Visual perception and plasticity, including ocular dominance plasticity, amblyopia, visual adaptation, visual attention and consciousness, visuo-vestibular integration, etc.

Nov.2007 – Oct.2010 (Postdoctoral Associate), Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota
Sep.2002 – Jun.2007 (Ph.D.), Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at Microscale, and School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China (Major in Cognitive Neuropsychology)
Sep.1997 – Jun.2002 (B.S.), School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China (Major in Biology)

   

Jul. 2012 – Present (Professor), Principle investigator of the Visual Perception and Plasticity Lab. Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Dec.2010 – Jun. 2012 (Research Associate), Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota

1.      Zhao J, He X, Jiang Y*, Bao M*. (2026). The Chameleon Paradigm: An Effective Method for Masking Biological Motion Stimuli. Behavior Research Methods, 58(2):59.

2.      宋方兴*, 冯广, 鲍敏*. (2026). 奖赏对短时程单眼剥夺效应的影响及机制. 心理科学进展, In Press.

3.      Sang X, Dong X*, Bao M. (2025). Short-term visual adaptation to body shape induces sustained aftereffect on body size estimation. Vision Research, In Press.

4.      Wang J, He X*, Bao M*. (2024). Attention enhances short-term monocular deprivation effect. Psych Journal, 14:84-93.

5.      Song F, Dong X*, Zhao J, Wang J, Sang X, He X, Bao M*. (2024). Causal role of the frontal eye field in attention-induced ocular dominance plasticity. eLife, 12:RP93213. doi: 10.7554/eLife.93213.

6.      He X*, Bao M*. (2024). Neuroimaging evidence of visual-vestibular interaction accounting for perceptual mislocalization induced by head rotation. Neurophotonics, 11(1), 015005 (2024).

7.      Wang J, Song F, He X*, Bao M. (2024). Negligible contribution of adaptation of ocular opponency neurons to the effect of short-term monocular deprivation. Frontiers in Psychology, 14:1282113.

8.      Song F, Lyu L*, Bao M*. (2024). Adaptation of ocular opponency neurons mediates attention-induced ocular dominance plasticity. Neuroscience Bulletin, 40(3): 339-349. doi: 10.1007/s12264-023-01103-z.

9.      Dong X, Liu L, Du X, Wang Y, Zhang P, Li Z*, Bao M*. (2023). Treating amblyopia using altered reality enhances the fine-scale functional correlations in early visual areas. Human Brain Mapping, 44(18):6499-6510.

10.  宋方兴#, 王珏#, 鲍敏*. (2023). 从不平衡的视觉输入到不平衡的视觉注意：探寻短时程眼优势可塑性的神经机制. 心理科学进展, 31(10): 1873-1882. doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1042.2023.01873

11.  Du X, Liu L, Dong X, Bao M*. (2023). Effects of altered-reality training on interocular disinhibition in amblyopia. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1522(1): 126-138.

12.  Song F, Lyu L*, Zhao J, Bao M*. (2023). The role of eye-specific attention in ocular dominance plasticity. Cerebral Cortex, 33(4): 983-996.

13.  Zhao J, Bao M*. (2022). A method for studying unconscious motion processing based on the camouflage principle. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 54(7): 725-735.

14.  He X, Bai J, Jiang Y, Zhang T, Bao M*. (2022). Beyond motion extrapolation: vestibular contribution to head-rotation-induced flash-lag Effects. Psychological Research, 86(7): 2083-2098.

15.  Dong X, Zhang M, Dong B, Jiang Y, Bao M*. (2022). Reward produces learning of a consciously inaccessible feature. British Journal of Psychology, 113: 49-67.

16.  He X, Liu W, Qin N, Lyu L, Dong X, Bao M*. (2021). Performance-dependent reward hurts performance: The non-monotonic attentional load modulation on task-irrelevant distractor processing. Psychophysiology, 58(12):e13920.

17.  Dong X*, Bao M*. (2021). The growing sensory suppression on visual perception during head-rotation preparation. Psych J, 10(4): 499-507.

18.  Han Q, Wang Y, Jiang Y*, Bao M*. (2021). The relevance to social interaction modulates bistable biological-motion perception. Cognition, 209: 104584.

19.  Dong X*, Du X, Bao M. (2020). Repeated contrast adaptation does not cause habituation of the adapter. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 14: 589634.

20.  Lyu L, He S, Jiang Y, Engel SA, Bao M*. (2020). Natural-scene-based steady-state visual evoked potentials reveal effects of short-term monocular deprivation. Neuroscience, 435: 10-21.

21.  Bai J^#, He X^#, Jiang Y, Zhang T, Bao M*. (2020). Rotating one’s head modulates the perceived velocity of motion aftereffect. Multisensory Research, 33(2): 189-212.

22.  Bao M* & Engel SA. (2019). Augmented reality as a tool for studying visual plasticity: 2009 to 2018. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 28(6): 574-580.

23.  Dong X*, Bao M*. (2019). Direction selective habituation of motion adaptation. Journal of Vision, 19(4): 6.

24.  Bai J, Bao M*, Zhang T, Jiang Y. (2019). A virtual reality approach identifies flexible inhibition of motion aftereffects induced by head rotation. Behavior Research Methods, 51(1): 96-107.

25.  Mei G, Yuan Q, Liu G, Pan Y, Bao M*. (2018). Spontaneous recovery and time course of biological motion adaptation. Vision Research, 149: 40-46.

26.  Bao M*, Dong B, Liu L, Engel SA, Jiang Y. (2018). The best of both worlds: Adaptation during natural tasks produces long-lasting plasticity in perceptual ocular dominance. Psychological Science, 29(1): 14-33.

27.  Bai J, Dong X, He S, Bao M*. (2017). Monocular deprivation of Fourier phase boosts the deprived eye's dominance during interocular competition but not interocular phase combination. Neuroscience, 352: 122-130.

28.  Dong X, Bai J, Bao M*. (2017). Robust size illusion produced by expanding and contracting flow fields. Vision Research, 133: 87-94.

29.  Dong B, Holm L, Bao M*. (2017). Cortical mechanisms for afterimage formation: evidence from interocular grouping. Scientific Reports, 7: 41101.

30.  Mei G, Dong X, Bao M*. (2017). The timescale of adaptation at early and mid-level stages of visual processing. Journal of Vision, 17(1): 1, 1-7.

31.  Zhang M^#*, Tu J^#, Dong B, Chen C, Bao M*. (2017). Preliminary evidence for a role of the personality trait in visual perceptual learning. Neurobiology

of Learning and Memory, 139: 22-27. (^#co-first author)

32.  鲍敏, 黄昌兵, 王莉, 张弢, 蒋毅*. (2017). 视觉信息加工及其脑机制. 科技导报, 35(19): 15-20.

33.  Dong X^#, Gao Y^#, Lv L, Bao M* (2016). Habituation of visual adaptation. Scientific Reports, 6: 19152. (^#co-first author)

34.  Mei G^#, Dong X^#, Dong B, Bao M* (2015). Spontaneous recovery of effects of contrast adaptation without awareness. Frontiers in Psychology,

6:1464. (^#co-first author)

35.  高忆, 鲍敏. (2015). 视觉适应及其神经机制. 心理科学进展, 23(7):1142-50.

36.  Haak KV*, Fast E, Bao M, Lee M, Engel SA* (2014). Four days of visual contrast deprivation reveals limits of neuronal adaptation. Current Biology, 24(21), 2575-79.

37.  Dong X, Engel SA, Bao M* (2014). The time course of contrast adaptation measured with a new method: Detection of ramped contrast. Perception, 43, 427-37.

38.  Bao M, Fast E, Mesik J, Engel SA*. (2013). Distinct mechanisms control contrast adaptation over different timescales. Journal of Vision, 13(10):14, 1-11.

39.  Mesik J*, Bao M, Engel SA. (2013). Spontaneous recovery of motion and face aftereffects. Vision Research,

89:72-8.

40.  Bao M & Engel SA*. (2012). Distinct mechanism for long-term contrast adaptation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,

109(15):5898-903.

41.  Bao M, Yang L, Rios C, He B, Engel SA*. (2010). Perceptual learning increases the strength of the earliest signals in visual cortex. The Journal of Neuroscience, 30:15080-84.

42.  Zhang P^#, Bao M^#, Kwon M, He S, Engel SA*. (2009). Effects of orientation specific visual deprivation measured using altered reality. Current Biology, 19:1956-60. (^#co-first author)

43.  Sun DL, Ma N, Bao M, Chen XC, Zhang DR*. (2008). Computer game: a double-edged sword? CyberPsychology and Behavior, 11(5):545-48.

44.  Bao M, Li ZH, Zhang DR*. (2007). Binding facilitates attention switching within working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33(5):959-69.

45.  Bao M, Li ZH, Chen XC, Zhang DR*. (2006). Backward inhibition in a task of switching attention within verbal working memory. Brain Research Bulletin, 69(2):214-21.

46.  Li ZH, Bao M, Chen XC, Zhang DR*, Han SH, He S, Hu XP. (2006). Attention shift in human verbal working memory: priming contribution and dynamic brain activation. Brain Research, 1078(1):131-42.

47.  Sun XW, Zhang XC, Chen XC, Zhang P, Bao M, Zhang DR*, Chen J, He S, Hu XP. (2005). Age-dependent brain activation during forward and backward digit recall revealed by fMRI. Neuroimage, 26(1):36-47.

1.      鲍敏. 头部转动可以调节运动后效的知觉速度. 中国心理学会普通心理和实验心理专业委员会2019年学术年会, 济南, 2019.

2.      Bao M, Bai J, Zhang T, Jiang Y. A virtual reality approach identifies flexible inhibition of motion aftereffects induced by head rotatio. The 14^th Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision, Hangzhou, 2018.

3.      吕利利, 鲍敏. 自然场景诱发的稳态视觉电位：短时单眼剥夺效应的研究. 第二十届全国心理学学术会议, 重庆, 2017.

4.      董雪, 鲍敏. 视觉运动适应的习惯化效应呈现方向，而非视网膜、空间位置选择性. 第二十届全国心理学学术会议, 重庆, 2017.

5.      Bao M, Bai J, Dong X, He S. Monocular deprivation of Fourier phase boosts the deprived eye's dominance during interocular competition but not interocular phase combination. Vision Sciences Soceity, 2017.

6.      鲍敏. 视觉适应的多重控制机制. 中国心理学会普通心理与实验心理专委会年学术年会, 西安, 2017.

7.      鲍敏. Deprivation of Fourier phase regularity boosts perceptual eye dominance of the deprived eye. 认知神经科学多学科交叉论坛, 杭州, 2016.

8.      Bao M, Dong B, Liu L, Engel SA, Jiang Y. The best of both worlds: Adaptation during natural tasks produces long-lasting plasticity in perceptual ocular dominance. Symposium for Chinese Neuroscientists Worldwide, Hefei, 2016.

9.      Xue Dong, Yi Gao, Lili Lv, Min Bao. Habituation of visual adaptation. Vision Sciences Soceity, 2016.

10.  梅高兴, 董雪, 鲍敏. Exploring timescales of adaption mechanisms at low- and mid-level visual areas. 中国心理学会普通心理与实验心理专委会年学术年会, 重庆, 2016.

11.  Bao M. Adaptation to altered reality. CAS-NWO programme joint research projects: The future of brain & Cognition, Shanghai, 2016

12.  Mei G, Dong X, Bao M. Exploring timescales of adaption mechanisms along the visual-processing hierarchy. The 6^th FAONS Congress and the 11^th Biennial Conference of CNS, 2015.

13.  董雪, 高忆, 鲍敏. 知觉学习对对比度适应和运动适应的影响. 第十八届全国心理学学术会议, 天津, 2015.

14.  Bao M, Dong B. Interocular grouping of negative afterimages after binocular rivalry. Vision Sciences Soceity, 2015.

15.  Dong X, Bao M. Robust size illusion produced by expanding and contracting flow fields. Vision Sciences Soceity, 2015.

16.  Mei G, Dong X, Bao M. Exploring timescales of adaptation mechanisms along the visual-processing hierarchy. Vision Sciences Soceity, 2015.

17.  Dong B, Jiang Y, Engel SA, Bao M. Adaptation to patch-wise complementary video reduces perceptual ocular dominance. Vision Sciences Soceity, 2014.

18.  Fast E, Haak K, Bao M, Engel SA. Four days of visual contrast adaptation: effects on perceived contrast grow monotonically while effects on orientation rise then fall. Vision Sciences Soceity, 2014.

19.  Bao M. Distinct mechanisms control contrast adaptation over different timescales. International Workshop on Visual Neural Mechanisms and Image Processing (IWVNMIP), 2013.

20.  Bao M, Engel SA. Separate mechanisms of multiple timescales control the dynamics of contrast adaptation. Vision Sciences Soceity, 2012.

21.  Bao M, Engel SA. Separate mechanisms for long- and short-term contrast adaptation. Vision Sciences Soceity, 2011.

22.  Bao M, Zhang P, Engel SA. Adaptation effects that gain strength over 8 hour induction periods. Vision Sciences Soceity, 2010.

23.  Bao M, He B, Yang L, Rios C, Engel SA. Perceptual learning can increase feed-forward neural response in early visual cortex. Vision Sciences Soceity, 2009, 23.319.

24.  Engel S, Zhang P, Bao M, Kwon M, He S. Effects of orientation specific visual deprivation in adults measured using altered reality. Vision Sciences Society, 2009, 54.11.

25.  鲍敏, 李至浩, 张达人. 注意在工作记忆中的物体选择性. 第二届全国脑与认知科学学术研讨会, 2006, 桂林. 生物物理学报22卷，增刊. (China)

26.  Bao M, Li ZH, Zhang DR, et al. The influence of encoding strategies on attention switching within working memory. International Journal of Psychology, 2004, 39(5-6): 62-62.

已指导学生

高忆  硕士研究生  045400-应用心理  

董雪  硕士研究生  045400-应用心理  

梅高兴  博士研究生  0402Z2-认知神经科学  

董波  博士研究生  0402Z2-认知神经科学  

董雪  博士研究生  0402Z2-认知神经科学  

吕利利  博士研究生  0402Z2-认知神经科学  

何鑫  博士研究生  0402Z2-认知神经科学  

韩秋  硕士研究生  040201-基础心理学  

杜欣欣  博士研究生  0402Z2-认知神经科学  

宋方兴  博士研究生  040201-基础心理学  

王珏  硕士研究生  0771Z2-认知神经科学  

桑晓慧  博士研究生  040201-基础心理学  

现指导学生

赵佳旭  博士研究生  040201-基础心理学  

路晓漫  博士研究生  040201-基础心理学  

那文泽  博士研究生  040201-基础心理学  

陈乐  博士研究生  040201-基础心理学