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• Fiore VG, Gu X. Similar network compositions, but distinct neural dynamics underlying belief updating in environments with and without explicit outcomes. Neuroimage. 2022 Feb 15;247:118821. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118821. Epub 2021 Dec 14. PMID: 34920087

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• Na S, Chung D, Hula A, Perl O, Jung J, Heflin M, Blackmore S, Fiore VG, Dayan P, Gu X. Humans use forward thinking to exploit social controllability. Elife. 2021 Oct 29;10:e64983. doi: 10.7554/eLife.64983. PMID: 34711304; PMCID: PMC8555988.

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• Banker SM, Gu X, Schiller D, Foss-Feig JH. Hippocampal contributions to social and cognitive deficits in autism spectrum disorder. Trends Neurosci. 2021 Oct;44(10):793-807. doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2021.08.005. Epub 2021 Sep 11. PMID: 34521563; PMCID: PMC8484056.

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• Fiore VG, DeFelice N, Glicksberg BS, Perl O, Shuster A, Kulkarni K, O'Brien M, Pisauro MA, Chung D, Gu X. Containment of COVID-19: Simulating the impact of different policies and testing capacities for contact tracing, testing, and isolation. PLoS One. 2021 Mar 31;16(3):e0247614. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0247614. PMID: 33788852; PMCID: PMC8011755.

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• Fiore VG, Guertler AV, Yu JC, Tatineni CC, Gu X. A change of mind: Globus pallidus activity and effective connectivity during changes in choice selections. Eur J Neurosci. 2021 Apr;53(8):2774-2787. doi: 10.1111/ejn.15142. Epub 2021 Feb 28. PMID: 33556221.

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• Luo Y, Mendoza C, Pelfrey S, Lohrenz T, Gu X, Montague PR, McAdams CJ. Elevated Neurobehavioral Responses to Negative Social Interactions in Women With Bulimia Nervosa. Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging. 2021 Feb 6:S2451-9022(21)00031-8. doi: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2021.01.011. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33561543; PMCID: PMC8342632.

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• Ryu J, Banthin DC, Gu X. Modeling Therapeutic Alliance in the Age of Telepsychiatry. Trends Cogn Sci. 2021 Jan;25(1):5-8. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2020.10.001. Epub 2020 Oct 28. PMID: 33129720.

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• Yu JC, Fiore VG, Briggs RW, Braud J, Rubia K, Adinoff B, Gu X. An insula-driven network computes decision uncertainty and promotes abstinence in chronic cocaine users. Eur J Neurosci. 2020 Dec;52(12):4923-4936. doi: 10.1111/ejn.14917. Epub 2020 Aug 19. PMID: 33439518; PMCID: PMC8485760.

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• Gu X, FitzGerald THB, Friston KJ. Modeling subjective belief states in computational psychiatry: interoceptive inference as a candidate framework. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2019 Aug;236(8):2405-2412. doi: 10.1007/s00213-019-05300-5. Epub 2019 Jun 22. PubMed PMID: 31230144; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6697568.

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• Ognibene D, Fiore VG, Gu X. Addiction beyond pharmacological effects: The role of environment complexity and bounded rationality. Neural Netw. 2019 Aug;116:269-278. doi: 10.1016/j.neunet.2019.04.022. Epub 2019 May 8. PubMed PMID: 31125913; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6581592.

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• Wang X, Wu Q, Egan L, Gu X, Liu P, Gu H, Yang Y, Luo J, Wu Y, Gao Z, Fan J. Anterior insular cortex plays a critical role in interoceptive attention. Elife. 2019 Apr 15;8. doi: 10.7554/eLife.42265. PubMed PMID: 30985277; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6488299.

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• Fiore VG, Ognibene D, Adinoff B, Gu X. A Multilevel Computational Characterization of Endophenotypes in Addiction. eNeuro. 2018 Jul 17;5(4). pii: ENEURO.0151-18.2018. doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0151-18.2018. eCollection 2018 Jul-Aug. PubMed PMID: 30073199; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6071202.

 

• Gu X. Incubation of craving: a Bayesian account. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2018 Jun 2. doi: 10.1038/s41386-018-0108-7. [Epub ahead of print] Review. PubMed PMID: 29930384.

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• Fiore VG, Nolte T, Rigoli F, Smittenaar P, Gu X, Dolan RJ. Value encoding in the globus pallidus: fMRI reveals an interaction effect between reward and dopamine drive. Neuroimage. 2018 Jun;173:249-257. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.02.048. Epub 2018 Feb 24. PubMed PMID: 29481966; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5929903.

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• Gu X, Zhou TJ, Anagnostou E, Soorya L, Kolevzon A, Hof PR, Fan J. Heightened brain response to pain anticipation in high-functioning adults with autism spectrum disorder. Eur J Neurosci. 2018 Mar;47(6):592-601. doi: 10.1111/ejn.13598. Epub 2017 May 25. PubMed PMID: 28452081; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5659957.

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• Solway A, Gu X, Montague PR. Forgetting to Be Addicted: Reconsolidation and the Disconnection of Things Past. Biol Psychiatry. 2017 Dec 1;82(11):774-775. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2017.09.017. PubMed PMID: 29110816.

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• Sui J, Gu X. Self as Object: Emerging Trends in Self Research. Trends Neurosci. 2017 Nov;40(11):643-653. doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2017.09.002. Epub 2017 Oct 5. Review. PubMed PMID: 28988827.

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• Gu X, Filbey F. A Bayesian Observer Model of Drug Craving. JAMA Psychiatry. 2017 Apr 1;74(4):419-420. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2016.3823. PubMed PMID: 28199454.

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• Fiore VG, Kottler B, Gu X, Hirth F. In silico Interrogation of Insect Central Complex Suggests Computational Roles for the Ellipsoid Body in Spatial Navigation. Front Behav Neurosci. 2017 Aug 3;11:142. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00142. eCollection 2017. PubMed PMID: 28824390; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5540904.

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• Kirk U, Gu X, Sharp C, Hula A, Fonagy P, Montague PR. Mindfulness training increases cooperative decision making in economic exchanges: Evidence from fMRI. Neuroimage. 2016 Sep;138:274-283. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.05.075. Epub 2016 Jun 4. PubMed PMID: 27266443; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4954868.

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• Tian Y, Du J, Spagna A, Mackie MA, Gu X, Dong Y, Fan J, Wang K. Venlafaxine treatment reduces the deficit of executive control of attention in patients with major depressive disorder. Sci Rep. 2016 Jun 16;6:28028. doi: 10.1038/srep28028. PubMed PMID: 27306061; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4910055.

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• Krishnan A, Woo CW, Chang LJ, Ruzic L, Gu X, López-Solà M, Jackson PL, Pujol J, Fan J, Wager TD. Somatic and vicarious pain are represented by dissociable multivariate brain patterns. Elife. 2016 Jun 14;5. pii: e15166. doi: 10.7554/eLife.15166. PubMed PMID: 27296895; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4907690.

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• Gu X, Lohrenz T, Salas R, Baldwin PR, Soltani A, Kirk U, Cinciripini PM, Montague PR. Belief about Nicotine Modulates Subjective Craving and Insula Activity in Deprived Smokers. Front Psychiatry. 2016 Jul 13;7:126. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2016.00126. eCollection 2016. PubMed PMID: 27468271; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4942468.

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• Gu X, Eilam-Stock T, Zhou T, Anagnostou E, Kolevzon A, Soorya L, Hof PR, Friston KJ, Fan J. Autonomic and brain responses associated with empathy deficits in autism spectrum disorder. Hum Brain Mapp. 2015 Sep;36(9):3323-38. doi: 10.1002/hbm.22840. Epub 2015 May 21. PubMed PMID: 25995134; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4545680.

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• Gu X, Lohrenz T, Salas R, Baldwin PR, Soltani A, Kirk U, Cinciripini PM, Montague PR. Belief about nicotine selectively modulates value and reward prediction error signals in smokers. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Feb 24;112(8):2539-44. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1416639112. Epub 2015 Jan 20. PubMed PMID: 25605923; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4345562.

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• Gu X, Wang X, Hula A, Wang S, Xu S, Lohrenz TM, Knight RT, Gao Z, Dayan P, Montague PR. Necessary, yet dissociable contributions of the insular and ventromedial prefrontal cortices to norm adaptation: computational and lesion evidence in humans.J Neurosci. 2015 Jan 14;35(2):467-73. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2906-14.2015. PubMed PMID: 25589742; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4293403.

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• Ahn WY, Kishida KT, Gu X, Lohrenz T, Harvey A, Alford JR, Smith KB, Yaffe G, Hibbing JR, Dayan P, Montague PR. Nonpolitical images evoke neural predictors of political ideology. Curr Biol. 2014 Nov 17;24(22):2693-9. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.09.050. Epub 2014 Oct 30. PubMed PMID: 25447997; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4245707.

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• Kirk U, Gu X, Harvey AH, Fonagy P, Montague PR. Mindfulness training modulates value signals in ventromedial prefrontal cortex through input from insular cortex. Neuroimage. 2014 Oct 15;100:254-62. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.06.035. Epub 2014 Jun 21. PubMed PMID: 24956066; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4140407.

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• Gu X, Kirk U, Lohrenz TM, Montague PR. Cognitive strategies regulate fictive, but not reward prediction error signals in a sequential investment task. Hum Brain Mapp. 2014 Aug;35(8):3738-49. doi: 10.1002/hbm.22433. Epub 2013 Dec 31. PubMed PMID: 24382784; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4105325.

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• Fan J, Van Dam NT, Gu X, Liu X, Wang H, Tang CY, Hof PR. Quantitative characterization of functional anatomical contributions to cognitive control under uncertainty. J Cogn Neurosci. 2014 Jul;26(7):1490-506. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_00554. Epub 2014 Jan 6. PubMed PMID: 24392900; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5070967.

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• Gu X, FitzGerald TH. Interoceptive inference: homeostasis and decision-making. Trends Cogn Sci. 2014 Jun;18(6):269-70. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2014.02.001. Epub 2014 Feb 27. PubMed PMID: 24582825.

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• Butti C, Ewan Fordyce R, Ann Raghanti M, Gu X, Bonar CJ, Wicinski BA, Wong EW, Roman J, Brake A, Eaves E, Spocter MA, Tang CY, Jacobs B, Sherwood CC, Hof PR. The cerebral cortex of the pygmy hippopotamus, Hexaprotodon liberiensis (Cetartiodactyla, Hippopotamidae): MRI, cytoarchitecture, and neuronal morphology. Anat Rec (Hoboken). 2014 Apr;297(4):670-700. doi: 10.1002/ar.22875. Epub 2014 Jan 28. PubMed PMID: 24474726.

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• Wang X, Gu X, Fan J, Wang S, Zhao F, Hof PR, Liu P, Gao Z. Recovery of empathetic function following resection of insular gliomas. J Neurooncol. 2014 Apr;117(2):269-77. doi: 10.1007/s11060-014-1380-y. Epub 2014 Feb 19. PubMed PMID: 24549750.

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• Eilam-Stock T, Xu P, Cao M, Gu X, Van Dam NT, Anagnostou E, Kolevzon A, Soorya L, Park Y, Siller M, He Y, Hof PR, Fan J. Abnormal autonomic and associated brain activities during rest in autism spectrum disorder. Brain. 2014 Jan;137(Pt 1):153-71. doi: 10.1093/brain/awt294. PubMed PMID: 24424916; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3891443.

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• Gu X, Hof PR, Friston KJ, Fan J. Anterior insular cortex and emotional awareness. J Comp Neurol. 2013 Oct 15;521(15):3371-88. doi: 10.1002/cne.23368. Review. PubMed PMID: 23749500; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3999437.

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• Lockwood PL, Sebastian CL, McCrory EJ, Hyde ZH, Gu X, De Brito SA, Viding E. Association of callous traits with reduced neural response to others' pain in children with conduct problems. Curr Biol. 2013 May 20;23(10):901-5. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.04.018. Epub 2013 May 2. PubMed PMID: 23643836; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3918856.

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• Van Dam NT, Sano M, Mitsis EM, Grossman HT, Gu X, Park Y, Hof PR, Fan J. Functional neural correlates of attentional deficits in amnestic mild cognitive impairment. PLoS One. 2013;8(1):e54035. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054035. Epub 2013 Jan 11. PubMed PMID: 23326568; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3543395.

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• Gu X, Liu X, Van Dam NT, Hof PR, Fan J. Cognition-emotion integration in the anterior insular cortex. Cereb Cortex. 2013 Jan;23(1):20-7. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhr367. Epub 2012 Jan 23. PubMed PMID: 22275476; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3513949.

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• Fan J, Bernardi S, Van Dam NT, Anagnostou E, Gu X, Martin L, Park Y, Liu X, Kolevzon A, Soorya L, Grodberg D, Hollander E, Hof PR. Functional deficits of the attentional networks in autism. Brain Behav. 2012 Sep;2(5):647-60. doi: 10.1002/brb3.90. Epub 2012 Aug 27. PubMed PMID: 23139910; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3489817.

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• Gu X, Gao Z, Wang X, Liu X, Knight RT, Hof PR, Fan J. Anterior insular cortex is necessary for empathetic pain perception. Brain. 2012 Sep;135(Pt 9):2726-35. doi: 10.1093/brain/aws199. PubMed PMID: 22961548; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3437027.

   

• Fan J, Xu P, Van Dam NT, Eilam-Stock T, Gu X, Luo YJ, Hof PR. Spontaneous brain activity relates to autonomic arousal. J Neurosci. 2012 Aug 15;32(33):11176-86. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1172-12.2012. PubMed PMID: 22895703; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3435430.

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• Fan J, Gu X, Liu X, Guise KG, Park Y, Martin L, de Marchena A, Tang CY, Minzenberg MJ, Hof PR. Involvement of the anterior cingulate and frontoinsular cortices in rapid processing of salient facial emotional information. Neuroimage. 2011 Feb 1;54(3):2539-46. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.10.007. Epub 2010 Oct 16. PubMed PMID: 20937394; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3006498.

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• Liu X, Park Y, Gu X, Fan J. Dimensional overlap accounts for independence and integration of stimulus-response compatibility effects. Atten Percept Psychophys. 2010 Aug;72(6):1710-20. doi: 10.3758/APP.72.6.1710. PubMed PMID: 20675812.

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• Han S, Gu X, Mao L, Ge J, Wang G, Ma Y. Neural substrates of self-referential processing in Chinese Buddhists. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2010 Jun;5(2-3):332-9. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsp027. Epub 2009 Jul 20. PubMed PMID: 19620181; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2894681.

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• Gu X, Liu X, Guise KG, Naidich TP, Hof PR, Fan J. Functional dissociation of the frontoinsular and anterior cingulate cortices in empathy for pain. J Neurosci. 2010 Mar 10;30(10):3739-44. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4844-09.2010. PubMed PMID: 20220007; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2845539.

   

• Ge J, Gu X, Ji M, Han S. Neurocognitive processes of the religious leader in Christians. Hum Brain Mapp. 2009 Dec;30(12):4012-24. doi: 10.1002/hbm.20825. PubMed PMID: 19507157.

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• Fan J, Gu X, Guise KG, Liu X, Fossella J, Wang H, Posner MI. Testing the behavioral interaction and integration of attentional networks. Brain Cogn. 2009 Jul;70(2):209-20. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2009.02.002. Epub 2009 Mar 6. PubMed PMID: 19269079; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2674119.

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• Gu X, Liu X, Guise KG, Fossella J, Wang K, Fan J. Alexithymic trait and voluntary control in healthy adults. PLoS One. 2008;3(11):e3702. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003702. Epub 2008 Nov 12. PubMed PMID: 19002254; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2577735.

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• Han S, Mao L, Gu X, Zhu Y, Ge J, Ma Y. Neural consequences of religious belief on self-referential processing. Soc Neurosci. 2008;3(1):1-15. doi: 10.1080/17470910701469681. PubMed PMID: 18633851.

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• Gu X, Han S. Neural substrates underlying evaluation of pain in actions depicted in words. Behav Brain Res. 2007 Aug 6;181(2):218-23. Epub 2007 Apr 20. PubMed PMID: 17512615.

   

• Gu X, Han S. Attention and reality constraints on the neural processes of empathy for pain. Neuroimage. 2007 May 15;36(1):256-67. Epub 2007 Feb 27. PubMed PMID: 17400480.

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