161 - Yuan Chang (YC) Leong: Emotional arousal & dynamic brain connectivity

Su chats with Dr. Yuan Chang (YC) Leong. YC is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago. He is the director of Computational Affective and Social Neuroscience Lab, which is a part of the Department of Psychology, a member of the Institute of Mind and Biology and the Neuroscience Institute, and an affiliate of the Data Science Institute. His research explores the neural and computational mechanisms underlying how goals, beliefs, and emotions influence human cognition, with a focus on why people interpret and respond to identical situations in different ways. In today's episode, we discuss what’s on YC intellectual radar these days, alongside with his recent paper "Dynamic brain connectivity predicts emotional arousal during naturalistic movie-watching," in which they show that we can decode arousal with open movie fMRI datasets. YC’s paper: YC’s lab website: YC’s personal website: Su’s Twitter @sudkrc Su’s Bluesky @sudkrc.bsky.social Podcast Twitter @StanfordPsyPod Podcast Bluesky @stanfordpsypod.bsky.social Podcast Substack Let us know what you thought of this episode, or of the podcast! :) stanfordpsychpodcast@gmail.com

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This episode was published on Oct 30, 2025.

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