Lab
Overview
In a rock-paper-scissor game, how does our brain predict which action our opponent will select? This predictive ability is probably one of the most complex functions of human intelligence, and its pathological expressions are also believed to be closely related to social abnormalities seen in psychiatric conditions ranging from borderline personality disorder to autism spectrum disorders. Our research seeks to understand how humans make such decisions, by bringing together tools and ideas from diverse areas of biological and social sciences. Read more...
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News
July 14, 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Qingtian Mi, who is awarded the 2022 Special Grant (pre-station) of the Chinese Postdoctoral Science Fund, a competitive grant for postdoctoral researchers nationwide.
May 22, 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Yaomin Jiang on a successful defense of his doctoral dissertation. "This is an ambitious and creative work addressing an important and consequential set of empirical questions..." a quote from an anonymous reviewer of Yaomin's work.
Apr 20, 2022
In a recent review on WIREs Cog. Sci., we discussed neurocomputation of strategic behavior, highlighting 2 important research questions: (i) How does the brain exploit past experience to learn to behave strategically, and (ii) how does the brain decide what to do in novel strategic situations in the absence of direct experience?
Mar 27, 2022
A new preprint by Yaomin, Qingtian, and Lusha is now online! It offers a computationally-tractable and neurobiologically-plausible account for how the brain aggregates entangled information circulating among interconnected peers.
Nov 25, 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Qingtian Mi on a successful defense of his doctoral dissertation! Dr. Mi was also awarded the top prize for excellent PhD work by Peking University.
Aug 5, 2021
Lusha joins the editorial board of PLoS Computational Biology as an Associate Editor. Look forward to working with the reputed journal and contributing to the community.
Mar 3, 2021
A new paper by Qingtian Mi and Cong Wang, in collaboration with Colin Camerer, now at Science Advances, demonstrating a neural generative process, subserved by the frontal-striatal circuit, that underlies our ability to read between the lines.
Dec 3, 2020
Congratulations to Yunlu, a lab alumnus, who is now going to become an assistant professor at the School of Management, Fudan University. Wish him the very best of luck!
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We regularly recruit healthy adults and/or adolescents to participate in various kinds of decision-making experiments. Please follow us on weChat for the latest information about our studies.
