Forschung
Research Experience
2024 -
Postdoctoral Researcher, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Yee Lee Shing
• Study children’s gaze patterns during free play in naturalistic environment, using wearables devices (head-mounted eye-trackers and head-mounted camera) to record the experience and AI modes to characterize the experience. In addition, we will related these gaze patterns with children’s individual difference in cognitive control, memory, home environment, and joint-attention with their caregiver.
2019-2024
Graduate Student, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA
Advisor: Dr. Erik Blaser & Dr. Zsuzsa Kaldy
• Studied how adults accumulated information from natural scenes to facilitate their search with online eye-tracking experiments.
• Studied if 14- to 22- month-old infants could accumulate information from natural scenes and use that information to guide search with in-person eye-tracking (Tobii) experiment.
• Studied how children adjusted their use of external resources and working memory to minimize making cognitive effort according to how accessible, reliable, or trustworthy the external information is.
• Designed and programmed experiments for an online project about the accuracy and precision of memory for natural scenes.
• Collected and analyzed data for a project about visual temporal integration in 6- to 12-month-olds.
• Collected data for a project about labels and working memory in 8- to 12-month-olds.
2017 – 2019
Research Assistant/Lab Manager, Hangzhou Normal University, China
P.I. Genyue Fu
• Studied how innovation was related to children’s deception ability.
• Studied how the training of Theory of Mind (ToM) affected children’s deception ability.
• Studied how strategic lying was related to the reward system, Executive Function (EF), and ToM in adults, using Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS).
• Assisted with budget preparation and final reports
for 2 national grants.
• Handled the day-to-day operation of the lab.
2014 – 2017
Graduate Student, Zhejiang Normal University, China
Advisor: Genyue Fu
• Studied the developmental relationship between complex lying behavior, EF, and ToM.
• Studied the neural base of the developmental relationship between simple lying behavior, ToM, and cognitive flexibility with fNIRS.
