Journal articles
*: Equal contribution
- Wang, M. C., & Soltani, A. (in prep). Selective activation of orthogonal neural subspaces supports attentional modulation of learning in multidimensional environments.
- Woo, J. H.*, Wang, M. C.*, Bartolo, R., Averbeck, B. B., & Soltani, A. (in prep). Dynamic model arbitration via modulation of population codes in the prefrontal cortex.
- Lewis, C.*, Wang, M. C.*, Farashahi, S.*, Salholz-Hillel, M., & Soltani, A. (in prep). Dynamic valuation via range normalization in uncertain, changing reward contexts.
- Yazdanpanah, A.*, Wang, M. C.*, Trepka, E., & Soltani, A. (in submission). Contributions of statistical learning to learning from reward feedback. bioRxiv, 2024-04. [paper]
- Wang, M. C., & Soltani, A. (2025). Contributions of attention to learning in multidimensional reward environments. Journal of Neuroscience, 45(7). [paper]
- Singh, M. F., Wang, M., Cole, M. W., & Ching, S. (2022). Efficient identification for modeling high-dimensional brain dynamics. In 2022 American Control Conference (ACC) (pp. 1353-1358). IEEE. [paper]
Talks
- Wang, M. C., Lewis, C., Farashahi, S., Salholz-Hillel, M., & Soltani, A.(2025, Nov 4) Dynamic valuation via range normalization in uncertain, changing reward contexts. Cognitive Brown Bag, Dartmouth College
- Wang, M. C., & Soltani, A. (2025, Feb 24) Interactions between model-based reinforcement learning and selective attention. Cognitive Brown Bag, Dartmouth College
- Wang, M. C., & Soltani, A. (2025, Jan 9) Circuit mechanisms for learning and attention in multidimensional environments. Cognitive Brown Bag, Dartmouth College
- Wang, M. C., Mu, J., & Goodman, N. D. (2021, Aug 14) Learning Disentangled Visual Representations with the Help of Language. CSLI internship presentation, Stanford University
Conference papers and presentations
*: Equal contribution
- Wang, M. C., & Soltani, A. (2025). Selective activation of orthogonal neural subspaces supports attentional modulation of learning in multidimensional environments. Poster presentation at Society for Neuroscience Meeting.
- Woo, J. H.*, Wang, M. C.*, Bartolo, R., Averbeck, B. B., Soltani, A. (2025). Neural mechanisms of model arbitration in the prefrontal cortex. Poster presentation at Society for Neuroscience Meeting.
- Lewis, C.*, Wang, M. C.*, Farashahi, S.*, Salholz-Hillel, M., & Soltani, A. (2025). Dynamic valuation via range normalization in uncertain, changing reward contexts. Poster presentation at Society for Neuroeconomics Meeting.
- Wang, M. C., & Soltani, A. (2024). Recurrent circuit mechanisms for reward learning in multidimensional environments. Poster presentation at Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience. [paper]
- Woo, J. H.*, Wang, M. C.*, Bartolo, R., Averbeck, B. B., Soltani, A. (2024). Behavioral and neural evidence for dynamic model arbitration in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Poster presentation at Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience. [paper]
- Yazdanpanah, A.*, Wang, M. C.*, Benz, M. P., & Soltani, A. (2023). Temporal regularities guide feature-based learning in complex reward environments. Poster presentation at Society for Neuroscience Meeting.
- Wang, M. C., & Soltani, A. (2023). Network mechanisms underlying value-based attention in multi-dimensional reward learning. Poster presentation accepted and withdrawn from Bernstein Conference.
- Wang, M. C., & Soltani, A. (2022). Contributions of attention to learning in high dimensional environments. Poster presentation at Society for Neuroscience Meeting.
- Wang, C., & Ching, S. (2019). Biologically plausible recurrent Infomax learning. Poster presentation at WUSTL’s Undergraduate Research Symposium.