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Dr. Yih-Shiuan Lin (林易萱)

Dr. Yih-Shiuan Lin was until recently part of the Multisensory Research Group. Her research interests include visual illusions, particularly in perceptual "filling-in". 

Dr. Yih-Shiuan Lin

Personbild: Dr. Yih-Shiuan Lin

Academic career

Education: 

  • B.S. Psychology · National Taiwan University · 2010–2014 · GPA 4.20/4.30 (Presidential Award, Dean's Award)
  • M.S. Psychology · National Taiwan University · 2014–2016 · GPA 4.26/4.30 (Dean's Award) Thesis: "The role of color contrast gain control in global form perception" · PI: Prof. Chien-Chung Chen
  • Ph.D. Experimental Psychology · University of Regensburg · 2017–2022 Advisors: Prof. Dr. Mark W. Greenlee & Dr. Maka Malania Thesis: "Lateral modulation in center-surround sinusoidal gratings: divisive inhibition and neural mechanism of perceptual filling-in" Funded by DAAD Research Grant — Doctoral Programmes in Germany 2017/18

Main research areas

  • Perceptual filling-in and the contour erasure effect
  • Lateral modulation and surround suppression in visual cortex
  • Divisive inhibition models of centre–surround interactions
  • Population receptive field (pRF) mapping and training-induced plasticity
  • Methods: psychophysics, fMRI, MEG, EEG, eye-tracking, online experiments; programming: MATLAB, Python, R, C/C++, JavaScript 

Publications (selection)

  • Lin YS, Chen CC, Greenlee MW (2025). The spatial and temporal properties of the contour erasure effect and perceptual filling-in. Journal of Vision, 25(14):4.
  • Malania M, Lin YS et al. (2024). Training-induced changes in population receptive field properties in visual cortex. Journal of Vision, 24(5):7.
  • Lin YS, Chen CC, Greenlee MW (2022). Neural correlates of lateral modulation and perceptual filling-in in center-surround radial sinusoidal gratings: an fMRI study. Scientific Reports, 12(1):16143.
  • Lin YS, Chen CC, Greenlee MW (2022). The role of lateral modulation in orientation-specific adaptation effect. Journal of Vision, 22(2):13.
  • Lin YS, Chen CC, Greenlee MW (2020). Lateral modulation of orientation perception: divisive inhibition in perceptual filling-in. Journal of Vision, 20(9):5. 

Awards

  • UR Potentials – Early Independence Grant (2024–2025)
  • Best Poster, OptiVisT Closing Conference (2024)
  • Taiwanese Overseas Pioneers (TOP) Grants (2021–2022)
  • VSS FoVea Travel & Networking Award (2021)
  • DAAD-Promotionsstipendium (2017–2022) 
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