CHEN Hui, a researcher in the Department of Psychology, is elected one of the 2018 APS (The Association for Psychological Science) Rising Stars for his exceptional studies on the rapid processes by which visual information is attended, encoded in working memory and used. He is the one and only winner of this award from Chinese mainland this year.
CHEN Hui has long engaged in research into visual attention, memory and consciousness. In recent five years, he has made groundbreaking advances in regard to interactions between attention and working memory. He is the first scholar to discover a brand-new psychological phenomenon—Attribute Amnesia—and propose the Memory Encoding Cost Theory (MEC). He is a prolific researcher and has publications in top journals such as Psychological Review, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Psychological Science, Cognition, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance and Psychology and Aging.
APS is a leading international organization dedicated to advancing scientific psychology across disciplinary and geographic borders. The APS Rising Star designation recognizes outstanding members in the earliest stages of their post-PhD research careers whose innovative work has already advanced the field and signals great potential for their continued contributions.