By Scientia Professor Bernard Balleine

Preprints

Payzan-LeNestour E; Yang Y; Thelaus S; Balleine B, 2026, Stubborn by design: When past rewards keep agents betting on known losses , http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6731959

Soegyono O; Pepin E; Leung BK; Chieng BC; Balleine BW; Laurent V, 2025, The influence of nucleus accumbens shell D1 and D2 neurons on outcome-specific Pavlovian instrumental transfer, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/elife.107566.3

Soegyono O; Pepin E; Leung BK; Chieng BC; Balleine BW; Laurent V, 2025, The influence of nucleus accumbens shell D1 and D2 neurons on outcome-specific Pavlovian instrumental transfer, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/elife.107566.2

Soegyono O; Pepin E; Leung BK; Chieng BC; Balleine BW; Laurent V, 2025, The influence of nucleus accumbens shell D1 and D2 neurons on outcome-specific Pavlovian instrumental transfer, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/elife.107566.1

Payzan-LeNestour E; Yang Y; Thelaus S; Balleine B, 2025, Stubborn by design: When past rewards keep agents betting on known losses, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5041683

Quang H; Le Heron C; Balleine B; Nguyen T-V; Nguyen T-Q; Nguyen M-N; Kumfor F; McDonald S, 2023, Reduced Sensitivity to Background Reward Underlies Apathy after Traumatic Brain Injury: Insights from an Ecological Foraging Framework, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4356809

Becchi S; Buson A; Balleine B, 2021, Inhibition of Vascular Adhesion Protein 1 Protects Dopamine Neurons From the Effects of Acute Inflammation and Restores Habit Learning in the Striatum, http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-691589/v1

Turner K; Balleine B; Bradfield L, 2020, Does disrupting the Orbitofrontal Cortex alter sensitivity to punishment? A potential mechanism of compulsivity, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/cwvmx

Morse A; Leung B; Heath E; Bertran-Gonzalez J; Pepin E; Chieng B; Balleine B; Laurent V, 2019, A Novel GPCR-Based Memory Process is Necessary for the Influence of Predictive Learning on Choice, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3472044

Fisher SD; Ferguson LA; Bertran-Gonzalez J; Balleine BW, Amygdala-cortical control of striatal plasticity drives the acquisition of goal-directed action, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.28.970616

Becchi S; Chieng B; Bradfield LA; Capellán R; Leung BK; Balleine BW, Cognitive effects of thalamostriatal degeneration are ameliorated by normalizing striatal cholinergic activity, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.25.505358

Becchi S; Burton C; Tsoukalas M; Bowring J; Balleine B; Mor D, CRF receptor type 1 modulates the nigrostriatal dopamine projection and facilitates cognitive flexibility after acute and chronic stress, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.26.513963

Matamales M; McGovern AE; Mi JD; Mazzone SB; Balleine BW; Bertran-Gonzalez J, D1 and D2 systems converge in the striatum to update goal-directed learning, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/780346

pool E; Gera R; Fransen A; Perez OD; Cremer A; Aleksic M; Tanwisuth S; Quail S; Ceceli AO; Manfredi D; Nave G; Tricomi E; Balleine B; Schonberg T; Schwabe L; O'Doherty J, Determining the effects of training duration on the behavioral expression of habitual control in humans: a multi-laboratory investigation, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/z756h

Abiero AR; Gladding JM; Iredale JA; Drury HR; Manning EE; Dayas CV; Dhungana A; Ganesan K; Turner K; Becchi S; Kendig MD; Nolan C; Balleine B; Castorina A; Cole L; Clemens KJ; Bradfield LA, Dorsomedial striatal neuroinflammation causes excessive goal-directed action control by disrupting astrocyte function, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.24.620154

Ferguson LA; Matamales M; Balleine BW; Bertran-Gonzalez J, Dynamic adaptation of sequential action benefits from cortico-basal ganglia-related temporal variability, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.28.486040

Payzan-LeNestour E; Balleine B; Doran J; Nave G; Pradier L, Friend or Foe: The Influence of Ambient Sound on Risk Perception, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3422762

Dhungana A; Becchi S; Leake J; Morris G; Avgan N; Balleine BW; Vissel B; Bradfield LA, Goal-directed action is transiently impaired in an hAPP-J20 mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease, and in aging male mice regardless of genotype, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.25.501480

Bradfield LA; Leung BK; Boldt S; Balleine BW, Goal-directed action transiently depends on action space, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/783308

Leung BK; Merlin S; Walker AK; Lawther AJ; Paxinos G; Eapen V; Clarke R; Balleine BW; Furlong TM, Immp2l knockdown increases stimulus-driven instrumental behaviour but does not alter goal-directed learning or neuron density in cortico-striatal circuits in a mouse model of Tourette syndrome and autism spectrum disorder, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.12.528225

Dezfouli A; Morris R; Ramos F; Dayan P; Balleine BW, Integrated accounts of behavioral and neuroimaging data using flexible recurrent neural network models, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/328849

Peak JN; Liang S; Lau BK; Turner KM; Leung BK; Balleine BW, Intratelencephalic neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex mediate the acquisition of goal-directed actions, http://dx.doi.org/10.64898/2026.07.02.736246

Dezfouli A; Balleine BW, Learning the structure of the world: The adaptive nature of state-space and action representations in multi-stage decision-making, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/211664

Ma C; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Roughley S; Vissel B; Balleine BW; Killcross S; Bradfield LA, Medial Orbitofrontal Cortex Regulates Instrumental Conditioned Punishment, but not Pavlovian Conditioned Fear, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.12.092205

Dezfouli A; Griffiths K; Ramos F; Dayan P; Balleine BW, Models that learn how humans learn: the case of depression and bipolar disorders, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/285221

Dezfouli A; Balleine BW; Nock R, Optimal Response Vigor and Choice Under Non-stationary Outcome Values, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/106500

Crimmins B; McNulty M; Laurent V; Hart G; Balleine B, Response-independent outcome presentations weakens the instrumental response-outcome association, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/c83kx

Peak J; Chieng B; Hart G; Balleine BW, Striatal direct and indirect pathway neurons differentially control the encoding and updating of goal-directed learning, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.18.955385

Hart G; Burton TJ; Nolan CR; Balleine BW, Striatal dopamine encodes the relationship between actions and reward, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.31.478585

Morris RW; Dezfouli A; Griffiths KR; Le Pelley ME; Balleine BW, The algorithmic neuroanatomy of action-outcome learning, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/137851

Perkes IE; Kassem MS; Hazell PL; Paxinos G; Mitchell PB; Eapen V; Balleine BW, The anatomy of obsessive-compulsive disorder, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.06.22280808

Roy DJ; Burton TJ; Balleine BW, The control of goal-directed actions by nutrient-specific appetites and rewards, http://dx.doi.org/10.64898/2026.02.19.706921

Soegyono O; Pepin E; Leung BK; Chieng BC; Balleine BW; Laurent V, The influence of nucleus accumbens shell D1 and D2 neurons on outcome-specific Pavlovian instrumental transfer, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.26.656228

Soegyono O; Pepin E; Leung BK; Chieng B; Balleine BW; Laurent V, The influence of nucleus accumbens shell D1 and D2 neurons on outcome-specific Pavlovian instrumental transfer, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/elife.107566

Roy DJ; Burton TJ; Balleine BW, The motivational control of instrumental performance by nutrient-specific appetites depends on incentive learning, http://dx.doi.org/10.64898/2026.06.14.732213

Perkes IE; Morris RW; Griffiths KR; Quail S; Waters F; O’Brien M; Hazell PL; Balleine BW, The motivational determinants of human action, their neural bases and functional impact in adolescents with OCD, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.19.22272645

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