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徐慈妤 副教授

徐慈妤

副教授

tzuyuhsu@ncu.edu.tw
研究室: 中央大學科五館 602-3
Tel: (03) 4227151 # 65226
Fax: (03) 4263502
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學歷

陽明大學神經科學研究所博士
中央大學認知與神經科學研究所碩士
中原大學心理系學士

目前與過去經歷

副教授，國立中央大學認知所(2025-現在)
所長，臺北醫學大學心智意識與腦科學研究所(2022-2025)
副教授，臺北醫學大學心智意識與腦科學研究所(2021-2025)
助理教授，臺北醫學大學心智意識與腦科學研究所(2015-2021)
博士後研究員，台灣大學心理系(2014)
訪問學者，牛津大學實驗心理學系(2011-2012)
常務理事，台灣認知神經科學學會(2025-現在)
秘書長，台灣認知神經科學學會(2023-2025)
指導委員，意識研究網絡(2022-現在)
指導委員，台灣開放腦科學(2024-現在)
監事，台灣科學媒體協會(2021-2025)

學術專長

  • 憂鬱型思考
  • 執行控制
  • 腦波/腦磁波分析
  • 非侵入性腦刺激

目前研究方向

  1.  產生憂鬱思考的腦造影研究
  2.  跳脫負面思考的神經機制
  3.  視覺感知的相關腦造影研究
  4.  精神疾患的腦波研究

Short introduction about my research

The Brain and Consciousness Lab investigates two interconnected but distinct aspects of human cognition, each offering unique insights into how our minds create and regulate conscious experience.

Our first research focus examines how subjective experience emerges from the dynamic interplay of two key mental processes. The first captures information from our external world—the vibrant green of trees or the expansive blue of sky reaching our sensory systems. The second draws from our internal landscape of memories, thoughts, and emerging ideas. We explore the fundamental question: how do these two streams merge to create our continuous, unified experience of being conscious?

Rumination presents a particularly compelling case study within this domain. This pattern of repetitive, self-focused negative thinking serves as a powerful predictor of depression onset and relapse. But why do some individuals become trapped in these mental loops while others can flexibly shift their thoughts? Understanding this difference is central to our first line of investigation.

Our second research focus centers on awareness—the brain's remarkable ability to monitor its own cognitive processes. This metacognitive capacity functions as an internal quality control system, allowing you to evaluate the accuracy of your own judgments even when no external feedback is available. This self-monitoring becomes crucial in everyday life when you must rely on your own assessment of performance, as your brain's awareness mechanism continuously calibrates your confidence, whether your judgments are accurate or mistaken.

We tackle both research domains using a comprehensive toolkit of neuroimaging methods—EEG, MEG, and fMRI—combined with behavioral approaches including questionnaires, reaction time measures, and eye-tracking. This multi-method approach allows us to map the neural mechanisms underlying both healthy consciousness and metacognitive processes, as well as their disruptions in psychiatric conditions, ultimately working toward better understanding and intervention.

Publications

  1. Cheng, P.Z., Lee, H.C., Lane, T.J., Hsu, T.Y., Duncan, N.W. (2024) Structural alterations in a rumination-related network in patients with major depressive disorder. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging.
  2. Chou, K.P., Hsu, T.Y.* (2023) Relationship between the P300 and sequence knowledge in a changing environment. bioRxiv.
  3. Martin, A, Lane, T., Hsu, T.Y.* (2023) DLPFC-PPC-cTBS effects on metacognitive awareness. Cortex.
  4. Hsu, T-Y, Wang, H-Y, Chen, J-T, Wang, C-A (2022) Investigating role of human frontal eye field in the pupil light reflex modulation by saccade planning and working memory. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
  5. Chen, J-T, Kuo, Y-C, Hsu, T-Y, Wang, C-A (2022). Fatigue and arousal modulations revealed by saccade and pupil dynamics. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health. 19(15), 9234.
  6. Chen, P.H., Ku, H.L., Wang, J.K., Kang, J.H. *, Hsu, T.Y. * (2022). EEG Microstates Are Correlated With Global Functioning in Schizophrenia But Not Bipolar Disorder. Clinical EEG & Neuroscience. 15500594221098286.
  7. Hsu, T-Y†, Zhou, J-F†, Yeh, S-L*, Northoff, G, Lane, T. J.* (2022) Intrinsic neural activity predisposes susceptibility to a body illusion. Cerebral Cortex Communication. 3(1):tgac012.
  8. Hsu, T.Y. ┼, Chen, J.T. ┼, Tseng, P., Wang, C.A. * (2021) Role of the frontal eye field in human microsaccade responses: a TMS study. Biological psychology. 165:108202.
  9. Hsu, T.Y.┼, Liu, T.L., Cheng, P.Z., Lee, H.C., Lane. T. J.*, Duncan, N.W.* ┼ (2021). Depressive rumination is correlated with the difference between self-oriented decision-making. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience (┼ equal contribution).
  10. Lau, L.I.D., Tseng, L.Y., Walsh, V., Hsu, T.Y.* (2021). Revisiting the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on pattern-reversal visual evoked potentials. Neuroscience Letters (* corresponding author).
  11. Hsu, T.Y., Hsu, Y.F., Wang, H.Y., Wang, C.A. (2021). Role of the frontal eye field in human orienting pupil and saccade responses. European Journal of Neuroscience.
  12. Truong, V., Cheng, P. Z., Lee, H.C., Lane, T.J, Hsu, T.Y., Duncan, N.W. (2021). Occipital gamma-aminobutyric acid and glutamate-glutamine alterations in major depressive disorder: An MRS study and meta-analysis. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging.
  13. Duncan, N.W.*, Hsu, T.Y.*, Cheng, P.Z., Wang, H.Y., Lee, H.C., and Lane, T.J. (2020). Intrinsic activity temporal structure reactivity to behavioural state change is correlated with depressive symptoms. European Journal of Neuroscience. (* First and second authors are equal contributions).
  14. Rahnev, D., Desender, K, Lee, A.L.F.,…, Hsu, T.Y.…. (2020). The Confidence Database. Nature Human Behavior. 4, 317–325.
  15. Hsu, T.Y., Lee, H.C., Lane, T.J., Missal, M. (2019). Temporal Preparation, Impulsivity and Short-Term Memory in Depression. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience.
  16. Juan, CH., Tseng, P., Hsu, T.Y. (2017). Elucidating and modulating the neural correlates of visuospatial working memory via noninvasive brain stimulation. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 26(2), 165-173.
  17. Hsu, T.Y., Juan, C.H., Tseng, P. (2016). Individual Differences and State-dependent Responses in Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
  18. Lee, H.W., Lu, M.S., Chen, C.Y., Muggleton, N.G., Hsu, T.Y., Juan, C.H. (2016). Roles of the pre-SMA and rIFG in conditional stopping revealed by transcranial magnetic stimulation. Behavioural Brain Research, 296, 459-67.
  19. Hsu, T.Y., Tseng, P., Liang, W.K., Cheng, S.K., Juan, C.H. (2014). Transcranial direct current stimulation over right posterior parietal cortex changes prestimulus alpha oscillation in visual short-term memory task. Neuroimage, 98, 306-313.
  20. Tseng, P.*, Hsu, T.Y.*, Chang, C.F., Tzeng, O.J.L., Hung, D.L., Muggleton, N.G., Walsh, V., Liang, W.K., Cheng, S.K., & Juan, C.H. (2012) Unleashing potential: tDCS over the right posterior parietal cortex improves change detection in low-performing individuals. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(31), 10554 –10561.
  21. Hsu, T.Y., Tzeng, LY., Yu, J.X., Liang, W.K., Hung, D.L., Tzeng, O.J.L., Walsh V., Muggleton N.G., & Juan, C.H. (2011) Modulating inhibitory control with direct current stimulation of the superior medial frontal cortex. Neuroimage, 56(4), 2249-57.
  22. Hsu, T.Y., Tseng, P., Tzeng, O.J.L., Hung, D.L. & Juan, C.H. (2010) The Perseverance of Numerical Distance Effect in Attentional Blink. Perception, 39(11), 1526-40.
  23. Tseng, P., Chang, C.F., Chiau, H.Y., Liang, W.K., Liu, C.L., Hsu, T.Y., Hung, D.L., Tzeng, O.J.L., Juan, C.H. (Aug, 2013). The Dorsal Attentional System in Oculomotor Learning of Predictive Information. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7(404), 1-8.
  24. Chang, C.F., Hsu, T.Y., Tseng, P., Liang, W.K., Tzeng, O.J.L., Hung, D.L., Juan, C.H. (2013) Right temporo-parietal junction and attentional reorienting. Human Brain Mapping, 34(4), 869-77.
  25. Tseng, P., Hsu, T.Y., Tzeng, O.J.L., Hung, D.L. & Juan, C.H. (2011) Probabilities in implicit learning. Perception, 40(7), 822-829.
  26. Chao, C.M., Tseng, P., Hsu, T.Y., Su, J.H., Tzeng, O.J.L., Hung, D.L., Muggleton, N.G., Juan, C.H. (2010) Predictability of saccadic behaviors is modified by transcranial magnetic stimulation over human posterior parietal cortex. Human Brain Mapping, 32(11), 1961-72.
  27. Tseng, P., Hsu, T.Y., Muggleton, N.G., Tzeng, O.J.L., Hung, D.L. & Juan, C.H. (2010) Posterior Parietal Cortex Mediates Encoding and Maintenance Processes in Change Blindness. Neuropsychologia, 48(4), 1063-70.