Publications
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Harootonian SK, Griffiths TL, Niv Y§, Ho MK§ (2026) Mentalizing and heuristics as distinct cognitive strategies in human teaching. Nature Human Behaviour.
Harootonian SK, Ho MK, Griffiths TL, Niv Y§, Sucholutsky I§ (2026) Do Large Language Models Mentalize When They Teach? ICLR Workshop: From Human Cognition to AI Reasoning (HCAIR).
Harootonian SK, Niv Y, Griffiths TL, Ho MK (2024) Modeling Cognitive Strategies in Teaching: Integrating Theory of Mind and Heuristics. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Takahashi YK, Stalnaker TA, Mueller LE, Harootonian SK, Langdon AJ, Schoenbaum G (2023) Dopaminergic prediction errors in the ventral tegmental area reflect a multithreaded predictive model. Nature Neuroscience.
Harootonian SK, Ekstrom AD, Wilson RC (2022) Combination and competition between path integration and landmark navigation in the estimation of heading direction. PLOS Computational Biology.
Harootonian SK, Wilson RC, Hejtmánek L, Ziskin EM, Ekstrom AD (2020) Path integration in large-scale space and with novel geometries: Comparing vector addition and encoding-error models. PLOS Computational Biology.
Ekstrom AD, Harootonian SK, Huffman DJ (2020) Grid coding, spatial representation, and navigation: Should we assume an isomorphism? Hippocampus. (equal contribution)
De Meo-Monteil R, Nordahl CW, Amaral DG, Rogers SJ, Harootonian SK, Martin J, Rivera SM, Saron CD (2019) Differential Altered Auditory Event-Related Potential Responses in Young Boys on the Autism Spectrum With and Without Disproportionate Megalencephaly. Autism Research.