Our research aims at understanding how we remember and forget about our past experiences, and the neurocognitive processes supporting these memory dynamics. One fundamental assumption of this research is that memory plays a central role in shaping our preferences and beliefs, and in guiding our judgments and behaviors. Our research aims to elucidate how motivational, emotional and cognitive processes may influence memory processes. Of particular interests, we consider sleep as an indispensable component to complete our understanding of memory.
We mostly employ EEG, behavioral and online studies in our research. If you are interested in learning more about us and about our research, please find our lab members and publications here.
Some exemplar questions we are currently investigating are:
Figure by T. Xia
Featured Publications:
Xia et al., (2023). Targeted memory reactivation during sleep influences social bias as a function of slow-oscillation phase and delta power. Current Biology.
Zeng, Lin et al., (2021). Sleep’s short-term memory preservation and long-term affect depotentiation effect in emotional memory consolidation: Behavioral and EEG evidence. Sleep.
Hu et al. (2020). Promoting memory consolidation during sleep: A meta-analysis of targeted memory reactivation. Psychological Bulletin, 146(3), 218-244.
Figure by X. Lin
Featured Publications:
Varma, Chen et al., (2023). Prosocial behavior promotes positive emotion during the COVID-19 pandemic. Emotion.
Xie et al. (2023). Emotion regulation promotes forgetting of negative social feedback: Behavioral and EEG evidence. Acta Psychologica Sinica
Hu et al. (2017). Suppressing unwanted memories reduces their unintended influences. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26(2), 197-206.
Featured Publications:
Jin et al. (2023). Attitudinal Effects of Stimulus Co-occurrence and Stimulus Relations: Sleep Supports Propositional Learning Via Memory Consolidation. Social Psychological and Personality Science
Yao et al. (2021). Optimistic amnesia: How online and offline processing shape belief updating and memory biases in immediate and long-term optimism biases. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience
Hu et al. (2015). Unlearning implicit social biases during sleep. Science, 348(6238), 1013-1015.
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