MSense 29 to 31 October 2025, LMU Munich
The LMU-China Academic Network (LMU-ChAN) marked its tenth anniversary with a Scientific Forum of seven parallel workshops at LMU’s main building. The MSense Lab organised Workshop 6, Behavioral Horizons: Bridging Experiments and Social Applications, chaired by Prof. Dr. Zhuanghua Shi (LMU Munich) and Prof. Fang Fang (Peking University). Over two days, eleven talks ranged from brain stimulation and cognitive biases to autism research and environmental psychology, together with a departmental dialogue and lab tour at the Department of Psychology.
Venue: Senatssaal (E110), Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, LMU Main Building. The departmental dialogue took place at the Department of Psychology, Leopoldstraße 13.
Programme
Wednesday, 29 October
| Time | |
|---|---|
| 15:30 – 16:30 | Registration and coffee (Speerträger, LMU Main Building) |
| 16:30 – 19:00 | Welcome event and 10th anniversary dinner (Senatssaal) |
Thursday, 30 October
| Time | Talk |
|---|---|
| 09:00 – 12:30 | Departmental dialogue and lab tour, Department of Psychology, Leopoldstraße 13 |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Joint lunch |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Invasive and Non-invasive Modulation of Human Brain Network and Cognition, Prof. Fang Fang, Peking University |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Understanding Justice: Social Psychological Insights for the Legal Field, Prof. Dr. Friederike Funk, LMU Munich |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Color-Gender Stereotype and Its Impact on Impression Evaluation and Interpersonal Interaction, Prof. Bin Zuo, Sun Yat-sen University |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Statistical Learning in Search Tasks, Prof. Dr. Thomas Geyer, LMU Munich |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Secondary Emissions from Indoor Ozone Chemistry: Unrecognized Risk to Work Well-being, Prof. Guiquan Li, Peking University |
Friday, 31 October
| Time | Talk |
|---|---|
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Cardiac Cycle Phase Modulates Pain Processing During Heartbeat-Enhanced Rubber Hand Illusion, Prof. Lihan Chen, Peking University |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Visual Attention and Goal-Directed Motor Action, Dr. Luca Wollenberg, LMU Munich |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Cognitive Biases: Bayesian Perspectives, Prof. Dr. Zhuanghua Shi, LMU Munich |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Bimodal Emotion Decoding: When Faces and Voices Diverge, Prof. Xia Fang, Zhejiang University |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Gender Differences in Social Approach–Avoidance Tendencies in Autism: Evidence from Subjective Ratings, Behaviour, and fMRI, Prof. Muyu Lin, Peking University |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Wrap-up and joint farewell lunch |
| 14:45 – 16:30 | Guided city tour |
Links
- Full forum programme with talk abstracts (PDF), Workshop 6 from page 27
- LMU-ChAN Scientific Forum at LMU’s International Office
- Workshop report and photo gallery in Lab News