Welcome to my website! I am currently a research assistant at the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where I work with Professor Ying Wang. I received a B.S. in Psychology from Sun Yat-sen University and an M.S. in Cognitive Neuroscience from the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, under the supervision of Professors Ying Wang and Yi Jiang.

Research Interests

My research interests center on how the mind represents the world. My work to date has approached this question primarily through perception. One sustained line of my research focuses on the visual perception of animacy, a fundamental aspect of how we perceive and represent objects that lies at the intersection of visual processing and higher-level cognition. In this line of work, I have examined how animacy is perceived from point-light biological motion and represented in the brain for naturalistic objects and scenes.

Building on this foundation, I seek to understand how sensory input gives rise to meaningful perceptual experience and how perception interacts with semantic cognition. More broadly, I am interested in the content, organization, and dynamics of mental representations across sensory modalities and cognitive processes, such as perception, mental imagery, memory, and concepts, particularly what these representations share, how they differ, and how they interact and transform into one another. Ultimately, I hope to uncover how we experience and make sense of the world.

I hope to approach these questions with whichever methods are best suited to them, whether behavioral, neuroscientific, or computational. Where feasible, I am also interested in approaches that help assess and extend the ecological validity and generalizability of findings, such as naturalistic paradigms and large-scale studies.