Jiefeng Jiang, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Biography

The Jiang lab seeks to understand the cognitive and neural mechanisms that enable goal-directed behavior using a combination of lab- and web-based behavioral studies, functional neuroimaging, computational modeling and virtual reality technology. Specifically, the lab focuses on the fundamental questions about how task-set –– the collection of cognitive control demands required to perform a task –– is learned, stored, retrieved and generalized to new tasks, contexts and experiences in both young and aging populations, with work consisting of three primary research themes: (1) the interaction between task-set mnemonic representation and task-set execution; (2) how age-related changes in goal-directed behavioral relate to altered neural representation of task-sets; and (3) how the changes in task-set representation and execution are related to mental disorders.

Recent publications

Research areas
  • Cognitive neuroscience
  • Computational neuroscience
  • Memory loss
  • Frontal cortex
  • Hippocampus
  • Striatum
  • Learning
  • Memory
  • Cognitive control
  • Neuroimaging
  • Neural networks modeling
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Office
Address

373 PBSB
United States


Lab
Address

355E PBSB
United States