Team

Researchers passionate about Memory Dynamics & Sleep.

Principal Investigator

Dr. Jing Liu

Dr. Jing Liu (刘婧)

Dr. Jing Liu is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at South China Normal University. She received her Ph.D. from the State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning at Beijing Normal University, followed by postdoctoral research in the Department of Psychology at the University of Hong Kong and a Research Assistant Professorship at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research focuses on the cognitive and neural mechanisms and modulation of learning, memory, and sleep. She was recognized as a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science (APS) in 2025.

Email: liujing_psy@m.scnu.edu.cn

Ph.D. Students

Yuan Fang

Yuan Fang (方圆)

Ph.D. Student

Research interests: emotional memory regulation in depressed adolescents; sleep and emotional memory consolidation

Jinpeng Guo

Jinpeng Guo (郭金朋)

Ph.D. Student

Research interests: intracranial electrical stimulation and spatial working memory, sleep and false memory, intracranial recording and naturalistic stimuli

Mengni Zhen

Manny (甄梦妮)

Ph.D. Student

Research interests: sleep and spatial memory; sleep-dependent memory consolidation in older adults

Master's Students

Hongbin Huang

Chris (黄鸿彬)

Master's Student

Research interests: applied research on spatial episodic learning based on immersive VR and its memory consolidation effects

Qimin Pan

Qimin Pan (潘麒民)

Master's Student

Research interests: the influence of sleep on memory consolidation and schemas

Zihan Quan

Hannah (全紫涵)

Master's Student

Research interests: closed-loop brain-computer interfaces for sleep and memory modulation; EEG mechanisms of sleep and false memory; neural mechanisms of conscious and unconscious memory reactivation

Undergraduate Students

Siyuan Ruan

Siyuan Ruan (阮斯媛)

Undergraduate Student

Research interests: sleep and hierarchical knowledge construction

Yaxuan Wang

Yaxuan Wang (王雅暄)

Undergraduate Student

Research interests: modulation of working memory by transcranial alternating current stimulation targeting the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

Yi Yuan

Yi Yuan (远熠)

Undergraduate Student

Research interests: sleep-dependent consolidation effects of hierarchical knowledge

Yingxuan Kang

Yingxuan Kang (康盈轩)

Undergraduate Student

Research interests: spatial episodic memory and schemas; non-invasive brain stimulation