Dr Xun He
- 01202 965148
- xhe@bournemouth.ac.uk
- http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0558-0433
- http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/mine
- Principal Academic
- Poole House P126a, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
Biography
I studied biology at University of Science and Technology of China, and received my BSc in Biology in 1997. After that, I moved to psychology and obtained my PhD in 2004 from Chinese Academy of Sciences. After completing a postdoc position (2004-2006) at Peking University, I moved to the UK. I then had several more years of postdoc experience at University of Birmingham (2006-2012) and University of Sussex (2012-2013). Since July 2013, I have been working at Bournemouth University with a permanent position.
Research
I am a cognitive and social neuroscientist. My research interest is visual perception and attention in social contexts. My research questions include 1) the interpersonal influence on visual attention performance when two persons work together, 2) ensemble perception of a crowd of faces, and 3) embodied perception of social interactions in face perception. Because the self is the anchor point and core of all social interactions, my research also extends to the self-prioritization phenomenon. I specialize in the human electroencephalography (EEG) technique, including event-related potential (ERP), frequency analysis and time-frequency analysis of EEG. I am Head of the Bournemouth EEG Lab. Being a passionate advocate of multi-disciplinary research of immersive neuroscience, I established and lead the Multimodal Immersive NEuro-sensing (MINE) Research Cluster (https://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/MINE). I welcome interested students and researchers from various training backgrounds to join our team.
Favourites
- Mushtaq, F., ..., He, X., .... and Valdes-Sosa, P., 2024. One hundred years of EEG for brain and behaviour research. Nature Human Behaviour, 8, 1437-1443.
- Lu, Z., He, X., Yi, D. and Sui, J., 2024. Temporal properties of self-prioritization. Entropy, 26 (3), 242.
- Sui, J., He, X., Golubickis, M., Svensson, S.L. and Macrae, C.N., 2023. Electrophysiological Correlates of Self-Prioritization. Consciousness and Cognition, 108, 103475.
- Saul, M., He, X., Black, S. and Charles, F., 2022. A two-person neuroscience approach for social anxiety: A paradigm for interbrain synchrony and neurofeedback. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 568921.
- Pavlov, Y.G., ..., He, X., .... and Mushtaq, F., 2021. #EEGManyLabs: Investigating the replicability of influential EEG experiments. Cortex, 144, 213-229.
- Michailidis, L., Balaguer-Ballester, E. and He, X., 2018. Flow and immersion in video games: The aftermath of a conceptual challenge. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1682.
- He, X., Sebanz, N., Sui, J. and Humphreys, G.W., 2014. Individualism-collectivism and interpersonal memory guidance of attention. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 54, 102-114.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person's work contributes towards the following SDGs:
Good health and well-being
"Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages"
Quality education
"Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all"
