Publications

You can also find the list of my publications on my Google Scholar profile.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Papers (* indicates co-authorship)

2025

Grahek, I.*, Leng, X.*, Musslick, S., & Shenhav, A. (in press). Control adjustment costs limit goal flexibility: Empirical evidence and a theoretical account. Psychological Review. link

Leng, X., Frömer, R., Summe, T., and Shenhav, A. (2025). Mutual inclusivity improves decision-making by smoothing out choices competitive edge. Nature Human Behavior, 9(3), 521-533. link

Fahey, M. P., Yee, D. M., Leng, X., Tarlow, M., and Shenhav, A. (2025). Motivational context determines the impact of aversive outcomes on mental effort allocation. Cognition, 254, 105973. link

2024

Zhang, Y., Leng, X., and Shenhav, A. (2024). Make or break: The influence of expected challenges and rewards on the motivation and experience associated with cognitive effort exertion. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 1-23. link

2022

Yee, D. M., Leng, X., Shenhav, A., and Braver, T. S. (2022). Aversive motivation and cognitive control. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 133, 104493. link

Ritz, H., Leng, X., and Shenhav, A. (2022). Cognitive Control as a Multivariate Optimization Problem. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 123. link

2021

Leng, X., Yee, D., Ritz, H., and Shenhav, A. (2021). Dissociable influences of reward and punishment on adaptive cognitive control. PLoS Computational Biology, 17(12), e1009737. link

2019

Slyepchenko, A., Allega, O.R., Leng, X., Minuzzi, L., Eltayebani, M.M., Skelly, M., Sassi, R.B., Soares, C.N., Kennedy, S.H. and Frey, B.N. (2019). Association of functioning and quality of life with objective and subjective measures of sleep and biological rhythms in major depressive and bipolar disorder. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 53(7), pp.683-696. link

2018

Allega, O.R., Leng, X., Vaccarino, A., Skelly, M., Lanzini, M., Hidalgo, M.P., Soares, C.N., Kennedy, S.H. and Frey, B.N. (2018). Performance of the biological rhythms interview for assessment in neuropsychiatry: an item response theory and actigraphy analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders, 225, pp.54-63. link