State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University

Faculty

Current Faculty

Chao Liu Ph.D. Liuchao#bnu.edu.cn http://liuchaolab.bnu.edu.cn/

Educational Experience

2010　Ph.D　Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience (Affiliated)

　　　　　　 Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2004　M.S　Cognitive Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2001　B.S　Computer Science, Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan, China

Professional Experience

2016-　　Professor　State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

2010-2015　Investigator　State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

Research Description

My research interests focus on social, affective and cultural neuroscience. Specifically, I am very interested in: 1) The role of emotion in morality and altruism. 2) the neural mechanism of human interpersonal behaviors, such as cooperation, competition and negotiation. 3) the neural correlates of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis, especially how English and Chinese languages influence English and Chinese-speakers' cognitive functions and social behaviors in the brain.

Publications

1. Jin, K.L., Wu, J., Zhang, R., Zhang, S., Wu, X.Y., Wu, T.T., Gu, R.L*., Liu, C*. (2024). Observing heroic behavior and its influencing factors in immersive virtual environments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.121(17):e2314590121.

2. Wang, H.G., Wu X.Y., Xu J.H., Zhu R.D., Zhang S.H., Xu Z.H., Mai X.Q., Qin S.Z*., Liu C*. (2024). Acute stress during witnessing injustice shifts third-party interventions from punishing the perpetrator to helping the victim. PLoS Biology. e3002195.

3. Liang, Z.L., Wu S.M., Wu J., Wang, W.X., Qin S.Z*., Liu C*. (2024). Social navigation: distance and grid-like codes support navigation of abstract social space in human brain. eLife. 12:RP89025.

4. Zhu, R.D., Liu, C*. (2023). Moral emotions underlie puritanical morality. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, e321

5. Xu, Z.H., Zhu, R.D., Zhang, S., Zhang S.H., Liang, Z.L., Mai, X.Q., Liu, C^*. (2022). Mortality salience enhances neural activities related to guilt and shame when recalling the past. Cerebral Cortex 32(22):5145-5162.

6. Zhu, R.D., Xu, Z.H., Su, S., Feng,C.L., Luo, Y., Tang, H.H., Zhang, S., Wu, X.Y., Mai, X.Q., Liu, C^*. (2022). From gratitude to injustice: Neurocomputational mechanisms of gratitude-induced injustice. Neuroimage. 245: 118730

7. Chen, X.L., Xu, Z.H., Li,T., Wang, L., Li, P.Y., Xu, H., Feng, C.L*., Liu, C^*. (2021). Multivariate morphological brain signatures enable individualized prediction of dispositional need for closure. Brain Imaging and Behavior 16(3):1049-1064.

8. Zhen Z., Wang, H.G., Zhu, R.D., Zhang, S., Jin, T., Qin, S.Z*., Liu,C.* (2021) Acute psychosocial stress increases third-party helping but not punishing behavior. Stress.24(4):430-441.

9. Zhu, R.D., Xu, Z.H., Tang, H.H., Wang, H.G., Zhang, S.H., Zhang, Z.Q., Mai, X.Q., Liu, C^*. (2020). The dark side of gratitude: Gratitude could lead to moral violation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 91:104048

10. Su, R., Guo, L.F., Tang, H.H., Ye, P.X., Zhang, S., Yao, X., Liu, W.L^*., Liu, C^*. (2020). Comprehensive sexuality education weakens the effect ofin-group bias on trust and fairness. Sex Education. 20(1):33-45

11. Tang, H.H., Zhang, S., Jin, T., Wu, H.Y., Su, S*., Liu，C*. (2019). Brain activation and adaptation of deception processing during dyadic face-to-face interaction. Cortex. 20(1):326-339

12. Zhu, R.D., Feng, C.L., Zhang, S., Mai, X.Q^*., Liu, C^*. (2019). Differentiating guilt and shame in an interpersonal context with univariate activation and multivariate pattern analyses. Neuroimage. 186:476-486.

13. Tang, H.H., Wang, S., Liang, Z.L., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., Su, S*., Liu, C*. (2018). Are proselfs more deceptive and hypocritical? Social image concerns in appearing fair. Frontiers in Psychology.

14. Tang, H.H., Lu, X.P., Cui, Z.X., Feng, C.L., Lin,Q.X., Cui, X.G., Su, S*., Liu，C*. (2018). Resting-state functional connectivity and deception: exploring individualized deceptive propensity with machine learning. Neuroscience

15. Zhu, R.D., Xu, Z.H., Tang, H.H., Liu, J.T., Wang, H.Q., An, Y., Mai, X.Q*., Liu, C*. (2018). The effect of shame on anger at others: Awareness of the emotion-causing events matters. Cognition and Emotion. 1-13

16. Tang, H.H., Ye, P.X., Wang, S., Zhu, R.D., Su, S*., Tong, L.Q., Liu, C*. (2017). Stimulating the right temporoparietal junction with tDCS decreases deception in moral hypocrisy and unfairness. Frontiers in Psychology. 8: 2033.

17. Zhu, R.D., Wu, H.Y., Xu, Z.H., Tang, H.H., Shen, X.Y., Mai, X.Q^*., Liu, C^*. (2017). Early distinction between shame and guilt processing in an interpersonal context. Social Neuroscience.

18. Wu, H.Y., Tang, H.H., Ge, Y., Yang, S.Y., Luo, Y.J., Mai, X.Q., Liu, C*. (2017). Object words modulate the activity of the mirror neuron system during action imitation. Brain and Behavior. e00840.

19. Tang, H.H., Lu, X.P., Su, R., Liang, Z.L., Mai, X.Q^*., Liu, C^*. (2017). Washing away your sins in the brain: Physical cleaning and priming of cleaning recruit different brain networks after moral threat. Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience. 12(7):1149-1158

20. Zhu, R.D., Jin, T., Shen, X.Y., Zhang, S., Mai, X.Q^*., Liu, C^*. (2017). Relational utility affects self-punishment in direct and indirect reciprocity situations. Social Psychology. 48(1):19-27

21. Zhu, R.D., Shen, X.Y., Ye, P.X., Tang, H.H., Mai, X.Q^*., Liu, C^*. (2017) Self-punishment promotes forgiveness in direct and indirect reciprocity context. Psychological Reports. 120(3):408-422

22. Mai, X.Q., Zhang, W.L., Hu, X.M., Zhen, Z., Xu, Z.H., Zhang, J., Liu, C^*. (2016). Using tDCS to explore the role of the right temporo-parietal junction in theory of mind and cognitive empathy. Frontiers in Psychology. 7:380

23. Tang, H.H., Mai, X.Q., Wang, S., Zhu. C.Z., Krueger, F., Liu, C^*. (2016). Interpersonal brain synchronization in the right temporo-parietal junction during face-to-face economic exchange. Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience. 11(1):23-32

24. Gan, T., Lu, X.P., Li, W.Q., Gui, D.Y., Tang, H.H., Mai, X.Q., Liu, C^*., Luo, YJ^*. (2016). Temporal dynamics of the integration of intention and outcome in harmful and helpful moral judgment. Frontiers in Psychology. 6:2022

25. Gui, D.Y., Gan, T., Liu, C^*. (2016). Neural evidence for moral intuition and the temporal dynamics of interactions between emotional processes and moral cognition. Social Neuroscience. 11(4):380-394

26. Wu, H.Y, Ge,Y., Tang, H.H., Luo, Y.J., Mai, X.Q., Liu, C^*. (2015). Language modulates brain activity underlying representation of kinship terms. Scientific Reports. 5:18473

27. Wu, J.H., Zhang, S., Li, W.Q., Qin, S.Z., He, Y., Yang, Z., Buchanan, T.W., Liu, C^*, Zhang, K^*. (2015). Cortisol awakening response predicts intrinsic functional connectivity of the medial prefrontal cortex in the afternoon of the same day. Neuroimage. 122:158-65.

28. Lee, W.S^*, Tang, H.H., Wan, J., Mai, X.Q., Liu, C^*. (2015). A cultural look at moral purity: Wiping the face clean. Frontiers in Psychology. 6:577

29. Li, W.Q., Mai, X.Q^*, Liu, C^*.(2014) The default mode network and social understanding of others: What do brain connectivity studies tell us. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8:74.

30. Liu, C., Tardif, T., Wu, H.Y., Monk, C.S., Luo, Y.J., Mai, X.Q^*. (2013).The representation of category typicality in the frontal cortex and its cross-linguistic variations. Brain and Language. 127(3): 415-27.

31. Wu, H.Y., Yang, S.Y., Sun, S.Y., Liu, C^*, Luo, Y.J^*. (2013). The male advantage in child facial resemblance detection: Behavioral and ERP evidence. Social Neuroscience. 8(6):555-67.

32. Wu, H.Y, Mai, X.Q^*, Tang, H.H., Ge,Y., Luo, Y.J., Liu, C^*. (2013). Dissociable somatotopic representations of Chinese action verbs in the motor and premotor cortex. Scientific Reports.3:2049.

33. Chen, C, Liu, C^*, Huang, R, Cheng, D, Wu, H, Xu, P, Ma,i X, Luo, YJ^*. (2012). Suppression of aversive memories associates with changes in early and late stages of neurocognitive processing. Neuropsychologia. 50(12):2839-2848.

34. Mai, X.Q., Ge, Y., Tao, L., Tang, H.H., Liu, C^*, Luo, Y.J^*. (2011). Eyes are windows to the Chinese soul: Evidence from the detection of real and fake smiles. PLoS ONE, 6(5): e19903

35. Liu, C., Tang, H.H., Luo, Y.J., Mai, X.Q^*. (2011). Multi-representation of symbolic and nonsymbolic numerical magnitude in Chinese number processing. PLoS ONE, 6(4): e19373

36. Liu, C., Ge, Y., Luo, W.B., Luo, Y. J^*. (2010). Show your teeth or not: The role of the mouth and eyes in smiles and its cross-cultural variations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33, 450-452

37. Liu, C., Ge, Y., Mai, X.Q., Luo, Y. J^*. (2010). Exploring the conceptual and semantic structure of human kinship: An experimental investigation of Chinese kin terms. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33, 392-394.

38. Liu, C., Tardif, T^*, Mai, X. Q., Simms, N., Gehring, W. J., Luo, Y. J^*. (2010). What's in a name? Brain activity reveals categorization processes differ across languages. Human Brain Mapping, 31(11):1786-1801

39. Liu, C., Zhang, W. T., Tang, Y. Y., Mai, X. Q., Chen, H. C., Tardif, T., Luo Y. J^*. (2008). The visual word form area: Evidence from an fMRI study of implicit processing of Chinese characters. Neuroimage, 40, 1350-1361

40. Zhu, R.D., Liu, C., Li, T., Xu, Z.H., Fung, B.W., Feng, C.L*., Wu, H.Y*., Luo, Y*., Wang, L*. (2019). Intranasal oxytocin reduces reactive aggression in men but not in women: A computational approach. Psychoneuroendocrinology

41. Zhu, Y.N., Chen, X., Zhao, H., Chen, M.L., Tian, Y.Q., Liu, C., Han, Z., Lin, X.J., Qiu, J., Xue, G., Shu, H., Qin, S.Z. (2019). Socioeconomic status disparities affect children’s anxiety and stress-sensitive cortisol awakening response through parental anxiety. Psychoneuroendocrinology 3 (6), 103: 96~103

42. Liu, Y.Z., Lin, W.J., Liu, C., Luo, Y.J., Wu, J.H*., Bayley, P.J., Qin, S.Z*.(2016). Memory consolidation reconfigures neural pathways involved in the suppression of emotional memories. Nature Communications 7:13375.

43. Feng,C., Deshpande, G., Liu, C., Gu, R., Luo, Y.J^*, Krueger, F. (2015). Diffusion of responsibility attenuates altruistic punishment: a functional magnetic resonance imaging effective connectivity study. Human Brain Mapping 3(2):663-667.

44. Lin Q., Dai Z., Xia M., Han Z., Huang R., Gong G., Liu C., Bi Y., He Y^*. (2015). A connectivity-based test-retest dataset of multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging in young healthy adults. Scientific Data 2:150056.

45. Feng,C., Wang, L., Liu, C., Zhu, X., Dai, R., Mai, XQ^*, Luo, Y^*. (2012). The time course of the influence of valence and arousal on the implicit processing of affective pictures. PLoS ONE, 7(1): e29668

46. Mai X. Q., Tardif T., Doan S. N., Liu C., Gehring W.J., Luo, Y.J^*. (2011) Brain activity elicited by positive and negative feedback in preschool-aged children. PLoS ONE, 6(4): e18774

47. Sun, S., Mai, X. Q., Liu, C., Liu, J. Y., Luo, Y. J^*. (2011). The processes leading to deception: ERP spatiotemporal principal component analysis and source analysis. Social Neuroscience, 6(4),348-359