Under this theme, research in cognitive psychology and neural dynamics using traditional behavioral paradigms is potentiated by applying the latest brain imaging and brain stimulation methods to investigate cognitive and neural mechanisms of the social and psychological phenomena from both the interpersonal and intrapersonal perspectives.
Specifically, we focus on examining:
1) cognitive mechanisms underlying human language production to uncover the language-universal and language-specific properties of languages, and the relations between human language and cognition in general
2) cognitive mechanisms and causal brain connections in predicting events and patterns in the social environment.