学习经历：
2011.9-2015.9 英国伯明翰大学博士研究生
2008.9-2011.7 北京大学心理学系硕士研究生
2004.9-2008.7 北京大学心理学系获理学学士统计学学士

工作经历：
2015.10至今北京师范大学心理学院

科研项目：

客体表征的具身基础：现象、机制与功能意义， 国家自然科学基金 面上项目，2023-2027

背侧与腹侧视觉通路在客体表征中的交互作用：功能磁共振与经颅磁刺激的结合研究，国家自然科学基金 青年项目，2017-2019

物体间可供性加工中的认知与神经机制，中国博士后科学基金（面上一等资助），2017-2018

科研成果：
发表论文

Lau, H., Song, Y., Xu, S^*., & Liu, J. (2026). Trait motivation is associated with Fusiform face area Morphometry: Evidence from a Chinese Youth Sample. NeuroImage, 325, 12640.

Xu, S^†., Feng, X^†., Li, Y., & Liu, J^*. (2025). Object space is embodied. British Journal of Psychology, 116(4), 987-1008.

Li, Y., Xu, S^*., & Liu, J. (2025). The neural correlates of logical-mathematical symbol systems processing resemble those of spatial cognition more than language processing. Iscience, 28(4).

Feng, X^†., Xu, S^†., Li, Y., & Liu, J^*. (2024). Body size as a metric for the affordable world. Elife, 12, RP90583.

Xu, S., Song, Y^*., & Liu, J. (2023). The development of spatial cognition and its malleability assessed in mass population via a mobile game. Psychological science, 34(3), 345-357.

Xu, S^*., Liu, X., Almeida, J., & Heinke, D. (2021). The contributions of the ventral and the dorsal visual streams to the automatic processing of action relations of familiar and unfamiliar object pairs. Neuroimage, 245.

Xu, S., Li, Y., & Liu, J^*. (2021). The Neural Correlates of Computational Thinking: Collaboration of Distinct Cognitive Components Revealed by fMRI. Cerebral Cortex, 31(12), 5579-5597.

Xu, S^†., Zhang, Y^†., Zhen, Z., & Liu, J^*. (2021). The Face Module Emerged in a Deep Convolutional Neural Network Selectively Deprived of Face Experience. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 1.

Song, Y., Qu, Y., Xu, S., & Liu, J^*. (2021). Implementation-Independent Representation for Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Humans in Processing Faces. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 14.

Li, Y^†., Xu, S^†., & Liu, J^*. (2021). Development and Validation of Computational Thinking Assessment of Chinese Elementary School Students. Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, 15.

Xu, S^*., Humphreys, G. W., Mevorach, C., & Heinke, D. (2017). The involvement of the dorsal stream in processing implied actions between paired objects: A TMS study. Neuropsychologia, 95, 240-249.

Xu, S^*., & Heinke, D. (2017). Implied between-object actions affect response selection without knowledge about object functionality. Visual Cognition, 25(1-3), 152-168.

Xu, S^*., Humphreys, G. W., & Heinke, D. (2015). Implied Actions Between Paired Objects Lead to Affordance Selection by Inhibition. Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance, 41(4), 1021-1036.

Wang, N^†., Xu, S^†., Zhang, S., Luo, Y., & Geng, H^*. (2019). ERP evidence on how gaze convergence affects social attention. Scientific Reports, 9.

Xu, S., Zhang, S., & Geng, H^*. (2018). The Effect of Eye Contact Is Contingent on Visual Awareness. Frontiers in Psychology, 9.

Xu, S., Zhang, S., & Geng, H^*. (2011). Gaze-induced joint attention persists under high perceptual load and does not depend on awareness. Vision Research, 51(18), 2048-2056.

Wang, X., Zhen, Z., Xu, S., Li, J., Song, Y., & Liu, J^*. (2022). Behavioral and neural correlates of social network size: The unique and common contributions of face recognition and extraversion. Journal of Personality, 90(2), 294-305.

Almeida, J., Amaral, L., Garcea, F. E., de Sousa, D. A., Xu, S., Mahon, B. Z., & Martins, I. P. (2018). Visual and visuomotor processing of hands and tools as a case study of cross talk between the dorsal and ventral streams. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 35(5-6), 288-303.

Geng, H^*., Zhang, S., Li, Q., Tao, R., & Xu, S. (2012). Dissociations of subliminal and supraliminal self-face from other-face processing: Behavioral and ERP evidence. Neuropsychologia, 50(12), 2933-2942.

Geng, H^*., Song, Q., Li, Y., Xu, S., & Zhu, Y. (2007). Attentional modulation of motion-induced blindness. Chinese Science Bulletin, 52(8), 1063-1070.

Geng, H., & Xu, S. (2011) Unconscious Self-processing: Subconscious, Unintentional or Subliminal?. In Han, S. & Pöppel, E. (Eds.) Culture and Neural Frames of Cognition and Communication. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 93-107.

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