2025 & Ongoing
Jadyn S. Park, Jin Ke, Kruthi Gollapudi, Matthias Nau, Ioannis Pappas & Yuan Chang Leong (in prep). Emotional arousal enhances narrative memories through functional integration of large-scale brain networks
Shan Gao, Ryleigh Nash, Shannon Burns & Yuan Chang Leong (submitted). Predicting whole-brain neural dynamics from prefrontal cortex fNIRS signal during movie-watching. Preprint
Jin Ke, Hayoung Song, Monica D. Rosenberg & Yuan Chang Leong (submitted). Dynamic functional connectivity encodes generalizable representations of emotional arousal across individuals and situational contexts. bioRxiv. Preprint
Haena Kim, Alicia Liu & Yuan Chang Leong (in press). Desirability biases perceptual decisions in the aversive domain. Emotion. Preprint
2024
Begüm G. Babür, Yuan Chang Leong, Chelsey X. Pan & Leor M. Hackel (2024). Neural responses to social rejection reflect dissociable learning about relational value and reward. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Article
2023
Nakwon Rim, Marc G. Berman & Yuan Chang Leong (2023). Moral consensus and divergence in partisan language use. arXiv:2310.09618. Preprint
2022
2021
Samuel Nastase, Yun-Fei Liu, Hanna Hillman, Asieh Zadbood, Liat Hasenfratz, Neggin Keshavarzian, Janice Chen, Christopher J. Honey, Yaara Yeshurun, Mor Regev, Mai Nguyen, Claire H.C. Chang, Christopher Baldassano, Olga Lositsky, Erez Simony, Michael A. Chow, Yuan Chang Leong, Paula P. Brooks, Emily Micciche, Gina Choe, Ariel Goldstein, Tamara Vanderwal, Yaroslav O. Halchenko, Kenneth A. Norman, Uri Hasson (2021). The “Narratives” fMRI dataset for evaluating models of naturalistic language comprehension. Scientific Data. Article | Preprint
2020
2019
Yuan Chang Leong, Brent L Hughes, Yiyu Wang, Jamil Zaki (2019). Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying motivated seeing. Nature Human Behavior. Article | PDF | SI | Code/Data | Commentary
2018
2017
Yuan Chang Leong*, Angela Radulescu*, Reka Daniel, Vivian DeWoskin, Yael Niv (2017). Dynamic interaction between reinforcement learning and attention in multidimensional environments. Neuron. Article | PDF | SI | Commentary
Janice Chen*, Yuan Chang Leong*, Christopher J Honey, Chung H Yong, Kenneth A Norman, Uri Hasson (2017). Shared memories reveal shared structure in neural activity across individuals. Nature Neuroscience. Article | PDF | SI | Commentary
2016 & Earlier
Natalia Velez, Yuan Chang Leong, Chelsey Pan, Hyowon Gweon (2016). Learning and making novel predictions about others’ preferences. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. PDF
Yael Niv, Reka Daniel, Andra Geana, Samuel J Gershman, Yuan Chang Leong, Angela Radulescu, Robert C Wilson (2015). Reinforcement learning in multidimensional environments relies on attention mechanisms. Journal of Neuroscience. Article | PDF | Commentary
Yuan Chang Leong, Yael Niv (2013). Human reinforcement learning processes act on learned attentionally-filtered representations of the world. 1st Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making. PDF