Fellow

Mou, Yi

  • Email: mouyi5@mail.sysu.edu.cn

I mainly focus on (a) infant, child, and adult lifespan development of cognition among math, objects, and spatial reasoning; and (b) cognitive development of children with special needs (e.g., ASD children); and (c) early family education; and (d) early learning difficulties. Multiple methods are adopted in my research such as EEG and behavioral methods.

Work Experience:

  • 2014-2017 Postdoc, Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Lab Manager

Lan, Rui

Graduated from Sun Yat-sen University with a bachelor’s degree in ecology and a minor in psychology. Main research interests are Cognitive Neuroscience; Cognitive Psychology; Developmental Psychology; Child Cognition and Development.

  • Email: lanr6@mail2.sysu.edu.cn

PhD students (alphabetical by last name)

Su, Xiaomin

2025 doctoral student. I like child studies~ pay attention to neurodiverse populations, and am willing to look at it gently and climb with condensation on the road of research.

  • Email: suminer23@163.com

Educational Background:

  • 2025-Present, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-sen University
  • 2022-2024, Beijing Normal University Research Assistant
  • 2019-2022, Master of Basic Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • 2014-2018, Bachelor of Applied Psychology, Hubei University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Yao, Xi

2021 doctoral student. My research interests are the occurrence and development of number cognition and logical reasoning ability in infants and young children.

  • Email: yaox27@mail2.sysu.edu.cn

Educational Background:

  • 2021-Present, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-sen University
  • 2018-2021, Master of Psychology, Psychology School, Capital Normal University
  • 2014-2018, Bachelor of Psychology, Jiangxi Normal University

Master’s student (alphabetical by last name)

Jiang, Xiaoyun

Master’s student in Applied Psychology, Class of 2023, graduated from the School of Computer Science and Engineering of South China University of Technology with a bachelor’s degree. AKA ‘Kid King’, my research interest is the development of preschool children’s number cognition and their mathematical calculation ability.

  • Email: jiangxy225@mail2.sysu.edu.cn

Xi, Yi

Master’s student in Applied Psychology, Class of 2024, graduated from the School of Energy Science and Engineering, Central South University with a bachelor’s degree.

  • Email: 18975458842@163.com

Zhao, Bingqing

Master’s student in Psychology, Class of 2022, graduated from the Department of Psychology at Sun Yat-sen University with a bachelor’s degree. My research interests include developmental and educational psychology, the mechanisms of symbolic and non-symbolic numerical representation, and the effects of the Spatial Numerical Association Coding (SNARC) phenomenon.

  • Email: zhaobq7@mail2.sysu.edu.cn

Zhao, Jianxiang

Master’s student in Applied Psychology, Class of 2025, graduated from the Department of Psychology at Sun Yat-sen University with a bachelor’s degree. My research interest is Educational Psychology.

  • Email: zhaojx59@mail2.sysu.edu.cn

Zhong, Yunfeng

Master’s student in Applied Psychology, Class of 2025, graduated from School of Art and Design at Wuhan University of Technology with a bachelor’s degree. My research interests are the development of number cognition and mathematical computing skills in adults.

  • Email: zhongyf55@mail2.sysu.edu.cn

Undergraduate

Collaborating Graduate student

Postdoctoral Fellow (completed term)

Li, Xueyan

Former Lab Manager

Han, Qi (2024.5-12)

Zhou, Jie (2023-2024)

Zhao, Sijia (2021-2023)

Lab Alumni

PhD graduates

Master’s graduates

Class of 2020:

Wang, Xuqing

Class of 2019:

Guo, Fangfang

Liu, Meiying

Ma, Yimei

Mao,Huomin

Liu, Shan

Zhou, Lin

Class of 2018:

Li, Peipei

Nafisha Abdul-Maimin

Jiang, Yingying

Zeng, Liping

Bachelor’s degree holders

Class of 2019:

Wei, Shuting

Class of 2018:

Xiao, Huilan

Class of 2017:

Ao, Rui

Class of 2016:

Li, Heze

Liu, Mengting

Liu, Qin

Zhang, Wanting

Class of 2015:

Chen, Guang

He, Wenzhen

Lv, Jianxiang

Mao, Huomin

Collaborating Graduates:

Li, Jiaxi

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