Education

Ph.D University of Jyväskylä,Jyväskylä (Finland), Sep 2022 – Aug 2026(expected)
- Major in cognitive neuroscience, department of phycology
M.S. Liaoning Normal University, Dalian (China), Sep 2019 – July 2022
- Major in Basic Psychology, Center of Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience
- Thesis topic: ‘Contralateral delay activity (CDA) indicates storage of visual-spatial representations rather than attentional tracking in Multiple objects tracking (MOT).’
B.S. Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou (China)， Sep 2014 – Aug 2018
- Major in Applied Psychology, Health Management
- Thesis topic: ‘A survey of college students’ belief in a just world scale (BJW)’

Research experience

Sep 2022-to date: Mechanisms and development of internal attention in human brain
- Purpose： to achieve a deeper understanding of the underlying brain mechanisms of the two retro cues: retro-object-cue and retro-dimension-cue.
- Duties included: experimental design; MEG and behavioral data acquisition and data analysis.
- Supervisor: Associate Professor Tiina Parviainen
Sep 2020-Dec 2021: Working memory employed in Multiple Object Tracking (MOT)
- Purpose： Proving that Storage of Visual-Spatial Representations was employed and can be separated in multiple objective tracking (MOT) tasks.
- Duties included: Partly experimental design; Whole process of experimental programming (PsychoPy 3), EEG (BP), and behavioral data acquisition and data analysis (Analyzer & EEGLAB & Letswave 7).
- Supervisor: Professor Qiang Liu
Nov 2019-Sep 2020: Behavioral Oscillations in working memory
- Purpose： Testing if there are Behavioral oscillations in working memory and the specific Oscillate band.
- Duties included: Partly experimental programming (PsychoPy 3); Whole process of Data acquisition; Preliminary data analysis (MATLAB).
- Supervisor: Professor Qiang Liu

Programming: Psychopy; MATLAB
Data analysis: Microsoft Office; SPSS; JASP
EEG
- aqusition:BP;ANT
- data analysis: Brain Vision Analyzer;EEGLAB;Letswave
fMRI
- scan: Daily quality control scanning, the configuration of sequences, guiding subjects, experiment scanning (scanned 10+ experiments, 80+ times, and 400+ sequences)
- analysis: SPM12

Lin, X., Ye, C., Parviainen, T., Liu, Q. (2022). Contralateral delay activity tracks information load in visual working memory: Evidence from the multiple object tracking task.* Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. Under Review. Download PDF here

Three years of experimental experiences (EEG)
- Conducted 5 EEG experiments;
- instructed and prepared more than 100 participants;
Four years of debate team experience
- Won the runner-up of the 2015 Nansha Wetland Cup. (Provincial competition involved 32 schools, Guangdong Province, China)
- Won the Champion of school debate competition in 2014 and 2015.
Professional Level 3 psychological consultant qualification (Issued by China Ministry of Labor and Social Security)
tutor for children, teenagers, and children with ADHD, Guangzhou (China)
- One-to-one customized after-school tutoring in Chinese, Math, English, or (and) Physic for more than 20 children or teenagers;
- Helping attention training and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for children with ADHD in group therapy.

attended The 2019 annual conference of General and Experimental Psychology Committee of Chinese Psychological Society;
attended The sixth professional committee on emotional and health psychology;

2019 state stipend at Liaoning Normal University
2020 state stipend at Liaoning Normal University
2020 third-class scholarship at Liaoning Normal University
2021 state stipend at Liaoning Normal University
2022-2026 awarded by China Scholarship Council (CSC)
graduation thesis: The index of Contralateral Delayed Activity(CDA) in the Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) Task was awarded as the outstanding Master thesis of Liaoning Province in 2022