PEOPLE
Principal Investigator
Yanchao Bi, Ph.D.
Email: ybi@bnu.edu.cn
Yanchao Bi is a ChangJiang professor in IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research and the State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, at Beijing Normal University. She received her PhD from the Department of Psychology, Harvard University in 2006. Her work focuses on the study of functional and neural architecture associated with semantic memory, knowledge representation, and language processing, using cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, multi-modal neuroimaging, computation modeling and other research methods. Her work is mainly funded by Ministry of Science and Technology (973 project) and National Science Foundation of China. She currently serves on the editorial board of Journals Elife (Senior Editor), Neurobiology of Language (Senior Editor), Cognition, Cognitive Neuropsychology. She has won various awards, scholarships, or recognitions such as “The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars”, “The National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars”, “New Century Excellent Talents in University”, Sackler scholar of psychophysiology, Fulbright scholar, and “rising star” in the Observer by the Association for Psychological Sciences.
Research Assistant Professor
Xiaoying Wang Email: wxyphantom@gmail.com
Xiaosha Wang Email: wangxiaosha@bnu.edu.cn Research Interest: the cognitive and neural bases of knowledge representation.
Huichao Yang Email: yanghuichao89@gmail.com Research Interest: I am interested in the relationship between the action and object. For example, how do they separate from each other, how do they interact with each other and how are they integrated into new and complex concepts. I have two ongoing projects about this: The brain mechanism of action-object integration; The brain mechanism of the role of action in object domain-specific representation.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Guangyao Zhang Website: https://psych-zhangguangyao.github.io/ Email: zhangguangyao@bnu.edu.cn Research Interest: My studies focus on the cognitive and neural basis of concept learning, including but not limited to the following issues: 1) how people can learn new concept from only a few examples; 2) what roles sensory and language experience play in concept learning, and 3) how concept learning varis between individuals.
Haojie Wen Email: hjwen@mail.bnu.edu.cn Research Interest: I study the different stages of object recognition, mainly focusing on the subcortical way.
Ting-Yun Chang Email: yun.chang@hotmail.com Website: www.tingyunchang.org Research Interest: My general interests lie in visual perception, recognition, learning, and attention. I study the recognition of faces and objects and how it is influenced by context and experience. I am also interested in visual behaviors associated with music reading experience. My most recent work revolves around ensemble perception and investigates how people vary in their abilities to perceive ensembles of diverse categories.
Lab Assistants
Fei Xiang
Email: xiangfei8706@163.com
Graduate Students
Jiahui Lu Email: lujiahui0730@163.com
Zhiyu Fan Email: 202121061015@mail.bnu.edu.cn
Yuxi Chu Email: yuxichu@mail.bnu.edu.cn
Shuang Tian
Email: calliopetian@126.com
Research Interest: If both sensory-derived knowledge and imagery are grounded in our sensorimotor systems, where, when, and how do they differ in the brain? Is the "mind's eye" necessary for the representation of sensory-derived knowledge? I'm currently focusing on congenital aphantasics (i.e., people born without voluntary mental imagery), to investigate the above questions.
Ze Fu Email: zefu1997@gmail.com
Research Interest: I'm interested in how knowledge is created and transmitted in group and societies through language communications. I use computational modeling and neural imaging methods to examine the way that language experience impacts on our understanding of the world.
Haoyang Chen
Email: 20221061038@mail.bnu.edu.cn
Ziyi Xiong
Email: ziyi_xiong@mail.bnu.edu.cn
Research Interest: I'm interested in the mechanism of brain plasticity, and I'm now investigating the interaction between sensorimotor experience and neural representation of body and body actions.
Shuyue Wang
Email: shuyuewang@mail.bnu.edu.cn
Bo Liu
Email: liubo_sxmu_mr@163.com
Dingchen Zhang
Email: zhangdingchen159@163.com
Alumni
Jie Liu, MSc. (2006-2009)
Tao Wei, MSc. (2007-2010); Post Doc (2016-2018)
Nan Lin, PhD. (2007-2012)
Xiaohong Zhang, MSc. (2007-2010)
Xiaoliang Wen, MSc. (2008-2011)
Xueming Lu, Ph.D. (2008-2011)
Chenxi He, PhD. (2009-2015)
Jingrui Li, MSc. (2009-2012)
Yujun Ma, Ph.D. (2010-2013)
Quanjing Chen, MSc. (2010-2013)
Yuxing Fang, phD. (2011-2016)
Huiyan Feng, MSc. (2011-2014)
Xiuyi Wang, MSc. (2012-2015)
Yangwen Xu, PhD. (2012-2017)
Binke Yuan, PhD. (2014-2017)
Wei Wu , PhD. (2014-2020)
Ye Li, MSc. (2014-2017)
Tonghe Zhuang, MSc. (2015-2018)
Jiasi Shen, MSc. (2015-2018)
Bijun Wang, MSc. (2016-2019)
Shijia Fan, phD. (2016-2021)
Jiahuan Wang, MSc. (2017-2020)
Yuankun Chen, MSc. (2018-2021)
Jinyi Hung, Post Doc. (2018-2020)
Guoli Lv, MSc. (2019-2022)
Lingjuan Chen, phD. (2016-2024)