Yinan is a cognitive neuroscientist at ENS LNC2 and a MSCA postdoc with Valentin Wyart. He is captivated by humanity's curious talent for making what appear to be noisy and biased decisions – choices that, despite their apparent folly, may actually be smart and optimal. He tackles this question by studying decision-making within multisensory contexts and scenarios presenting multiple options (N > 2), each teeming with diverse attributes. Using neuroimaging (mainly MEG), pharmacology, and computational modeling, he explores how the brain samples information and allocates attention.
Perspectives on the mechanistic underpinnings of choice biases Konstantinos Tsetsos and Yinan Cao
PsyArXiv (2024)
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Rhythmic sampling of multiple decision alternatives in the human brain Marcus Siems, Yinan Cao, Maryam Tohidi-Moghaddam, Tobias H. Donner and Konstantinos Tsetsos
bioRxiv (2023)
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Decision bias and sampling asymmetry in reward-guided learning Yinan Cao and Konstantinos Tsetsos
bioRxiv (2023)
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Clarifying the role of an unavailable distractor in human multiattribute choice Yinan Cao and Konstantinos Tsetsos
eLife (2022)
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Characterizing emergent representations in a space of candidate learning rules for deep networks Yinan Cao, Christopher Summerfield and Andrew Saxe
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) (2020)
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Causal inference in the multisensory brain Yinan Cao, Christopher Summerfield, Hame Park, Bruno L. Giordano and Christoph Kayser
Neuron (2019)
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Contact
The best way to reach me is via email:
ycaoneuro [at] gmail . com
