Kenji Kobayashi
Lecturer

Profile

Biography

• PhD in Neuroscience, University of California, Berkeley, USA
• BS & MS in Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan

Career

• Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of York (2023-)
• Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, USA (2019-2023) 
• Postdoctoral researcher, Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, USA (2017-2019)

Research

Overview

My research aims to understand how people make decisions at the behavioural, cognitive, and neural levels. I am particularly interested in the mechanisms of information seeking in service of value-based and social decisions. My research combines ideas and methods from neuroscience, psychology, and behavioural economics, and uses a variety of techniques such as computational modelling, functional neuroimaging (fMRI), and brain stimulation (TMS).

Teaching

Publications

Selected publications

• Kobayashi, K., Kable, J.W., Hsu, M. & Jenkins, A.C. (2022). Neural representations of others' traits predict social decisions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(22), e2116944119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2116944119
• Kobayashi, K., Lee, S., Filipowicz, A.L.S., McGaughey, K.D., Kable, J.W. & Nassar, M.R. (2021). Dynamic representation of the subjective value of information. Journal of Neuroscience, 41(39), 8220-8232. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0423-21.2021
• Kobayashi, K. & Hsu, M. (2019). Common neural code for reward and information value. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(26), 13061-13066. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1820145116
• Kobayashi, K., Ravaioli, S., Baranès, A., Woodford, M. & Gottlieb, J. (2019). Diverse motives for human curiosity. Nature Human Behaviour, 3, 587-595. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0589-3

Full publications list

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External activities

Memberships

• Society for Neuroscience, Society for Neuroeconomics