© Nikolaus Brade
Tiantian Li
Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research
Curriculum Vitae
- B.A. Honors Neuroscience, 2019, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
- M.Sc. Cognitive Neuroscience, 2024, Free University Berlin, Germany
- Fast-Track Doctoral candidate, Max Planck School of Cognition, since 2022
Research interests
- Neuromodulatory systems, with a focus on the locus coeruleus and noradrenaline (LC-NE)
- Neural correlates of cognitive adjustment to changing environments (e.g., arousal, attention, learning, and perceptual inference/bias)
- Quantitative and multimodal MRI of the brainstem
- Non-invasive neuromodulation (e.g., transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation)
- Pupillometry and computational modeling of cognition (e.g., drift diffusion, Bayesian inference)
Publications
Li, T., Marble, H., Chen, T., Razmi, N., & Nassar, M. R. (2026 accepted). Fluctuations in arousal reflect latent state transitions that facilitate behavioral optimization. Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.06.636887
Dahl, M. J., Li, T., Mather, M., & Werkle-Bergner, M. (2025). Locus coeruleus-related insula activation is associated with implicit learning. bioRxiv, 2025.2005.2010.653174. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.10.653174
Chen, Y., Li, T., Lynch, J. D., & McGuire, J. T. (2024, July 18). A reinforcement learning model of adaptive persistence. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/37r58