Investigator, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University
Email: yluo@psy.ecnu.edu.cn
Office: Room 302 Junxiu Building, 3663 North Zhongshan Road, Shanghai
Social cognitive neuroscience, social decision-making, social cognition, cooperation, fairness, reciprocity
Motivated by the ubiquity of social decision-making across human societies and its critical role in social functioning as well as mental health, Dr Luo's primary academic interest is to understand the computational and neural mechanisms of social decision-making in humans. She utilizes game-theoretic and computational probes of mental processes combined with functional magnetic resonance imaging to tease apart and understand important processes of social decision-making.
Currently, she focuses on three main projects: 1) The role of self-control in social decision-making among adults. 2) The development of reward learning, cognitive control, and interpersonal inference in adolescents and their impact on social development. 3) Interventions such as cognitive training aiming at improving social decision-making.
2016 Ph.D., State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University
2022-present Investigator, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University
2020-2021 Research Associate, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, Virginia Tech
2017-2020 Post-doctoral Research Associate, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, Virginia Tech
- Luo, Y.*, Hétu, S.*, Lohrenz, T., Hula, A., Dayan, P., Ramey, S. L., ... & Ramey, C. (2018). Early childhood investment impacts social decision-making four decades later. Nature communications, 9(1), 1-10. *Equal contribution
- Feng, C.#, Eickhoff, S. B., Li, T., Wang, L., Becker, B., Camilleri, J. A., ... & Luo, Y.# (2021). Common brain networks underlying human social interactions: Evidence from large-scale neuroimaging meta-analysis. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 126, 289-303. #Joint corresponding author
- Luo, Y., Mendoza, C., Pelfrey, S., Lohrenz, T., Gu, X., Montague, P. R., & McAdams, C. J. (2022). Elevated neurobehavioral responses to negative social interactions in women with bulimia nervosa. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 7(7), 696-705.
- Zhu, R., Liu, C., Li, T., Xu, Z., Fung, B., Feng, C.#, Wu H. #, Luo, Y. # & Wang, L. # (2019). Intranasal oxytocin reduces reactive aggression in men but not in women: A computational approach. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 108, 172-181. #Joint corresponding author
- Luo, Y., Eickhoff, S. B., Hetu, S., & Feng, C. (2018). Social comparison in the brain: A coordinate‐based meta‐analysis of functional brain imaging studies on the downward and upward comparisons. Human brain mapping, 39(1), 440-458.
- Shuster, A., O’Brien, M., Luo, Y., Berner, L. A., Perl, O., Heflin, M., ... & Gu, X. (2021). Emotional adaptation during a crisis: Decline in anxiety and depression after the initial weeks of COVID-19 in the United States. Translational Psychiatry, 11(1), 1-7.
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