Biography
Zhilin is a first-year Psychology PhD student at the Centre for Human Brain Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, and funded by the Ministry of Education in Taiwan. He is supervised by Dr Patricia Lockwood and Dr Matthew Apps. He is intrigued by the behavioural, computational and neural mechanisms underlying social learning and decision-making in health, disease, and development. He is currently using computational modelling to explore preference learning in social contexts across the adult lifespan.
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- Social Neuroscience (fMRI)
- (Pro)Social Learning
- (Pro)Social Decision-Making
Psychology PhD student
University of Birmingham
MSc in Brain and Mind Sciences, 2020
National Taiwan University
BSc in Psychology, 2018
National Taiwan University
People are born to be prosocial; if not, at least we can learn to be.
Academic Experience
- Analysing neurocognitive developmental differences between monolingual and bilingual children, in collaboration with University of Michigan
- Cumulative GPA: 4.21/4.30 (2nd in cohort)
- Supervisor: Dr Ming-Tsung Tseng
- MSc Dissertation: The Neural Mechanisms Underlying the Influence of Self Affective States on Empathic Responses
Cumulative GPA: 4.20/4.30 (2nd in cohort)
Four-time Presidential Awards (ranking top 5% in department in semester)
Chin-yi Chu & Tain-jy Chen Scholarship
(outstanding record of academic performance in the field of Economics)