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Humans use a dual policy to improve inferences during epistemic information seeking
Yinan Cao, Clémence Alméras, Junseok K. Lee, Inès Maye, Valentin Wyart

We show that people seeking information use two policies together to sharpen noisy inferences, outside the usual explore-exploit tradeoff.

2026 · Nature Human Behaviour (in press)
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Rhythmic sampling of multiple decision alternatives in the human brain
Marcus Siems, Yinan Cao, Maryam Tohidi-Moghaddam, Tobias H. Donner, Konstantinos Tsetsos

Using MEG, we show that the brain samples several decision alternatives in a rhythmic way rather than all at once.

2026 · Nature Communications
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Perspectives on the mechanistic underpinnings of choice biases
Konstantinos Tsetsos, Yinan Cao

We offer a theoretical perspective that ties choice biases to specific decision computations and shows how time-resolved neural evidence can distinguish them.

2025 · In Decision Making, Studies in Neuroscience, Psychology and Behavioral Economics, Springer
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Clarifying the role of an unavailable distractor in human multiattribute choice
Yinan Cao, Konstantinos Tsetsos

We revisit how an option that cannot be chosen still influences choices between the options that can.

2022 · eLife
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Characterizing emergent representations in a space of candidate learning rules for deep networks
Yinan Cao, Christopher Summerfield, Andrew Saxe

We map how different learning rules shape the representations that emerge in deep networks.

2020 · Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
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Causal inference in the multisensory brain
Yinan Cao, Christopher Summerfield, Hame Park, Bruno L. Giordano, Christoph Kayser

We show how the brain decides whether sights and sounds come from a common source, and where these computations unfold.

2019 · Neuron
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  • 2026
    Humans use a dual policy to improve inferences during epistemic information seeking
    Yinan Cao, Clémence Alméras, Junseok K. Lee, Inès Maye, Valentin Wyart
    Nature Human Behaviour (in press)
    PreprintCode
  • 2026
    Rhythmic sampling of multiple decision alternatives in the human brain
    Marcus Siems, Yinan Cao, Maryam Tohidi-Moghaddam, Tobias H. Donner, Konstantinos Tsetsos
    Nature Communications
    PaperPreprintData
  • 2025
    High-amplitude oscillatory events orchestrate cortical activity for efficient cognition
    Marcus Siems, Yinan Cao, Tobias H. Donner, Konstantinos Tsetsos, Andreas K. Engel
    bioRxiv (preprint)
    Preprint
  • 2025
    Perspectives on the mechanistic underpinnings of choice biases
    Konstantinos Tsetsos, Yinan Cao
    In Decision Making, Studies in Neuroscience, Psychology and Behavioral Economics, Springer
    ChapterPreprint PDF
  • 2023
    Decision bias and sampling asymmetry in reward-guided learning
    Yinan Cao, Konstantinos Tsetsos
    bioRxiv (preprint)
    Preprint
  • 2022
    Clarifying the role of an unavailable distractor in human multiattribute choice
    Yinan Cao, Konstantinos Tsetsos
    eLife
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  • 2020
    Characterizing emergent representations in a space of candidate learning rules for deep networks
    Yinan Cao, Christopher Summerfield, Andrew Saxe
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
    PaperPDFSupplementCode
  • 2019
    Causal inference in the multisensory brain
    Yinan Cao, Christopher Summerfield, Hame Park, Bruno L. Giordano, Christoph Kayser
    Neuron
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