Publications

Key publications:

• Wong JJ, Bongioanni A, Rushworth MF, Chau BK. (2024). Distractor effects in decision making depends on individual’s style of integrating choice attributes. eLife, 12. [link]

• Law C, Kolling N, Chan CC, Chau BK. (2023). Frontopolar cortex represents complex features and decision value during choice between environments. Cell Reports, 42, 112555. [link]

• Kohl C, Wong MX, Wong JJ, Rushworth MF, Chau BK. (2023). Intraparietal stimulation disrupts negative distractor effects in human multi-alternative decision-making. eLife, 13. [link]

• Fouragnan E*, Chau BK*, Folloni D*, Kolling N, Klein-Flügge M, Verhagen L, Tankelevitch L, Papageorgiou G, Sallet J, Rushworth MF. (2019). The macaque anterior cingulate cortex translates counterfactual choice value into actual behavioral change. Nature Neuroscience, 22, 797-808. [link]

• Chau BK, Sallet J, Papageorgios GK, Noonan MP, Bell AH, Walton ME, Rushworth MF. (2015). Contrasting roles for orbitofrontal cortex and amygdala in credit assignment and learning in macaques. Neuron, 87, 1106-1118. [link]

• Chau BK, Kolling N, Hunt LT, Walton ME, Rushworth MF. (2014). A neural mechanism underlying failure of optimal choice with multiple alternatives. Nature Neuroscience, 17, 463-70. [link]

Other publications:

• Chan TH, Chau BK. (2023). Mitigating the vampire effect of using celebrity in advertising: An eye-tracking approach. Journal of Current Issues and Research in Advertising. [link]

• Kan RLD, Lin TTZ, Zhang BBB, Giron CG, Jin M, Qin PPI, Xia AWL, Chan SKW, Chau BKH, Kranz GS. (2023). Moderators of stimulation-induced neural excitability in the left DLPFC: A concurrent iTBS/fNIRS case study. Brain Stimulation, 16, 1445-1447. [link]

• Cheung T, Chau B, Fong KH, Lam JYT, Lo H, Li MH, Li AMMC, Beisteiner R, Lei S, Yee BK, Cheng CPW. (2023). Evaluating the efficacy and safety of transcranial pulse stimulation on adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: Study protocol of a pilot randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled trial. Frontiers in neurology, 14, 1076086. [link]

• Woo T, Law C, Ting KH, Chan CC, Kolling N, Watanabe K, Chau BK. (2022). Distinct causal influences of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and posterior parietal cortex in multiple choice decision making. Cerebral Cortex, 32, 1390-1404. [link]

• Law CK, Kolling N, Chan CC, Chau BK. (2022). The Role of Frontal Polar Cortex in Patch Selection. Observer, 35(2), 59-60. 

• Derbie AY, Chau BK, & Chan CC. (2022). Functional and Structural Architectures of Allocentric and Egocentric Spatial Coding in Aging: A Combined DTI and fMRI Study. Frontiers in neurology, 12, 802975. [link]

• Tse ZC, Cao Y, Ogilvie JM, Chau BK, Ng DH, Shum DH. (2022). Prospective memory training in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Neuropsychology Review. [link]

• Zhou Z, Hui ES, Kranz GS, Chang JR, de Luca K, Pinto SM, Chan WW, Yau SY, Chau BK, Samartzis D, Jensen MP, Wong AYL. (2022). Potential mechanisms underlying the accelerated cognitive decline in people with chronic low back pain: A scoping review. Ageing Research Reviews. [link]

• Wong CH, Liu J, Lee TM, Tao J, Wong AW, Chau BK, Chen L, Chan CC. (2021). Fronto-cerebellar connectivity mediating cognitive processing speed. Neuroimage, 226, 117556. [link]

• Derbie AY, Chau BK, Wong CH, Chen L, Ting KH, Lam BY, Lee TM, Chan CC, Smith Y. (2021). Common and distinct neural trends of allocentric and egocentric spatial coding: an ALE meta-analysis. European Journal of Neuroscience, 53, 3672-3687. [link]

• Chung PM, Chau BK, Chow EC, Lam KH, Wong NM. (2021). Factors that affect the one-year mortality rate after lower limb amputation in the Hong Kong Chinese population. Journal of Orthopaedics, Trauma and Rehabilitation, 28, 1-5. [link]

• Derbie AY, Chau B, Lam B, Fan YH, Ting KH, Wong CY, Tao J, Chen LD, Chan CC. (2021) Cortical hemodynamic response associated with spatial coding: A near-infrared spectroscopy study. Brain Topography, 34, 2007-220 [link]

• Chau BK, Law C, Lopez-Persem A, Klein-Flügge MC, Rushworth MF. (2020). Consistent patterns of distractor effects during decision making. eLife, 9. [link]

• Wittmann MK, Fouragnan E, Folloni D, Klein-Flügge M, Chau BK, Khamassi M, Rushworth MF. (2020). Global reward state affects learning and activity in raphe nucleus and anterior insula in monkeys. Nature Communications, 11, 3771. [link]

• Yu Q, Chau BK, Lam BY, Wong AW, Peng J, Chan CC. (2019). Neural Processes of Proactive and Reactive Controls Modulated by Motor-Skill Experiences. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 14, 404. [link]

• Chau BK, Jarvis H, Law C, Chong TT. (2018). Dopamine and reward – A view from the prefrontal cortex. Behavioural Pharmacology, 29, 569-583. [link]

• Chau BK*, Keuper K*, Lo M, So KF, Chan CC, Lee TM. (2018). Meditation-induced neuroplastic changes of the prefrontal network are associated with reduced valence perception in older people. Brain and Neuroscience Advances, 2, 1-12. [link]

• Noonan MP, Chau BK, Rushworth MF, Fellows K. (2017). Contrasting effects of medial and lateral orbitofrontal cortex lesions on credit assignment and decision making in humans. Journal of Neuroscience, 37, 7023-35. [link]

• Papageorgiou GK, Sallet J, Wittmann MK, Chau BK, Schuffelgen U, Buckley MJ, & Rushworth MF. (2017). Inverted activity patterns in ventromedial prefrontal cortex during value-guided decision-making in a less-is-more task. Nature Communications, 8, 1886. [link]

• Zou Z, Chau BK, Ting KH, Chan CC. (2017). Aging Effect on Audiovisual Integrative Processing in Spatial Discrimination Task. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 9, 374. [link]

• Peng J, Chan SC, Chau BK, Yu Q, Chan CC. (2017). Salience of Somatosensory Stimulus Modulating External-to-Internal Orienting Attention. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 11, 428. [link]

• Yu Q, Chan CC, Chau BK, Fu AS. (2017). Motor skill experience modulates executive control for task switching. Acta Psychologica, 180, 88-97. [link]

• Cheng L, Lau WK, Fung TK, Lau MW, Chau BK, Liang Y, Wang X, So KF, Wang T, Chan CC, Lee TM. (2017). PM2.5 exposure suppresses dendritic maturation in subgranular zone in aged rats. Neurotoxicity Research, 32, 50-57. [link]

• Wittmann M, Kolling N, Akaishi R, Chau BK, Brown JW, Nelissen N, Rushworth MF. (2016). Predictive decision making driven by multiple time-linked reward representations in anterior cingulate cortex. Nature Communications, 7, 12327. [link]

• Walton ME, Chau BK, Kennerley SW. (2015). Prioritising the relevant information for learning and decision making within orbital and ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 1, 78-85. [link]

• Rushworth MF, Chau BK, Schuffelgen U, Neubert FX, Kolling N. (2014). Choice values: the frontal cortex and decision making. In: The Cognitive Neurosciences, 5th edition (Gazzaniga, M.S., ed), MIT Press. [link]