| 2025 | CogSci | How goals affect information seeking. | Gili Karni, Nathaniel D. Daw, Yael Niv |
| 2025 | ETRA | Emotions Shape Effort-Reward Choices: Positive Valence Decreases Effort, Except Under High Arousal. | Jamie C. Chiu, Nicholas Budny, Aetizaz Sameer, Persis A. Baah, Dan-Mircea Mirea, Isabel M. Berwian, Yael Niv |
| 2024 | CogSci | Selective maintenance of negative memories as a mechanism of spontaneous recovery of fear after extinction. | Isabel M. Berwian, Sashank Pisupati, Jamie Chin Chiu, Yongjing Ren, Yael Niv |
| 2024 | CogSci | Modeling Cognitive Strategies in Teaching: Integrating Theory of Mind and Heuristics. | Sevan K. Harootonian, Yael Niv, Tom Griffiths, Mark K. Ho |
| 2023 | CogSci | Modelling Rumination as a State-Inference Process. | Rachel L. Bedder, Sashank Pisupati, Yael Niv |
| 2021 | CogSci | Using Recurrent Neural Networks to Understand Human Reward Learning. | Mingyu Song, Yael Niv, Mingbo Cai |
| 2020 | CogSci | Learning what is relevant for rewards via value-based serial hypothesis testing. | Mingyu Song, Yael Niv, Mingbo Cai |
| 2018 | CogSci | Efficiency of learning vs. processing: Towards a normative theory of multitasking. | Yotam Sagiv, Sebastian Musslick, Yael Niv, Jonathan D. Cohen |
| 2017 | CogSci | Translating a Reinforcement Learning Task into a Computational Psychiatry Assay: Challenges and Strategies. | Peter Hitchcock, Yael Niv, Angela Radulescu, Chris R. Sims |
| 2012 | CogSci | Neural Computations Supporting Cognition: Rumelhart Prize Symposium in Honor of Peter Dayan. | Kenji Doya, John P. O'Doherty, Alexandre Pouget, Peter Bossaerts, Nathaniel D. Daw, Yael Niv |
| 2011 | CogSci | Computational, Neuroscientific, and Lifespan Perspectives on the Exploration-Exploitation Dilemma. | A. Ross Otto, W. Bradley Knox, Bradley C. Love, Samuel Gershman, Yael Niv, Darrell A. Worthy, W. Todd Maddox, Jared M. Hotaling, Jerome R. Busemeyer, Richard M. Shiffrin |
| 2009 | ICML | Tutorial summary: The neuroscience of reinforcement learning. | Yael Niv |