Publications

Harhen NC, Bornstein AM*, Hartley CA* (2026). Developmental changes in memory structure and precision alter the use of retrieved episodes during decisions for reward. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123(31):e2525494123. [pdf]

Harhen NC, Budiono R, Hartley CA*, Bornstein AM* (2026). Structure inference in complex environments improves from childhood to adulthood. Developmental Science, 29(3):e70163. [pdf]

Harhen NC, Bornstein AM (2024). Interval timing as a computational pathway from early life adversity to affective disorders. Topics in Cognitive Science. [pdf]

Harhen NC, Bornstein AM (2023). Overharvesting in human patch foraging reflects rational structure learning and adaptive planning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(13):e2216524120. [pdf][code]

Arcos, K.*, Harhen, N.*, Loiotile, R., Bedny, M (2022). Superior verbal but not nonverbal memory in congenital blindness. Exp Brain Res, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-021-06304-4 [pdf]

Loiotile, R, Kanjlia, S, Harhen, N, Bedny, M (2021). "Visual" cortices of congenitally blind adults are sensitive to response selection demands in a go/no-go task. Neuroimage, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118023. [pdf]

Conference Proceedings

Harhen NC, Goldway N, Fielder JC, Ortiz AM, Ma Y, McCormick E, & Hartley, CA (2026). Early-life environments shape learning and decision-making strategies across development. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.[pdf]

Harhen NC, Hartley CA, Bornstein AM (2024). Development of structure inference contributes to age-related differences in exploration.Proceedings of the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Conference. [pdf]

Chen Y, Harhen NC, Stout DA, Bornstein AM (2024). Early life unpredictability modulates planning horizon in a structured foraging task. Proceedings of the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience. [pdf]

Harhen NC, Bornstein AM (2022). Learning to expect change: Volatility during early experience alters reward expectations in a model of interval timing. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. [pdf]

Harhen NC, Bornstein AM (2022). Humans adapt their foraging strategies and computations to environment complexity. Proceedings of the 5th Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making. [pdf]

Harhen NC, Bornstein AM (2021). Structure learning as a mechanism of overharvesting. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. [pdf]

Harhen NC, Hartley CA, Bornstein AM (2021). Model-based foraging using latent-cause inference. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [pdf][code]