Lab PI: Rongjun YU, PhD (Univ. of Cambridge 2011)
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Current appointment:
2020 -- Associate Prof. with tenure,
Department of Management, School of Business, Hong Kong Baptist Univ.
Also affiliated with Department of Sport, Physical Education and Health, Faculty of Social Sciences, HKBU; Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, HKBU
Our lab is supported by the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, HKBU.
Email:
Office: The Wing Lung Bank Building for Business Studies WLB 722. Ext. 3411 7581
We use behavioral and neuroscience methods to study economic and social decision making in young adults, children/adolescents/older adults, and patients with psychiatric disorders.
Editorship: 2020-present, Associate editor, Neurobiology of Stress (IF=7.197)
Opportunities
PhD students can apply to one of the three departments (co-supervision arrangement is preferred):
Department of Management (GMAT/GRE required) (with Prof. Xu Huang on organizational neuroscience)
Department of Sport, Physical Education and Health (with Prof. Julien S Baker on sport neuroscience)
Department of Physics (with Prof. Changsong Zhou on brain imaging)
Students are encouraged to apply for the Hong Kong PhD fellowship.
Students may also be supported by internal funds.
Postdoctoral positions become available periodically under a variety of research grants and projects. Also, check out RGC postdoctoral fellowship schema.
Feel free to drop me an email and find out more (rongjunyu@hkbu.edu.hk)
Opportunities at CFPR, NUS:
Most recent publications:
Lei W., Liu K., Chen G., Tolomeo S., ...Yu R*., Chen J*. Blunted reward prediction error signals in internet gaming disorder. Psychological Medicine.
Tolomeo S.*, Yaple Z., Yu R*.Neural representation of prediction error signals in substance users. Addiction Biology.
Wang Z., Wang Y*., Zhou X*., Yu R*. Interpersonal brain synchronization under bluffing in strategic games. Social Cognitive And Affective Neuroscience.
Yang C., Luo L., Vadillo M., Yu R*., Shanks D. (2020). Testing boosts classroom learning: a systematic and meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin.
Yu R^., Sun Y^., Ye K^.., Feng Q , ……, Feng L* (2020). Cohort profile: the diet and healthy aging (DaHA) study in Singapore. Aging
Research approaches
Neuroimaging: simultaneous fMRI+EEG, fNIRS, hyperscanning
Behavioural: Computational modelling, Eye tracking,
Pharmacological manipulation (e.g. Oxytocin),
Research areas
Decision making under stress
Decision making in older adults
Computational psychiatry
Decision biases
Organizational neuroscience/organizational behavior
Teaching
Brain Science for Business (in prep., 2021-2022)
2014-2020 @NUS:
PL6888 Selected topics in social and cognitive neuroscience
PL5308 Advanced social and cognitive neuroscience
PL4205 Developmental processes
PL4238 Social neuroscience
PL3260 Moral development
PL3289 Lab in decision science
Ad Hoc Journal Review (selected)
Nature Communications, PNAS, eLife, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews,
Journal of Neuroscience, Cerebral Cortex, Neuroimage, HBM,
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience,
Child Development, Translational Psychiatry, Psychoneuroendocrinology,
Behavior Research Methods,
...
A selected list of journals we publish our work
Multidisciplinary
Science IF=41
Psychological bulletin IF=20.9
Behavioral and brain sciences IF=17;
PNAS IF=10
Nature communications IF=12;
Neuroscience & biobehavioral reviews IF=9
Neuroscience journals
Journal of neuroscience IF=6.1
Cerebral cortex IF=6.1
Neuroimage IF=6.9
Human brain mapping IF=4.5
Cortex IF=4.7
Journal of cognitive neuroscience IF=4.7
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience IF=4.5
Brain structure and function IF=4.0
Brain imaging and behavior IF=3.4
Neuropsychologia IF=3.4
Psychophysiology IF=3.4
Neurobiology of learning and memory IF=3.4
Clinical journals
Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics IF=14.9
Pain IF=6
psychological medicine IF=5.6
Psychoneuroendocrinology IF=4.8
Hormones and behavior IF=4.0
Journal of affective disorders IF=4.2
Addiction biology IF=4.2
schizophrenia research IF=3.8
Psychology journals
Psychological science IF=7
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General IF=5.3
Aging IF=5.5
Journal of gerontology: psychological science IF=3.9
Psychology and aging IF=3.7
Journal of experimental social psychology IF=3.6
Journal of behavioral decision making IF=1.8
Cyberpsychology, behavior, and social networking IF=2.7
Selected Media Coverage
Straits times;
Science Daily;