Distinguished guests from universities including NYU Shanghai’s founding partners New York University and East China Normal University, as well as local government officials, attended celebratory events at the newly opened New Bund Campus.

Hyoungee Kong is an Assistant Professor Faculty Fellow of Art History at NYU Shanghai. In her first year at NYU Shanghai, she has continued her research on Japanese and French visual culture, taught three courses to undergraduate students, and launched NYU Shanghai's first seminar series on gender and sexuality studies. 

The Speech, Language and Neuroscience Group (SLANG), a joint research team under the NYU-ECNU Institute of Brain and Cognitive Science at NYU Shanghai co-led by Associate Professor of Neural and Cognitive Sciences Tian Xing, has long focused on studying higher-order cognitive functions such as motor-to-sensory transformation. In a recent study published in eNeuro, a team of researchers led by Tian investigated the generic function of corollary discharge (CD) at the very beginning of the motor process, advancing our understanding of this neural mechanism and adding an important piece to the puzzle.

"The study provided the first empirical evidence that CD is functioning during the action intention phase, significantly pushing the time limit of CD operation to the initiation of action and providing a complete picture of how the sense of agency emerges. These findings could potentially serve as a foundation to understand the brain functional deficits related to agency, such as hallucinations in schizophrenia, and hence guide the development of diagnosis and treatments for mental disorders," Tian said.

NYU Steinhardt Associate Professor Tara McAllister and her team at BITS Lab, created the staRt app to help users learn speech skills through biofeedback. They have conducted multiple studies on biofeedback, which uses instrumentation to create a visual display of some aspect of body function, such as heart rate or speech acoustics. Since its launch in 2020, the app has been downloaded more than 9,000 times.

Thursday, March 9
Perspective Taking and Reception of Refugees in the Global South: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Thailand
12:45 - 1:30 PM, Room N208

An emerging body of literature has demonstrated how perspective taking can induce people's willingness to receive refugees, because it can generate empathy towards other people. Using a pre-registered survey experiment conducted in Thailand, this paper explores how perspective taking increases Thai people's willingness to receive refugees from Myanmar, where a military coup in 2021 has led to intensified civil war and refugee outflows into its neighboring countries including Thailand. Join us for our 1st FLSS this semester with Associate Professor of Political Science Xiaojun Li. RSVP here.