model of Adaptive Learning in Dynamic Environments." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 30, no. 10, 2018, pp. 1405-1421. |
| Shenhav, Amitai, Straccia, Mark A., Musslick, Sebastian, Cohen, Jonathan D., Botvinick, Matthew M. "Dissociable neural mechanisms track evidence accumulation for selection of attention versus action." Nature Communications, vol. 9, no. 1, 2018. |
| Lieder, Falk, Shenhav, Amitai, Musslick, Sebastian, Griffiths, Thomas L. "Rational metareasoning and the plasticity of cognitive control." PLOS Computational Biology, vol. 14, no. 4, 2018, pp. e1006043. |
| Zacharopoulos, George, Shenhav, Amitai, Constantino, Sara, Maio, Gregory R, Linden, David E J. "The effect of self-focus on personal and social foraging behaviour." Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, vol. 13, no. 9, 2018, pp. 967-975. |
| Inzlicht M, Shenhav A, Olivola CY. "The Effort Paradox: Effort Is Both Costly and Valued." Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 22, no. 4, 2018, pp. 337-349. |
| Shenhav, Amitai, Dean Wolf, Carolyn K., Karmarkar, Uma R. "The evil of banality: When choosing between the mundane feels like choosing between the worst." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol. 147, no. 12, 2018, pp. 1892-1904. |
| Srivastava V, Feng SF, Cohen JD, Leonard NE, Shenhav A. "A martingale analysis of first passage times of time-dependent Wiener diffusion models." Journal of Mathematical Psychology, vol. 77, 2017, pp. 94-110. |
| Kane GA, Vazey EM, Wilson RC, Shenhav A, Daw ND, Aston-Jones G, Cohen JD. "Increased locus coeruleus tonic activity causes disengagement from a patch-foraging task." Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci, vol. 17, no. 6, 2017, pp. 1073-1083. |
| Shenhav, Amitai, Musslick, Sebastian, Lieder, Falk, Kool, Wouter, Griffiths, Thomas L., Cohen, Jonathan D., Botvinick, Matthew M. "Toward a Rational and Mechanistic Account of Mental Effort." Annual Review of Neuroscience, vol. 40, no. 1, 2017, pp. 99-124. |
| Shenhav A, Straccia MA, Botvinick MM, Cohen JD. "Dorsal anterior cingulate and ventromedial prefrontal cortex have inverse roles in both foraging and economic choice." Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci, vol. 16, no. 6, 2016, pp. 1127-1139. |
| Shenhav A, Cohen JD, Botvinick MM. "Dorsal anterior cingulate cortex and the value of control." Nature Neuroscience, vol. 19, no. 10, 2016, pp. 1286-91. |
| Trapp S, Shenhav A, Bitzer S, Bar M. "Human preferences are biased towards associative information." Cognition and Emotion, vol. 29, no. 6, 2015, pp. 1054-68. |
| Shenhav, Amitai, Botvinick, Matthew. "Uncovering a Missing Link in Anterior Cingulate Research." Neuron, vol. 85, no. 3, 2015, pp. 455-457. |
| Bornstein, Aaron M., Shenhav, Amitai, Miller, Kevin J. "Walking bundles of habits (and response-outcome associations) (Commentary on Liljeholm et al .)." European Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 41, no. 10, 2015, pp. 1356-1357. |
| Shenhav, Amitai, Mendes, Wendy Berry. "Aiming for the stomach and hitting the heart: Dissociable triggers and sources for disgust reactions." Emotion, vol. 14, no. 2, 2014, pp. 301-309. |
| Shenhav, Amitai, Straccia, Mark A, Cohen, Jonathan D, Botvinick, Matthew M. "Anterior cingulate engagement in a foraging context reflects choice difficulty, not foraging value." Nature Neuroscience, vol. 17, no. 9, 2014, pp. 1249-1254. |
| Shenhav A, Greene JD. "Integrative moral judgment: dissociating the roles of the amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex." Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 34, no. 13, 2014, pp. 4741-9. |
| Shenhav, A., Buckner, R. L. "Neural correlates of dueling affective reactions to win-win choices." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 111, no. 30, 2014, pp. 10978-10983. |
| Brunyé TT, Gagnon SA, Paczynski M, Shenhav A, Mahoney CR, Taylor HA. "Happiness by association: breadth of free association influences affective states." Cognition, vol. 127, no. 1, 2013, pp. 93-8. |
| Shenhav, Amitai, Botvinick, Matthew M. "Motivated Action: New Light on Prefrontal-Neuromodulatory Circuits." Current Biology, vol. 23, no. 4, 2013, pp. R161-R163. |
| Shenhav, Amitai, Botvinick, Matthew M., Cohen, Jonathan D. "The Expected Value of Control: An Integrative Theory of Anterior Cingulate Cortex Function." Neuron, vol. 79, no. 2, 2013, pp. 217-240. |
| Shenhav, Amitai, Barrett, Lisa Feldman, Bar, Moshe. "Affective value and associative processing share a cortical substrate." Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci, vol. 13, no. 1, 2012, pp. 46-59. |
| Shenhav A, Rand DG, Greene JD. "Divine intuition: cognitive style influences belief in God." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol. 141, no. 3, 2012, pp. 423-8. |
| Shenhav A, Greene JD. "Moral judgments recruit domain-general valuation mechanisms to integrate representations of probability and magnitude." Neuron, vol. 67, no. 4, 2010, pp. 667-77. |
| Silver, Michael A., Shenhav, Amitai, D'Esposito, Mark. "Cholinergic Enhancement Reduces Spatial Spread of Visual Responses in Human Early Visual Cortex." Neuron, vol. 60, no. 5, 2008, pp. 904-914. |
| Postdoctoral Research Associate | Princeton University, neuroscience | 2012-2016 | Princeton, New Jersey, United States |
2022-Present Fellow, Scialog, Research Corporation for Science Advancement
2020-Present Fellow, Association for Psychological Science (APS)
2021 Society for Neuroeconomics Early Career Award
2021 Cognitive Neuroscience Society Young Investigator Award
2019-23 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship
2020 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions
2017 Association for Psychological Science (APS) Rising Star Award
2012-16 C.V. Starr Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
2011-12 Sackler Scholar Programme in Psychobiology Fellowship
2011 Harvard Mind, Brain, Behavior Graduate Student Award
2010 Harvard Derek Bok Center Teaching Award
2010 Norman H. Anderson Graduate Psychology Fund Award
2009 Cognitive Neuroscience Society Graduate Students Present Award
2008-11 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences; Carney Institute for Brain Science
| CLPS 0400 - Cognitive Neuroscience |
| CLPS 1091 - Research Methods And Design |
| CLPS 1480M - Motivation and Effort |
| CLPS 1495 - Affective Neuroscience |
| CLPS 1900 - Research Methods And Design |
