Time: Tuesday, December 19, 2023, 15:00
Location:  Lecture Hall 415, Building 3, Hainayuan, Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University

Speaker: Dr. Frances Jin

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, The University of Hong Kong (HKU)

Dr. Frances Jin is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology of The University of Hong Kong (HKU), and a Principal Investigator of the State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at HKU. She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Stony Brook University (State University of New York) and is a New York State licensed clinical psychologist. Her research program targets the intersection between emotion and cognition, investigating the psychological and neural mechanisms of emotion processing, emotion-related decision-making and related mental health issues. She uses behavioural experiments, neuroimaging and computational tools to study the relevant topics. Her work has been published in journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, and Lancet Psychiatry.

Abstract

It is an enduring pursuit in clinical science to formulate quantitative accounts of maladaptive human cognition and action. Various computational theories developed in neuroscience research have been increasingly applied to model psychopathology. In this talk, I will discuss our recent work in applying the predictive processing framework developed in theoretical neurobiology and Bayesian uncertainty decomposition developed in statistics to conceptualize psychopathology. Theoretical and simulation results will be presented.