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
Skills
- 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
Publications
- 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
Communication and presentation skills
- 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.
Conferences
- 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;
Honors and awards
- 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
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