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Deng Pan

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deng.pan@psy.ox.ac.uk

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he/him

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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.

Key publications

Nap time: Adolescent napping patterns and associations with sleep problems and mental health

Illingworth G. et al, (2026), Sleep Epidemiology, 6

Bullying victimisation, coping, and self-harm among adolescents from diverse inner-city London schools: an accelerated cohort study

Wilson-Lemoine E. et al, (2026), Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 20

Do parental factors mediate the association between child anxiety and life interference among young children?

Takahashi T. et al, (2026), Journal of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy, 36, 100580 - 100580

From kitchen to mind: The effect of storytelling on meaningfulness and food consumption intention

Wang L. et al, (2026), International Journal of Hospitality Management, 135

MEG Evidence of Concurrent Bilateral and Hemisphere‐Specific Developmental Patterns in Auditory Cortex

Parviainen T. et al, (2026), Developmental Science, 29

Navigating the boundary between 'normative' and 'non-normative' collective action: A British case study of the removal of a public statue associated with racism.

Dixon J. et al, (2026), Br J Soc Psychol, 65

Using network analysis to identify processes of change in low-intensity CBT interventions for depression and anxiety disorders.

Belli SR. et al, (2026), J Affect Disord, 398

Corrigendum to "'Just imagine…': mental imagery correlates with Food Neophobia" [Food Res. Int. 225 (2026) 118048].

Peng M. et al, (2026), Food Res Int, 229

Bullying in special schools: Types, frequency and school staff's self-efficacy

Lee NWT. and Badger JR., (2026), Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 26

What role does temporal synchrony play in mid-level audiovisual crossmodal correspondences?

Spence C. and Di Stefano N., (2026), Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 33

Salivary modulation of organic acid effects on pungency perception in baijiu.

Wang G. et al, (2026), Food Res Int, 228

Eye movements efficiently expose single cone photoreceptors to global scene color statistics.

Morimoto T. et al, (2026), iScience, 29

What does sci-fi taste like? Metallic taste associated with the sound of the theremin

Spence C. and Zhang T., (2026), Perception

Understanding hoarding behaviours in the context of homelessness

Zortea TC. et al, (2026), British Journal of Clinical Psychology

The process of co-design with children of supporting kids in loss: An unguided internet cognitive behavior therapy intervention for grief.

Egan SJ. et al, (2026), Death Stud, 1 - 13

Patient expectations for outcome with psychological intervention for psychosis.

Freeman D. et al, (2026), Schizophr Res, 292, 21 - 27

Brain essay competition winner on artificial general intelligence.

Husain M., (2026), Brain, 149

Gaming the peer review system: Evidence for a review mill in medicine highlights the need to ensure reviewer integrity.

Oviedo-García MÁ. et al, (2026), Account Res

ssociations between autism and self-reported dimensions of interoception

Adams K. et al, (2026), Autism

Multidomain post-stroke cognitive impairment: development and validation of a clinical prediction model.

Kusec A. et al, (2026), Lancet Healthy Longev

Granule cells reorient cortical manifolds to separate contexts but preserve their geometry

Garcia-Garcia MG. et al, (2026)

Dyslexia with and without developmental language disorder: Profile analysis.

Snowling MJ. et al, (2026), Ann Dyslexia

Understanding human metacontrol and its pathologies using deep neural networks.

Sandbrink KJ. et al, (2026), Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 123

Toward neuroanatomical and cognitive foundations of macaque social tolerance grades.

Silvere S. et al, (2026), Elife, 14

‘Felt Sense of Anomaly’-type transdiagnostic dissociative experiences in adolescents: endorsed phenomenology and plausible mechanisms

Cernis E. et al, (2026), JCPP Advances

Stigmatising Language in Research and Clinical Care for Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviours

Waite P. et al, (2026), The Lancet Psychiatry

Youth social anxiety in the digital age: Reconceptualising cognitive-behavioural processes

Skjerdingstad N. and LEIGH E., (2026), Nature Mental Health

Beliefs about others’ positive emotional expressions: how they diverge by target social class, and why it matters

Ye Z. et al, (2026), Cognition and Emotion, 1 - 24

The experience of body image in people with psychosis and psychotic-like experiences: A co-produced mixed-methods systematic review and narrative synthesis.

McAllister J. et al, (2026), Psychol Psychother, 99, 1 - 39

Editorial Perspective: How spreading mental health information can be (un-) helpful - a dynamic systems approach.

Marcotulli D. et al, (2026), J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 67, 429 - 438

British Muslims' perceptions of therapy with non-Muslim therapists: A qualitative analysis of survey responses.

Hassan H. et al, (2026), Psychol Psychother, 99, 249 - 258

Personalizing AI art boosts credit, not beauty

Khan MA. et al, (2026), Technology in Society, 84

The Psychology of Victimhood in the Law

Gray K. et al, (2026), Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 13, 36 - 43

Reconsidering the microwave: A historical analysis of changing attitudes to modernist kitchen technology

Spence C. and Youssef J., (2026), International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science, 43

Warm glow and pro-environmental behavior: Supportive evidence from behavioral tasks

Zhou L. et al, (2026), Journal of Environmental Psychology, 110

Impact of Face Masks on Social Interaction: A Study on Gender Differences in Contingency Learning

Saylik R. et al, (2026), Gender Issues, 43

Culinary creativity under pressure: A narrative review of its possibilities and pitfalls

Spence C. and Stierand M., (2026), International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science, 43, 101451 - 101451

Joint effect of uncertainty-of-outcome and calorie content on food preference.

Zheng L. et al, (2026), Sci Rep

How can we make interventions more 'acceptable' in mental health?

Kabir T., (2026), BMJ Ment Health, 29

protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial of an online cancer bereavement group.

King L. et al, (2026), Pilot Feasibility Stud

Learning the Manchu writing system: The role of intra-symbol processing in orthography acquisition

Li B. et al, (2026), Reading Research Quarterly

Immersion in the Early Years: The future of education and children’s key to success

FAITAKI F. et al, (2026), Proceedings of the Yidan Prize Doctoral Conference, 1, 125 - 136

Delphi survey on attitudes to serious research misconduct: Exploring convergence vs. polarization of views of research "sleuths" and research integrity experts.

Bishop DVM., (2026), Account Res

Providing Psychological Therapy Support and Improving Postdischarge Data Collection: Preliminary Evaluation of the "Paddle" App.

Thew GR. et al, (2026), JMIR Hum Factors, 13

Transsaccadic working memory in healthy ageing and neurodegenerative disease.

Zhao S. et al, (2026)

Transsaccadic working memory in healthy ageing and neurodegenerative disease

Zhao S. et al, (2026), eLife, 14

From mate to hate? Prejudice socialization in friendship networks.

Bracegirdle C. et al, (2026), Am Psychol

On sensory similarities.

Spence C. and Di Stefano N., (2026), Conscious Cogn, 140

Triggering anger using a virtual reality social scene.

Lambe S. et al, (2026), Sci Rep

Helping Patients with Persecutory Delusions Find Safety

FREEMAN D., (2026), Schizophrenia Bulletin

Confidence and certainty in medical diagnoses within acute healthcare: a scoping review.

Aiyer S. et al, (2026), BMJ Qual Saf, 35, 188 - 200

Investigating ethnicity-related variability in the human L-cone spectral sensitivity function.

Schneider AC. et al, (2026), Vision Res, 243

Parent-led CBT delivered via online and telephone support alongside usual school practice versus usual school practice only for young children identified as at risk for anxiety disorders through screening in schools: a cluster randomised controlled trial.

Reardon T. et al, (2026), J Child Psychol Psychiatry

Investigators are human too: outcome bias and perceptions of individual culpability in patient safety incident investigations.

Lea W. et al, (2026), BMJ Qual Saf, 35, 159 - 168

‘Felt Sense of Anomaly’-type transdiagnostic dissociative experiences in adolescents: endorsed phenomenology and plausible mechanisms.

Černis E. et al, (2026)

No error on the side of safety: No representational momentum for auditory looming stimuli.

Merz S. et al, (2026), Psychon Bull Rev, 33

Computational origins of cortical brain circuits for social cognition.

Mahmoodi A. and Rushworth MFS., (2026), Nat Rev Neurosci

Living in the Aftermath: Narratives on the impact of exposure to community and school violence in childhood on mental health and adjustment outcomes in later life.

Lupindo MB. et al, (2026), Psychol Psychother

Unpacking the Complex Mechanisms of Teacher-to-Student Emotion Transmission in Foreign Language Classrooms: A Mixed-Methods Study

Jiang AL. et al, (2026), International Journal of Applied Linguistics

Differences in dynamic motor selection in stuttering

Echeverria-Altuna I. et al, (2026)

Recent publications

Causal necessity of hippocampus for structure-based inference in learning

Pan D. et al, (2025)

Causal necessity of human hippocampus for structure-based inference in learning

Pan D. et al, (2025)

Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial frontal cortex.

Wittmann MK. et al, (2025), Nature, 641, 707 - 717

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