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Marike Schiffer BSc, MSc, PhD
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Marike is the Chief Editor of Communications Psychology and is based in the Berlin office. Marike received her PhD from the University of Muenster (DE), after obtaining a Master of Science degree in Neuropsychology from Maastricht University (NL) and a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology at the Ruhr University Bochum (DE). Following her PhD training at Muenster and the Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research in Cologne (DE), Marike worked for four years as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford (UK). In 2017, she left her position as Lecturer in Psychology at Brunel University London (UK) to become a professional editor at Nature Human Behaviour, where she handled cognitive science content and, since 2021, oversaw the journal's magazine section. She moved to launch Communications Psychology in 2022.
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Jennifer A. Bellingtier BA, MA, PhD
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Jennifer joined Communications Psychology as a Senior Editor in 2022 and is based in the Berlin office. Jennifer received her PhD from North Carolina State University (USA) with a focus on lifespan developmental psychology, her MA from the University of Northern Iowa (USA) with a focus on social psychology, and her BA from the University of Southern California (USA) with a focus on art history. Following her doctoral studies, she worked for five years at Friedrich Schiller University Jena (DE), conducting research on subjective views of aging, stress and well-being, and emotion regulation. Prior to joining Communications Psychology, Jennifer was a member of the editorial boards for Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences and Psychology and Aging.
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Troby Ka-Yan Lui BSSc, MPhil, PhD
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Troby joined Communications Psychology as an Associate Editor in 2024 and is based in the Heidelberg office. Troby received her PhD in Psychology from the University of Luebeck (DE). Before that, she obtained both her Mphil and her BSSc from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (HK). Following her PhD study, Troby worked as a postdoctoral researcher for two years at Centre national de la recherche scientific (CNRS) in Toulouse (FR), with the focus on rhythmic cognition, auditory attention, and neural oscillations.
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Consulting Editors
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Brittany Cardwell PhD
Springer Nature (United States), New York, United States-
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Brittany joined Nature Communications in June, 2018. She received her PhD in cognitive psychology, with a focus on memory and belief, from Victoria University of Wellington, then moved to the University of Otago for a postdoc in social cognition. Brittany handles manuscripts related to cognitive and social psychology, and is located in the New York office.
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Myrthel Dogge PhD
Springer Nature (United Kingdom), London, United Kingdom-
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Myrthel Dogge joined Nature Communications in February 2020. She obtained her PhD in psychology with a focus on the sense of agency and the impact of expectations on perception from Utrecht University. She then moved to the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour where her research focused on the role of consciousness in higher-cognitive functions. Myrthel handles submissions in a variety of areas within the team’s remit, and is based in the London office.
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Nicole Montijn PhD
Springer Nature (Germany), Berlin, Germany-
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Nicole Montijn joined Nature Communications in January 2023. After completing a MSc in Neuroscience at Utrecht University, Nicole worked as a data scientist at the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam before returning to Utrecht to do their PhD in Clinical Psychology. Their PhD research focused on (non)adaptive changes in episodic memory and future thinking related to stress and anxiety. Nicole handles submissions related to cognitive, social and clinical psychology as well as neuroscience, and is based in the Berlin office.
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Editorial Board Members
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John Jamir Benzon Aruta BSc, MA, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines-
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Environmental Psychology; Climate change and mental health nexus; Counseling Psychology
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Dr. John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta is an Associate Professor of Psychology at De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines. His research involves the following areas of research: 1) the application of psychology principles in promoting environmental sustainability, 2) the interface between climate change and mental health in the Global South context, and 3) the mental health of neglected and marginalized populations. Dr. Aruta received awards for his scientific contributions including the Outstanding Young Scientist Award 2023 given by the National Academy of Science and Technology in the Philippines.
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María Florencia Assaneo PhD
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico-
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Speech perception, speech production, auditory-motor synchronization, speech rhythms, phonological processing, language and reading development, computational modeling, EEG, f/MRI
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Florencia Assaneo is a principal investigator working in the field of cognitive neuroscience. Her research focuses on speech perception and production, with a particular emphasis on auditory-motor integration and speech rhythms. She conducts computational modeling as well as experimental studies, combining behavioral paradigms with EEG and neuroimaging techniques.
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Shir Atzil BSc, MA, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel-
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Parent-Infant Bonding, Romantic Bonding, Affect, Neural mechanisms, Allostasis
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Dr. Shir Atzil is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Bonding Neuroscience Laboratory in the Department of Psychology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on the neural and behavioral mechanisms underlying human bonding. Combining expertise in neuroscience, biology, and psychology with extensive experience working with parents, infants, and romantic partners, Dr. Atzil investigates the biological foundations of human attachment.
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Inti A. Brazil BSc, MSc, PhD
Associate Professor and Principal Investigator, Neuropsychology & Rehabilitation Psychology, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Associate Professor and Principal Investigator, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands-
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Experimental forensic psychology, psychopathy, antisocial personality, reinforcement-based learning, decision-making
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My main interest is studying (mal)adaptive behavior and decision-making in relation to psychopathic/antisocial tendencies observed in community and offender samples. To achieve this, I examine and integrate multiple levels of description by combining behavioral methods, electrophysiology, neuroimaging, and various data modeling techniques. I am also interested in the development of biopsychology-informed frameworks for capturing individual differences.
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Fan Cao PhD
University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong-
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Reading development and disorders, developmental disorders, brain changes following behavioral intervention in children with ASD, ADHD, Developmental dyslexia, second langauge learning.
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Dr. Fan Cao is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, the University of Hong Kong. Her research concerns developmental disorders, such as developmental dyslexia, ASD and ADHD with a focus on brain mechanisms and neural plasticity following intervention. She also studies second language learning to understand how children and adults learn a new language similarly or differently.
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Fabio Carrella PhD
Assistant Professor, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil-
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Language and cognition, online discourse, political discourse, misinformation, psychological microtargeting, computational approaches to communication
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Dr. Fabio Carrella is a Postdoctoral Researcher within the Institute of Computing at the University of Campinas, Brazil. He is a member of the Recod lab, which specializes in AI research on complex data. His research lies at the intersection of language, cognition, and digital communication, with interests in the linguistic expression of psychological constructs, misinformation, political discourse, and microtargeting. He also explores applications of large language models in the analysis and modelling of communication.
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Caroline Charpentier BSc, MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, United States-
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computational psychiatry, decision-making, social learning, social affective neuroscience, belief updating, computational modelling, social cognition, anxiety, autism
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Caroline Charpentier is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, and the Brain and Behavior Institute at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research focuses on the behavioral, neural, and computational mechanisms of social learning and decision-making, with a particular focus on how individual differences in these processes may carry relevance for psychopathology. Her research is interdisciplinary, drawing from social neuroscience, behavioral economics and computational psychiatry. She obtained her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from University College London in 2016 and completed her postdoc at the California Institute of Technology before joining the University of Maryland in the Fall of 2023. Her work is currently funded by a K99/R00 award from the National Institute of Mental Health.
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Hu Chuan-Peng BSc, MA, PhD
Professor, School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China-
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self-cognition, drift-diffusion models, meta-science
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Chuan-Peng is a Professor at the School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University. His research interest includes meta-science, Bayesian hierarchical modeling, and its applications in self- cognition and mental health. He values equality, diversity, and inclusivity and actively promotes open scholarship both in the Chinese-speaking community and the international community.
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Mengchen Dong BSc, MA, PhD
Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany-
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Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
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Dr. Mengchen Dong is a behavioral scientist working at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Psychology. She received her PhD in Social Psychology from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and is currently a Research Scientist at the Center for Humans and Machines, Max Planck Institute for Human Development. Her research uses self-report and behavioral experiments to investigate ethical and governance challenges in AI, with a focus on social and organizational inequality and the (mis)alignment of AI systems with diverse cultural and societal groups. Her work emphasizes the importance of context, such as individual circumstances and sociocultural backgrounds in shaping human-AI interaction.
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Yana Fandakova, Dipl.Psych, PhD
Professor, Department of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Universität Trier, Trier, Germany-
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Lifespan Development, Brain Development, Learning, Memory, Cognitive Control
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Yana Fandakova is a Professor in the Departments of Psychology at the University of Trier. She obtained her PhD in Psychology from Humboldt University, Berlin, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley and UC Davis. Research in her laboratory uses an interdisciplinary approach at the intersection of developmental psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience to elucidate how learning, memory, and cognitive control processes interact in childhood, adolescence and in aging, and how motivational factors influence their developmental trajectories.
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Chuanji Gao PhD
School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China-
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Emotion, affective neuroscience, emotion perception and experiences, emotional memory, crossmodal integration, neural representations of emotion. Methodologies: behavioral experiments, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography (EEG), eyetracking, meta-analysis, computational modeling, psychophysiological methods, statistical modeling.
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Chuanji Gao, Ph.D., is a Professor in the School of Psychology at Nanjing Normal University, China. His research investigates the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying emotion, as well as how emotion interacts with other cognitive processes. He received his doctoral degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina and later pursued postdoctoral training at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University.
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Benjamin Griffiths PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom-
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Episodic memory, spatial navigation, visual perception, consciousness, EEG, MEG, fMRI, brain stimulation, artificial intelligence
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Dr. Benjamin Griffiths is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK. His research focuses on uncovering the cognitive and neural mechanisms that enable humans to form and retrieve vivid episodic memories. He takes a multimodal approach, combining psychological experiments with neuroimaging/electrophysiology (including simultaneous EEG-fMRI, intracranial EEG, and MEG) and machine learning to elucidate the computations and algorithms that underpin our ability to remember, both inside and outside the laboratory. He obtained his PhD in Psychology from the University of Birmingham, UK, and has held postdoctoral research positions at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany, and the University of Birmingham, UK.
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Nobuhiro Hagura BA, MSc, PhD
Senior Researcher, Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet), National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo, Japan-
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motor learning, perception, decision-making, touch, body representation
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Dr. Nobuhiro Hagura is a Senior Researcher at Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet), National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). His lab investigates interaction between motor control process and perception/decision-making process, using behavioural, computational and neuroimaging techniques. You can read more about the work in the lab here:
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Hannah Hao BE, MS, PhD
Professor, Departments of Psychology, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China-
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social and affective neuroscience, depression, emotion regulation, SES, autism
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Dr. Yu (Hannah) Hao is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Ningbo University, China. Her research is grounded in a biopsychosocial integrative framework to investigate the mechanisms underlying mental health across diverse populations. She focuses on mental health problems arising from structural factors, such as socioeconomic disadvantage, with particular emphasis on depression and anxiety. Specifically, her work examines the neural and physiological mechanisms of emotion regulation and social interaction and their roles in socioeconomic status–related mental health disparities and depression. She obtained her PhD from Cornell University and completed her postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai before joining Ningbo University.
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Xiaoqing Hu BSc, MSc, M Education, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science, Beijing, China; Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong-
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sleep, memory, voluntary forgetting, social cognitive neuroscience, affective neuroscience.
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Dr. Xiaoqing HU is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, and a Principal Investigator in the State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on sleep, memory dynamics and social learning. In particular, he examines how to modify unwanted memories during sleep, and the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying voluntary forgetting. He hopes this research can inform the development of novel memory- and sleep-based interventions to safeguard mental wellbeing and to promote resilience when facing life adversity. He obtained his Ph.D. from Northwestern University, Evanston, US.
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Shao-Min (Sean) Hung BSc, PhD
Assistant Professor, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan-
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Consciousness, Attention, Vision, Aging.
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Dr. Shao-Min (Sean) Hung is an Assistant Professor at the Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. He completed his undergraduate at the National Taiwan University, PhD at the Duke-National University of Singapore, and postdoctoral training at the California Institute of Technology. His main research interests center around consciousness, attention, and vision. In particular, he is broadly interested many forms of implicit and unconscious processes, as well as how they interact with other perceptual and cognitive processes. His experimental tools include psychophysics, fMRI and gradually extend to EEG, eye-tracking, and other physiological measurements.
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Shruti Japee BE, MS, PhD
Research Scientist, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States-
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Neuroimaging, fMRI, MEG, face processing, facial and body expression processing
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Shruti is a biomedical engineer turned cognitive neuroscientist, and her research focuses on how the brain processes emotions, particularly those conveyed through facial and body expressions. She uses a multi‑modal approach that includes human brain imaging methods such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and magnetoencephalography (MEG), along with behavioral tasks and machine learning techniques, to investigate the neural correlates of affective processing. Her work spans both typically developing individuals and clinical populations, allowing her to address fundamental questions about how the brain extracts meaningful information during interpersonal and social communication.
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Saloni Krishnan MSc, BASLP, PhD
Professor, Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, United Kingdom-
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developmental cognitive neuroscience, neurodevelopmental conditions, language
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I investigate how language is organised in the developing brain, using behavioural, computational, and MRI techniques. My work has established brain differences in several developmental communication disorders, such as developmental language disorder and stuttering. I was named an APS Rising Star in 2022 and received the BPS Neil O’Connor award in 2021. My work is currently funded by an Academy of Medical Sciences Springboard Award and an MRC New Investigator Research Grant.
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Mael Lebreton BSc, MSc, PhD
Professor, Economics of Human Behavior, Paris School of Economics, Paris, France-
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decision-making, preferences, beliefs, reinforcement-learning, metacognition, strategic interactions, computational modelling, functional neuroimaging, neuroeconomics.
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I am currently an Associated Researcher at the Paris School of Economics. I obtained a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from Sorbonne Université, Paris, and completed two postdoctoral experiences, at the University of Amsterdam (Faculty of Economics) and at the University of Geneva (Swiss Center for Affective Sciences). My team mixes methods and theories from cognitive (neuro)sciences and behavioral economics to investigates the computational and biological basis of economic behavior (choices, preferences, beliefs). Research projects in my lab usually build on behavioral experiments, computational models and functional neuroimaging.
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Jixing Li BA, MA, MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor, Linguistics and Translation, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong-
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computational neurolinguistics, speech, semantic processing, syntactic processing, reference processing
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I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Translation and the Department of Behavior and Social Sciences at City University of Hong Kong. My research applies computational models to understand how the human brain represents and computes semantic and syntactic information during language comprehension
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Patricia Lockwood BSc, PhD
Professor and Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Centre for Human Brain Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom-
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Social cognition, social neuroscience, decision-making, learning, ageing, lifespan, prosocial behaviour, cognitive neuroscience
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Dr. Patricia Lockwood is a Sir Henry Dale Fellow and Jacobs Foundation Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. Her lab investigates social learning and decision-making across the lifespan and in neurological and psychiatric disorders using a mixture of computational modelling, behavioural measures, self report, patient studies and neuroimaging. You can read more about the work in the lab here: www.sdn-lab.org.
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Yafeng Pan BSc, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China-
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educational neuroscience, social learning, social interaction, interpersonal synchrony, fNIRS
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Dr. Yafeng Pan (潘亚峰) is a Hundred-Talent Program Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University. His research interests are in the areas of human teaching, social learning and interactions. More specifically, his lab focuses on how correlated brain activity across individuals tracks (and underlies) teaching, interpersonal learning, cooperation, decision-making, and other high-level social processes. He uses behavioral, psychophysiological, neuroimaging, and neuro-modulation methods, to investigate the cognitive and neural mechanisms that mediate human social behaviors. His research also holds relevance for clinical and pedagogical practices.
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David Pascucci PhD
University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland-
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Visual perception, attention, memory, EEG, connectivity, inter-individual differences, brain rhythms.
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David Pascucci obtained his PhD in Cognitive Science from the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), where he investigated mechanisms of plasticity and learning in attention and visual perception. He subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Verona, focusing on the role of temporal context in vision. From 2015 to 2019, he worked at the University of Fribourg, where he studied human vision using dynamic network approaches. In 2019, he became an independent Principal Investigator at EPFL through an SNSF Ambizione grant, investigating the role of internal brain states and spatiotemporal context in perception. Since 2024, he has been Assistant Professor at CHUV and the University of Lausanne (UNIL), supported by an SNSF Starting Grant.
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Eva R. Pool BSc, MSc, PhD
Senior Research, Faculty of Psychology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland-
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Reward Seeking Behaviors; Conditioning and Associative Learning; Taste and Olfaction; Neuroimaging; Affective science
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Dr Eva R Pool is a senior researcher at the University of Geneva. Her research mainly focuses on the development of a deeper understanding of the affective mechanisms underlying reward-seeking behavior, learning and decision-making. To address these questions, she uses large variety of experimental procedures involving psychophysiological and fMRI techniques as well as meta-analyses and systematic literature reviews..
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Erdem Pulcu BA, MSc, PhD
Senior Researcher, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom-
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Reinforcement learning, social decision-making, game theory, memory, functional neuroimaging, risk, temporal discounting
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I obtained my doctoral degree from University of Manchester Medical School in 2014, studying social and value-based decision-making impairments in patients with major depressive disorder and their neurobiology. After my graduation, I have worked as a postdoctoral researcher in RIKEN Brain Sciences Institute (Tokyo) and Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet; Osaka) working on computational models of decision-making under uncertainty and in competitive, social interactive games. I am interested in investigating models of reinforcement learning and social interactive decision-making in patients with depression and healthy volunteers undergoing pharmacological manipulation. My other interests involve evolutionary models of human social behaviours.
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Daniel Quintana B Psych (Hons)
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway-
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Psychoneuroendocrinology, psychophysiology, meta-science, research methods
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Dr. Quintana is a Senior Researcher at the University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, Norway. He obtained his PhD in psychology from the University of Sydney. His main research interest is the investigation of biological systems that link psychosocial factors to health, with a focus on neuroendocrine systems and the autonomic nervous system. His research group uses various research approaches, including intervention trials, large-scale genetics studies, neuroimaging, and the collection of autonomic nervous system data. His other research interest is meta-science, which is the evaluation and improvement of research methods. Dr. Quintana has received numerous honours for his research, including the International Society for Psychoneuroendocrinology Dirk Hellhammer Award, the University of Oslo Prize for Young Researchers, and the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters Award for Young Researchers.
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Jesse Rissman PhD
Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States-
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episodic memory, working memory, attentional control, neuroimaging, brain stimulation, aging, individual differences
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Jesse Rissman is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA. He obtained his PhD in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. Research in his laboratory explores the cognitive and neural mechanisms of human memory, with an emphasis understanding the influence of contextual information and attentional goal states. He uses fMRI and transcranial stimulation to characterize the relevant brain circuity, and his experiments often strive to create naturalistic learning experiences using methods such as virtual reality and wearable life-logging cameras.
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Philipp Schmid BA, MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor, Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands-
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health decision-making, persuasion, mis-disinformation, vaccine hesitancy, science denialism, risk perception
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I am an assistant professor of health communication at Radboud University in the Netherlands. I am interested in the impact of misinformation and science denialism on individuals’ health decision-making, as well as communication strategies to counter these impacts. I am particularly engaged in research on vaccine hesitancy within this area of interest. I predominantly employ experimental research, quantitative survey studies, and systematic reviews to address my research questions.
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Anna-Lena Schubert BSc, MSc, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany-
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individual differences; cognitive abilities; processing speed; working memory capacity; attentional control; psychometrics; statistical modeling; mathematical modeling; EEG
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Anna-Lena Schubert is Professor for Analysis and Modeling of Complex Data in the Department of Psychology at the University of Mainz. She obtained her PhD in psychology from Heidelberg University in 2016, focusing on the relationship between mental speed and mental abilities. In her lab, she studies why some people are smarter than others, aiming to understand the elementary neurocognitive processes contributing to individual differences in higher-order cognitive abilities such as intelligence and reasoning. She has been working on the psychometrics of EEG data and mathematical models of cognition to overcome measurement problems, aiming to link theoretically guided measures of cognitive processes with individual differences in cognitive abilities. Her work integrates psychometric approaches with cognitive psychology, electrophysiology, and individual differences research. She is a fellow of the Psychonomic Society and received the Richard J. Haier Prize for Neuroscience Studies of Intelligence for her work on the neurocognitive mechanisms contributing to cognitive abilities. She also has an avid interest in open science and is a member of the Open Science Commission of the German Psychological Society (DGPs).
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Haiyan Wu BSc, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor, Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences and Department of Psychology, University of Macau, Macao, Macao-
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Emotion and Decision
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Professor Haiyan Wu is the Principal Investigator of ANDlab at the University of Macau (https://andlab-um.com/) and a Visiting Associate at the California Institute of Technology. Before joining the University of Macau, Professor Wu obtained her Ph.D. from Beijing Normal University and served as a researcher at the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on developing an interdisciplinary technological framework that integrates artificial intelligence, brain imaging, computational models, intracranial and extracranial neural signals, neural modulation, virtual reality, and big data to explore social neuroscience questions. Her work primarily centers on the interaction between emotion and decision-making in the brain.
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Xi Yu PhD
Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China; State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing, China-
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Developmental cognitive neuroscience, language acquisition, conceptual development, language impairment, dyslexia, pediatric imaging.
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Dr. Xi Yu is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at Beijing Normal University. She received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Hong Kong and completed postdoctoral training in the Gaab Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, where she developed a long-term research program in pediatric neuroimaging of language and reading development. Her research examines the neural and computational mechanisms that support language and conceptual development. By combining longitudinal pediatric neuroimaging, cognitive and behavioral assessments, and computational modeling, her work investigates when and how the developing brain internalizes linguistic regularities and organizes semantic knowledge, with translational implications for early screening and intervention.
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Shanshan Zhen PhD
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong-
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Social cognitive neuroscience, decision-making, mentalizing, prosociality, life span development, fMRI, Cognitive modeling.
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Dr. Zhen's research spans several areas in psychology and cognitive neuroscience, focusing on decision-making and social reasoning in diverse populations (e.g., older adults, children, and individuals with subclinical conditions). In addition to behavioural study, she also use model-based neuroimaging (e.g., fMRI/EEG) and paradigms from behavioural economics to better understand the neurocomputational bases of human decision-making in social contexts.
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Futing Zou BA, MSc, PhD
Research Associate, Department of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, United States-
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long-term memory, learning, cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging, perception
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Dr. Futing a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences at Brown University. She has previously completed her Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Oregon. Her work relies on behavioral and neuroimaging techniques along with computational methods to understand the cognitive and neural mechanisms that support episodic memory in humans.
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