Lab News

Si Cheng’s fMRI study in NeuroImage: Reports finds that the previous interval lingers in the putamen, not visual cortex, when people reproduce durations, and that task switching recruits …

Partners from Çanakkale spent 28 September to 2 October at LMU Munich learning to build 3D environments in Blender, analyse EEG spectra in EEGLAB and develop VR experiments in Unity, with lab practice …

In a stripped-down lab feed with EEG and eye tracking, a 60-second block of self-paced scrolling felt like 28 seconds, shorter than watching the same images replayed, yet memory for them was no …

From 14 to 18 April the Erasmus+ partners met at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University for lab checks, a full-day EEG tutorial and a full-day VR tutorial, moving the shared VR/AR and EEG lab from planning …

On 27 March 2026 Zhuanghua Shi spoke at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, hosted by Prof. Li Zhaoping, arguing that the Vierordt effect and serial dependence stem from …

Twenty-one participants from LMU Munich and the Çanakkale partners spent a full day online with Dr. Erwan David, building interactive VR environments in Unity, the first training event of the Erasmus+ …

From October 29 to 31 the lab organized the LMU-ChaN Workshop at LMU Munich, marking ten years of the LMU-China Academic Network with three days of talks, lab visits and dialogues with partners from …

The lab hosted the second Erasmus+ VET workshop in Munich from November 25 to 29, training partners from Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University and Çanakkale Technopark in eye tracking, EEG, MRI and TMS.

Hao Yu passed her PhD defense on 15th July with a thesis on the neural and behavioral basis of statistical learning of target facilitation in visual search.

Si Cheng passed her PhD defense on 10th July 2024 with a thesis on the cognitive and neural mechanisms of sequential effects in time perception.

Dr. Nan Yan, Dr. Lingyue Chen, Dr. Shao-Yang Tsai and Ms. Yun Wai Foo celebrated their graduation at GSN Graduation Day, and all four have already secured jobs, postdoctoral or doctoral positions.

Hosted by Prof. Daniel Oberfeld-Twistel at Mainz University on June 12, Dr. Z. Shi explained how context and Bayesian priors bias time judgments, with CNV, LPCt and hippocampal findings from EEG and …

Dr. Fredrik Allenmark taught PsychoPy and Prof. Dr. Zhuanghua Shi covered AI tools for behavioral research at Çanakkale Teknopark, where COMU, Teknopark and LMU agreed to establish a Behavioral …

At Oldenburg University, hosted by Prof. Hans Colonius, Dr. Zhuanghua Shi presented EEG and fMRI evidence that same-dimension distractors slow search and dampen the N2pc, while cross-dimension color …

Yannan Su passed her PhD defense on 21 March 2024 with a thesis on contextual biases in color and orientation perception, two studies from which are already published.

Dr. Siyi Chen of LMU CAS gathered speakers from Lancaster, Oxford, Nijmegen, Peking, Columbia and Amsterdam for a two-day workshop, 18-19 March 2024, debating how our minds anticipate and react to the …

Shao-Yang Tsai passed his PhD defense on 11th March 2024 with a thesis on the neural correlates of distractor handling in cross-modal search, capping years of dedicated research.

Lingyue Chen defended her Ph.D. thesis on 6th March 2024, From Action to Time, examining how attention and sensorimotor integration shape time perception.

Zhuanghua Shi gave talks at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou Normal University and Beijing Sport University, and the long-delayed Sino-German symposium on multisensory processing finally ran in Beijing …

Cemre Baykan and Nan Qiu have passed their Ph.D. defenses summa cum laude, Cemre on behavioral and neurophysiological correlates of interval timing, Nan on the neural and behavioral basis of …

Siyi Chen and Zhuanghua Shi have won a three-year DFG grant, with a postdoc position dedicated to Siyi, to study how uncertainty shapes context guidance and suppression in context learning.

PD Dr. Zhuanghua Shi and doctoral candidate Bei Zhang spoke to editor Bernd Hilker about the LMU-CSC joint program for the March/April 2019 newsletter of the LMU International Office.

Both MSense lab teams cracked their puzzle rooms within the hour in November 2018, with Cemre, Bei, Rasmus, Monica, Strongway, Fredrik, Bing, Jan, Fiona and Lingyue on the case.