Ruqi Yu

rqyu@psy.ecnu.edu.cn

English, Chinese

Shanghai

East China Normal University

Psychology and Cognitive Science

• 2015-2021 PhD in Psychology: University of British Columbia
• 2011-2015 Bachelor's in Psychology: University of British Columbia

• 2022- East China Normal University, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science - Lecturer (Chenhui Scholar)

• Shanghai Leading Talent (Overseas) Youth

Visual Cognition: What factors influence people's representation of visual objects? What factors can predict attention and memory of visual information?
Pattern Learning: How do people learn the patterns between objects in the environment? What changes occur in the cognitive system after learning patterns? What methods can measure people's learning degree?
Random Cognition: What kind of events do people consider random? What factors influence cognition about randomness?

• The presence of joint predictors generates conjunctive predictions, Yu, R. & Zhao, J., 2020
• Adult neurogenesis promotes efficient, nonspecific search strategies in a spatial alternation water maze task, Yu, R. Q., Cooke, M., Zhao, J., & Snyder, J., 2019
• Implicit updating of object representation via temporal associations, Yu, R. & Zhao, J., 2018