Qingtian Mi

Structure and influence in an interconnected world: neurocomputational mechanism of real-time distributed learning on social networks

This study investigates how social network structures influence human learning through a real-time distributed learning task, showing that learning is weighted toward well-connected neighbors based on informativeness.

Listener’s vmPFC simulates speaker choices when reading between the lines

The paper shows that the ventromedial prefrontal cortex encodes probabilistic inferences of cooperative speaker choices during communication, with striatum reflecting updates on intended meaning.