Research

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We constantly encounter moving objects in our environment—birds flying across the sky, cars passing on the street, etc. To navigate through such highly dynamic visual surroundings, we rely on accurate perception of these moving objects, usually aided by eye movements. Being easily accessible and widely connected to different brain areas from the cortex to brain stem, eye movements can provide continuous read-outs of the ongoing perceptual and cognitive processing--what we are perceiving, and how we are planning to react. I am interested in how perception and eye movements act in concert or dissociate. My PhD work focuses on the relationship between motion perception (or motion-induced illusions) and eye movements.

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Education:

• 09/2015 to 05/2017 M.A. in Experimental Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, USA
• 09/2011 to 07/2015 B.S. in Psychology, Peking University, Beijing, China

Research experience:

• 09/2017 to Present - Graduate student in the Neuroscience program (Prof. Dr. Miriam Spering), UBC
• 06/2019 to 07/2019 - Visiting graduate student in Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, Marseille, France (Prof. Dr. Anna Montagnini )
• 09/2015 to 06/2017 - Graduate research assistant in the Visual Attention and Psychophysics Lab, NYU (Prof. Dr. Marisa Carrasco)
• 09/2015 to 02/2016 - Graduate research assistant in the Object Recognition Lab, NYU (Prof. Dr. Denis Pelli)
• 01/2015 to 05/2015 - Undergraduate research assistant in the Visual psychophysics lab, PKU (Prof. Dr. Cong Yu)
• 05/2013 to 01/2015 - Undergraduate research assistant in the Social and cultural neuroscience lab, PKU (Prof. Dr. Shihui Han)

Contact: xiuyunwu[at]student.ubc.ca

Publications

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• Wu, X., Rothwell, A., Spering, M., & Montagnini, A. (2021). Expectations about motion direction affect perception and anticipatory smooth pursuit differentlys. Journal of Neurophysiology, 125:3, 977-991. [doi:10.1152/jn.00630.2020]
• Rothwell, A., Wu, X., Edinger, J., & Spering, M. (2020). On the relation between anticipatory ocular torsion and anticipatory smooth pursuit. Journal of Vision, 20(2):4, 1-12. [doi:10.1167/jov.20.2.4]
• Wu, X. & Spering, M. (2019). Ocular torsion is related to perceived motion-induced position shifts. Journal of Vision, 19(12):11, 1-13. [doi:10.1167/19.12.11]
• Yashar, A., Wu, X., Chen, J., & Carrasco, M. (2019). Crowding and binding: not all feature-dimensions behave in the same way. Psychological Science, 30(10), 1533-1546. [doi:10.1177/0956797619870779]
• Pelli, D.G., Waugh, S.J., Martelli, M., Crutch, S.P., Primativo, S., Yong, K.X., Rhodes, M., Yee, K., Wu, X., Famira, H.F., & Yiltiz, H. (2016) A clinical test for visual crowding [version 1; referees: 2 approved with reservations]. F1000Research 2016, 5:81. doi:10.12688/f1000research.7835.1