Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS)Waseda University

Name

HUNG, Shao-Min

Degree

Ph.D. (Cognitive Neuroscience)

Status

Assistant Professor

HP (URL)

https://konaes.wixsite.com/shao-min-hung

Research Topic

Optimizing unconscious signals through attentional control

My research focuses on a variety of implicit, unconscious, and subliminal processes. Using psychophysics and fMRI, I am to probe the similarity and dissimilarity between conscious and unconscious processes. Currently, one of my main research directions is to understand the interaction between attention and unconscious processes.

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Focusing on attention: How do we process unconscious sensory information?

Education and Academic Employment

Education

Academic Employment

Fields of Research Interests

Consciousness, Attention, Language, Aging

Academic Publications

• Hung, S. -M., Wu, D. -A., Escobar, L., Hsieh, P. -J., & Shimojo, S. (2023). Extracting probability in the absence of visual awareness. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 1-11.
• Hung, S. -M., Wu, D. -A., Shimojo, S., & Arakaki, X. (2022). Stronger implicit interference in cognitively healthy older participants with higher risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, 14(1), e12340.
• Feng, Y. -J., Hung, S. -M., & Hsieh, P. -J. (2022). Detecting spontaneous deception in the brain. Human Brain Mapping, 1–13.
• Hung, S. -M., & Hsieh, P. J. (2022). Mind wandering in sensory cortices. Neuroimage: Reports, 2(1), 100073.
• Arakaki, X., Hung, S. -M., Rochart, R., Fonteh, A. N., & Harrington, M. G. (2022). Alpha desynchronization during Stroop test unmasks cognitively healthy individuals with abnormal CSF Amyloid/Tau. Neurobiology of Aging, 112, 87-101.
• Arechavala, R. J., Liu A., Rochart, R., Kloner, R. A., Wu, -A., Hung, S. -M., Shimojo, S., Fonteh, A.N., Kleinman, M. T., Harrington, M. G., Arakaki, X. (2021) Task switching reveals abnormal brain-heart electrophysiological signatures in cognitively healthy individuals with abnormal CSF amyloid/tau. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 170, 120-111.
• Hung, S. -M., & Hsieh, P.-J. (2021). Subliminal temporal integration of linguistic information under discontinuous flash suppression. Journal of Vision, 21(5):27, 1–10
• Hung, S. -M., Wu, D. -A., & Shimojo, S. (2020). Task-induced attention guides and gates unconscious semantic interference. Nature Communications, 11(1), 2088.
• Hung, S. -M., Styles, S. J., & Hsieh, P. -J. (2017). Can a Word Sound Like a Shape Before You Have Seen It? Sound-Shape Mapping Prior to Conscious Awareness. Psychological Science, 28(3), 263–275.
• Hung, S. -M., Milea, D., Rukmini, A. V., Najjar, R. P., Tan, J. H., Viénot, F., Dubail, M., Tow, S. L. C., Aung, T., Gooley, J. J., & Hsieh, P. -J. (2017). Cerebral neural correlates of differential melanopic photic stimulation in humans. NeuroImage, 146, 763–769.
• Hung, S. -M., Nieh C. -H., & Hsieh, P. -J. (2016). Unconscious processing of facial attractiveness: invisible attractive faces orient visual attention. Scientific Reports, 6, 37117.
• Hung, S. -M., & Hsieh, P. -J. (2015). Syntactic processing in the absence of awareness and semantics. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 41(5), 1376–1384.
• Chou, T. -L., Lee, S. -H., Hung, S. -M., & Chen, H. -C. (2012). The role of inferior frontal gyrus in processing Chinese classifiers. Neuropsychologia, 50, 1408–1415.

Other Interests

Badminton, Jogging, Blogging

Affiliated Academic Organizations

Vision Sciences Society (VSS)
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC)
Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV)
Consciousness Research Network (CoRN)

Awards

2021 Young Scholar Oral Presentation Award, North America Taiwanese Professors’ Association
2016 ARVO/VSS Research Fellowship, The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) & Vision Sciences Society (VSS)
2014-2016 Study Abroad Scholarship, Ministry of Education, Taiwan