Chuansheng Chen

About

Chuansheng Chen is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Irvine, within the School of Social Ecology. His academic office is located at 4568 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway. Professor Chen's primary research areas include cross-cultural psychology, adolescent development, cognitive neuroscience, and behavior genetics. He is affiliated with the Psychological Science department at the School of Social Ecology, contributing to the university's mission through his research and teaching activities. His work integrates multiple disciplines to explore the psychological and biological factors influencing human behavior across different cultural contexts and developmental stages.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Psychology
• Neuroscience
• Cognitive psychology
• Developmental psychology
• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning
• Particle physics
• Physics
• Geology

Selected publications

• Self–other overlap and interpersonal neural synchronization serially mediate the effect of behavioral synchronization on prosociality

  Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience · 2020 · 51 citations

  Behavioral synchronization has been found to facilitate social bonding and prosociality but the neural mechanisms underlying such effects are not well understood. In the current study, 60 dyads were hyperscanned using functional near-infrared spectroscopy while they performed either a synchronous key-pressing task or a control task. After the task, they were asked to perform the dictator game to assess their prosocial behavior. We also measured three potential mediating variables: self-other ove…

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• Retrieval practice facilitates memory updating by enhancing and differentiating medial prefrontal cortex representations

  eLife · 2020 · 45 citations

  Updating old memories with new, more current information is critical for human survival, yet the neural mechanisms for memory updating in general and the effect of retrieval practice in particular are poorly understood. Using a three-day A-B/A-C memory updating paradigm, we found that compared to restudy, retrieval practice could strengthen new A-C memories and reduce old A-B memory intrusion, but did not suppress A-B memories. Neural activation pattern analysis revealed that compared to restudy…

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• Neural representations of the amount and the delay time of reward in intertemporal decision making

  Human Brain Mapping · 2021 · 44 citations

  Numerous studies have examined the neural substrates of intertemporal decision-making, but few have systematically investigated separate neural representations of the two attributes of future rewards (i.e., the amount of the reward and the delay time). More importantly, no study has used the novel analytical method of representational connectivity analysis (RCA) to map the two dimensions' functional brain networks at the level of multivariate neural representations. This study independently mani…

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• The association between household and family composition and mental health of the elderly: mediating role of lifestyle

  BMC Public Health · 2024-07-31 · 17 citations

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  BACKGROUND: Mental health in the elderly has multiple determinants, and studies indicate household and family composition, economic status, and family support are key factors. However, these are difficult to modify, and better lifestyle for the elderly can be a possible intervention. The current study examined the mediating role of lifestyle in the association between these three types of the household and family composition (living alone, living with a spouse, and living with children) and ment…

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• Observation of electroweak production of two jets and a $Z$-boson pair with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

  HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2020 · 16 citations

  Electroweak symmetry breaking explains the origin of the masses of elementary particles through their interactions with the Higgs field. Besides the measurements of the Higgs boson properties, the study of the scattering of massive vector bosons with spin 1 allows the nature of electroweak symmetry breaking to be probed. Among all processes related to vector-boson scattering, the electroweak production of two jets and a Z-boson pair is a rare and important one. Here we report the observation of…

Recent grants

• Learning to read and comprehend a second language

  NIH · $1.8M · 2009–2016

• Collaborative Research: Learning to Read a Second Language: Neural Basis and Individual Variations

  NSF · $305k · 2008–2012

Frequent coauthors

• Gui Xue

  Beijing Normal University

  159 shared

• Qi Dong

  Northwest Normal University

  132 shared

• Qinghua He

  Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China

  88 shared

• Chunhui Chen

  Wenzhou Medical University

  84 shared

• Ellen Greenberger

  University of California, Irvine

  83 shared

• Bi Zhu

  Purdue University Fort Wayne

  59 shared

• Jun Li

  Wuhan Children's Hospital

  57 shared

• Xiaoxiang Deng

  East China Normal University

  53 shared

Education

• Ph.D.

  University of Michigan

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