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Liu-Fang Zhou
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology
South China Normal University, Guangzhou,
GuangDong, 510631, CHINA
Email: liufangpsy@gmail.com
Education:
2013.9-2018.6 Ph.D. candidate in Basic Psychology(Advisors: Shena Lu and Yong-Chun Cai)
Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
2016.9-2017.9 Visiting researcher(Lab PIs: Alejandro Lleras and Simona Buetti)
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
2009.9-2013.6 B.S. in Psychology (with honors)
Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Research interests
I am broadly interested in human perception, attention and awareness. Specifically, I am interested in understanding the ‘qualia’ issue, including perceptual, affective as well as aesthetic experience. During my Ph.D. study, I worked on how attention would influence our subjective visual experience of the physical world, that is, how covert attention influences how things look like (i.e., the perceived contrast). I was trained by Prof. Yong-Chun Cai and Shena Lu at Zhejiang University, China, and Prof. Alejandro Lleras and Simona Buetti at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. I use a variety of methodologies and approaches including behavioral psychophysics, EEG/ERP measurements, fMRI and computational modeling.
Skills:
Research methodology:
Psychophysics
EEG/ERP
Computational modeling
fMRI
Operational level skills:
Matlab (psychtoolbox) and R
Eye tracking devices (Tobbi Eye Tracker 4c/SMI iView XTM/EyeLink 1000)
Octopus 900
Statistical analysis software: SPSS, jamovi
Photoshop, MS software
Language:
Mandarin (native)
English (fluent)
French (elementary)
Others:
Guqin (traditional Chinese musical instrument)
Participate in research projects:
Studies on the interaction between language and perception without visual awareness (LY18C090001), supported by Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province.
Studies on the small number preference effect (LY15C090002), supported by Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province.
Studies on the attention alerting mechanism without visual awareness (LY13C09001), supported by Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province.
Studies on the spatial-temporal characteristics of surround suppression mechanism in human visual system (N20120054), supported by Minister of Education of Zhejiang Province.
Studies on the suppressive phenomena in human visual system (31100731), supported by Natural Science Foundation of China.
Teaching Experience:
Introduction to Psychology 2015.9-2016.6 (teaching assistant)
Guqin performance 2016.3-2018.6
Awards and scholarships:
Excellent Student Award by Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China.
Excellent Student Cadre Award of Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China.
National scholarship by Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China.
Scholarship for excellent graduate students to study and research overseas by Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China.