I earned my PhD in neuroscience from Université Paul Sabatier (CerCo, CNRS) in France under the supervision of Dr. Rufin VanRullen in 2021. Following that, I completed a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Edward Ester at the University of Nevada, Reno in the US. My research focuses on the role of brain oscillations in perceptual and cognitive processes, such as visual perception, attention, and working memory. Specifically, I investigate how brain oscillations shape moment-to-moment fluctuations in these functions and how they coordinate activity across different brain areas to support them. My work employs advanced techniques including fMRI, EEG, and psychophysics.
ACEDEMIC POSITIONS
Jan 2024-
Oct 2021-Dec 2023 Assistant Professor, Shenzhen University, School of Psychology, China
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Nevada, Reno, the US
EDUCATION
Sep. 2017-Jul. 2021 PhD in Neuroscience, Université Paul Sabatier/CNRS, Toulouse, France
Sep. 2013-Jun. 2016 Master of Education in Cognitive Neuroscience, Hangzhou Normal University, Zhejiang, China
PUBLICATIONS （*equal contribution）
Luo, C., Chen, W., VanRullen, R., Zhang, Y., & Gaspar, C. M. (2022). Nudging the N170 forward with prior stimulation—Bridging the gap between N170 and recognition potential. Human brain mapping, 43(4), 1214-1230.
Luo, C., VanRullen, R., & Alamia, A. (2021). Conscious perception and perceptual echoes: a binocular rivalry study. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2021(1), niab007.
Luo, C.*, Brüers, S.*, Berry, I., VanRullen, R., & Reddy, L. (2021). Tentative fMRI signatures of perceptual echoes in early visual cortex. NeuroImage, 118053. (*equal contribution)
Alamia, A., Luo, C., Ricci, M., Kim, J., Serre, T., & VanRullen, R. (2020). Differential involvement of EEG oscillatory components in sameness vs. spatial-relation visual reasoning tasks. ENeuro.
Chota, S.*, Luo, C.*, Crouzet, S. M., Boyer, L., Kienitz, R., Schmid, M. C., & VanRullen, R. (2018). Rhythmic fluctuations of saccadic reaction time arising from visual competition. Scientific reports, 8(1), 15889.
Luo, C., Chen, W., Zhang, Y., & Gaspar, C. M. (2019). Rapid stream stimulation can enhance the stimulus selectivity of early evoked responses to written characters but not faces. PloS one, 14(3), e0213637.
Tardif, J., Fiset, D., Zhang, Y., Estéphan, A., Cai, Q., Luo, C. Sun, D,& Blais, C. (2017). Culture shapes spatial frequency tuning for face identification. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43(2), 294.
Yang, Q., Luo, C., & Zhang, Y. (2017). Individual differences in the early recognition of moral information in lexical processing: An event-related potential study. Scientific Reports, 7.
Luo, C., Chen, W., & Zhang, Y. (2017). The inversion effect for Chinese characters is modulated by radical organization. Journal of psycholinguistic research, 46(3), 791-803.
TEACHING
Cognitive Neuroscience for Undergraduate Students
