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Sze Chai Kwok

Sze Chai Kwok

Associate Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke Kunshan University
DKU Faculty

Scholarly Works - Preprints

Using light to establish habits in laboratory mice

Preprint · 2026 Background and aims Perseverative behaviours are commonly assessed using operant paradigms in which rodents work for drugs or food under physiological deprivation, limiting translational relevance to some behavioural addictions. Here we validated ... Full text Cite

Context-dependent functional diversity of dorsomedial posterior parietal neurons revealed by single-unit fMRI mapping during naturalistic viewing

Preprint · 2026 The dorsomedial posterior parietal cortex (dmPPC) plays an important role in episodic processing by integrating sensory, cognitive, and motor information across distributed brain systems. However, how individual dmPPC neurons participate in large-scale fun ... Full text Cite

Microstructural organization of Superior Longitudinal Fasciculus and Cingulum Bundle support metacognition driven cognitive offloading

Preprint · 2024 People often use external tools to offload cognitive demands associated with remembering future intentions. While previous research has established a causal role of metacognition in cognitive offloading, the neural mechanisms supporting this metacognitive ... Full text Cite