Hakwan Lau

Nov 18, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Hakwan Lau |Francisco Aboitiz |Austin Coley |Ivan Oransky

This past April, more than 280 researchers (that number has since climbed to 480) issued a declaration on animal consciousness, claiming “there is strong scientific support for attributions of conscious experience to other mammals and to birds” and “at least a realistic possibility of conscious experience in all vertebrates … and many invertebrates.” This broad overstatement, in my opinion, could hurt scientific research in several ways.

Nov 4, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Hakwan Lau |Angie Voyles Askham |Calli McMurray |Shaena Montanari

Hakwan Lau is co-director of the Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research and professor of biomedical engineering at Sungkyunkwan University. He is supported by the Institute for Basic Science in Korea. Previously he worked at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science; the University of California, Los Angeles; Columbia University and University College London. He obtained his D.Phil.

Sep 2, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Cody A. Cushing |Hakwan Lau |Mitsuo Kawato |Michelle G Craske

Introduction Fear-based disorders such as specific phobia are among the most difficult mental disorders to treat. The most widely empirically supported treatment is “exposure therapy,” which involves direct exposure to fear-causing or panic-inducing stimuli.1 This treatment is highly effective in reducing fear.

Jun 14, 2024 | biorxiv.org | William Zhou |Dobromir Rahnev |Hakwan Lau |Ali Moharramipour

AbstractPerceptual similarity is a cornerstone for human learning and generalization. However, in assessing the similarity between two stimuli differing in multiple dimensions, it is not well-defined which feature(s) one should focus on. The problem has accordingly been considered ill-posed.

May 10, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Qi Lin |Hakwan Lau

AbstractThe lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) is commonly associated with high-level cognition, such as attention, language and cognitive control. However, recent work has demonstrated that it is also critical for basic perceptual functions including object recognition. Here we characterize the role of LPFC in visual processing with computational models.