My research seeks to understand the neural mechanisms underlying visual perception and action in the brains of monkeys and humans. I address these issues using a wide range of techniques including psychophysics, neurophysiology, eye tracking, hand tracking, and computational models.

2008–2013    German Primate Center (Göttingen)    Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience
2005–2008    Wuhan University of Technology         M. S. in Physics
2001–2005    Wuhan University of Technology         B. S. in Physics

   

2017–now     Institute of Psychology, CAS           Associate Professor
2013–2017    Institute of Psychology, CAS           Assistant Professor

   

Kuang, S., Morel, P., & Gail, A. (2016). Planning movements in visual and physical space in monkey posterior parietal cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 26(2), 731–747.  

Kuang, S. (2016). Toward a unified social motor cognition theory of understanding mirror-touch synaesthesia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10, 246.  

Kuang, S. (2016). Two polarities of attention in social contexts: From attending-to-others to attending-to-self. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 63.  

Kuang, S. (2016). Is reaction time an index of white matter connectivity during training? Cognitive Neuroscience, 8(2), 126-128. 

Kuang, S., & Gail, A. (2015). When adaptive control fails: Slow recovery of reduced rapid online control during reaching under reversed vision. Vision Research, 110, 155–165.  

Kuang, S., & Zhang, T. (2014). Smelling directions: Olfaction modulates ambiguous visual motion perception. Scientific Reports, 4, 5796.  

Kuang, S., Wang, J., & Zeng, T. (2010). Intrinsic Rhythmic Fluctuation of Membrane Voltage Evoked by Membrane Noise in the Hodgkin-Huxley System. Acta Physica Polonica A, 117, 435-438. 

Kuang, S., Wang, J., Zeng, T., & Cao, A. (2008). Thermal impact on spiking properties in Hodgkin-Huxley neuron with synaptic stimulus. Pramana-Journal of Physics, 70, 183-190. 

Kuang, S., Wang, J., & Zeng, T. (2006). Frequency selectivity behaviour in the auditory midbrain: Implications of model study. Chinese Physics Letters, 23, 3380-3383.

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仝娜  硕士研究生  040201-基础心理学