Xinying Cai, PhD

Xinying Cai, PhD

Assistant Professor, New York University, Shanghai

Faculty advisor: Camillo Padoa-Schioppa, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow, 2009-2014

Faculty profile

Related publications

  • Padoa-Schioppa C, Cai X. Orbitofrontal cortex and the computation of subjective value:  consolidated concepts and new perspectives. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 2011; 1239:130-7.
  • Cai X, Padoa-Schioppa C. Neuronal encoding of subjective value in dorsal and ventral anterior cingulate cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 2012; 32:3791-808.
  • Murray JD, Bernacchia A, Freedman DJ, Romo R, Wallis JD, Cai X, Padoa-Schioppa C, Pasternak T, Seo H, Lee D, Wang XJ. A hierarchy of intrinsic timescales across primate cortex. Nature Neuroscience. 2014; 17(12):1661-1663.
  • Cai X, Padoa-Schioppa C. Contributions of orbitofrontal and lateral prefrontal cortices to economic choice and the good-to-action transformation. Neuron. 2014; 81:1140-51.
  • Rustichini A, Conen KE, Cai X, Padoa-Schioppa C. Optimal coding and neuronal adaptation in economic decisions. Nature Communications. 2017; 8:1208.
  • Cai X, Padoa-Schioppa C. Neuronal evidence for good-based economic decisions under variable action costs. Nature Communications. 2019; 10:393.
  • Cai X, Padoa-Schioppa C. Neuronal activity in the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex in economic decisions under variable action costs. eLife. 2021; 10:e71695.