What I study.
How the human brain encodes and decodes facial expression, how that shapes behaviour, and how reliably any of it can be measured. Four threads run through every project.
Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience
Reading the brain's response to a face.
Freie Universität Berlin · EEG, eye-tracking, and many-labs open science.
I'm Yu-Fang Yang, Ph.D. I study how the brain reads facial expression, how those signals shape behaviour, and how reliably any of it can be measured — following the response from early visual cortex to the face-selective N170 and beyond.
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N170
P3Face stimulus · EEG time course 0–400 ms
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Face perception
How the brain extracts identity and diagnostic features from faces, and how those features attract the eye even when recognition is unaffected — N170, EPN and fixation measures.
II
Emotion
How the brain reads emotional signals — from faces and from anticipated pain — and how accumulating evidence under difficulty shows up in electrophysiology.
III
Social cognition
Gaze as a social signal. Direct versus averted gaze in interactive paradigms, and how those cues modulate early neural responses to exclusion and acceptance.
IV
Reproducibility
Multi-analyst and many-labs projects — EEGManyPipelines, OHBM Brainhack, ARTEM-IS — quantifying how analytic variability shapes conclusions, toward robust, shared standards.