Areas of Focus
- Cognitive Neural Mechanisms of Visual-Spatial Attention in Normal Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Populations
- Sensory Channel Dominance Effect in Multisensory Selective Attention Processes
- Interaction between Spatial Attention and Executive Functions
- Different Roles of Dorsal and Ventral Pathways in Selective Attention in Three-Dimensional Space
Work Experience
- 2006.09 ~ 2008.12 - Juelich National Research Center, Germany - Postdoctoral Researcher
- 2009.01 ~ Present - South China Normal University, Department of Psychology - Professor, Doctoral Supervisor
- 2015.07 ~ 2019.07 - Princeton University, Neuroscience Institute, USA - Visiting Fellow (Host: Professor Sabine Kastner)
- 2019.12 ~ Present - Juelich Research Center, Germany - Visiting Professor (Host: Professor Gereon R. Fink)
Academic Background & Achievements
- 1995.9 ~ 1999.6 Bachelor's Degree in Psychology: Northeast Normal University
- 1999.9 ~ 2002.6 Master's Degree in Psychology: Northeast Normal University
- 2002.9 ~ 2006.6 Ph.D. in Psychology: Peking University
- 2003.10 ~ 2005.12 Joint Ph.D. Training: Juelich National Research Center, Germany (Supervisors: Professor Gereon R. Fink, Professor John C. Marshall)
Publications
- Left Inferior Frontal Gyrus Integrates multisensory Information in Category Learning, Li, Y., Seger, C., Chen, Q., & Mo, L., 2020
- Perceptual inference employs intrinsic alpha frequency to resolve perceptual ambiguity, Shen, L., Han, B., Chen, L., Chen, Q., 2019
- Common and Specific Neural Correlates underlying the Spatial Congruency Effect Induced by the Egocentric and Allocentric Reference Frame, Liu, N., Li, H., Su, W., Chen, Q., 2017
- Multisensory Competition is Modulated by Sensory Pathway Interactions with Fronto-Sensorimotor and Default-Mode Network Regions, Huang, S., Li, Y., Zhang, W., Zhang, B., Liu, X., Mo, L., Chen, Q., 2015
- Vision Dominates at the Pre-response Level and Audition Dominates at the Response Level in Cross-modal Interaction: Behavioural and Neural Evidence, Chen, Q., & Zhou, X., 2013
- Neural Mechanisms of Attentional Reorienting in Three-Dimensional Space, Chen, Q., Weidner, R., Vossel, S., Weiss, P., Fink, G. R., 2012
- Zooming In and Zooming Out of the Attentional Focus: An fMRI Study, Chen, Q., Marshall, J.C., Weidner, R., & Fink, G.R., 2009
Awards
- 2015: Seventh Higher Education Scientific Research Outstanding Achievement Award (Humanities and Social Sciences) - Paper Award
- 2008: National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award for the dissertation 'Task Set and Location and Color Inhibition of Return: Two fMRI Studies'