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Education
Sep 2010 - July 2015 Ph.D. in Psychology Peking University
Advisor: Fang Fang
Sep 2006 - July 2010 B.S. in Psychology Peking University
B.A. in Art (double major)
Positions
April 2025 - Present Professor South China Normal University
Mar 2019 - April 2025 Associate professor (tenure-track) Tsinghua University
Apr 2017 - Mar 2019 Research scientist University of Southern California
Aug 2015 - Mar 2017 Postdoctoral research scholar University of Southern California
Advisor: Bosco S Tjan
Other Academic Positions
2019 - present Chinese Vision Science Society Committee Member
2021 - present Chinese Society for Cognitive Science Committee Member
Cognitive and Brain-inspired Computation
2019 - present Chinese Neuroscience Society Representative Member
2019 - 2025 Tsinghua-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research Affiliated PI
Research Interests
Cognitive Neuroscience, Vision, Attention, Perceptual Learning, Cortical Plasticity, 3T/7T fMRI, MEG, TMS, Psychophysics, Computational Modeling
Conferences/Invited Talks
Chen N. (2024) The visual cortex as a cognitive sketchpad: perception, learning, and attention. Shenzhen University, China.
Chen N. (2024) The neural basis and statistical information learning of natural texture processing. Annual Meeting of Chinese Psychological Society: Division of General Psychology and Experimental Psychology. Lanzhou, China.
Chen N. (2023) Learning-induced plasticity in human visual cortex. International Conference on Intelligence: From Cell to Network. Beijing, China.
Chen N. (2022) What do we see in the picture? The 27th Forum on Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Renmin University, China.
Chen N. (2021) Memory replay and learning-induced plasticity in the human visual cortex. The 14th Annual Meeting of Chinese Neuroscience Society. Chongqing, China.
Chen N. (2020) Flexible perception: functional plasticity in the human brain. NeuroChat, Online. Chen N. (2019) Central vision loss the cortical plasticity. Chinese Society for Cognitive Science, Anhui, China.
Chen N. (2018) Visual perceptual learning and plasticity in the adult brain. International Conference of Vision and Eye Research, Hong Kong, China.
Chen N. Attention alters the orientation tuning for multiple-stimulus displays in human visual areas. Beijing Vision Science Conference. Beijing, China, 2016, July 5-7.
Chen N. (2017) Training-induced plasticity in human visual cortex. UCLA Cognitive Neuroscience Forum, UCLA. Chen N. (2017) Form processing in peripheral vision. University of Minnesota.
Chen N. (2017) Visual perceptual learning and plasticity in adult brain. Caltech.
Conference Service
Session Chair: Perceptual learning and plasticity. Chinese Society of Vision Sciences. 2023, Wenzhou, China.
Academic/Poster committee member. Chinese Society of Vision Sciences. 2019, Chengdu, China; 2023, Wenzhou, China.
Teaching Awards and Grants
2023 Exemplar Course: Cognitive Psychology, School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University
2022 Teaching Competition, 3rd Prize, Tsinghua University
2024-2025 Grant for course development: Cognitive Psychology and Advanced Seminar in Cognitive Psychology, Tsinghua University
2022-2024 Grant for education innovation: Thinking - Reading - Writing in Psychology, Ministry of Education, China
Journal Reviewer
eLife; Cerebral Cortex; Imaging Neuroscience; NeuroImage; Neuroscience Bulletin; Journal of Vision; eNeuro; Acta Psychologica Sinica; Advances in Psychological Sciences; Psych Journal Editor Board Member: Scientific Reports