2011.9–2016.6 Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience: Beijing Normal University
2014.10–2015.10 Joint Ph.D. Training: Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute
2007.9–2011.6 Bachelor's in Applied Psychology: Southwest University
2022.3–Present - East China Normal University - Researcher, Doctoral Supervisor, Zijiang Young Scholar
2020–2021 - Virginia Tech - Research Associate
2017–2020 - Virginia Tech - Post-doctoral Research Associate
Fifth Hanxiang Young Scientist Nomination Award
First Prize in the 33rd New Faculty Teaching Competition at East China Normal University
Research
Social Cognition and Social Learning Computational Processes and Neural Mechanisms of Social Decision-Making Computational Neural Mechanisms of Social Decision Deviations in Mental Disorders
Diminished Adaptation, Satisfaction, and Neural Responses to Advantageous Social Signals in Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa, Yi Luo, Dustin Pluta, Brooks B Brodrick, Jayme M Palka, Jordan McCoy, Terry Lohrenz, Xiaosi Gu, Marina Vannucci, P Read Montague, Carrie J McAdams, 2024
Noradrenaline tracks emotional modulation of attention in human amygdala, Dan Bang, Yi Luo, Leonardo S. Barbosa, Seth R. Batten, Beniamino Hadj-Amar, Thomas Twomey, Natalie Melville, Jason P. White, Alexis Torres, Xavier Celaya, Priya Ramaiah, Samuel M. McClure, Gene A. Brewer, Robert W. Bina, Terry Lohrenz, Brooks Casas, Pearl H. Chiu, Marina Vannucci, Kenneth T. Kishida, Mark R. Witcher, P. Read Montague, 2023
Early childhood investment impacts social decision-making four decades later, Yi Luo, Sébastien Hétu, Terry Lohrenz, Andreas Hula, Peter Dayan, Sharon Landesman Ramey, Libbie Sonnier-Netto, Jonathan Lisinski, Stephen LaConte, Tobias Nolte, Peter Fonagy, Elham Rahmani, P. Read Montague, Craig Ramey, 2018
Common brain networks underlying human social interactions: evidence from large-scale neuroimaging meta-analysis and brain network analysis, Chunliang Feng, Simon B. Eickhoff, Ting Li, Li Wang, Benjamin Becker, Julia A. Camilleri, Sébastien Hétu, Yi Luo, 2021
Elevated neurobehavioral responses to negative social interactions in women with bulimia nervosa, Yi Luo, Carlisdania Mendoza, Sarah Pelfrey, Terry Lohrenz, Xiaosi Gu, P. Read Montague, Carrie J. McAdams, 2022
Intranasal oxytocin reduces reactive aggression in men but not in women: A computational approach, Ruida Zhu, Chao Liu, Ting Li, Zhenhua Xu, Bowen Fung, Chunliang Feng, Haiyan Wu, Yi Luo, Li Wang, 2019
Social comparison in the brain: a coordinate-based meta-analysis of functional brain imaging studies on the downward and upward comparisons, Yi Luo, Simon B. Eickhoff, Sébastien Hétu, Chunliang Feng, 2018
Social Comparison Manifests in Event-related Potentials, Yi Luo, Chunliang Feng, Tingting Wu, Lucas S. Broster, Huajian Cai, Ruolei Gu, Yue-jia Luo, 2015
The temporal course of the influence of anxiety on fairness considerations, Yi Luo, Tingting Wu, Lucas S. Broster, Chunliang Feng, Dandan Zhang, Ruolei Gu, Yue-jia Luo, 2014
The Impact of anxiety on social decision-making: Behavioral and electrodermal findings, Tingting Wu, Yi Luo, Lucas S. Broster, Ruolei Gu, Yue-jia Luo, 2013
The Flexible Fairness: Equality, Earned Entitlement, and Self-interest, Chunliang Feng, Yi Luo, Lucas S. Broster, Xueyi Shen, Tengxiang Tian, Ruolei Gu, Yue-jia Luo, Frank Krueger, 2013
The fairness norm in social decision-making: Behavioral and neuroscience studies, Yi Luo, Chunliang Feng, Ruolei Gu, Tingting Wu, Yue-jia Luo, 2013
Wanting versus needing related value: An fMRI meta-analysis, Juvenal Bosulu, Max-Antoine Allaire, Laurence Tremblay-Grénier, Yi Luo, Simon Eickhoff, Sébastien Hétu, 2022
Randomized manipulation of early cognitive experience impacts adult brain structure, Martha J. Farah, Saul Sternberg, Thomas A. Nichols, Jeffrey T. Duda, Terry Lohrenz, Yi Luo, Libbie Sonnier, Sharon L. Ramey, P. Read Montague, Craig T. Ramey, 2021
From gratitude to injustice: Neurocomputational mechanisms of gratitude-induced injustice, Ruida Zhu, Zhenhua Xu, Song Su, Chunliang Feng, Yi Luo, Honghong Tang, Shen Zhang, Xiaoyan Wu, Xiaoqin Mai, Chao Liu, 2021
Emotional adaptation during a crisis: decline in anxiety and depression after the initial weeks of COVID-19 in the United States, Anastasia Shuster, Madeline O’Brien, Yi Luo, Matthew Heflin, Dongil Chung, Soojung Na, Ofer Perl, Kaustubh Kulkarni, Vincenzo Fiore, Xiaosi Gu, 2021
Dissociable associations of alexithymia and altruistic propensity with distinct cognitive processes underlying moral decision making, Suiqing Li, Xinling Chen, Yi Luo, Chunliang Feng, 2021
Gender-specific effects of vasopressin on human social communication: An ERP study, Xiaoyan Wu, Chunliang Feng, Zhenhong He, Xu Gong, Yue-Jia Luo, Yi Luo, 2019
The Effects of vasopressin on human social behaviors, Xiaoyan Wu, Chunliang Feng, Jiahua Xu, Zhenhong He, Yi Luo, Yue-Jia Luo, 2019
Predicting risk decisions in a modified ballon analogue risk task: conventional and single-trial analyses, Ruolei Gu, Dandan Zhang, Yi Luo, Hongyan Wang, Lucas S. Broster, 2018
Human substantia nigra and ventral tegmental area involvement in computing social error signals during the ultimatum game, Sébastien Hétu, Yi Luo, Kimberlee D’Ardenne, Terry Lohrenz, P. Read Montague, 2017
Neural signatures of social conformity: A coordinate-based activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis of functional brain imaging studies, Haiyan Wu, Yi Luo, and Chunliang Feng, 2016
Asymmetry in functional connectivity of the human habenula revealed by high-resolution cardiac-gated resting state imaging, Sébastien Hétu, Yi Luo, Ignacio Saez, Kimberlee D'Ardenne, Terry Lohrenz, P. Read Montague, 2016
Be strong enough to say no: self-affirmation increases rejection to unfair offers, Ruolei Gu, Jing Yang, Yuanyuan Shi, Yi Luo, Yu L. L. Luo, Huajian Cai, 2016
Arousal modulates valence effects on both early and late stages of affective picture processing in a passive viewing task, Chunliang Feng, Wanqing Li, Tengxiang Tian, Yi Luo, Ruolei Gu, Chenglin Zhou, Yue-jia Luo, 2014
An electrophysiological index of changes in risk decision-making strategies, Dandan Zhang, Ruolei Gu, Tingting Wu, Lucas S. Broster, Yi Luo, Yang Jiang, Yue-jia Luo, 2013
Individual differences in detecting rapidly presented fearful faces, Dandan Zhang, Lili Wang, Yi Luo, Yue-jia Luo, 2012
Altruism in a Time of Crisis: Dissociable Social Valuation and Perception during COVID-19 in the United States, Yi Luo, Anastasia Shuster, Madeline O’Brien, Matt Heflin, Ofer Perl, Kaustubh Kulkarni, Soojung Na, Vincenzo Fiore, Dongil Chung, P. Read Montague, Xiaosi Gu, 2021
Keywords
Social CognitionSocial LearningSocial NormsReciprocityConformityFairnessTrustCooperationMental DisordersNeural Mechanisms