Selected Publications

International Peer-reviewed Journals

Eperon, A., Doeller, C.F., Theves, S.* & Bottini, R.* (2026). Action information is integrated into entorhinal representations of conceptual space and is reflected in eye movements. PLOS Biology https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003755

Tenderra, R.M. & Theves, S. (2025). Human intelligence relates to neural measures of cognitive map formation. Cell Reports, 44, 116033.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2025.116033

Theves, S. (2025). Thinking as analogy-making: Towards a neural process account of general intelligence. The Journal of Neuroscience:  the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 45(18), e1555242025. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1555-24.2025

Theves, S., Schäfer, T., Reisner, V., de Cothi, W., & Barry, C. (2024). Category boundaries modulate memory in a place-cell-like manner. Current biology: CB, S0960-9822(24)01351-4. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.09.083

Theves, S., Neville, D. A., Fernández, G., & Doeller, C. F. (2021). Learning and Representation of Hierarchical Concepts in Hippocampus and Prefrontal Cortex. The Journal of Neuroscience, 41(36), 7675–7686. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0657-21.2021

Theves, S., Fernández, G., Doeller, C. F. (2020). The hippocampus maps concept space, not feature space. The Journal of Neuroscience. 40 (38), 7318–7325. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0494-20.2020

Theves, S., Fernández, G., Doeller, C. F. (2019). The hippocampus encodes distances in multidimensional feature space. Current Biology, 29 (7), 1226 – 1231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.02.035

Theves, S., Chan, J. S., Naumer, M. J., Kaiser, J. (2020). Improving audio-visual temporal perception through training enhances beta-band activity. Neuroimage, 206, 116312. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116312

Book chapters

Theves, S., Grande, X., Duzel, E., Doeller, C. F. (2024). Pattern completion and the medial temporal lobe memory system. In M. J. Kahana, A. D. Wagner (Ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Human Memory. New York: Oxford University Press.

Preprints

Tenderra, R. & Theves, S. Neural alignment of knowledge structures relates to human intelligence. bioRxiv 2026.04.13.718008. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.04.13.718008

Wu, X., Rabe, F., Wu, P., Edkins,V., Pauli, Y., Theves, S., Hinzen, W., Sommer, I.E., Homan, P. Disorganization impairs cognitive maps built from visual inputs. bioRxiv 2025.12.22.695951; doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2025.12.22.695951

Kerrén, C., Theves, S., Johansson, M., Gärdenfors,P., Doeller, C.F. Inference over hidden contexts shapes the geometry of conceptual knowledge for flexible behaviour. bioRxiv 2025.10.10.681143; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.10.68114

Schäfer, T.,  Thalmann, M., Schulz, E. Doeller, C.F., Theves, S. (2024). The hippocampus support interpolation into new states during category abstraction. bioRxiv 2024.05.14.594185; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.14.594185

Eperon, A., Doeller, C.F., Theves, S*. & Bottini, R.* (2024). Representation of conceptual affordances in eye movements and the entorhinal cortex. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.21.633955