Publications

Forthcoming

Shenoy, P & Yu, A J (2013).
Stimulus Expectancy, Norepinephrine, and Inhibitory Control.
Under review.

Yu, A J (2013).
Implementation of Neuromodulation: Large Scale Networks.
Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience.
Springer.
Under review.

Yu, A J (2013).
Decision Making Tasks.
Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience.
Springer.
Under review.

Harle, K M, Shenoy, P, Steward, J L, Tapert, S, Yu, A J, & Paulus, M P (2013).
Altered neural processing of the need to stop in young adults at risk for stimulus dependence.
Under review.

Cordova, C, Yu, A J, Failor, S, Dayan, P, & Chiba, A A (2013).
Attention, uncertainty, and acetylcholine: Effects of nucleus basalis cholinergic lesions on probabilistic inference.
Under review.

2013

Dayanik, S & Yu, A J (2013).
Reward-Rate Maximization in Sequential Identification under a Stochastic Deadline.
SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization.
In press. (PDF)

Yu, A J (2013).
Bayesian Models of Attention.
Chapter in Handbook of Attention.
Ed. S. Kastner & K. Nobre.
Oxford University Press.
(PDF)

Ahmad, S & Yu, A J (2013).
Active sensing as Bayes-optimal sequential decision-making.
Proceedings of the Twenty-ninth Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI).
(PDF)

Shenoy, P & Yu, A J (2013).
A rational account of contextual effects in preference choice: What makes for a bargain?
Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society Conference.
(PDF)

Zhang, S & Yu, A J (2013).
Cheap but clever: Human active learning in a bandit setting.
Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society Conference.
(PDF)

Ide, J S, Shenoy, P, Yu, A J*, & Li, C-S R* (2013).
Bayesian prediction and evaluation in the anterior cingulate cortex.
Journal of Neuroscience, 33: 2039-2047.
*Yu & Li contributed equally as senior authors.
(PDF)

2012

Shenoy, P & Yu, A J (2012).
Rational impatience in perceptual decision-making: a Bayesian account of discrepancy between two-alternative forced choice and Go/NoGo Behavior.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 25.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. (PDF)

Paulus, M P & Yu, A J (2012).
Emotion and decision-making: affect-driven belief systems in anxiety and depression.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences 16: 476-483.
(PDF)

Yu, A J (2012).
Change is in the eye of the beholder.
Nature Neuroscience 15, 933-935.
(PDF).

2011

Yu, A J (2011).
Uncertainty and neuromodulation: Focus on Acetylcholine and sustained attention.
Chapter in Neuroscience of Decision Making, pp. 97-124.
Ed. O. Vartanian and D R. Mandel. Psychology Press.
(PDF)

Shenoy, P & Yu, A J (2011).
Wherefore a horse race: Inhibitory control as rational decision-making.
Chapter in Neural Basis of Motivational and Cognitive Control, pp. 371-388.
Ed. R. Mars, J. Sallet, M. Rushworth, and N. Yeung. MIT Press.
(PDF)

Shenoy, P & Yu, A J (2011).
Rational decision-making in inhibitory control.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 5:48. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00048.
(PDF)

2007-2010

Shenoy, P, Rao, R, & Yu, A J (2010).
A rational decision making framework for inhibitory control.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 23: 2146-54.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
(PDF)

Yu, A J & Cohen, J D (2009).
Sequential effects: Superstition or rational behavior?
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 21: 1873-1880.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
(PDF)

Liu, S, Yu, A J, & Holmes, P (2009).
Dynamical analysis of Bayesian inference models for the Eriksen task.
Neural Computation, 21: 1520-1553.
(PDF)

Yu, A J, Dayan, P, & Cohen J D (2009).
Dynamics of attentional selection under conflict: Toward a rational Bayesian account.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35: 700-717.
(PDF)

Frazier, P, Yu, A J (2008).
Sequential hypothesis testing under stochastic deadlines.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 20: 465-72.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
(PDF)

Yu, A J (2007).
Adaptive behavior: Humans act as Bayesian learners.
Current Biology, 17: R977-R980.
(PDF)

Cohen, J D, McClure, S M, and Yu, A J (2007).
Should I stay or should I go? How the human brain manages the tradeoff between exploitation and exploration.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 362: 933-942.
(PDF)

Yu, A J (2007).
Optimal change-detection and spiking neurons.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19: 1545-52.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
(PDF)

Before 2006

Dayan, P & Yu, A J (2006).
Phasic norepinephrine: A neural interrupt signal for unexpected events.
Network: Computation in Neural Systems, 17: 335-50.
(PDF).

Dayan, P & Yu, A J (2006).
Norepinephrine and neural interrupts.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 18: 243-50.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
(PDF)

Yu, A J (2005).
Acetylcholine and Norepinephrine: Bayes, Uncertainty, Attention, and Learning.
PhD thesis, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London, University of London.
(PDF)

Yu, A J & Dayan, P (2005).
Uncertainty, neuromodulation, and attention.
Neuron, 46: 681-692.
(PDF).
Reviews in Faculty 1000, Neuron, Nature, and Science.

Yu, A J & Dayan, P (2005).
Inference, attention, and decision in a Bayesian neural architecture.
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 17: 1577-84.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
(PDF)

Yu, A J & Dayan, P (2003).
Expected and unexpected uncertainty: ACh and NE in the neocortex.
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 15. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
(PDF)

Dayan, P & Yu, A J (2003).
Uncertainty and learning.
IETE Journal of Research, 49: 171-181.
( PDF)

Yu, A J & Dayan, P (2002).
Acetylcholine in cortical inference.
Neural Networks, 15(4/5/6): 719-730.
(PDF)

Dayan, P & Yu, A J (2002).
Acetylcholine, uncertainty, and cortical inference.
In T G Dietterich, S Becker, and Z Ghahramani (eds.) Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 14.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
(PDF)

Yu, A J, Giese, M A, & Poggio, T (2002).
Biophysiologically Plausible Implementations of Maximum Operation.
Neural Computation, 14(12): 2857-2881.
(PDF)


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