2003-2006，Tohoku University (Japan)，Department of Quantum Energy and Engineering，Doctor of Engineering


2000-2002，Tohoku University (Japan)，Department of Applied Chemistry, Master of Engineering


1994-1999，University of Science and Technology of China, Department of Chemical Physics，Bachelor of Science； Electric and Communication Engineering，Bachelor of Engineering.

2014-present，Beijing Normal University，State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning，Professor


2006-2014，RIKEN Brain Science Institute，Research Scientist

We are focusing on the neural mechanisms and models of decision-making and metacognition in a single human or monkey subject, and the mechanisms of efficacious collective decision-making within a group of subjects, by combing neuroimaging, electrophysiological, modulation and modeling techniques, with the aims to improve the qualities of human decision-making in real life. Further, we are also seeking for the computational algorithms of decision-making and metacognition to inspire the designs of self-monitoring and self-learning artificial intelligence.

1. Wenbin Jia, Hong Zhu, Yinmei Ni, Jie Su, Rui Xu, Hongxiao Jia, Xiaohong Wan. Disruptions of frontoparietal control network and default mode network linking the metacognitive deficits with clinical symptoms in schizophrenia. Human Brain Mapping 41: 1445-1458 (2020).

2. Lirong Qiu, Jie Su, Yinmei Ni, Yang Bai, Xuesong Zhang, Xiaoli Li, Xiaohong Wan. The neural system of metacognition accompanying decision-making in the prefrontal cortex, PLoS Biology 16(4)：e2004037(2018).

3. Xiaohong Wan, Kang Cheng, Keiji Tanaka. The Neural System of Postdecision Evaluation in Rostral Frontal Cortex during Problem-solving Tasks. eNeuro, 3: e0188-16 (2016).

4. Xiaohong Wan, Kang Cheng, Keiji Tanaka Neural encoding of opposing strategy values in anterior and posterior cingulate cortex. Nature Neuroscience, 18: 752-759 (2015).

5. Xiaohong Wan, Daisuke Takano, Takeshi Asamizuya, Chisato Suzuki, Kenichi Ueno, Kang Cheng, Takeshi Ito, Keiji Tanaka. Developing intuition: neural correlates of cognitive-skill learning in caudate nucleus. Journal of Neuroscience, 2012, 32(48): 17492-17501.

6. Xiaohong Wan, Hironori Nakatani, Ken Ueno, Takeshi Asamizuya, Kang Cheng, Keiji Tanaka. The neural basis of intuitive best next-move generation in board game experts. Science 331:341-346 (2011).