Research Projects
List of faculty members’ active projects
| Principal Investigator | Ongoing Research Project | Funding Source |
|---|---|---|
| Prof. Benjamin BECKER | Determining common and distinct behavioral and neural processes underlying human-human interaction and human interaction with AI-based conversational agents (e.g. ChatGPT) | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Prof. Cecilia CHENG | Connected or Isolated? Analyzing the Paradox of the Digital Diaspora Among New Chinese Migrants | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Prof. Cecilia CHENG | Going Virtual for Real-life Mental Health Solutions: Virtual Immersive Play Intervention for Resilience-Building to Foster Mental Wellness | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Prof. Charlene Lok-man LAM | Women Taking Illicit Drugs during Pregnancy: A Functional Near-infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) Study on the Neuro-psycho-social Functioning of Parental Substance Use and their Impacts on Parenting | Beat Drugs Fund Association |
| Prof. Charlene Lok-man LAM | Disrupting fear memory via individualized, circuit-specific brain stimulation: A laboratory and clinical investigation | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Prof. Dorita H. F. CHANG | Deeper understanding of color matching mechanism for developing high-quality lighting and imaging systems (Project No. R5006-21) | Research Impact Fund (RIF) |
| Prof. Fan CAO | Neural plasticity during different reading interventions in Chinese children with reading disability | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Prof. Frances Jingwen JIN | The role of top-down and bottom-up factors in facilitating threat-related perceptual decision-making | Early Career Scheme (ECS) |
| Prof. Frances Jingwen JIN | Elucidating how threat anticipation leads to biased threat detection in anxiety: examining the cognitive and neural mechanisms | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Prof. Jeffrey Allen SAUNDERS | Motion sickness in virtual reality: the role of sensory conflict magnitude, visual-motor adaptation, and attention | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Prof. Karson KUNG | Early postnatal testosterone, parental influences, and gender differences in the first two years of life. | Early Career Scheme (ECS) |
| Prof. Karson KUNG | Long-Term Occupational Implications of Preschool Gender-Related Play Behaviour | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Prof. Kathy Kar-man SHUM | Early Childhood Development in Hong Kong: A Longitudinal Study | Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) |
| Prof. Kathy Kar-man SHUM | Social coping strategies across autistic and non-autistic people in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom: A cross-cultural comparison | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Prof. Kathy Kar-man SHUM | Jockey Club Kindling Active Kids Project | The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust |
| Prof. Robin Zhengxi SHAO | Utilizing transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to alleviate subthreshold depression via distinct positive and negative emotion pathways | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Prof. Shirley X. LI | Sleep and Circadian Rhythm as a Transdiagnostic Mechanism in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) | Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) |
| Prof. Shirley X. LI | Reward processing and eveningness in youth depression: a longitudinal EEG investigation | Food And Health Bureau |
| Prof. Shirley X. LI | Effects of cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) on impulsivity and risk taking in youths with insomnia: A randomised controlled trial | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Prof. Shirley X. LI | Effects of digitally delivered parent-based behavioural sleep intervention in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) - a randomised controlled trial | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Prof. Terry Tin-yau WONG | A longitudinal investigation on the relation between logical reasoning and mathematical competence | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Prof. Terry Tin-yau WONG | Developmental changes in the relations between cognitive skills and mathematical competence | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Prof. Terry Tin-yau WONG | Extending the integrated theory of numerical development to include negative numbers | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Prof. Wai Sze CHAN | A Randomized Controlled Trial of Enhanced Cue Exposure Therapy for Negative Emotional Eating | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Prof. Xiaoqing HU | 基於情緒記憶異常處理機制的失眠障礙干預研究 | Ministry of Science and Technology, PRC |
| Prof. Yuanwei YAO | Neuro-computational mechanisms underlying motivational deficits in social media addiction | Early Career Scheme (ECS) |
| Prof. Yuanwei YAO | Neurocomputational mechanisms of reward learning dysfunction in subtypes of social media addiction | National Natural Science Foundation Of China (NSFC) |
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