Education
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- University of Glasgow, UK
2014/10 – 2019/02 Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience, Division of Visual Perception
- Cognitive Psychology
- Peking University, China
2010/09 – 2013/07 M.Sc. in Cognitive Psychology
- Psychology
- Southwest University, China
2006/09 – 2010/07 B.Sc. in Psychology
Professional Experience
- Peking University, China
- 2022/12 – present Assistant Professor, School of Psychology & Cognitive Sciences
- University of Glasgow, UK
- 2019/02 – 2022/09 Post-doctoral Fellow, School of Psychology & Neuroscience
- 2018/01 – 2019/01 Research Assistant, School of Psychology & Neuroscience
List of Publications
Key Publications
Zhan, J., Liu M., Garrod, O.G.B., Daube, C., Ince R.A.A, Jack R.E., Schyns, P.G. (2021). Modelling Individual preferences reveals that face beauty is not universally perceived across cultures. Current Biology, 31(10), 2243-2252
Zhan, J., Garrod, O.G.B., van Rijsbergen, N. & Schyns, P.G. (2019). Modelling face memory reveals task-generalizable representations. Nature Human Behaviour, 3(8), 817-826.
Zhan, J., Ince, R.A.A., van Rijsbergen, N. & Schyns, P.G. (2019). Dynamic construction of reduced representations in the brain for perceptual decision behavior. Current Biology, 29(2), 319-326.
Other Journal Articles
Daube, C., Xu, T., Zhan, J., Webb A., Ince, R.A.A., Garrod, O.G.B., & Schyns, P.G. (2021). Grounding deep neural network predictions of human categorization behavior in understandable functional features: The case of face identity. Patterns, 100348.
Schyns, P.G., Zhan, J., Jack R.E. & Ince, R.A.A. (2020). Revealing the information contents of memory within the stimulus information representation framework. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 375(1799): 20190705.
Zhan, J., Jiang, X., Politzer-Ahles, S., Zhou, X. (2017). Neural correlations of fine-grained meaning distinctions: an fMRI investigation of scalar quantifiers. Human Brain Mapping, 38(8), 3848–3864.
Zhan, J., Yu, H., Zhou, X. (2013). fMRI evidence for the interaction between orthography and phonology in reading Chinese compound words. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 7.
Conference Proceedings
Zhan, J., Liu, M., Garrod, O.G.B., Jack, R.E. & Schyns, P.G. (2020). A generative model of cultural face attractiveness. In Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents IVA ’20. (Association for Computing Machinery), pp. 1–3.
Hensel, L.B., Zhan, J., Bjornsdottir, R.T., Garrod, O.G.B., Schyns, P.G., Jack, R.E. (2020). Psychologically valid social face features for virtual agents. In Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents IVA ’20. (Association for Computing Machinery), pp. 1–3.
Chen, C., Garrod, O.G.B., Zhan, J., Beskow, J., Schyns, P.G. & Jack, R.E. (2018). Reverse engineering psychologically valid facial expressions of emotion into social robots. In 13th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG2018), Xi'an, China, 15-19 May 2018, pp. 448-452.