Ajay received his PhD from UCLA in 2008.

After his PhD he joined the lab of Prof. Kevin Ochsner at Columbia University's SCAN Unit (until mid 2011)

• Ajay's usage notes

Found in the publications database on PubMed:

• Identifying the what, why, and how of an observed action: an fMRI study of mentalizing and mechanizing during action observation. (Spunt RP, Satpute AB, Lieberman MD; J Cogn Neurosci. 2011 Jan;23(1):63-74.; PMID: 20146607)
• The neural correlates of implicit and explicit self-relevant processing (Rameson LT, Satpute AB, Lieberman MD; Neuroimage. 2010 Apr 1;50(2):701-8. Epub 2010 Jan 4.; PMID: 20045472)
• The sunny side of fairness: preference for fairness activates reward circuitry (and disregarding unfairness activates self-control circuitry) (Tabibnia G, Satpute AB, Lieberman MD; Psychol Sci. 2008 Apr;19(4):339-47.; PMID: 18399886)
• Integrating automatic and controlled processes into neurocognitive models of social cognition (Satpute AB, Lieberman MD; Brain Res. 2006 Mar 24;1079(1):86-97. Epub 2006 Feb 20. Review.; PMID: 16490183)
• Personality from a controlled processing perspective: an fMRI study of neuroticism, extraversion, and self-consciousness (Eisenberger NI, Lieberman MD, Satpute AB; Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2005 Jun;5(2):169-81.; PMID: 16180623)
• An fMRI study of causal judgments (Satpute AB, Fenker DB, Waldmann MR, Tabibnia G, Holyoak KJ, Lieberman MD; Eur J Neurosci. 2005 Sep;22(5):1233-8.; PMID: 16176366)
• Context processing and context maintenance in healthy aging and early stage dementia of the Alzheimer's type (Braver TS, Satpute AB, Rush BK, Racine CA, Barch DM; Psychol Aging. 2005 Mar;20(1):33-46.; PMID: 15769212)
• Evidence-based and intuition-based self-knowledge: an FMRI study (Lieberman MD, Jarcho JM, Satpute AB; J Pers Soc Psychol. 2004 Oct;87(4):421-35. Review.; PMID: 15491269)

Ajay has interests in

• the neural bases of social cognition, emotion and learning and
• in developing new analytic and computational methods to study their interactions

One of his current projects examines the computations medial PFC performs in both social cognitive and affective contexts.