Anne Urai
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. A.E. Urai
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- a.e.urai@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-5270-6513
As a cognitive neuroscientist, Anne Urai investigates how the brain transforms sensory information into useful decisions, and how such decisions change with experience. A particular focus lies on lifespan development and the neural basis of cognitive aging.
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Research
As a cognitive neuroscientist, Anne Urai investigates how the brain transforms sensory information into useful decisions, and how such decisions change with experience. A particular focus lies on lifespan development and the neural basis of cognitive aging.
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.
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For more information about Anne Urai please see her website anneurai.net
Assistant professor
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Psychologie
- Cognitieve Psychologie
- Cognitieve Psychologie
- Gee J.W. de, Tsetsos K., Schwabe L., Urai A.E., McCormick D.A., McGinley M.J. & Donner T.H. (2020), Phasic arousal optimizes decision computations in mice and humans, eLife 9: e54014.
- Lak A., Hueske E., Hirokawa J., Masset P., Ott T., Urai A.E., Donner T.H., Carandini M., Uchida N. & Kepecs A. (2020), Reinforcement biases subsequent perceptual decisions when confidence is low, a widespread behavioral phenomenon, eLife 9: e49834.
- Aron A.R., Ivry R., Jeffrey K., Poldrack R., Schmidt R., Summerfield C. & Urai A.E. (2020), How can neuroscientists respond to the climate emergency? , Neuron 106(1): 17-20.
- Urai A.E., Gee J.W. de, Tsetsos K. & Donner T.H. (2019), Choice history biases subsequent evidence accumulation, eLife 8.
- Musall S., Urai A.E., Sussillo D. & Churchland A.K. (2019), Harnessing behavioral diversity to understand neural computations for cognition, CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY 58: 229-238.
- Braun A., Urai A.E. & Donner T.H. (2018), Adaptive history biases result from confidence-weighted accumulation of past choices, Journal of Neuroscience 38(10): 2418-2429.
- Talluri B.C., Urai A.E., Tsetsos K., Usher M. & Donner T.H. (2018), Confirmation bias through selective overweighting of choice-consistent evidence, Current biology : CB 28(19): 3128-3135.
- Bergt A., Urai A.E., Donner T.H. & Schwabe L. (2018), Reading memory formation from the eyes, European Journal of Neuroscience 47(12): 1525-1533.
- Colizoli O., Gee J.W. de, Urai A.E. & Donner T.H. (2018), Task-evoked pupil responses reflect internal belief states, Scientific Reports 8(13702).
- Urai A.E., Braun A. & Donner T.H. (2017), Pupil-linked arousal is driven by decision uncertainty and alters serial choice bias, Nature Communications 8(14637).
- Urai A.E., Braun A. & Donner T.H. (2017), Pupil-linked arousal is driven by decision uncertainty and alters serial choice bias, Nature Communications 8: 14637.
- Urai A.E. & Murphy P.R. (2016), Commentary: Sensory integration dynamics in a hierarchical network explains choice probabilities in cortical area MT, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 10(37).
- Campana F., Rebello I., Urai A.E., Wyart V. & Tallon-Baudry C. (2016), Visual consciousness proceeds from global to local content in goal-directed tasks and spontaneous vision, The Journal of Neuroscience 36(19): 5200-5213.
- Urai A.E. & Pfeffer T. (2014), An action-independent signature of perceptual choice in the human brain. (Commentary), Journal Club 34(15): 5081-5082.
- Brouwer A.M., Erp J. van, Kappé B. & Urai A.E. (2011), The brain as target image detector: the role of image category and presentation time. In: Schmorrow, D.D.; Fidopiastis, C.M. (Eds.) Foundations of Augmented Cognition. Directing the future of Adaptive Systems. Orlando: Springer. 3-12.
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