#  Yongsoo Ra 

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 **Thesis advisor:** Naoshige Uchida  
**Rotation lab(s):** Cengiz Pehlevan, Ziv Williams, Naoshige Uchida  
**For me, home is:** Seoul, Korea  
**Undergraduate degree(s):** BS Neuroscience & Computer Science  
**Research experience before PiN:** Role of dopamine neurons in habitual and controlled behaviors with Hyoung Kim at Seoul National University; Confirmational bias due to approximate inference during active sensing with Ralf Haefner & Origin of eye rotation signals in primate brain with Greg Deangelis at the University of Rochester   
**Current research interests:** Role of dopamine neurons during multi-agent reinforcement learning; computations and circuits underlying different social interactions  
**Interests outside lab / favorite hangouts:** Weight-lifting, tennis, and hiking



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Entry year
    
     [2022-2023](/entry-year/2022-2023)
- ## People
    
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