Tao He (何涛), Ph.D.
Beijing Language and Culture University
I’m an assistant professor at the Beijing Language and Culture University in Beijing, China. I received my Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience in 2020 at Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands. I spent four years in the Predictive Brain Lab at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, where I worked with Prof. Floris P. de Lange and studied human prediction. From 2020 - 2022, I was a post-doctoral fellow in the lab of Prof. Fang Fang at Peking University, Beijing, China.
My research interests is trying to understand how our visual perception are modulated by prior knowledge and expectations, and how these in turn influence our behaviour. To address these questions, I use fMRI, MEG, Computational modelling, Eye-tracking and Psychophysics.
Download my resumé.
- Prediction
- Multisensory Perception
- Working Memory
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PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience, 2020
Radboud University (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour)
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MEd in Cognitive Neuroscience, 2016
Hangzhou Normal Univerisity
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BSc in Psychology, 2013
Fujian Medical Univerisy
Work experience
Responsibilities include:
- Writing and publishing first author works
- Grant writing (China Postdoctoral Science Foundation)
- Decoding neural representations of expectations in humans by virtue of advanced techniques and modelling (Predictive coding, IEM, TDLM)
- Daily supervisor for PhD students, Research Assistants and Undergraduates
Responsibilities include:
- Writing and publishing papers
- Supervisor for Master students
- Doing research and writing grant
- Teaching courses for master students
Publications
Projects
Decipher prediction uncertainty in humans
Using MEG in combination with a generative model-based analysis, we aim to decode the uncertainty of prediction.
Recall of past feature information
Backward feature replay during rest
How spatial context of expectations modulate our perception?
Spatial and temporal context jointly modulate the sensory response within the ventral visual stream.
Whether and how distractors influence our working memory?
Visual working memory representations perish in visual but persist in parietal cortex after eye movements
We see the future before we move our eyes!
Predictive remapping of visual features beyond saccadic targets
Environment- and eye-centered inhibitory cueing effects
Inhibition of return (IOR), typically explored in cueing paradigms, is a performance cost associated with previously attended locations and has been suggested as a crucial attentional mechanism that biases orientation towards novelty.