Research interest

My research interests have been focused on investigating cognitive and affective controls in human behaviors and the underpinning neural substrates.
◎Attentional control network and its top-down modulation of information processing pathways.
◎Exploring the interaction between cognitive and affective controls in human reward system.
◎Investigating the phenomenon of cognitive/emotional control disorder and drug addiction.

 

Research Methods

◎Cognitive behavioral experiment
◎Event-related potential experiment
◎Functional magnetic resonance imaging experiment

 

Paradigm

To study these issues, I have developed and refined a variety of psychological paradigms:
◎Directed forgetting task
◎The integrated Simon-Stroop task
◎Emotional Simon task
◎Stroop task
◎Numerical comparison task
◎Object matching task
◎Flanker task
◎The dynamic gambling task