• Preprints

Xu, S., Wen, T., Egner, T., Verguts, T., & Braem, S. (2025). Learning task rule updating strategies requires extensive practice. PsyArXiv.

Xu, S., Chai, M., Liefooghe, B., & Abrahamse, E., & Braem, S. (2025). Learning when to learn: Context-specific instruction encoding. PsyArXiv.

Xu, S., Erlich, C. J., & Lukinova, E. (2025). Intertemporal choice across short and long time horizons: an fMRI study. bioRxiv.

• Peer-reviewed Papers

Xu, S., Verguts, T., & Braem, S. (in press at Communications Psychology). Cognitive flexibility versus stability via activation-based and weight-based adaptations. Communications Psychology.

Vasta, N., Xu, S., Verguts, T., & Braem, S. (2025). A shared temporal window of integration across cognitive control and reinforcement learning paradigms: A correlational study. Memory & cognition

Braem, S., Chai, M., Held, L. K., & Xu, S. (2024). One cannot simply’be flexible’: Regulating control parameters requires learning. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Xu, S., Simoens, J., Verguts, T., & Braem, S. (2024). Learning where to be flexible: Using environmental cues to regulate cognitive control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General