Li Chaoyi

Li Chaoyi (simplified Chinese: 李朝义; traditional Chinese: 李朝義; pinyin: Lǐ Cháoyì; 1934 – 11 August 2018) was a Chinese neurobiologist and politician. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and was a member of the Communist Party of China.

Li was born in Chongqing in 1934. He graduated from China Medical University and Fudan University.

Li was a visiting scientist at Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Princeton University, KU Leuven, McGill University, Kyushu Institute of Technology, and Centre national de la recherche scientifique. He was a part-time professor at Fudan University, University of Science and Technology of China, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Jinan University and the Third Military Medical University.

In 1999 he was elected a member of the council of International Brain Research Organization (IBRO).

On August 11, 2018, Li died of illness in Shanghai.

• Tao Xu; Lin Wang; Xuemei Song; Chaoyi Li (2013). "The Detection of OrientationContinuity and Discontinuity by Cat V1 Neurons". PLoS One. 1. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0079723. PMC 3836789.
• Ke Chen; Xuemei Song; Chaoyi Li (2012). "Contrast-DependentVariations in the Excitatory Classical Receptive Field and SuppressiveNonclassical Receptive Field of Cat Primary Visual Cortex". Cereb Cortex.
• Zeng C; Li Y; Chaoyi Li (2011). "Center-surroundinteraction withadaptiveinhibition: a computationalmodel for contourdetection". NeuroImage: 49–66.
• Yao J. G.; Gao X; Yan H. M.; Chaoyi Li (2011). "Field of attention for instantaneousobject recognition". PLoS One.

• 1991 Second Prize in Natural Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 1997 Second Prize in State Natural Science Award
• 2000 Science and Technology Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation