Anne Urai
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. A.E. Urai
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 3371
- a.e.urai@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-5270-6513
I investigate how the brain transforms sensory information into useful decisions, and how such decisions change with experience and internal states. My research combines psychophysics and computational modeling of behavioral data with electrophysiological recordings in humans and rodents. I am a passionate advocates for team science, open science and reproducibility, diversity and equality in academia (and beyond), and sustainable academic practices in face of the climate crisis.
More information about Anne Urai
News
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Finding our way out of the hyper-nervous society? ‘Time to pause and reflect on our basic human needs’ -
Young Academy Leiden: ‘helping young researchers focus in a fast moving academic world’ -
For the first time, scientists map brain activity across the entire mouse brain -
Grants awarded for five innovative psychology research projects -
Creating a sustainable university: ‘You need breathing space for activist work’ -
Passionate debate on university’s fossil fuel ties -
New YAL board: ‘Make sure young academics’ voices are heard’ -
Anne Urai and Neuromatch colleagues win prize for open science -
Young Talent Award for Anne Urai -
Anne Urai on her Veni subsidy and open science -
Veni grant for ten Leiden researchers
Research Output
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A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour -
A Bayesian hierarchical model of trial-to-trial fluctuations in decision criterion -
Structure uncovered: understanding temporal variability in perceptual decision-making -
Lightning Pose: improved animal pose estimation -
Individual choice repetition biases arise from persistent dynamics in parietal cortex -
Standardized and reproducible measurement of decision-making in mice
Research
I investigate how the brain transforms sensory information into useful decisions, and how such decisions change with experience and internal states. My research combines psychophysics and computational modeling of behavioral data with electrophysiological recordings in humans and rodents.
I am a passionate advocates for team science, open science and reproducibility, diversity and equality in academia (and beyond), and sustainable academic practices in face of the climate crisis.
Her research combines psychophysics and computational modeling of behavioral data with electrophysiological recordings in humans and rodents. She is also a passionate advocate for team science, open science and reproducibility.
Short CV
Anne Urai studied cognitive neuroscience and philosophy at University College Utrecht, Xiamen University in China, University College London and École Normale Supérieure, Paris.
During her doctoral research in the lab of Tobias Donner at the Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf and University of Amsterdam, she investigated how our previous choices bias the way we interpret later information, and how this process is affected by the confidence in our decisions.
She joined Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York as a postdoctoral fellow, investigating the neurophysiology of decision-making using high-density neural recordings in the mouse brain. During this time she was a core member of the International Brain Laboratory collaboration, working as part of a global team of systems and computational neuroscientists.
Her research in general focuses on the neural basis of decision-making across mammalian species, the interaction between learning and perception, and the neural basis of cognitive aging.
She is currently an NWO Veni fellow, and an active member of the Young Academy Leiden.
Assistant professor
- Social & Behavioural Sciences
- Psychology
- Cognitive Psychology