Sze Chai Kwok | Scholars@Duke

Sze Chai Kwok
Assoc. Prof. of Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke Kunshan University

Current Research Interests

Kwok’s research lies at the intersection between neuroscience, behavior, and psychology. His research team (http://www.kwoklab.org/ ) studies the neural bases of episodic memory, metacognition, and other related higher cognitive processes in the primate species. Elucidation of such intricate brain/mind/behavior relationships is attained by armamentaria of methods including multimodal neuroimaging, in vivo electrophysiology, neuromodulatory methods, state-of-the-art behavioral paradigms and computational techniques.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Assoc. Prof. of Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke Kunshan University, DKU Faculty, Duke Kunshan University 2020
Faculty Network Member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, University Institutes and Centers 2020

Contact Information

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., University of Oxford (United Kingdom) 2008
Recognition
Awards & Honors
- Young IBRO Regions Connecting Award. International Brain Research Organization (IBRO). 2020
- Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program Award. Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality. 2016
Expertise
Subject Headings
Research
Fellowships, Supported Research, & Other Grants
- Domain-specificity of metacognition and its neural substrates awarded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) General Program grant 32071060 2021 - 2024
- Innovative Research Use of Experimental Animals awarded by Science a Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality 2020 - 2023
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Academic Articles
  - Jin, Chen, Sze Chai Kwok, and Song Yongning. “An intricate relationship between executive function and second-language ability in a cohort of Uyghur-Chinese bilingual children.” Developmental Science, August 19, 2022, e13312. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13312.
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  - Cai, Yudian, Zhiyong Jin, Chenxi Zhai, Huimin Wang, Jijun Wang, Yingying Tang, and Sze Chai Kwok. “Time-sensitive prefrontal involvement in associating confidence with task performance illustrates metacognitive introspection in monkeys.” Communications Biology 5, no. 1 (August 2022): 799. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03762-6.
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  - Zou, Futing, and Sze Chai Kwok. “Distinct Generation of Subjective Vividness and Confidence during Naturalistic Memory Retrieval in Angular Gyrus.” Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 34, no. 6 (May 2022): 988–1000. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01838.
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  - Zheng, Yunxuan, Lei Wang, D Jacob Gerlofs, Wei Duan, Xinyi Wang, Jia Yin, Chao Yan, et al. “Atypical meta-memory evaluation strategy in schizophrenia patients.” Schizophrenia Research. Cognition 27 (March 2022): 100220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scog.2021.100220.
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  - So, Billy C. L., Sze C. Kwok, and Paul H. Lee. “Effect of Aquatic Exercise on Sleep Efficiency of Adults With Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain.” Journal of Physical Activity & Health 18, no. 9 (September 2021): 1037–45. https://doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2020-0476.
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  - Russ, Brian E., Christopher I. Petkov, Sze Chai Kwok, Qi Zhu, Pascal Belin, Wim Vanduffel, and Suliann Ben Hamed. “Common functional localizers to enhance NHP & cross-species neuroscience imaging research.” Neuroimage 237 (August 2021): 118203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118203.
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  - Xue, Fei, Zhaoli Shen, Yuhai Wang, Sze Chai Kwok, and Jia Yin. “Microvascular decompression for hemifacial spasm involving the vertebral artery: A modified effective technique using a gelatin sponge with a FuAiLe medical adhesive.” Cns Neuroscience & Therapeutics 27, no. 7 (July 2021): 857–61. https://doi.org/10.1111/cns.13662.
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  - Zheng, Yunxuan, Danni Wang, Qun Ye, Futing Zou, Yao Li, and Sze Chai Kwok. “Diffusion property and functional connectivity of superior longitudinal fasciculus underpin human metacognition.” Neuropsychologia 156 (June 2021): 107847. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107847.
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  - Poirier, Colline, Suliann Ben Hamed, Pamela Garcia-Saldivar, Sze Chai Kwok, Adrien Meguerditchian, Hugo Merchant, Jeffrey Rogers, Sara Wells, and Andrew S. Fox. “Beyond MRI: on the scientific value of combining non-human primate neuroimaging with metadata.” Neuroimage 228 (March 2021): 117679. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117679.
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  - Kwok, Sze Chai, Xinming Xu, Wei Duan, Xinyi Wang, Yingying Tang, Mélissa C. Allé, and Fabrice Berna. “Autobiographical and episodic memory deficits in schizophrenia: A narrative review and proposed agenda for research.” Clinical Psychology Review 83 (February 2021): 101956. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2020.101956.
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  - Cai, Yudian, Zhiyong Jin, Chenxi Zhai, Huimin Wang, Jijun Wang, Yingying Tang, and Sze Chai Kwok. “Time-sensitive prefrontal involvement in associating confidence with task performance illustrates metacognitive introspection in monkeys,” 2021. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.11.30.470665.
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  - Fox, Andrew S., Daniel Holley, Peter Christiaan Klink, Spencer A. Arbuckle, Carol A. Barnes, Jörn Diedrichsen, Sze Chai Kwok, et al. “Sharing voxelwise neuroimaging results from rhesus monkeys and other species with Neurovault.” Neuroimage 225 (January 2021): 117518. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117518.
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  - Zou, Futing, and Sze Chai Kwok. “Distinct generation of subjective vividness and confidence during naturalistic memory retrieval in angular gyrus,” 2021. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.10.434526.
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  - Zou, Futing, and Sze Chai Kwok. “Distinct generation of subjective vividness and confidence during naturalistic memory retrieval in the angular gyrus,” 2021. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-398202/v1.
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  - Wang, Lei, Shuzhen Zuo, Yudian Cai, Boqiang Zhang, Huimin Wang, Yong-di Zhou, and Sze Chai Kwok. “Fallacious reversal of event-order during recall reveals memory reconstruction in rhesus monkeys.” Behavioural Brain Research 394 (September 2020): 112830. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2020.112830.
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  - Zuo, Shuzhen, Lei Wang, Jung Han Shin, Yudian Cai, Boqiang Zhang, Sang Wan Lee, Kofi Appiah, Yong-di Zhou, and Sze Chai Kwok. “Behavioral evidence for memory replay of video episodes in the macaque.” Elife 9 (April 2020): e54519. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.54519.
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  - Foudil, Samy-Adrien, Sze Chai Kwok, and Emiliano Macaluso. “Context-Dependent Coding of Temporal Distance Between Cinematic Events in the Human Precuneus.” The Journal of Neuroscience : The Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience 40, no. 10 (March 2020): 2129–38. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.2296-19.2020.
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  - Rahnev, Dobromir, Kobe Desender, Alan L. F. Lee, William T. Adler, David Aguilar-Lleyda, Başak Akdoğan, Polina Arbuzova, et al. “The Confidence Database.” Nature Human Behaviour 4, no. 3 (March 2020): 317–25. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0813-1.
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  - PRIMatE Data Exchange (PRIME-DE) Global Collaboration Workshop and Consortium. Electronic address: michael.milham@childmind.org, Mehdi, and Mehdi PRIMatE Data Exchange (PRIME-DE) Global Collaboration Workshop and Consortium. “Accelerating the Evolution of Nonhuman Primate Neuroimaging.” Neuron 105, no. 4 (February 2020): 600–603. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2019.12.023.
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  - Qu, Zhizhen, and Sze Chai Kwok. “A meta-analysis on uncertainty monitoring in four non-primate animal species: Pigeons, rats, large-billed crows, and bees,” 2020. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.03.411082.
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  - Zheng, Yunxuan, Danni Wang, Qun Ye, Futing Zou, Yao Li, and Sze Chai Kwok. “Diffusion property and functional connectivity of superior longitudinal fasciculus underpin human metacognition,” 2020. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.17.994574.
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  - Zuo, Shuzhen, Lei Wang, Junghan Shin, Yudian Cai, Sang Wan Lee, Kofi Appiah, Yong-di Zhou, and Sze Chai Kwok. “Behavioral evidence for memory replay of video episodes in macaque monkeys,” 2020. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.10.902130.
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  - Shen, Fengtao, Xingxia Chen, Jianqi Li, Weicong Cao, Yixuan Ku, Jue Wu, Yue Cui, Zhaoxin Wang, Huimin Wang, and Sze Chai Kwok. “Mnemonic vulnerability induced by post-activation time-dependent new-learning.” Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 164 (October 2019): 107047. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2019.107047.
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  - Berna, Fabrice, Futing Zou, Jean-Marie Danion, and Sze Chai Kwok. “Overconfidence in false autobiographical memories in patients with schizophrenia.” Psychiatry Research 279 (September 2019): 374–75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2018.12.063.
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  - Xu, Xinming, and Sze Chai Kwok. “Temporal-order iconicity bias in narrative event understanding and memory.” Memory (Hove, England) 27, no. 8 (September 2019): 1079–90. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2019.1622734.
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  - Ye, Qun, Futing Zou, Michael Dayan, Hakwan Lau, Yi Hu, and Sze Chai Kwok. “Individual susceptibility to TMS affirms the precuneal role in meta-memory upon recollection.” Brain Structure & Function 224, no. 7 (September 2019): 2407–19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-019-01909-6.
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  - Kwok, Sze Chai, Yudian Cai, and Mark J. Buckley. “Mnemonic Introspection in Macaques Is Dependent on Superior Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex But Not Orbitofrontal Cortex.” The Journal of Neuroscience : The Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience 39, no. 30 (July 2019): 5922–34. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.0330-19.2019.
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  - Primates, Many, Drew Altschul, Michael Beran, Manuel Bohn, Kai Caspar, Claudia Fichtel, Marlene Försterling, et al. “Collaborative open science as a way to reproducibility and new insights in primate cognition research,” 2019. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/8w7zd.
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  - Milham, Michael P., Lei Ai, Bonhwang Koo, Ting Xu, Céline Amiez, Fabien Balezeau, Mark G. Baxter, et al. “An Open Resource for Non-human Primate Imaging.” Neuron 100, no. 1 (October 2018): 61-74.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2018.08.039.
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  - Ye, Qun, Futing Zou, Hakwan Lau, Yi Hu, and Sze Chai Kwok. “Causal Evidence for Mnemonic Metacognition in Human Precuneus.” The Journal of Neuroscience : The Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience 38, no. 28 (July 2018): 6379–87. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.0660-18.2018.
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  - Kwok, Sze Chai, Carlo Fantoni, Laura Tamburini, Lei Wang, and Walter Gerbino. “A biphasic effect of cross-modal priming on visual shape recognition.” Acta Psychologica 183 (February 2018): 43–50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2017.12.013.
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  - Kwok, Sze Chai, Yudian Cai, and Mark Buckley. “Mnemonic introspection in macaques is dependent on dorsolateral prefrontal cortex but not orbitofrontal cortex,” 2018. https://doi.org/10.1101/381293.
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  - Shen, Fengtao, Yixuan Ku, Jue Wu, Yue Cui, Jianqi Li, Zhaoxin Wang, Huimin Wang, and Sze Chai Kwok. “Time-dependent mnemonic vulnerability induced by new-learning,” 2018. https://doi.org/10.1101/281261.
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  - Ye, Qun, Futing Zou, Hakwan Lau, Yi Hu, and Sze Chai Kwok. “Causal evidence for mnemonic metacognition in human precuneus,” 2018. https://doi.org/10.1101/280750.
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  - Ye, Qun, Futing Zou, Michael Dayan, Hakwan Lau, Yi Hu, and Sze Chai Kwok. “Individual susceptibility to TMS affirms the precuneual role in metamemory upon recollection,” 2018. https://doi.org/10.1101/383299.
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  - Ye, Qun, Yi Hu, Yixuan Ku, Kofi Appiah, and Sze Chai Kwok. “Locally distributed abstraction of temporal distance in human parietal cortex,” 2018. https://doi.org/10.1101/249904.
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  - “Erratum.” Human Brain Mapping 37, no. 1 (January 2016): 434. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.22908.
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  - Kwok, Sze Chai, Anna S. Mitchell, and Mark J. Buckley. “Adaptability to changes in temporal structure is fornix-dependent.” Learning & Memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) 22, no. 8 (August 2015): 354–59. https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.038851.115.
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  - Kwok, Sze Chai, and Emiliano Macaluso. “Scale invariance of temporal order discrimination using complex, naturalistic events.” Cognition 140 (July 2015): 111–21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2015.04.007.
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  - Kwok, Sze Chai, and Emiliano Macaluso. “Immediate memory for "when, where and what": Short-delay retrieval using dynamic naturalistic material.” Human Brain Mapping 36, no. 7 (July 2015): 2495–2513. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.22787.
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  - Kwok, Sze Chai, and Emiliano Macaluso. “Exogenous features versus prior experiences modulate different subregions of the right IPL during episodic memory retrieval.” Scientific Reports 5 (June 2015): 11248. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep11248.
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  - Makovac, Elena, Sze Chai Kwok, and Walter Gerbino. “Attentional cueing by cross-modal congruency produces both facilitation and inhibition on short-term visual recognition.” Acta Psychologica 152 (October 2014): 75–83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.07.008.
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  - Kwok, Sze Chai, Tim Shallice, and Emiliano Macaluso. “Set-relevance determines the impact of distractors on episodic memory retrieval.” Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 26, no. 9 (September 2014): 2070–86. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00601.
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  - Kwok, Sze Chai. “Where neuroimaging and lesion studies meet.” Journal of Neuroimaging : Official Journal of the American Society of Neuroimaging 23, no. 1 (January 2013): 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1552-6569.2011.00600.x.
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  - Kwok, Sze Chai, Tim Shallice, and Emiliano Macaluso. “Functional anatomy of temporal organisation and domain-specificity of episodic memory retrieval.” Neuropsychologia 50, no. 12 (October 2012): 2943–55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.07.025.
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  - Kwok, Sze Chai, and Mark J. Buckley. “Long-term visuospatial retention unaffected by fornix transection.” Hippocampus 20, no. 8 (August 2010): 889–93. https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.20733.
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  - Kwok, S. C., and M. J. Buckley. “Corrigendum to "Fornix transected macaques make fewer perseverative errors than controls during the early stages of learning conditional visuovisual discriminations" [Behav. Brain Res. 205 (1) (2009) 207-213] (DOI:10.1016/j.bbr.2009.08.016).” Behavioural Brain Research 208, no. 2 (April 2, 2010): 655. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2009.12.033.
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  - Kwok, Sze Chai, and Mark J. Buckley. “Fornix transection selectively impairs fast learning of conditional visuospatial discriminations.” Hippocampus 20, no. 3 (March 2010): 413–22. https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.20643.
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  - Kwok, Sze Chai, and Mark J. Buckley. “Fornix transected macaques make fewer perseverative errors than controls during the early stages of learning conditional visuovisual discriminations [corrected].” Behavioural Brain Research 205, no. 1 (December 2009): 207–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2009.08.016.
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  - Buckley, Mark J., Farshad A. Mansouri, Hassan Hoda, Majid Mahboubi, Philip G. F. Browning, Sze C. Kwok, Adam Phillips, and Keiji Tanaka. “Dissociable components of rule-guided behavior depend on distinct medial and prefrontal regions.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 325, no. 5936 (July 2009): 52–58. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1172377.
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  - Kwok, Sze Chai, and Mark J. Buckley. “Fornix transection impairs exploration but not locomotion in ambulatory macaque monkeys.” Hippocampus 16, no. 8 (January 2006): 655–63. https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.20195.
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  - Wang, Lei, Shuzhen Zuo, Yudian Cai, Boqiang Zhang, Huimin Wang, Yong-di Zhou, and Sze Chai Kwok. “Fallacious Reversal of Event-Order During Recall Reveals Memory Reconstruction in Rhesus Monkeys (Accepted).” Ssrn Electronic Journal, n.d. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3441422.
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  - Zuo, Shuzhen, Lei Wang, Junghan Shin, Yudian Cai, Sang Wan Lee, Kofi Appiah, Yong-di Zhou, and Sze Chai Kwok. “Human-Like Time-Compressed Forward Replay of Video Episodes in Macaque Monkeys (Accepted).” Ssrn Electronic Journal, n.d. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3438378.
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- Book Sections
  - Enaki, N. A., V. Koroli, S. Bazgan, A. Nistreanu, S. Palistrant, D. Bogoev, M. Turcan, et al. “Quantum information processes in protein microtubules of brain neurons,” 55:245–49, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-736-9_60.
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  - Kwok, S. C. “Exploration and ambulatory behaviours in normal and fornix transected macaque monkeys in an open space.” In Monkeys: Biology, Behavior and Disorders, 97–118, 2011.
- Preprints
  - Cai, Yudian, Zhiyong Jin, Chenxi Zhai, Huiming Wang, Jijun Wang, Yingying Tang, and Sze Chai Kwok. “Time-sensitive Prefrontal Involvement in Associating Confidence With Task Performance Illustrates Metacognitive Introspection in Monkeys.” Research Square, 2022. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1215479/v1.
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  - Santos-Pata, D., R. Zucca, A. Fernandez Amil, A. Principe, C. Pérez-Enríquez, R. Rocamora, S. C. Kwok, and P. Verschure. “Theta oscillations in the human hippocampus normalize the information content of episodic memory.” BioRxiv, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.27.497705.
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  - Wang, Lei, Xufeng Zhou, Jie Yang, Fu Zeng, Shuzhen Zuo, Makoto Kusunoki, Huimin Wang, Yong-di Zhou, Aihua Chen, and Sze Chai Kwok. “Mixed selectivity coding of content-temporal detail by dorsomedial posterior parietal neurons.” BioRxiv, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.16.500237.
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  - Xu, Xinming, and Sze Chai Kwok. “Temporal-order Iconicity Bias in Narrative Event Understanding and Memory.” PsyArXiv, 2018. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/etw7y.
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Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
- Bass Connections Team Leader. Decoded Neurofeedback Toward Bias and Racism Mitigation . 2022 - 2023 2022 - 2023
Service to the Profession
- Handling Editor, Cognitive Processing. 2020 - 2024 2020 - 2024

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