Education

  • 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)’
  • 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).’
  • Ph.D University of Jyväskylä,Jyväskylä (Finland), Sep 2022 – Aug 2026(expected)
    • Major in cognitive neuroscience, department of phycology

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)