1. Neural mechanism of unconscious perception and attention, including EEG and fMRI on human;

2. Cognitive abnormalities in the early stages of brain diseases, e.g., autism, dyslexia and schizophrenia;

3. Noninvasive cognitive regulation by transcranial magnetic/electrical stimulation.

4. Visual cognition development of children 

Masters and PhDs in Psychology, Biomedical Engineering, Biology and Computing

2005-2011  Ph.D. in Cognitive neuroscience, State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

2001-2005  B. Ed. in Physics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

2015-present  Associate Professor, Brain Cognition & Brain Disease Institute (BCBDI), Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen

2012-2015   Assistant Professor, State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

1. Shan, L.*, Wang, Y., Wu, R., Huang, Y.*, & Dai, J.* (2026). Subconscious information elicits distinct metacognition following Active Decision-Making. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 123, 110660.（一区，top）
2. Hu, L., Xiong, M., Liang, J., Huang, Y. *(2025). Is individual attentional bias positive or negative? It depends on trait anxiety. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 20(1): nsaf123. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaf123(一区)
3. Zhu, M.^#, Liang, J.^#, Wang, W., Deng, H.*, & Huang, Y.* (2024). Deficits of the "Good" Eye in Amblyopia: Processing Geometric Properties. Investigative ophthalmology & visual science, 65(8), 33. https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.65.8.33.(一区)
4. Hu, L., Tang, H., & Huang, Y.* (2023). General deficits of attentional inhibition in high trait anxiety: ERP evidence. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 33(11), 7288–7296. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhad038
5. Wang, W., Zhou, T., Chen, L.*, & Huang, Y.* (2023). A subcortical magnocellular pathway is responsible for the fast processing of topological properties of objects: A transcranial magnetic stimulation study. Human brain mapping, 44(4), 1617–1628. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26162(一区)
6. Tang, H., Song, R., Hu, Y., Tian, Y., Lu, Z., Chen, L., & Huang, Y.* (2021). Late Development of Early Visual Perception: No Topology-Priority in Peripheral Vision Until Age 10. Child development, 92(5), 1906–1918. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13629(一区)
7. Shen, L., Liu, D.*, & Huang, Y.* (2021). Hypothesis of subcortical visual pathway impairment in schizophrenia. Medical hypotheses, 156, 110686. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2021.110686 
8. Wang, M., Huang, Y., Luo, H., & Zhang, H. (2020). Sustained Visual Priming Effects Can Emerge from Attentional Oscillation and Temporal Expectation. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 40(18), 3657–3674. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2539-19.2020(一区)
9. Huang, Y.^#*, Li, L.^#, Dong, K., Tang, H., Yang, Q., Jia, X., Liao, Y., Wang, W., Ren, Z., Chen, L., & Wang, L.* (2020). Topological Shape Changes Weaken the Innate Defensive Response to Visual Threat in Mice. Neuroscience bulletin, 36(4), 427–431. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-019-00454-w (一区)
10. Sun, Y.^#, Li, F.^#, Li, H., Song, Y., Wang, W., Zhou, R., Xiong, J., He, W., Peng, Y., Liu, Y., Wang, L.*, Huang, Y.*, & Zhang, X.* (2020). Performance of Topological Perception in the Myopic Population. Current eye research, 45(11), 1458–1465. https://doi.org/10.1080/02713683.2020.1755697 
11. Sun, Y.*, Li, F., Hu, L., Zhou, R., Song, Y., Xiong, J., Huang, Y.*. Attention and Its Relationship with Anxiety in Primary Open Angle Glaucoma Patients. Journal of Sun Yat-sen University (Medical Sciences), 2020,41(2).
12. Sun, Y., Huang, W., Li, F., Li, H., Wang, L., Huang, Y.*, & Zhang, X.* (2019). Subcortical visual pathway may be a new way for early diagnosis of glaucoma. Medical hypotheses, 123, 47–49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2018.12.020 
13. Meng, Q.*, Wang, B., Cui, D., Liu, N., Huang, Y.*, Chen, L., & Ma, Y. (2019). Age-related changes in local and global visual perception. Journal of vision, 19(1), 10. https://doi.org/10.1167/19.1.10
14. Jia, X., Hu, Y., Yang, X., Liu, T., Huang, Y., Wei, P., … Wang, L. (2020). Stress affects the oscillation of blood glucose levels in rodents. Biological Rhythm Research, 51(5), 699–708. https://doi.org/10.1080/09291016.2018.1558734 
15. Huang, Y.*, He, L., Wang, W., Meng, Q., Zhou, T., & Chen, L.* (2018). What determines the object-level visual masking: The bottom-up role of topological change. Journal of vision, 18(1), 3. https://doi.org/10.1167/18.1.3  
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18. Huang, Y., Zhou, T., & Chen, L. (2011). The precedence of topological change over top-down attention in masked priming. Journal of vision, 11(12), 9. https://doi.org/10.1167/11.12.9 
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