2009      Ph.D. in Psychology, Rice University, Houston, Texas.
              Advisor: Denise Chen

2007      M.A. in Psychology, Rice University, Houston, Texas.
              Advisor: Denise Chen

2004      B.S. in Psychology, Peking University, Beijing. Minor in Computer Science.
              Advisor: Shihui Han

   

2009-present      Investigator, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing.

   

Chen, K., Ye, Y., Troje, N. F. & Zhou, W. (2021). Oxytocin modulates human chemosensory decoding of sex in a dose-dependent manner. eLife, 10, e59376.

Yao, F., Ye, Y., & Zhou, W. (2020). Nasal airflow engages central olfactory processing and shapes olfactory percepts. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1937), 20201772.      

Wu, Y., Chen, K., Ye, Y., Zhang, T. & Zhou, W. (2020). Humans navigate with stereo olfaction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(27), 16065-16071. [Featured in Daily Mail, June 22, 2020.] 

Feng, G., Zhuang, Y., Yao, F., Ye, Y., Wan, Q. & Zhou, W. (2019). Development of the Chinese Smell Identification Test. Chemical Senses, 44(3), 189-195. [Featured in Xinhua, February 24, 2019.]      

Feng, G. & Zhou, W. (2019). Nostril-specific and structure-based olfactory learning of chiral discrimination in human adults. eLife, 8, e41296.     

Ye, Y., Zhuang, Y., Smeets, M.A.M. & Zhou, W. (2019). Human chemosignals modulate emotional perception of biological motion in a sex-specific manner. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 100, 246-253.     

Liu, R., Yuan, X., Chen, K., Jiang, Y. & Zhou, W. (2018). Perception of social interaction compresses subjective duration in an oxytocin-dependent manner. eLife, 7, e32100. 

Zhou, B., Feng, G., Chen, W. & Zhou, W. (2018). Olfaction warps visual time perception. Cerebral Cortex, 28(5), 1718-1728. 

Zhang, X., Chen, W., Li, S. & Zhou, W. (2017). Developmental fine-tuning of human olfactory discriminability. Chemical Senses, 42(8), 655-662.

Zhou, W., Yang, X., Chen, K., Cai, P., He, S., & Jiang, Y. (2014). Chemosensory communication of gender through two human steroids in a sexually dimorphic manner. Current Biology, 24(10), 1091-1095. [Featured in Daily Mail, Science, Scientific American, The Huffington Post, Time, May 1, 2014.]        

Chen, K., Zhou, B., Chen, S., He, S., & Zhou, W. (2013). Olfaction spontaneously highlights visual saliency map. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280(1768), 20131729.      

Zhou, W., Zhang, X., Chen, J., Wang, L., & Chen, D. (2012). Nostril-specific olfactory modulation of visual perception in binocular rivalry. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(48), 17225-17229.       

Zhou, W. & Chen, D. (2011). Entangled chemosensory emotion and identity: Familiarity enhances detection of chemosensorily encoded emotion. Social Neuroscience, 6(3), 270-276.      

Zhou, W., Hou, P., Zhou, Y., & Chen, D. (2011). Reduced recruitment of orbitofrontal cortex to human social chemosensory cues in social anxiety. NeuroImage, 55(3), 1401-1406.   

Zhou, W., Jiang, Y., He, S., & Chen, D. (2010). Olfaction modulates visual perception in binocular rivalry. Current Biology, 20(15), 1356-1358. [Featured in Nature Research Highlights, July 8, 2010.]    

Zhou, W. & Chen, D. (2009). Binaral rivalry between the nostrils and in the cortex. Current Biology, 19(18), 1561-1565. [Featured in The New York Times, September 1, 2009.]     

Zhou, W. & Chen, D. (2009). Sociochemosensory and emotional functions: Behavioral evidence for shared mechanisms. Psychological Science, 20(9), 1118-1124. [Featured in National Geographic, October 12, 2009.]  

Zhou, W. & Chen, D. (2009). Fear-related chemosignal modulates fear recognition in ambiguous facial expressions. Psychological Science, 20(2), 177-183.   

Zhou, W. & Chen, D. (2008). Encoding human sexual chemosensory cues in the orbitofrontal and fusiform cortices. Journal of Neuroscience, 28(53), 14416-14421. [Featured in The New York Times, February 17, 2009.]

1) The properties of human olfactory perception.
2) The extent to which human chemosignals are processed and recognized; their influence on human behavior.
3) The interplays between olfaction and other sensory (e.g. vision) and emotional systems.

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