Dengxinyi Wei
DPhil Candidate
My research investigates how attention dynamically shifts between the external perceptual world and internal memory. During my DPhil training, I aim to employ a combination of virtual reality (VR), mobile EEG, motion tracking, and eye-tracking to uncover how the brain flexibly allocates attention to support adaptive behavior in complex, ever-changing environments.
Previously, I worked as a post-graduate researcher in Professor Kia Nobre’s Brain and Cognition Lab within Yale’s Wu Tsai Institute, where I used neuroimaging and eye-tracking to examine the neural and behavioral mechanisms underlying the transient moment of attentional switch. Before joining Oxford, I earned my Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Applied Statistics from the University of California, Davis, where I worked with Professor Joy Geng to study visual cognition in the context of visual search.
