Kun CHEN

About Me

I obtained my Ph.D. in Psychology from the Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences at the University of Macau (UM). During my Ph.D., I combined computational modeling with multimodal neuroimaging techniques (EEG, sEEG, fMRI) to investigate how emotional information is represented in the brain and influences decision-making. Prior to that, I earned my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Technology from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST).

My current research focuses on how semantic (including emotion-related) knowledge guides human decision-making, particularly in social contexts. Specifically, I address the following questions:

1. How is semantic knowledge represented and retrieved in the human brain?
2. How do internal knowledge representations guide adaptive decision-making?
3. How do emotional knowledge and social decision-making interact?

Publications

# denotes equal contribution

• Zhang, H.^#, Chen, K.^#, Bao, J., & Wu, H. (2023). Oxytocin enhances the triangular association among behavioral performance, resting state, and task-state functional connectivity. Human Brain Mapping, 44(17), 6074–6089. [DOI] [Code]

• Chen, K., Wang, R., Huang, J., Gao, F., Yuan, Z., Qi, Y., & Wu, H. (2022). A resource for assessing dynamic binary choices in the adult brain using EEG and mouse-tracking. Scientific Data, 9(1), 416. [DOI] [Code] [Data]

• Zhuo, Z., Chai, L.^#, Wang, Y.^#, Gao, P.^#, Xu X.^#, …, Chen, K., …, Zuo, X., & Liu, Y. (2025). Charting brain morphology in international healthy and neurological populations. Nature Neuroscience, 1-15. [DOI] [Code] [Data]