Neural oscillatory activity has long been a cornerstone of neuroscience, offering critical insights into the fundamental mechanisms of neural communication, sensory perception, and higher-order cognition. Among the diverse phenomena characterized in electrophysiology, the Berger effect remains one of the most foundational yet frequently overlooked paradigms. First documented by Hans Berger, this effect ......

The oscillatory dynamics of neural activity have long been a cornerstone of neuroscience, serving as a critical window into the brain's cognitive processes, sensory integration, and states of consciousness. Among these, alpha oscillations have remained a focal point since their discovery over a century ago, owing to their robust correlation with diverse physiological and psychological states. Traditionally,......

Professor He Zhenhong and Professor Yang Yunkai of our college led Huang Yifei, a 2025 undergraduate student, to write a paper titled "Differential Emotional Responses and Relief Mechanisms Across Social Exclusion Roles", which was published in the veteran journal Cognitive, Affective, and Neuroscience Behavioral Neuroscience reception. The study focuses on a practical and critical question: Why are ......

The research team led by Professor Weiwei Peng from the School of Psychology at Shenzhen University has published a research article titled “Dynamic Expectation Strength and Precision Shape Human Pain Perception through Shared and Dissociable α-Oscillatory Mechanisms” in the international academic journal PLOS Biology. From a dynamic perspective, the study decomposed two key components of pain expectation—......

Professor Chen Qi's research group published a paper entitled "Temporal Dynamics of Flexible Cognitive Control" online in the journal NeuroImage. This paper investigates the computational neural mechanism of flexible cognitive control in dynamic environments, and expands the understanding of proactive control and reactive control from the perspective of brain region information flow.1、Research backgroundIn ......

Recently, the research group led by Associate Professor Xiaojun Cheng at our department published a research paper titled “Spaced instruction for psychological concepts: Insights from interpersonal brain synchronization and students’ perceptions of teaching” in Learning and Instruction, a leading international journal in educational psychology (Top Tier, Chinese Academy of Sciences journal ranking)......

Associate Professor Zhao Shuo’s research group, in collaboration with the Department of Child Psychology and Rehabilitation at Shenzhen Maternal and Child Health Hospital Affiliated to Southern Medical University, has published a research article entitled “Classification of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children Using EEG Power Ratios Obtained During a Naturalistic Mentalizing Task” in Biological ......

In March 2025, Professor Liye Zou’s team from the School of Psychology, Shenzhen University, published a paper in Nature Human Behaviour (2023 Impact Factor = 22.3) titled “The Synergy of Embodied Cognition and Cognitive Load Theory for Optimized Learning.” This study proposed a synergistic mechanism model integrating embodied cognition and cognitive load theory, constructing a theoretical f......

Recently, Professor Canhuang Luo from the School of Psychology, Shenzhen University, together with collaborators, published a research article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS, 2024 Impact Factor = 9.1), a prestigious journal indexed in the Nature Index. The paper, titled “Traveling waves link human visual and frontal cortex during workin......
