Dr. Yiquan Shi
Postdoctoral Researcher
Contact information
Institut für Allgemeine Psychologie, Biopsychologie und Methoden der Psychologie
Professur Allgemeine Psychologie
Zellescher Weg 17
01069, Dresden
Phone: +49 (0)351 463-42431
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Research Statement
Current Main Research Interests:
Neural Implementation of Executive Control
Neural Mechanism of S-R Rule Learning
Other research interests:
Word learning
Modeling of cognitive and neural processes
Decoding mind from BOLD signal and other physiological signals (e g., pupillary response),
Effect of reward and motivation,
Individual difference e g., on mathematical anxious, learned helplessness
Scientific Education
| 2010 | Doctoral degree in Psychology (Dr. phil), Department of Psychology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany, 12/2009 (Defence), Prof. Dr. Torsten Schubert |
| 2006 | Master Degree in Psychology, Department of Psychology, Peking University, Beijing, China, 06/2006(Graduation), Prof. Dr. Xiaolin Zhou |
| 2003 | Bachelor degree in nformation and computing science, Department of Applied Mathematics and Software, Central South University, Changsha,China, 1999-2003 |
Professional Experience
| Since 11/2012 | Postdoctoral Researcher in Department of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden |
| 02/2010 - 09/2011 | Postdoctoral Researcher in Department of Psychology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich |
Other Scientific Activities, Honors, Awards
| 2002 | American Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, administered by the Consortium for Mathematics and its Application Meritorious Shi, Y., Wang, W., Wang H. |
| 2001 | China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, administered by Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), Ministry of Education of the Pople’s Republic of China & China Society for industrial and Applied Mathematics (CSIAM) First Prize in Hu Nan province and First Prize in China Shi, Y., Wang, W., Wang H. |
Selected Publications
Shi, Y., Meindl, T., Szameitat, A., Müller, H., Schubert, T. (2014) Task preparation and posterior brain regions: fMRI activity in posterior stimulus-specific brain regions and their functional connectivity, Brain and Cognition 87: 39-51
Shi, Y., Zhou, X., Müller, H., Schubert, T. (2010) The neural implementation of task rule activation in the cued task switching paradigm: An event-related fMRI study, Neuroimage 51: 1253-1264
Shi, Y. (2004) Task Switching, a Paradigm in the Study of Executive control, Advances in Psychological Science (in Chinese), 12(5): 672-679