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Qun Ye Associate Professor, Zhejiang Normal University. (2021 ~ )

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Toronto.  (2019-2021)

Ph.D., School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University. (2015-2019)

Research Interests:

My lab focuses on frontier exploration in metacognition and episodic memory, dedicated to revealing the core mechanisms of human self-cognitive monitoring and individual memory construction, as well as their application prospects.

(1) Metacognition: Refers to the human ability to reflect on and monitor one's own cognitive processes. It plays a key role not only in improving learning efficiency, making scientific decisions, and processing information/retrieving memories, but also serves as an indispensable theoretical foundation for understanding cognitive disorders, optimizing educational methods, and improving intelligent system design. The group focuses on the cognitive neural mechanisms of metacognition and deeply analyzes its dynamic regulation processes through multimodal behavioral assessments and neuroimaging techniques.

(2) Episodic Memory: Refers to the memory of events or scenarios personally experienced by humans. This type of memory is like "mental time travel," allowing us to recall what happened at a specific moment in the past, including specific details of the event (such as where, when, and with whom it happened) as well as the feelings and context at that time. The group focuses on the formation and retrieval of temporal attributes in episodic memory and their interaction with emotions and social factors. By combining multidisciplinary methods such as cognitive neuroscience, behavioral experiments, and computational modeling, the group aims to promote the transformation of basic research into practical applications.

Research Projects:

Zhejiang Provincial Philosophy and Social Sciences Planning Project: Empirical Research on the Developmental Trajectory and Optimization Intervention of Children's Metacognitive Ability, 2024–2026, In Progress.

National Natural Science Foundation of China (Young Scientists Fund): Research on the Cognitive Neural Mechanisms of Mindfulness Training in Improving Metacognitive Ability, 2023–2025, In Progress.

Scientific Research Fund of Zhejiang Provincial Education Department: The Association between Metacognition and Mental Health: A Transdiagnostic Approach Based on Large-Sample Empirical Investigation, 2024–2025, In Progress (Student as Project Leader).

Zhejiang Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Project: Research on the Cognitive Neural Basis of Adaptive Training to Improve Adolescent Metacognitive Levels, 2023–2024, Completed.

Zhejiang Provincial College Student Science and Technology Innovation Activity Plan (Xinmiao Talent Plan): Physical and Mental Health Detection Methods Based on Breath Interoception and Their Application, 2023–2024, Completed (Student as Project Leader).

Open Project of Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Education Technology and Application: Cognitive Neural Mechanisms and Computational Models of Human-Machine Collaborative Learning, 2022–2024, Completed (Participant).

Open Fund Project of Psychology Discipline, Zhejiang Normal University: The Influence of Emotion and Emotional Context on Temporal Memory: Evidence from Behavioral Paradigms and EEG, 2022–2022, Completed.

Peer-review Papers:

Ye, Q.#, & Ke, C. (in press). Emotion Enhances Relative but Not Absolute Temporal Memory: A Meta-Analysis. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

Xia, L.*, Liu, K.*, Li, X., & Ye, Q.# (2025). Encoding types and narrative coherence modulate the impact of emotions on temporal order memory. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 57(1), 1-17. (Original in Chinese: 夏莲香*, 刘凯歌*, 李新宇, 叶群.^# (2025). 编码方式与叙事连贯性调节情绪对时间顺序记忆的影响. 心理学报, 57(1), 1–17.)

Ye, Q., Fidalgo, C., Byrne, P., Munoz, L. E., Cant, J. S.#, & Lee, A. C. H.# (2024). Using imagination and the contents of memory to create new scene and object representations: A functional MRI Study. Neuropsychologia, 204, 109000.

Huang, Y., Song, X. L., & Ye, Q.# (2024). Mind wandering and the incubation effect: Investigating the influence of working memory capacity and cognitive load on divergent thinking. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 52, 101499.

Ye, Q., Huang, Y., Ge, X., & Song, X. (2023) Validation of Online Mindfulness-enhanced Course for Stress Reduction in Teachers. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, 566.

Wang, X., Liu, X. Y., Chen, L. Y., Feng, K. Q., Ye, Q.#, & Zhu, H. L.# (2023). The Forward Effect of Delayed Judgments of Learning Is Influenced by Difficulty in Memory and Category Learning. Journal of Intelligence, 11(6), 101.

Sun, B., Wang, Y., Ye, Q.#, & Pan, Y. (2023). Associations of Empathy with Teacher-Student Interactions: A Potential Ternary Model. Brain Sciences, 13(5), 767.

Cao, Z.*, Huang, Y.*, Song, X., & Ye, Q.# (2022) Development and validation of children’s mind wandering scales. Frontiers in Public Health, 10:1054023.

Zheng, Y. *, Wang, D. *, Ye, Q., Zou, F., Yin, J., Li, Y., & Kwok, S. C. (2021). Diffusion property and functional connectivity of superior longitudinal fasciculus underpin human metacognition. Neuropsychologia, 156, 107847.

Rahnev, D., Desender, K., Lee, A. L., Adler, W. T., Aguilar-Lleyda, D., Akdoğan, B., …, Ye, Q., ... & Bègue, I. (2020). The confidence database. Nature Human Behaviour, 4(3), 317-325.

Ye, Q., Zou, F., Dayan, M., Lau, H., Hu, Y., & Kwok, S. C. (2019). Individual susceptibility to TMS affirms the precuneual role in meta-memory upon recollection. Brain Structure and Function, 224(7), 2407-2419.

Ye, Q.*, Zou, F.*, Lau, H., Hu, Y., & Kwok, S. C. (2018). Causal evidence for mnemonic metacognition in human precuneus. Journal of Neuroscience, 38(28), 6379–6387.

Zhang, Y., Song, X., Ye, Q., & Wang, Q. (2015). Children with positive attitudes towards mind-wandering provide invalid subjective reports of mind-wandering during an experimental task. Consciousness and Cognition, 35, 136-142.

Ye, Q., Song, X., Zhang, Y., & Wang, Q. (2014). Children’s mental time travel during mind wandering. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 927.

Ye, Q., Hu, Y., Ku, Y., Appiah, K., & Kwok, S. C. (2018). Locally distributed abstraction of temporal distance in human parietal cortex. bioRxiv.

Book Chapters:

de Beeck, H. O., & Nakatani, C. (2019). Introduction to Human Neuroimaging. Cambridge University Press. (Chinese edition: 汉斯·欧普·德·贝克, & 中谷智惠. (2023). 人类神经影像学. 叶群 (译). 浙江教育出版社.)

Le Duc, W., Wu, Z., Ye, Q., Ito, R., & Lee, A. C. (2022). Medial temporal lobe contributions to the temporal structure of visual memory. In Visual Memory (pp. 246-260). Routledge.

ECNU Psychology Writing Group. (2018). Psychology Based on Teacher Qualification Exam. East China Normal University Press. (Co-authored Chapter 1: Psychological Overview and Chapter 5: Development of Cognition and Intelligence with Professor Hu Yi).

Admissions Information:

We plan to recruit approximately 4 master's students this year. We warmly welcome students who have research ambitions and pursuits, are hardworking, down-to-earth, and proactive to join us.

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