Publications

Journal Articles

Against omission bias: Adolescents prefer commissions in vaccination decision-making

Published in Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2026

Using a classic vaccination decision-making task and drift diffusion modeling, we found that early-to-middle adolescents, unlike young adults, preferred commission over omission—showing a reduced omission bias driven by lower decision threshold separation that may reflect a tendency toward positive risk-taking.

Recommended citation: Wang, Y., Shi, Z., Li, J., & Su, Y. (2026). Against omission bias: Adolescents prefer commissions in vaccination decision-making. Journal of research on adolescence, 36(2), e70218.
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Conference Papers

Excalibur: Encouraging and evaluating embodied exploration

Published in Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2023

The EXCALIBUR benchmark fosters exploratory embodied AI by enabling agents to freely explore environments, answer complex inquiries about physical properties, and refine their knowledge through iterative interactions, offering unique challenges and advancing embodied AI research.

Recommended citation: Zhu, H., Kapoor, R., Min, S. Y., Han, W., Li, J., Geng, K., ... & Weihs, L. (2023). Excalibur: Encouraging and evaluating embodied exploration. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (pp. 14931-14942).
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Poster Abstracts

Exploring Age-Related Morphological Changes in Cerebral Arteries: A 7T TOF MRA Study

Published in The Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting, 2024

We utilized 7T Time-of-Flight Magnetic Resonance Angiography (TOF MRA) to analyze age-related changes in cerebral arterial diameter and tortuosity, finding that aging is associated with increased diameter in large vessels, decreased diameter and tortuosity in small vessels, and potential implications for cerebrovascular health in older adults.

Recommended citation: Shi, Z., Li, J., Huang, Y., Schweitzer, N., Iordanova, B., Ibrahim, T. S., Yang, S., Stetten, G. D., Aizenstein, H. J., Wu, M. (2024, June 24-25). Exploring Age-Related Morphological Changes in Cerebral Arteries: A 7T TOF MRA Study [Poster Abstract]. The Organization for Human Brain Mapping 2024 Annual Meeting, virtual.
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Age- and Sex-Related Morphological Changes in Cerebral Blood Vessels: a 7T TOF MRA Study

Published in The Alzheimer's Association International Conference, 2023

We investigated age- and sex-related morphological changes in cerebral blood vessels using 7T Time-of-Flight MRI, finding that older women show greater increases in small vessel tortuosity compared to men, potentially contributing to elevated risks of cerebral small vessel disease and Alzheimer's disease in women.

Recommended citation: Li, J., Stetten, G. D., Schweitzer, N., Shi, Z., Ibrahim, T. S., Yang, S., Iordanova, B., Aizenstein, H. J., Wu, M. (2023, July 15). Age- and Sex-Related Morphological Changes in Cerebral Blood Vessels: a 7T TOF MRA Study [Poster Abstract]. The Alzheimer's Association International Conference 2023, virtual.
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VesselMapper: A Robust Vessel Segmentation Algorithm for 3D Images

Published in The Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting, 2023

VesselMapper is a noise-robust algorithm for 3D image vessel segmentation that characterizes morphological features of brain blood vessels in magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) images, enabling the detection of cerebrovascular changes associated with aging, disease, or treatment.

Recommended citation: Li, J., Stetten, G. D., Schweitzer, N., Ibrahim, T. S., Iordanova, B., Aizenstein, H. J., Wu, M. (2023, June 23-24). VesselMapper: A Robust Vessel Segmentation Algorithm for 3D Images [Poster Abstract]. The Organization for Human Brain Mapping 2023 Annual Meeting, virtual.
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Jiatai Li