Lab Introduction & Major Research Interests
Dr. Chen is currently the director of the Computational Human-sociocultural Experimental Neuroscience (CHEN) Lab at the Department of Psychology. The CHEN Lab takes an interdisciplinary approach, utilizing artificial intelligence, computational modeling, and neuroimaging methods to study interacting minds and how these interactions influence each other’s beliefs, feelings and behaviors as well as their corresponding brain representations. Our current research topics include taking a computational approach to disentangle the complexity of psychological and affective processes, utilizing naturalistic paradigms to exploring the complexity of interacting minds, and examining how social relationships influence our well-being by analyzing big data. If you are interested in any of the above topics, you might have a good fit with the CHEN Lab. Please do not hesitate to contact Dr. Chen if you are interested in joining the CHEN Lab or starting a collaboration.
Recent Representative Publication ( * corresponding author)
1. Hsiao, P.-Y. A., Kim, M.J., Chou, F.-C. B., & Chen, P.-H. A.* (2024). Intersubject representational similarity analysis uncovers the impact of state anxiety on brain activation patterns in the human extrastriate cortex. Brain Imaging and Behavior, 18(2), 1-9.
2. Chen, P.-H. A.*, Fareri, D., Güroğlu, B., Delgado, M.R., & Chang, L. J.* (2023) Towards a neurometric-based construct validity of trust. eLife.
3. Chang, L. J., Jolly, E., Cheong, J. H., Rapuano, K., Greenstein N., Chen, P.-H. A., & Manning, J. R. (2021). Endogenous variation in ventromedial prefrontal cortex state dynamics during naturalistic viewing reflects affective experience. Science Advances, 7(17), eabf7129.
4. Chen, P.-H. A., Jolly, E., Cheong, J. H., & Chang, L. J. (2020). Intersubject representational similarity analysis reveals individual variations in affective experience when watching erotic movies. Neuroimage, 216, 116851.
5. Chen, P.-H. A., Cheong, J. H., Jolly, E., Elhence, H., Wager, T. D., & Chang, L. J. (2019). Socially transmitted placebo effects. Nature Human Behaviour, 3, 1295-1305.