Research | Gaia Molinaro

Publications

Molinaro, G., & Collins, A.G.E. (2023). A goal-centric outlook on learning. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 27(12), 69-83
Molinaro, G., Cogliati Dezza, I., Bühler, S.K., Moutsiana, C., & Sharot, T. (2023). Multifaceted information-seeking motives in children. Nature Communications, 14, 5505.
Molinaro, G., & Collins, A.G.E. (2023). Intrinsic rewards explain context-sensitive valuation in reinforcement learning. PLOS Biology, 21(7), e3002201.
Molinaro, G., & Collins, A.G.E. (2023). Human hacks and bugs in the recruitment of reward systems for goal achievement. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 45(45).
Cogliati Dezza, I., Molinaro, G., & Verguts, T. (2023). A reinforcement learning framework for information-seeking and information-avoidance. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 45(45).

Goal-centered rewards in human reinforcement learning. Talk at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (UCL). London, UK (2024).
Goal-centric human reinforcement learning. Talk at the Intrinsic Reward Lab (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). Paris, France (2024).
Goal-centric human reinforcement learning. Talk at the Goal-Directed Learning group (Princeton University). Princeton, NJ, USA (2024).
Goals shape information seeking and integration. Talk at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (Radboud University). Nijmegen, Netherlands (2023).
Goal-dependent rewards in human reinforcement learning. Talk at the TReAD lab (Emory University). Atlanta, GA, USA (2023).
Goal-dependent rewards in human reinforcement learning. Talk at the Shenhav lab (Brown University). Providence, RI, USA (2023).
Adopting intrinsic rewards to explain context-sensitive valuation in reinforcement learning. Talk at the Human Reinforcement Learning lab (École Normale Supérieure). Paris, France (2023).

Molinaro, G., & Collins, A. G. E. (2023). Human hacks and bugs in the recruitment of reward systems for goal achievement. Talk at CogSci. Sydney, Australia.
Molinaro, G., & Collins, A. G. E. (2023). Human hacks and bugs in the recruitment of reward systems for goal achievement. Poster at the Curiosity, Creativity and Complexity conference. New York, CA, USA.
Molinaro, G., & Collins, A. G. E. (2022). Humans imperfectly recruit reward systems as they learn to achieve novel goals. Poster at CCN. San Francisco, CA, USA.
Molinaro, G., & Collins, A. G. E. (2022). Humans imperfectly recruit reward systems to learn to achieve novel, unique goals. Poster at RLDM. Providence, RI, USA.
Molinaro, G., Cogliati Dezza, I., & Sharot, T. (2022). How children decide what they want to know. Poster at CNS. San Francisco, CA, USA.
Molinaro, G., & Russell, C. (2020). The effects of social rewards on incidental episodic memory. Talk at the Neuromatch 3.0 Conference. Virtual meeting. [PsyArXiv] [Abstract] [Video]