Department of Clinical Neuroscience
I obtained my double Ph.D. from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and East China Normal University, China (2016-2019). In October 2019, I joined the Emotion Lab as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet. In November 2021, I started as an assistant professor at the Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, China.
My research interests are in the areas of human social interactions. More specifically, my research focuses on how brain-to-brain coupling across individuals tracks (and underlies) interpersonal cooperation, decision-making, learning, and other high-level social processes. I use behavioral, electrophysiological (EEG), neuroimaging (fNIRS, MEG), and neuro-modulation (tACS) methods, combined with the interpersonal neuroscience approach (i.e., the measurement and modulation of multiple brains simultaneously), to investigate the neural mechanisms that mediate human social behaviors.
Please feel free to contact me (yafeng.pan@zju.edu.cn) for any potential collaboration or academic exchange.
Inter-brain synchrony and cooperation context in interactive decision making.
Biological psychology 03, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 29292232
Interpersonal brain synchronization associated with working alliance during psychological counseling.
Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging 12, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 30292535
Learning Desire Is Predicted by Similar Neural Processing of Naturalistic Educational Materials.
eNeuro Sep/Oct, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31427402
Instructor-learner brain coupling discriminates between instructional approaches and predicts learning.
NeuroImage 05, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32068165
The averaged inter-brain coherence between the audience and a violinist predicts the popularity of violin performance.
NeuroImage 05, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32084565
Two-Person Approaches to Studying Social Interaction in Psychiatry: Uses and Clinical Relevance.
Frontiers in psychiatry , 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32390881
Interpersonal brain synchronization with instructor compensates for learner's sleep deprivation in interactive learning.
Biochemical pharmacology Jun, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32569629
Dual brain stimulation enhances interpersonal learning through spontaneous movement synchrony.
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 01, 2021 | Pubmed ID: 32591830
Social safety learning: Shared safety abolishes the recovery of learned threat.
Behaviour research and therapy 12, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 33011485
Mortality threat mitigates interpersonal competition: an EEG-based hyperscanning study.
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 05, 2021 | Pubmed ID: 33755182
Integration of social status and trust through interpersonal brain synchronization.
NeuroImage Feb, 2022 | Pubmed ID: 34864151
The intrapersonal and interpersonal consequences of interpersonal synchrony.
Acta psychologica Apr, 2022 | Pubmed ID: 35093851
Three heads are better than one: cooperative learning brains wire together when a consensus is reached.
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) Feb, 2023 | Pubmed ID: 35348653
Instructor-learner body coupling reflects instruction and learning.
NPJ science of learning Jun, 2022 | Pubmed ID: 35764662
Psychological well-being is associated with prosociality during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparison of Swedish and Chinese samples.
Emotion (Washington, D.C.) Jun, 2023 | Pubmed ID: 35951387
Predicting attitudinal and behavioral responses to COVID-19 pandemic using machine learning.
PNAS nexus Jul, 2022 | Pubmed ID: 35990802
Impact of observational and direct learning on fear conditioning generalization in humans.
Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry Mar, 2023 | Pubmed ID: 36181957
Musical Meter Induces Interbrain Synchronization during Interpersonal Coordination.
eNeuro , 2022 | Pubmed ID: 36280287
Intrinsic Organization of Occipital Hubs Predicts Depression: A Resting-State fNIRS Study.
Brain sciences Nov, 2022 | Pubmed ID: 36421888
Toward an Interpersonal Neuroscience in Technologically Assisted (Virtual) Interactions.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience May, 2023 | Pubmed ID: 37225427
Associations of Empathy with Teacher-Student Interactions: A Potential Ternary Model.
Brain sciences May, 2023 | Pubmed ID: 37239239
The interpersonal computational psychiatry of social coordination in schizophrenia.
The lancet. Psychiatry Oct, 2023 | Pubmed ID: 37478889
A Brain-To-Brain Mechanism for Social Transmission of Threat Learning.
Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) Aug, 2023 | Pubmed ID: 37544901
Mnemonic-trained brain tuning to a regular odd-even pattern subserves digit memory in children.
NPJ science of learning Aug, 2023 | Pubmed ID: 37567915
A collective neuroscience lens on intergroup conflict.
Trends in cognitive sciences Sep, 2023 | Pubmed ID: 37696689