Personal data
Date of birth: 23rd September 1989
Place of birth: Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China
Nationality: Chinese
Work Address: School of Psychology, Shenzhen University
E-mail: ww.peng0923@gmail.com
Education
2006/09-2010/06 Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, bachelor in Biomedical Engineering
2013/05-2014/04 "Sapienza” University, Rome, Italy, exchange student
2010/09-2014/12 The University of Hong Kong, China, PhD in Biomedical Engineering
Academic appointments
2016/10-present Shenzhen University, Associate Professor
2016/01-2016/09 Southwest University, Associate Professor
2014/12-2015/12 Southwest University, Assistant Professor
Research interests
The perception of pain in the human brain
The modulation of pain perception using neuromodulation approaches
Representative publications
1.Lin C.N., Lin X.X., Lian W.C., Zhang W.T., Peng W.W. (2024) Brains in sync, friends in empathy: interbrain neural mechanisms underlying the impact of interpersonal closeness on mutual empathy. Proc. R. Soc. B. 29120241326
2.Lou, W., Li, X., Jin, R., & Peng W.W. (2024). Time-varying phase synchronization of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging reveals a shift toward self-referential processes during sustained pain. Pain, 10-1097.
3.Peng, W.W, Zhan, Y., Jin, R., Lou, W., & Li, X. (2023). Aftereffects of alpha transcranial alternating current stimulation over the primary sensorimotor cortex on cortical processing of pain. Pain, 164(6), 1280-1290.
4.Zhang, Y., Ye, Q., He, H., Jin, R., & Peng W.W. (2023). Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying attention bias towards pain: Evidence from a drift-diffusion model and event-related potentials. The Journal of Pain, 24(7), 1307-1320.
5.Li, X., Lou, W., Zhang, W., Tong, R. K. Y., Hu, L., & Peng W.W. (2022). Ongoing first-hand pain facilitates somatosensory resonance but inhibits affective sharing in empathy for pain. NeuroImage, 263, 119599.
6.Yao J.J., Li X.Y., Zhang W.Y., Lin X.X., Lyu X.H., Peng W.W. (2021) Analgesia induced by anodal tDCS and high-frequency tRNS over the motor cortex: Immediate and sustained effects on pain perception. Brain Stimulation 14(5):1174-1183.
7.Peng W.W, Lou, W.T, Huang, X.X, Ye, Q., Tong, R. K. Y., & Cui, F. (2021). Suffer together, bond together: brain-to-brain synchronization and mutual affective empathy when sharing painful experiences. NeuroImage 238:118249.
8.Yao M.L., Lei Y., Li P., Ye Q., Liu Y., Li X.Y., Peng W.W. (2020) Shared sensitivity to physical pain and social evaluation. The Journal of Pain 21 (5): 677-688.
9.Peng W.W.*, Tang Z.Y.*, Zhang F.R., Li H., Kong Y.Z., Iannetti G.D., Hu L. (2019) Neurobiological mechanisms of TENS-induced analgesia. NeuroImage 195: 396-408.
10.Peng W.W., Xia X.L., Yi M., Huang, G. Zhang Z.G., Iannetti G.D., Hu L. (2018) Brain oscillations reflecting pain-related behavior in freely-moving rats. PAIN 159(1): 106–118.
Book chapters
Peng W.W. (2019) EEG Preprocessing and Denoising. 5th Chapter in Book: EEG Signal Processing and Feature Extraction. Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
