Lab PI: Rongjun YU, PhD (Univ. of Cambridge 2011)
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Current appointment:
2020 -- tenured Associate Professor, Department of Management, School of Business, Hong Kong Baptist Univ.
PI, Department of Sport, Physical Education and Health, Faculty of Social Sciences, HKBU;
PI, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, HKBU
Our lab is supported by the System Health Lab, 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.
Research facilities:
A research-delicated 3T MRI scanner (2021---),
EEG systems, eye-tracking, fNIRS.
Editorship: 2020-present, Associate editor, Neurobiology of Stress (IF=7.197)
Opportunities
PhD students (Deadline: March/April for the regular track, Dec 1st for HKPFS)
Can choose one of the FOUR departments (co-supervision arrangement is preferred):
Department of Management (GMAT/GRE required) (with Prof. Xu Huang on organizational neuroscience)
The School of Business at HKBU is triple-accredited by the three most influential business school accreditation associations: the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the Association of MBAs (AMBA) and the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS), amongst the 1% of business schools worldwide with TRIPLE CROWN STATUS.
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)
Department of computer science (with Prof. Yike Guo, Dr. Xian Yang on deep learning)
Only high calibre students will be nominated for Hong Kong PhD fellowship.
The regular-track students will be supported by university funds.
Postdoctoral positions (on a continuous basis)
Postdoctoral research fellows will be supported by research grants and projects in the institute of interdisciplinary studies. Also, check out RGC postdoctoral fellowship schema.
Research assistant professor positions (on a continuous basis)
RAP positions are available in the area of cognitive neuroscience.
check our job ad @ Neuroeconomics job bank.
Feel free to drop me an email and find out more (rongjunyu@hkbu.edu.hk)
Opportunities at CFPR, NUS:
Most recent publications:
Huang Y., Huang X., Ebstein R., Yu R. (2021). Intranasal Oxytocin in the Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Multilevel Meta-Analysis. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 122:18–27. pdf
Fu J., Wu S., Liu C., Camilleri J., Eickhoff S., Yu R. Distinct neural networks subserve placebo analgesia and nocebo hyperalgesia. Neuroimage. link pdf
Zhen S., Chowdhury A., Yu R. (2021). The neural underpinnings of allocentric thinking in a novel signaling task. Neuroimage. pdf
Zhen S., Yu R. (2021). Neural correlates of recursive thinking during interpersonal strategic interactions. Human Brain Mapping. link pdf
Yaple Z., Tolomeo S., Yu R. (2021). Abnormal prediction error processing in schizophrenia and depression. Human Brain Mapping. pdf
Wen Z., Yu R. Unconscious preparation: effects of prime visibility on semantic generalization of task-priming. British Journal of Psychology
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--)
Brain Science for Management (in prep., 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,
...
Journal impact factors
Multidisciplinary
Psychological bulletin IF=21 2021
Behavioral and brain sciences IF=17 2012; 2018
PNAS IF=10 2010; 2019
Nature communications IF=12; 2017;
Neuroscience & biobehavioral reviews IF=9 2019; 2021
Neuroscience journals
Journal of neuroscience IF=5.7 2010; 2013
Cerebral cortex IF=5.9 2011; 2020
Neuroimage IF=6.7 15;17; 19; 20; 20; 21;21
Human brain mapping IF=4.5 14; 14;14;14; 18;20;20;21;
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 2020
Neurobiology of stress IF=7.2 16;18;19;20; 21
Pain IF=6
psychological medicine IF=5.6
Psychoneuroendocrinology IF=4.8 15; 17; 19; 19;
Hormones and behavior IF=4.0 16; 20
Journal of affective disorders IF=4.2
Addiction biology IF=4.2
schizophrenia research IF=3.8
Psychology journals
Psychological science IF=7 2014
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General IF=5.3 2020
Journal of gerontology: psychological science IF=3.9 17;19；
Psychology and aging IF=3.7 18;
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;