Enactive Cognition Lab

The Lab of Enactive Cognition is located in School of Psychology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The lab is led by principal investigator Lihui Wang.

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Research Interests

The main focus and what are we heading to

Taking an opposite standing point of dualism, we take an enactive approach to understanding human cognition. We focus on the interaction between perception and action. On the one hand, we are interested in how humans build up knowledge about the world through explorative action, ranging from basic perception to high-level cognition such as belief. On the other hand, we are interested in how humans make action choices under the guidance of knowledge. We use a combination of techniques such as eye-tracking, EEG, fMRI, and MEG to understand the neural mechanism.

Recent Work

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Dynamic face-related eye movement representations in the human ventral pathway

Zhongbin Su, Xiaolin Zhou, Stefan Pollmann, Lihui Wang*

Communications Biology (2025)

Concurrent oculomotor hyperactivity and deficient anti-saccade performance in obsessive-compulsive disorder

Zhenni Wang, Chen Zhang, Qihui Guo, Qing Fan*, Lihui Wang*

Journal of Psychiatric Research (2024)

Specified functions of the first two fixations in face recognition: Sampling the general-to-specific facial information

Meng Liu, Jiayu Zhan, Lihui Wang*

iScience (2024)

Activities

Our Lab’s Academic Visit in the UK 🇬🇧

2026-01-18 – 2026-01-25

This was a fulfilling and memorable academic visit to the UK, during which both our minds and our appetites were thoroughly satisfied. Many thanks to Prof. Hongkai Wen (University of Warwick), Prof. Tony Prescott and Prof. Chaona Chen (University of Sheffield), and Prof. Lei Zhang (University of Birmingham) for the warm welcome and lively, inspiring discussions. A highlight for all of us was touring the robotics centre and getting hands-on with the lovely MiRo robots (the ones we’re proudly holding in the photo)!