Yinan Cao

I am jointly supervised by Prof. Charles Spence, Prof. Christoph Kayser (University of Glasgow) and Prof. Chris Summerfield.

Funding: Clarendon Scholarship

• started DPhil in October 2015;
• current work is concerned with the mechanisms of human multisensory processing and perceptual decision making within crossmodal contexts;
• focus on auditory-visual interaction;
• use a mixture of psychophysics, functional neuroimaging, and computational models.

I continue a close collaboration with Dr. Bruno Giordano on the perception and cerebral processing of non-speech natural sounds (MEG information-theoretic methods). I trained in psychophysics and psychoacoustics, funded by an NSERC-CREATE Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Fellowship, under Prof. Stephen McAdams at McGill University in Montreal, where I studied the mechanisms by which action-related auditory and somatosensory feedback signals are weighted and combined for the control of dexterous motor skills (Cao et al., 2016 Exp Brain Res). In 2013, I was visiting post-graduate researcher at the University of Glasgow, funded by a CIRMMT academic exchange program, for research in neuroimaging and quantitative modeling/analysis.

SELECTED AWARDS

• Clarendon Scholarship, Oxford University (2015-8)
• NSERC-Create Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Graduate Fellowship (2013-4)
• CIRMMT Research Exchange Fellowship (2013)
• Graduate Excellence Fellowship, McGill University (2011-3)
• Award for Academic Excellence, Tsinghua University (2007, 8, 9, 10)