Title: Professor (part-time)
Email: zhangdd05@gmail.com
Research Interests
Brain Mechanisms of Emotional and Social Cognitive Dysfunction and its Brain Treatment in Patients with Mental Illness (Mainly Depression), Brain Mechanisms of Emotional and Language Cognition in Newborns, Brain Mechanisms of Risky Decision-Making, Biomedical Signal Processing
Education
PhD Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University 06/2010
Visiting Doctoral Student, Johns Hopkins University 09/2009
Bsc Biomedical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University 07/2005
BA Engllish, Xi'an Jiaotong University 07/2005
Academic positions
Professor, Southwestern University of Finance & Economics 2021-present
Professor, Sichuan Normal University 12/2020-presnet
Professor, Shenzhen University 01/2019-presnet
Associate Professor, Shenzhen University 09/2013-12/2018
Selected Publications
Dandan Zhang, Shen Zhang, Zhen Lei, Yiwei Li, Xianchun Li, Ruolei Gu (2023),“Why people engage in corrupt collaboration: An observation at the multi-brain level.” Cerebral Cortex.
Yan Jing Wu#, Xinlin Hou#, Cheng Peng, Wenwen Yu, Gary Oppenheim, Guillaume Thierry, Dandan Zhang* (2022), “Rapid learning of a phonemic discrimination in the first hours of life.” Nature Human Behaviour.
Dandan Zhang, Yiqin Lin, Yiming Jing, Chunliang Feng, Ruolei Gu ( 2019), “The dynamics of belief updating in human cooperation: findings from inter-brain ERP hyperscanning.” NeuroImage.
Zhenhong He, Jun Zhao, Junshi Shen, Nils Muhlert, Rebecca Elliott, Dandan Zhang (2020), “The right VLPFC and downregulation of social pain: A TMS study.” Human Brain Mapping.
Dandan Zhang, Yu Chen, Xinlin Hou, Yanjing Wu (2019), “Near-infrared spectroscopy reveals neural perception of vocal emotions in human neonates.” Human Brain Mapping.
Dandan Zhang, Ruolei Gu (2018), “Behavioral preference in sequential decision-making and its association with anxiety.” Human Brain Mapping.
Yunzhe Liu, Wanjun Lin, Pengfei Xu, Dandan Zhang, Yuejia Luo (2015), “ Neural basis of disgust perception in racial prejudice.” Human Brain Mapping.
Dandan Zhang (2011), “Reference values for amplitude-integrated EEGs in infants from preterm to 3.5 months of age.” Pediatrics.
Zhenhong He, Zhenli Liu, Jun Zhao, Rebecca Elliott, Dandan Zhang (2020) “Improving emotion regulation of social exclusion in depression-prone individuals: A tDCS study targeting right VLPFC.” Psychological Medicine.
Yanli Zhao, Dandan Zhang, Shuping Tan (2014), “Neural correlates of abolished self-referential effect in schizophrenia.” Psychological Medicine.
Ruolei Gu, Xiang Ao, Licheng Mo, Dandan Zhang (2020), “Neural correlates of negative expectancy and impaired social feedback processing in social anxiety.” Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
Hui Xie, Xiaoqing Hu, Licheng Mo, Dandan Zhang (2020), “Forgetting positive social feedback is hard: ERP evidence in a directed forgetting paradigm.” Psychophysiology.
Zhenhong He, Dandan Zhang, Nils Muhlert, Rebecca Elliott (2019), “Neural substrates for anticipation and consumption of social and monetary incentives in depression.” Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
Zhenhong He, Yiqin Lin, Lisheng Xia, Zhenli Liu, Dandan Zhang, Rebecca Elliott (2018), “Critical Role of the Right VLPFC in Emotional Regulation of Social Exclusion: A tDCS Study.” Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
Dandan Zhang, Weiqi He, Ting Wang, Wenbo Luo (2014), “Three stages of emotional word processing: an ERP study with rapid serial visual presentation.” Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
Yunzhe Liu, Dandan Zhang, Yuejia Luo (2015), “How Disgust Facilitates Avoidance: An ERP Study on Attention Modulation by Threats.” Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
Honors
Second Prize of National Scientific and Technological Achievement Award for Maternal and Child Health ranked second, 2019
Guangdong Science and Technology Award (Second Prize of Natural Science) ranked seventh, 2019
Third Prize of Beijing Medical Science and Technology Award ranked second, 2018
Outstanding Master's Student Supervisor, Shenzhen University 2018
Second Prize of Shenzhen Natural Science ranked fifth, 2017
Shenzhen "Peacock Plan" Overseas High-Level B Talents 2014
Shenzhen "High-level Professional Talents" reserve-level talents 2013
Shenzhen University "Liyuan Excellent Youth" 2013-present
