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Research Scientist
Center for Biomedical Imaging and Neuromodulation (C-BIN)
Translational Neuroscience Laboratories
Xu Lab
Phone: 845-398-6637
Email: haoran.xu@nki.rfmh.org
Dr. Xu is a neuroscientist studying how the primate brain gives rise to social perception, and how these processes are altered in brain disorders. His doctoral research, in the laboratory of Haidong Lu at the Institute of Neuroscience of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, used optical imaging to map the functional architecture of the visual cortex, and to study binocular rivalry.
As a postdoctoral researcher in the Desimone and Feng labs at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research, he developed a platform for large-scale wireless recording in freely moving marmosets and used it to study how face- and social-selective regions across the cortex encode social scenes, including in a SHANK3 marmoset model of autism.
At the Nathan Kline Institute, he heads the Xu Lab, studying primate social perception and its disruption in neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders, and developing new tools for large-scale recording and neuromodulation in nonhuman primates.
Select Publications
- Xu H†, Han C†, et al. Rivalry-like neural activity in primary visual cortex in anesthetized monkeys. Journal of Neuroscience. 2016;36(11):3231-3242. (†equal contribution)
- Cai X†, Xu H†, et al. Mesoscale functional connectivity in macaque visual areas. NeuroImage. 2023;274:120019. (†equal contribution)
- Mendoza-Halliday D, Xu H, et al. Dissociable neuronal substrates of visual feature attention and working memory. Neuron. 2024;112(5):850-863.
- Rajimehr R, Xu H, et al. Functional architecture of the cerebral cortex during naturalistic movie watching. Neuron. 2024;112(24):4130-4146.
- Li P, … Xu H, … Lu HD. A motion-direction preference map in monkey V4. Neuron. 2013;78(2):376-388.
Google Scholar: Haoran Xu – Google Scholar
Bibliography: My Bibliography – NCBI