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Tao Zhang
Psychology CAS
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing
Language: Chinese, English
Neurophysiology
Visual Cognition
Behavior
Multisensory Integration
Neural Mechanisms
Mental Disorders
Early Identification
Intervention
Visual Motion
Cognition
Areas of Focus
- Neurophysiological basis of visual motion cognition and visually guided behavior
- Neural mechanisms of multisensory information integration and interaction
- Early identification and intervention of mental disorders
Work Experience
- 2000-2007 - University of California, Davis - Postdoctoral Researcher
- 2007-2010 - University of California, Davis - Project Scientist
- 2010-present - Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Researcher
Academic Background & Achievements
- 1995 - Bachelor's Degree in Biophysics: Nankai University
- 2000 - Doctorate in Biophysics: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Publications
- Parietal Area VIP Causally Influences Heading Perception during Pursuit Eye Movements, T. Zhang, K. H. Britten, 2011
- The responses of VIP neurons are sufficiently sensitive to support heading judgments, T. Zhang, K. H. Britten, 2010
- The virtue of simplicity, T. Zhang, K. H. Britten, 2006
- Clustering of selectivity for optic flow in the ventral intraparietal area, T. Zhang, K. H. Britten, 2004
- Parietal area VIP neuronal responses to heading stimuli are encoded in head-centered coordinates, T. Zhang, H. W. Heuer, K. H. Britten, 2004
