Main Focus

  • Neuromodulatory systems
  • Arousal, attention, learning, perceptual inference/bias
  • Neural correlates of behavioral adjustments to changing environments
  • Pupillometry
  • Computational modeling of cognitive processes (e.g., Drift Diffusion, Bayesian Inference)

Curriculum Vitae

Predoctoral Candidate (2024 - 2027), Lifespan Neuromodulation of Cognition (LINE), Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany

M.Sc. Cognitive Neuroscience (2022 - 2024), MCNB, Freie University, Berlin, Germany

Fast-track Doctoral Candidate (2022 - 2027), Max Planck School of Cogntion

Research Assistant (2019 - 2022),  Learning Memory & Decision LabCarney Institute for Brain ScienceBrown University, Providence RI, USA

Research Assistant (2016 - 2019), Cognition and Decision Lab, Boston University, Boston MA, USA

B.A., Hons Neuroscience (2015-2019), Boston University, Boston MA, USA


Selected Literature

Li, T.*, Marble, H.*, Chen, T., Razmi, N., & Nassar, M. R. (2025). Fluctuations in arousal reflect latent state transitions that facilitate behavioral optimization. bioRxiv preprint. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.06.636887

Chen, Y., Li, T., Lynch, J.D., & McGuire, J.T. (2024). A reinforcement learning model of adaptive persistence. PsyArXiv preprint. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/37r58

*Authors contributed equally


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