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Xinying Cai
Psychology and Cognitive Science
East China Normal University
Shanghai
Language: English, Chinese
Neural Mechanisms
Economic Choice
Behavior
Neuropsychiatric
Pathology
Prefrontal Cortex
Basal Ganglia
Circuits
Neuroscience
Decision Making
Areas of Focus
- Neural mechanisms of economic choice behavior
- Neuropsychiatric pathology of prefrontal-basal ganglia circuits
Work Experience
- Current - NYU Shanghai - Associate Professor of Neural and Cognitive Sciences
- Current - NYU - Global Network Associate Professor
- Current - East China Normal University-NYU Joint Research Center for Brain and Cognitive Science - Core Member
- Current - NYU Neuroscience Research Center - Member
- Current - Institute for Interdisciplinary Decision Sciences - Member
Academic Background & Achievements
- Ph.D. in Bioengineering: Arizona State University
- Bachelor's Degree: Zhejiang University
- Published research in top journals like Science, Nature Neuroscience, Neuron, and Journal of Neuroscience
Publications
- A hierarchy of intrinsic timescales across primate cortex, Murray JD, Bernacchia A, Freedman DJ, Romo R, Wallis JD, Cai X, Padoa-Schioppa C, Pasternak T, Seo H, Lee D, Wang XJ, 2014
- Neural correlates of strategic reasoning during competitive games, Hyojung Seo, Xinying Cai, Christopher H. Donahue, and Daeyeol Lee, 2014
- Contributions of orbitofrontal and lateral prefrontal cortices to economic choice and good-to-action transformation, Cai X and Padoa-Schioppa C., 2014
- Neuronal encoding of subjective value in dorsal and ventral anterior cingulate cortex, Cai X and Padoa-Schioppa C., 2012
- Orbitofrontal cortex and the computation of subjective value: consolidated concepts and new perspectives, Padoa-Schioppa C and Cai X., 2011
- Heterogeneous coding of temporally discounted values in the dorsal and ventral striatum during intertemporal choice, Cai X, Kim S, Lee D., 2011
Awards
- IEEE Second International Conference on Neural Engineering Outstanding Research Award
