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Taosheng Liu is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Michigan State University. He earned his PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Columbia University in 2001, after completing his MA in the same field in 1998, and obtaining his BS in Biological Science from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1994. His primary research interest is visual selective attention, which involves managing the overwhelming amount of sensory information that individuals constantly receive. Liu's work emphasizes the critical role of selective attention in successfully completing tasks within natural social environments. In addition to visual attention, he explores related topics such as visual working memory and decision making. He posits that working memory enables individuals to temporarily hold information essential for task execution, while decision making involves using that information to make choices. Liu is particularly focused on the computational and neural mechanisms underlying these psychological functions, utilizing neuroimaging techniques in his research. He leads an active lab dedicated to studying perception and attention, where he investigates the interconnectedness of attention, working memory, and decision-making processes.
Department of Psychology