Sam Hall-McMaster

Preprints

  • Musial, M.P.M., Hall-McMaster, S., Shimomura, K., Kato, A., Bode, E.L., Grundmann, C., Ebrahimi, C., Morita, K., Gershman, S.J., Endrass, T., & Schlagenhauf, F. The successor representation in high-risk drinking and alcohol-related contexts. [preprint]

  • Hall-McMaster, S., Wittkuhn, W., Verra, L., Hedrich, H.L., Irie, K., Dayan, P., *Gershman, S.J., & *Schuck, N.W. Entorhinal cortex signals dimensions of past experience that can be generalised in a novel environment. *joint senior authors. [preprint]

  • Carvalho, W., Hall-McMaster, S., Lee, H., Gershman, S.J. Preemptive solving of future problems: Multitask preplay in humans and machines. [preprint]

Published Papers

  • *Hall-McMaster, S., & *Zika, O. (2025) Increasing response vigour under time pressure as a transdiagnostic marker of eating disorders. Computational Psychiatry, 9(1), 124-141. *equal contribution. [paper] [supplement] [data + code]

  • Chau, J.M. Ison, M.J., Muhle-Karbe, P.S., Stokes, M.G., *Hall-McMaster, S., & *Myers, N.E. (2025). Alpha and beta oscillations mediate the effect of motivation on neural coding of cognitive flexibility. Biological Psychology, 200, 109085. *joint senior authors. [paper] [data + code]

  • Hall-McMaster, S., Tomov, M., *Gershman, S.J., & *Schuck, N.W. (2025). Neural evidence that humans reuse strategies to solve new tasks. PLOS Biology, 23(6), e3003174. *joint senior authors. [paper] [supplement] [data + code]

  • Radzikowska, M., Pike, A.C., & Hall-McMaster, S. (2025). Computational perspectives on cognition in anorexia nervosa: A systematic review. Computational Psychiatry, 9(1), 100-121. [paper]

  • Hedrich, N.L., Schulz, E., *Hall-McMaster, S., & *Schuck, N.W. (2024). An inductive bias for slowly changing features in human reinforcement learning. PLOS Computational Biology, 20(11), 1-30. *joint senior authors. [paper] [data + code]

  • Hall-McMaster, S., Stokes, M.G., & Myers, N.E. (2022). Integrating reward information for prospective behaviour. Journal of Neuroscience, 42(9), 1804-1819. [paper] [data + code]

  • Pike, A. C., Atherton, K. E., Bauer, Y., Crittenden, B. M., van Ede, F., Hall-McMaster, S., … & Noonan, M. P. (2022). 10 simple rules for a supportive lab environment. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 35(1), 44-48. [paper]

  • Hall-McMaster, S., Dayan, P., & Schuck N.W. (2021). Control over patch encounters changes foraging behaviour. iScience, 24(9), 1-10. [paper] [data + code]

  • Wittkuhn, L., Chien, S., Hall-McMaster, S., & Schuck, N.W. (2021). Replay in minds and machines. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 129, 367-388. [paper]

  • Hall-McMaster, S., Muhle-Karbe, P.S., *Myers, N.E., & *Stokes, M.G. (2019). Reward boosts neural coding of task rules to optimise cognitive flexibility. Journal of Neuroscience, 39(43), 8549-8561. *joint senior authors. [paper] [data + code]

  • Hall-McMaster, S., & Luyckx, F. (2019). Revisiting foraging approaches in neuroscience. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 19(2), 225-230. [paper]

  • Hall-McMaster, S., Millar, J., Ruan, M., & Ward, R.D. (2017). Medial orbitofrontal cortex modulates associative learning between environmental cues and reward probability. Behavioral Neuroscience, 131(1), 1-10. [paper] [supplement]

  • Hall-McMaster, S.M., Treharne, G.J., & Smith, C.M. (2016). Positive thinking and physical activity motivation: A qualitative case study. New Zealand Journal of Physiotherapy, 44(1), 26-32. [paper]

  • Hall-McMaster, S.M., Treharne, G.J., & Smith, C.M. (2016). “The positive feel’: Unpacking the role of positive thinking in people with multiple sclerosis’s thinking aloud about staying physically active. Journal of Health Psychology, 21(12), 3026-3036. [paper]