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Kang, P., Moisa, M., Lindström, B. et al. Causal involvement of dorsomedial prefrontal cortex in learning the predictability of observable actions. Nature Communications, 15, 8305 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52559-0
Soutschek, A., Burke, C. J., Kang, P., Wieland, N., Netzer, N., & Tobler, P. N. (2024). Neural reward representations enable utilitarian welfare maximization. Journal of Neuroscience, 44(21). https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2376-23.2024
Kang, P., Tobler, P., Dayan, P. Bayesian reinforcement learning: A basic overview. (2024) Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (Special issue: The Rescorla-Wagner Model: half a century later) 211 (2024):107924. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2024.107924.
Zhou, Y., Han, S., Kang, P., Tobler, P. N., & Hein, G. (2024). The social transmission of empathy relies on observational reinforcement learning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(9), e2313073121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.231307312
Sun, Y., Kang, P., Huang, L., Wang, H., & Ku, Y. (2023). Reward advantage over punishment for incentivizing visual working memory. Psychophysiology, e14300. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14300
Zhou, Y., Lindström, B., Soutschek, A., Kang, P., Tobler, P., & Hein, G.. (2022) Learning from ingroup experiences changes intergroup impressions. Journal of Neuroscience. 42 (36) 6931-6945; DOI:https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0027-22.2022
Kang, P., Burke, C. J., Tobler, P. N., & Hein, G. (2021). Why we learn less from observing outgroups. Journal of Neuroscience, 41(1), 144–152. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0926-20.2020
Song J., Chung Y., Kang P. & Son, E. (2020). Motivation profile analysis of college students in STEM major based on their major’s expectancy and value, and cost perception. Educational psychology research, 34(2), 285-306.
Soutschek, A., Kang, P., Ruff, C. C., Hare, T. A., & Tobler, P. N. (2018). Brain stimulation over frontopolar cortex enhances motivation to exert effort for reward. Biological psychiatry. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2017.11.007
Kim, J., Kang, P., & Choi, I. (2014) Pleasure now, meaning later: Temporal dynamics between pleasure and meaning. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 55, 262-270. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2014.07.018
Kang, P., Lee, Y., Choi, I. & Kim H. (2013). Neural Evidence for Individual and Cultural Variability in the Social Comparison Effect. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(41). doi: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5084-12.2013
Kang, P.,* Lee, J.,*, Sul, S., & Kim, H. (2013). Dorsomedial prefrontal cortex activity predicts the accuracy in estimating others' preferences. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7:686. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00686.
Sul, S., Choi, I., & Kang, P. (2011). Cultural modulation of self-referential brain activity for personality traits and social identities. Social Neuroscience, DOI:10.1080/17470919.2011.614001
Kang, P., Sul, S. & Choi, I. (2011). Gender Differences in Thin-Slice Judgement during the Opposite-Sex Impression Formation. Korean journal of psychology: social and personality, 25(3), 61-76.
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