معرفی
Ali Mahmoodi is a Postdoctoral Researcher specializing in Social and Decision Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. His work bridges electrical engineering and neuroscience, focusing on the neural mechanisms underlying social decision-making, conformity, and group dynamics. He utilizes advanced techniques such as fMRI, TMS, and computational modeling to investigate how humans process and integrate social information.
Education:
- BSc in Electrical Engineering (Control Branch)
- MSc in Social Decision-Making (Psychophysics & Computational Modelling)
- PhD in Neuroscience (Neural Basis of Change of Mind in Social Contexts)
Research Interests: Ali explores the 'why' behind neural operations in social contexts. Key areas include:
- Structuring social knowledge in multidimensional environments
- Attribution of group outcomes to individual competence
- Neural substrates of informational vs. normative conformity
- Frontopolar-temporal circuits in primate decision-making
Publications: His recent work spans social cognition mechanisms in humans and macaques, including studies on hippocampal-prefrontal interactions during social inference and neural systems controlling motivational states. These studies highlight interdisciplinary approaches combining neuroscience with behavioral experiments.
Grants & Advising: While no explicit grants are listed, his research is supported by collaborative projects at Oxford. No advisees are currently listed.
Labs/Teams: Affiliated with the Social and Decision Neuroscience research group at Oxford, focusing on translational research between computational models and neuroimaging data.
