Dr. Yijun Ge is an Assistant Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Psychology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where he leads the Laboratory for Visual Computation and Neuromodulation.

Dr. Ge's research lies at the intersection of cognitive psychology and neuroscience. He integrates multimodal neuroimaging and intracranial electrophysiology—including 7-Tesla ultra-high-field fMRI, MEG/EEG, and sEEG—with computational modeling to investigate the cognitive and neural mechanisms of complex visual perception, consciousness, and metacognition. He also employs neuromodulation techniques (including transcranial temporal interference stimulation, tTIS) to study the neural plasticity underlying higher-order cognitive functions in the human brain.

He has published as first or corresponding author (including co-first/co-corresponding) in international journals such as Nature Communications and PNAS. He was selected for the Shanghai Overseas High-Level Talent Introduction Program (Youth Project) and the Shanghai Pujiang Program.

The laboratory is continuously recruiting research assistants, Ph.D. students, and postdoctoral fellows. Interested candidates are encouraged to contact him by email.

Website: https://psychology.sjtu.edu.cn/tsml/389.html

Neural mechanisms of visual cognition and consciousness

Brain-inspired computation and neural modeling

Cognitive neuromodulation and its applications

2016 – 2021  Ph.D. in Psychology (Cognition and Brain Sciences), University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

2009 – 2013    B.S. in Life Sciences, Fudan University

2025 – present    Assistant Professor, School of Psychology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

2021 – 2024       Postdoctoral Researcher, RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Japan

Youth Editorial Board Member, Brain-X (2025 – present)

Guest Editor, Behavioral Sciences (2025 – present)

Guest Editor, Frontiers in Psychology (2025 – present)

Ge, Y.*#, Taschereau-Dumouchel, V., Lin, Q., Moharramipour, A., Sun, Z., & Lau, H.# (2024). Representation of visual uniformity in the lateral prefrontal cortex. bioRxiv, 2024-07.

Zhu, H.*, Ge, Y.*#, Bratch, A., Yuille, A., Kay, K., & Kersten, D. (2024). Natural scenes reveal diverse representations of 2D and 3D body pose in the human brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(24), e2317707121.

Ge, Y.*, Sun, Z.*, Qian, C., & He, S.# (2021). Spatiotopic updating across saccades in the absence of awareness. Journal of Vision, 21(5), 7–7.

Ge, Y.*, Zhou, H.*, Qian, C.*, Zhang, P., Wang, L., & He, S.# (2020). Adaptation to feedback representation of illusory orientation produced from flash grab effect. Nature Communications, 11(1), 3925.

Li, H., Fang, Q., Ge, Y., Li, Z., Meng, J., Zhu, J., & Yu, H. (2018). Relationship between the dynamics of orientation tuning and spatiotemporal receptive field structures of cat LGN neurons. Neuroscience, 377, 26–39.

Shanghai Overseas High-Level Talent Introduction Program (Youth Project), 2025.

Shanghai Pujiang Program, 2025 – 2027 (Principal Investigator; Ongoing).