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Hi, my name is Ziyi Duan(段紫逸), you can call me “zoe”. I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in ClaySpace Lab in the Department of Psychology at New York University. Before that, I worked as a research assistant in Lewis-Peacock Lab at The University of Texas at Austin, and did my undergraduate and master work with Dr. Xiaowei Ding at Sun Yat-sen University (China).
How do we turn a thought into an action? My work focuses on this puzzle: how the brain translates abstract, high-level goals into concrete instructions for behavior. Specifically, I study visual working memory, examining how this mental workspace dynamically transforms information to serve a specific task goal — a process that spans from initial sensory processing to sustained mnemonic coding, and finally to the execution of motor plans. I tackle this using a set of tools, including neuroimaging approches (fMRI/EEG), psychophysics, eye-tracking, motion capture system, machine learning, and computational modeling. Here are the research projects I’ve been working on.
Beyond this core research, I am deeply interested in promoting science communication, working to bridge the gap between complex scientific findings and the public. I hope to foster broader understanding and engagement with cognitive neuroscience. You can check out my writings in Blogs.
