Publications

Peer-reviewed research, science writing, fiction, and patents.

Popular Science

The Rise of Decorative Neuroscience (Blanchard. Skeptic, 2026.)

Most people don’t know what they don’t know, but think they do (Blanchard. The Conversation, 2026.)

Why are we curious about some things and indifferent to others? (Blanchard. Psyche, 2025.)

Insatiable Minds: Why Humans Are Hard-Wired For Curiosity (Hemmelder, Blanchard. Greater Good Magazine, 2017)

Science Fiction

Privacy Incident (Big Pulp Volume 2, 2026)

Queenless Astroentomology (Scott's Planet, B Cubed Press, 2025)

Tenure Track (Polar Borealis, 2024)

Data Integrity (Stupefying Stories, 2024)

Sacrificial Copy (Sci Phi Journal, 2024)

Hedonics, Inc (After Dinner Conversation, 2022)

The Search for Intelligence (New Myths, Issue 54, 2021)

Rest In Virtual (Alternative Deathiness, B Cubed Press, 2021)

Academic Publications

Animal Cognition

Macaques preferentially attend to intermediately surprising information (Wu, Blanchard, Meschke, Aslin, Hayden, Kidd. Biology Letters. 2022)

Monkeys Are More Patient in a Foraging Task than in a Standard Intertemporal Choice Task (Blanchard, Hayden. PLOS One. 2015)

Hot-Hand Bias in Rhesus Monkeys (Blanchard, Wilke, Hayden. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition. 2014)

Biases in preferences for sequences of outcomes in monkeys (Blanchard, Wolfe, Vlaev, Winston, Hayden. Cognition. 2014)

Postreward delays and systematic biases in measures of animal temporal discounting (Blanchard, Pearson, Hayden. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2013)

Medicine

Transition Period Clinical Trajectories for PD versus HD Starters (D. Maddux, Usvyat, Jiao, Blanchard, Kotanko, van der Sande, Kooman, F. Maddux. Peritoneal Dialysis International. 2019)

Clinical parameters before and after the transition to dialysis (D. Maddux, Usvyat, Ketchersid, Jiao, Blanchard, Kotanko, van der Sande, Kooman, F. Maddux. Hemodialysis International. 2017)

Methodology

Estadística práctica para cirujanos (Blanchard, Reverté. Investigación en Cirugia Ortopédica: Un enfoque práctico basado en casos quirúrgicos, Ed. Bhandari, Guerra, Bagó. Published by Editorial Medica Panamerica. 2017)

Behavioral Methods in Consciousness Research (Blanchard. Philosophical Psychology. 2016)

Neuroscience

Pure correlates of exploration and exploitation in the human brain (Blanchard, Gershman. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. 2018)

Robust mixture modeling reveals category-free selectivity in reward region neuronal ensembles (Blanchard, Piantadosi, Hayden. Journal of Neurophysiology. 2018)

Neuronal selectivity for spatial positions of offers and choices in five reward regions (Strait, Sleezer, Blanchard, Azab, Castagno, Hayden. Journal of Neurophysiology. 2016)

Orbitofrontal Cortex Uses Distinct Codes for Different Choice Attributes in Decisions Motivated by Curiosity (Blanchard, Hayden, Bromberg-Martin. Neuron. 2015)

Ramping ensemble activity in dorsal anterior cingulate neurons during persistent commitment to a decision (Blanchard, Strait, Hayden. Journal of Neurophysiology. 2015)

Neurons in Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex Signal Postdecisional Variables in a Foraging Task (Blanchard, Hayden. Journal of Neuroscience. 2014)

Reward Value Comparison via Mutual Inhibition in Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex (Strait, Blanchard, Hayden. Neuron. 2014)

Sociology

Collaboration type, intelligence sources, and the dynamics of terrorist detection: a study of jihadi terrorism in the US post 9/11 (Marjan, Blanchard. Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism. 2026)

Patents

Systems and methods for generating anonymized acoustic fingerprints (Usvyat, Blanchard, Chaudhuri, Millette, Maddux, Monaghan, 2025)

Using personalized physiological parameters for sleep/wake detection (Blanchard, Reth, 2023)

Guided account warming for establishing sending reputations (Blanchard, Lawson, Schenker, Zucker, Baker, 2023)

Systems and methods for identifying risk of infection in dialysis patients (Blanchard, Usvyat, Willetts, Herman, Ellison, Moran, Chatoth, 2023)

Systems and methods for treating and estimating progression of chronic kidney disease (Blanchard, Usvyat, Wang, Kotanko, D. Maddux, F. Maddux, 2021)