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Wang Ying
Associate Professor
Tel:  86-10-64871238
Fax:  86-10-64871238
Mailing Address:  16 Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China
Email:  wangying@psych.ac.cn
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Resume:

Since 2023 Young Distinguished Researcher, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Since 2015 Associate professor , Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2010-2015 Assistant professor , Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2010 Ph.D., Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2002 Visiting student, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

2005 B.S., Nanjing University
Research Interests:

The functional mechanisms, neural foundations, and modulatory principles of human cognition, with particular interests in:

- Visual perception and its interaction with other sensory modalities

- Visual attention, awareness, and statistical learning in spatiotemporal dimensions

- Animate/social/emotional information perception
Community service:
Achievements:

Excellent Member of Youth Innovation Promotion Association, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Selected Publications:

Shen, L., Li, S., Tian, Y., Wang, Y.*, Jiang, Y. (2025). Cortical tracking of hierarchical rhythms orchestrates the multisensory processing of biological motion. eLife, 13:RP98701

Chen, Y., Jiang, Y., & Wang, Y.* (2025). Perceiving facial emotions in context: The intertwined roles of emotional valence and consciousness. Emotion.

Lu, X., Song, B., Zhang, S., Zhang, S., Huang, M., Wang, Y.*, & Jiang, Y.* (2025). Implied gravity promotes coherent motion perception. NPJ Microgravity, 11, 36.

Shen, L.#, Yang, X.#, Jiang, Y., Wang, Y.* (2025). Understanding Biological Motion through the Lens of Animate Motion Processing. Frontiers in Psychology, 16.

Shen, L., Cheng, X., Ma, Z., Zhong, H., Jiao, X., Wang, Y., Jiang, Y., Fan, Z.*, & Ding, X*. (2025). Sensorimotor simulation and distributed processing of biological motion: Insights from healthy and paraplegic adults. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11.

Hu, R.#, Li, S.#, Yuan, P., Wang, Y.*, & Jiang, Y. (2024). Temporal integration by multi-level regularities fosters the emergence of dynamic conscious experience. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1533(1), 156-168.

Yang, G., Wang, Y.*, & Jiang, Y. (2024). Social Perception of Animacy: Preferential Attentional Orienting to Animals Links with Autistic Traits. Cognition, 251, 105900.

Lu, X.#, Hu, Z.#, Xin, Y.#, Yang, T., Wang, Y., Zhang, P., Liu, N.*, & Jiang, Y.* (2024). Detecting biological motion signals in human and monkey superior colliculus: A subcortical-cortical pathway for biological motion perception. Nature Communications, 15, 9606.

Tian, J., Yang, F., Wang, Y., Wang, L., Wang, N., Jiang, Y.*, & Yang, L.* (2024). Atypical local and global biological motion perception in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. eLife, 12, RP90313.

Shen, L., Lu, X., Yuan, X., Hu, R., Wang, Y.*, & Jiang, Y. (2023). Cortical encoding of rhythmic kinematic structures in biological motion. NeuroImage, 268, 119893.

Shen, L., Lu, X., Wang, Y.*, & Jiang, Y. (2023). Audiovisual correspondence facilitates the visual search for biological motion. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

Huang, M., Yang, G., Wang, Y.*, Jiang, Y. (2023). Animacy perception from motion cues: Cognitive and neural mechanisms (in Chinese). Advances in Psychological Science, 31(8), 1460-1476.

Fan, C., Chen, Y., Wang, Y.*, & Jiang, Y. (2023). Emotion-induced memory trade-offs and memory broadening: the cognitive and neural mechanisms (in Chinese). Progress in Biochemistry and Biophysics, 50(1), 87-99.

Wang, Y., Zhang, X., Wang, C., Huang, W., Xu, Q., Liu, D., Zhou, W., Chen, S., & Jiang, Y. (2022). Modulation of biological motion perception in humans by gravity. Nature Communications, 13, 2765.

Chen, Y., Xu, Q., Fan, C., Wang, Y.*, & Jiang, Y. (2022). Eye gaze direction modulates nonconscious affective contextual effect. Consciousness and Cognition, 102, 103336.

Chen, L., Xu, Q., Shen, L., Yuan, T., Wang, Y., Zhou, W., & Jiang, Y. (2022). Distinct contributions of genes and environment to visual size illusion and the underlying neural mechanism. Cerebral Cortex, 32(5), 1014-1023.

Yuan, P., Hu, R., Zhang, X., Wang, Y.*, & Jiang, Y.* (2021). Cortical entrainment to hierarchical contextual rhythms recomposes dynamic attending in visual perception. eLife, 10, e65118.

Han, Q., Wang, Y., Jiang, Y., & Bao, M. (2021). The relevance to social interaction modulates bistable biological-motion perception. Cognition, 209, 104584.

Wang, L., Wang, Y., Xu, Q., Liu, D., Ji, H., Yu, Y., Hu, Z., Yuan, P., & Jiang, Y. (2020). Heritability of reflexive social attention triggered by eye gaze and walking direction: Common and unique genetic underpinnings. Psychological Medicine, 50(3), 475-483.

Hu, R., Yuan, P., Jiang, Y., & Wang, Y.* (2019). The functional role of temporal structure in human perception: behavioral evidence and neural correlates (in Chinese). Acta Physiologica Sinica, 71(1), 105-116.

Wang, Y., Wang, L., Xu, Q., Liu, D., Chen, L., Troje, N., He, S., & Jiang, Y. (2018). Heritable aspects of biological motion perception and its covariation with autistic traits. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(8), 1937-1942.

Chen, L., Qiao, C., Wang, Y., & Jiang, Y. (2018). Subconscious processing reveals dissociable contextual modulations of visual size perception. Cognition, 180, 259-267.

Zhang, X., Xu, Q., Jiang, Y., & Wang, Y.* (2017). The interaction of perceptual biases in bistable perception. Scientific Reports, 7, 42018.

Zhang, X., Yuan, P., Wang, Y.*, & Jiang Y. (2016). Neural Entrainment and Perception. Progress in Biochemistry and Biophysics, 43(4): 308-315. (in Chinese)

Liu, D., Wang, L., Wang, Y., & Jiang, Y. (2016). Conscious access to suppressed threatening information is modulated by working memory. Psychological Science, 27(11), 1419-1427.

Chen, L., Yuan, X., Xu, Q., Wang, Y., & Jiang, Y. (2016). Subliminal impending collision increases perceived object size and enhances pupillary light reflex. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:1897, 1-8.

Wang, Y., Wang, L., Xu, Q., Liu, D., & Jiang, Y. (2014). Domain-specific genetic influence on visual-ambiguity resolution. Psychological Science, 25(8),1600-1607.

Wang, Y., & Jiang, Y. (2014). Integration of 3D Structure from Disparity into Biological Motion Perception Independent of Depth Awareness. PLoS ONE, 9(2): e89238.

Wang, Y., Zhou, W., & Jiang, Y. (2014). Human perception with gravity’s imprint. In Human Performance in Space: Advancing Astronautics Research in China, Washington, DC: Science/AAAS, 5-6.

Zhao, J., Wang, L., Wang, Y., Weng, X., Li, S., & Jiang, Y. (2014). Developmental tuning of reflexive attentional effect to biological motion cues. Scientific Reports, 4, 5558. 

Wang, Y., Zhang, H., Yu, L., Zhang, K., Sun, X., Plocher, T. (2011). Believe What You Hear, Not What You See - Vision Interferes with Auditory Route Guidance in Complex Environment. In: Jacko, J.A. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. Towards Mobile and Intelligent Interaction Environments. HCII2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6763, 346-354.

Wang, Y., & Zhang, K. (2010). Decomposing the spatiotemporal signature in dynamic 3D object recognition. Journal of Vision, 10 (10): 23, 1-16.
Grants:

The National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 32571241, 32171059, 31771211, 31100733) 

Fundings for Members and Excellent Members of the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences