Research Summary

• Social interaction in naturalistic verbal contexts: We study neural and cognitive mechanisms during dynamic and active social interaction in diverse naturalistic verbal contexts, and how the altered neural patterns reflect changes in non-verbal and verbal behaviors.
• ​Causal neural circuits in emotion regulation: We investigate the neural circuits and therapeutic mechanisms for emotion regulation in patients with mood disorders and brain lesions, aiming to guide targeting optimization in noninvasive neuromodulatory treatment.

• Interdisciplinary neuroscience approach: We develop and utilize a variety of neuroimaging and computational methods, e.g., fNIRS-based hyperscanning, concurrent eye-tracking/fMRI, concurrent TMS/fMRI, and lesion network mapping in both healthy and clinical populations.