Pei Sun
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Tsinghua University
Principal Investigator, Tsinghua Laboratory for Brain and Intelligence
Associate Editor, Frontiers in Psychology & Brain Informatics
Phone: 86-10-62795302, Email: peisun@tsinghua.edu.cn
Address: Weiqing Building, Room 305, Tsinghua University, Haidian, Beijing, CHINA
Degrees
Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ph.D., 1996
Shanxi Normal University, M.S., 1993
Shanxi Normal University, B.S., 1990
Appointments
Tsinghua University Department of Psychology, Associate Professor and Associate Director, 2013 – current
RIKEN（Institute of Physical and Chemical Research ) Research Fellow, 2002 – 2013
Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Research Assistant/Associate, 1998 - 2002
Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Postdoctoral Fellow, 1996 - 1998
Research interests
Object recognition, Selective attention, Emotion, Aging, Drug abuse
Selected Publications
2022
1. Chen, S.*, Bi, K., Sun, P.*, & Bonanno, G. A. (2022). Psychopathology and Resilience Following Strict COVID-19 Lockdowns in Hubei, China: Examining Person- and Context-Level Predictors for Longitudinal Trajectories. American Psychologist. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/amp0000958
2. Tian, Y.*, Sun, P. * (2022). Percolation may explain efficiency, robustness, and economy of the brain. Network Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1162/netn_a_00246.
3. Tian, Y., Li. G*., Sun, P. * (2022). Information evolution in complex networks. Chaos, 32(7):073105. DOI: 10.1063/5.0096009.
2021
1. Yang, T., Zhang, L.L., Xu, G., Luo, Y., Li, Z., Zhong, K., Shi, B., Zhao, L., Sun, P.* (2021). Investigating taste perception chemesthetic sensation and their relationship with emotion perception in Chinese young and older adults. Food Quality and Preference. 96(10):104406
2. Tian, Y.*, Li, G., Sun, P. * (2021). Bridging the information and dynamics attributes of neural activities. Physical Review Research. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.043085
3. Lin, Y., Zhou, X., Naya, Y., Gardner, J., Sun, P.* (2021) The Linearity Analysis of Negative BOLD Responses in Human Visual Cortex. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.541314
4. Han X, Chen S*, Bi K., Yang Z., Sun P.* (2021) Depression Following COVID-19 Lockdown in Severely, Moderately, and Mildly Impacted Areas in China. Front. Psychiatry 12:596872. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.596872
5. Wang, Z., Weidler, B., Sun, P.*, & Abrams, R.* (2021) Simple Action Alters Attention Towards Features. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, doi: 10.3758/s13414-021-02259-4.
2020
1. Yang, T.*, Yang, Z., Xu, G., Gao, D., Zhang, Z., Wang, H., Han, L. Zhu, Z., Tiang, Y., Huang, Y., Zhao, L., Zhong, K., Shi, B., Li, J., Fu, S., Liang, P., Sun, P.* (2020) Tsinghua Facial Expression Database - A Database of Facial Expressions in Chinese Young and Older Women and Men: Development and Validation. PLOS One. 15(4): e0231304. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0231304
2. Chen B., Sun P., Fu S.* (2020) Consciousness modulates the automatic change detection of masked emotional faces: Evidence from visual mismatch negativity. Neuropsychologia. 2020 Apr 3:107459. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107459.
3. Yang, T.*, Di Bernardi Luft, C., Sun P., Bhattacharya, J., Banissy, M. (2020) Investigating Age-related Neural Compensation during Emotion Perception using Electroencephalogram. Brain Sci. 10, 61.
4. Xu Z., Shen B., Taji W., Sun P., Naya Y.* (2020) Convergence of distinct functional networks supporting naming and semantic recognition in the left inferior frontal gyrus. Hum Brain Mapp. 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1002/ hbm.24953.
5. Wang, J., Liang, P.*, Sun, P.* (2020) Neuropsychopharmacological effects of midazolam on the human brain. Brain Informatics, 2020, 7(1).
6. Xu, J., Hang Ou, H., Sun, P., Qin, S., Yuan, T. (2020) Predictors of Relapse for Patients with Dextromethorphan Dependence. The American Journal on Addictions, 1–3, 2020.
2019
1. Wang J., Liu J., Wang Z., Sun P.*, Li K., Liang P.* (2019) Dysfunctional interactions between the default mode network and the dorsal attention network in subtypes of amnestic mild cognitive impairment. Aging, 11: 9147-9166.
2. Liu Y., Xu J.*, Chen D., Sun P., Ma X. (2019) The association between air pollution and preterm birth and low birth weight in Guangdong, China. BMC Public Health. 2019 Jan 3;19(1):3. doi: 10.1186/s12889-018-6307-7.
2018
1. Zhan, Y., Ren, J., Sun, P., Fan, J., Liu, C., Luo, J.* (2018) The Neural Basis of Fear Promotes Anger and Sadness Counteracts Anger. Neural Plasticity, 2018:3479059. doi:10.1155/2018/3479059.
2. Huang, F., Tang, S., Sun, P., Luo, J.* (2018) Neural correlates of novelty and appropriateness processing in externally induced constraint relaxation. NeuroImage, 172: 381–389.
2017
1. Wang, H., Ip, C., Fu, S.*, &Sun, P.* (2017) Dissociation of Face Emotion and Gender Processing during Feature Selection: Evidence from Event-related Potential Studies. Neuropsychologia, 99: 306-313.
2. Wang, F., Sun, J., Sun, P.*, Weidler, B., & Abrams, R.* (2017) Influence of Simple Action on Subsequent Manual and Ocular Responses. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 79:389-395.
3. Hu, X, Yu, J, Song, M, Yu, C, Wang, F, Sun, P, Wang, D* and Zhang, D* (2017) EEG Correlates of Ten Positive Emotions. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 11:26. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00026.
2016
1. Li, Y.Q.*, Long, J.Y., Huang, B., Yu, T.Y., Wu, W., Li, P., Fang, F., Sun, P.(2016) Selective Audiovisual Semantic Integration Enabled by Feature-Selective Attention. Scientific Reports, 6:18914.
2. Wang, F., Peng, K. *, Bai, Y., Li, R., Zhu, Y., Sun, P., Guo, H., Yuan, C., Rotshtein, P., Sui, J.* (2016) The dorsal anterior cingulate cortex modulates dialectical self-thinking. Frontiers in Psychology 7:152. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00152.
3. Yu, F., Peng, T., Peng, K. *, Tang, S., Chen, C., Qian, X., Sun, P., Han, T., Chai, F. (2016) Cultural Value Shifting in Pronoun Use. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, DOI: 10.1177/0022022115619230.
2015
1. Kuriki, I.*, Sun, P., Ueno, K., Tanaka, K. & Cheng, K. (2015). Hue Selectivity in Human Visual Cortex Revealed by Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Cerebral Cortex, 25: 4869-4884.
2. Wang, H., Sun, P., IP, C., Zhao, X., Fu, S.* (2015). Configural and featural face processing are differently modulated by attentional resources at early stages: An event-related potential study with rapid serial visual presentation. Brain Research, 1602:75-84.
3. Li, Y.Q.*, Long, J.Y., Huang, B., Yu, T.Y., Wu, W., Liu, Y.J., Liang, C.H., Sun, P.* (2015) Crossmodal Integration Enhances Neural Representation of Task-Relevant Features in Audiovisual Face Perception. Cerebral Cortex, 25: 384-395.
2014
1. Sun, P.*, Guo, J.F., Guo, S.C., Chen, J.Y., He, L., Fu, S.M. (2014) BOLD signal change and contrast reversing frequency: an event-related fMRI study in human primary visual cortex. PLOS ONE 6: e99547.
2. Costagli, M.*, Ueno, K., Sun, P., Gardner, J. L., Wan, X. H., Ricciardi, E., Pietrini, P., Tanaka, K., and Cheng, K.* (2014) Functional signalers of changes in visual stimuli: cortical responses to increments and decrements in motion coherence. Cerebral Cortex, 24:110-118.
2010 - 2013
1. Sun, P.*, Gardner, J. L., Costagli, M., Ueno, K., Waggoner, R. A., Tanaka, K., and Cheng, K. * (2013) Demonstration of tuning to stimulus orientation in human visual cortex: a high-resolution fMRI study with a novel continuous and periodic stimulation paradigm. Cerebral Cortex, 23:1618-1629.
2. Li, Y.Q.*, Long, J.Y., He, L., Lu, H., Sun, P.* (2012) A sparse representation-based algorithm for pattern localization in brain imaging data analysis. PLOS ONE 6: e50332.
3. Kuriki, I.*, Nakamura, S., Sun, P., Ueno, K., Matsumiya, K., Tanaka, K., Shioiri, S., Cheng, K. (2011) Decoding Color Responses in Human Visual Cortex. IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRONICS COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER SCIENCES, 10: 473-479.
4. Li, Y.Q.*, Wang, G.Y., Long, J.Y., Yu, Z.L., Huang, B.A., Li, X.J., Yu, T.Y., Liang, C.H., Li, Z., Sun, P.* (2011) Reproducibility and Discriminability of Brain Patterns of Semantic Categories Enhanced by Congruent Audiovisual Stimuli. PLOS ONE 6: e20801.
5. Tajima, S., Watanabe, M.*, Imai, C., Ueno, K., Asamizuya, T., Sun, P., Tanaka, K., and Cheng, K. (2010)
Opposing effects of contextual surround in human early visual cortex revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging with continuously modulated visual stimuli. Journal of Neuroscience, 9:3264-3270.
2009 and before
1. Sun, P.*, Ueno, K., Waggoner, R. A., Gardner, J. L., Tanaka, K., and Cheng, K. (2007) A temporal frequency dependent functional architecture in human primary visual cortex revealed by high-resolution fMRI. Nature Neuroscience, 10: 1404-1406.
2. Lass, U., Yan, S., Yang, Y., Chen, G., Sun, P., Becker, D., Fang, Y., & Lüer, G.* (2006) Recognition of briefly exposed digits, Latin letters, and Chinese characters: Evidence for language-specific differences in encoding and rehearsal. Zeitschrift für Psychologie (Journal of Psychology), 214: 24-36.
3. Gardner, J. L.*, Sun, P., Waggoner, R. A., Ueno K., Tanaka, K., and Cheng, K. (2005) Contrast adaptation and representation in human early visual cortex. Neuron, 47: 607-620.
4. Lass, U., Yang, Y., Fang, Y., Yan, S., Sun, P., Chen, G., Becker, D., & Lüer, G.* (2003) Letter recognition of Germans and Chinese – similarities in attention allocation and differences in encoding. Zeitschrift für Psychologie (Journal of Psychology), 211, 26-37.
5. He J.C.*, Sun P., Held R., Thorn F., Sun X.R., Gwiazda J.E. (2002) Wavefront aberrations in eyes of emmetropic and moderately myopic school children and young adults. Vision Research, 42: 1063-1070.
