Research groups
Deng Pan
DPhil Candidate
multi-agent reinforcement learning, decision-making, structure learning, flexible behaviour, world model, ultrasound stimulation
Deng Pan (潘登)
Deng is a DPhil (PhD) student at Oxford University, Department of Experimental Psychology, working with Professor Matthew Rushworth FRS. He received his BS in psychological and cognitive sciences from Peking University (PKU), Beijing. He employs neuroimaging, computational modelling, and noninvasive focused ultrasound stimulation to understand the neural and computational mechanisms underlying structure learning and flexible decision-making in social contexts. Outside of research, he enjoys reading novels, swimming, and climbing (his name in Chinese means ‘climbing’). Deng is on X (fomerly Twitter) & Blusky.
Recent publications
Distinct patterns of social contagion under risk and ambiguity.
Journal article
Pan D. et al, (2026), Commun Psychol
Causal necessity of hippocampus for structure-based inference in learning
Preprint
Pan D. et al, (2025)
Causal necessity of human hippocampus for structure-based inference in learning
Preprint
Pan D. et al, (2025)