My research

 

I have a broad interest in systems neuroscience. To a great extent, our mind, our mathimetics and philosophy rely on the way we see, memorize and interact with the world. The visual processing, as well as related higher order functions such as attention, memory and decision making, are thus exceptionally important. This area is also filled with challenges, which makes it rather impressive to me. I aim to explore these topics in behavioral and physiological experiments combining with computational modeling.

 

In Prof. Mingsha Zhang's lab, I took part in several studies, mainly focusing on spatial cognition and visuomotor transformation. I investigated on the influence of visual information and covert attention on these processings with psychophysical experiments and computational simulations. Please see Projects and Publications pages for detail.

 

Due to my research experience, I found my strong interest in the integration between object recognition (in ventral streams) and its spatial information (in dorsal streams), and how these information finally form an awareness of the scene. These questions may involve the visual information processing, coordinate transformation, multisensory integration, memory formation, and attention, which I believe play the key role in the object binding and cognition. I wish to further study in this field in the future.