Dr. Siyi Chen

Siyi Chen is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychology at LMU Munich. She received her Ph.D. at the Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences (GSN), LMU Munich with a thesis entitled “Object completion effects in attention and memory”. Following that, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Thomas Geyer and Prof. Zhuanghua Shi. She was later granted the Bavarian Gender Equality Grant (BGF) and received her own Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) grant. Her research interests encompass visual attention, working and long-term memory, as well as multisensory attention and integration.

Project at CAS

As a junior researcher in residence, she will proceed in her Habilitation on “Influences of uncertainty on context guidance and suppression in context learning: neural and computational mechanisms”. Her investigations are principally focused on the issues of how the uncertainty arising from the target-context relations dynamically affects statistical context learning, thereby developing a theoretically coherent neuro-cognitive model of active context learning. During her stay at CAS, she is also organizing a workshop on the topic of “predictive attention”.