Finally, we would like to announce that we are looking for PhD/MPhil students for matriculation in Summer/Fall 2025! For more information, please see our posting here: shorturl.at/B3zAs 7/7

@jingwenfrancesjin.bsky.social was recently awarded the General Research Fund (GRF) grant from the University Grants Committee in Hong Kong! This project will examine how threat anticipation leads to biased threat detection in anxiety, using both neuroimaging and computational techniques. 6/

We would also like to congratulate Yuqi, our incoming PhD student, for winning the HKU Presidential PhD Scholarship - an incredible feat! At PANDM, Yuqi hopes to continue using the Predictive Processing Framework and neuroimaging techniques to investigate the mechanisms of anxiety. 5/

Read more about @fehedley.bsky.social's wonderful achievement here: www.hku.hk/press/press-.... 4/

We would like to congratulate our newly graduated MPhil student, Friederike, on her Gates-Cambridge Scholarship! Friederike is headed to Cambridge this fall for her PhD, where she will study learning under uncertainty in younger populations, and its links to maladaptive cognitive processing. 3/

First, happy graduation to Friederike (MPhil), Hilary (PhD), and Ann (PsyD)! 2/

Specifically, we investigate 1) how emotional information is encoded in the human brain, 2) how we make emotion-related perceptual decisions, and 3) finally, how alterations to computational and neural systems relevant to emotion processing contribute to the development of psychopathology. 3/

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In the next few posts, we’ll share more about our ongoing research projects and introduce you to our team!

Broadly, our research focuses on a fundamental aspect of affective science, namely the processing of emotional information. 2/