Dr. Jingyuan Ren
Hauptforschungsgebiete
Neuronale Kodierung von konzeptuellem Wissen und relationalem Denken
Navigationsgedächtnis und Gedächtnisstrategie der Loci-Methode
Gehirnmechanismen, die kreativem Denken und der Bildung neuer Konzepte zugrunde liegen
Vita
Ausbildung
| 2021–2025 | Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Supervisors: Dr. Martin Dresler, Dr. Boris Konrad, Dr. Isabella Wagner (Vienna University) |
| 2014–2021 | Ph.D. and M.Ed. in Psychology, Beijing Key Laboratory of Learning and Cognition, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China Supervisor: Dr. Jing Luo |
Werdegang
| Seit 2025 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Minerva Research Group Neural Codes of Intelligence Lab (PI: Dr. Stephanie Theves), Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany. |
| 2021–2025 | Ph.D. Researcher, Sleep and Memory Lab (PI: Dr. Martin Dresler), Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. |
| 2023 | Guest Researcher, Wagner Lab (PI: Dr. Isabella Wagner), SCAN-Unit Neuroscience Research Center, Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. |
| 2016–2021 | 2016-2021, Guest Researcher, iCAN Brain Lab (PI: Dr. Shaozheng Qin), State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning& IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. |
Publikationen
Ausgewählte Publikationen
International Peer-reviewed Journals
Ren, J.*, F. Huang, C. Gao, J. Gott, S. F. Schoch, S. Qin, M. Dresler and J. Luo* (2023). "Functional lateralization of the medial temporal lobe in novel associative processing during creativity evaluation." Cerebral Cortex, 2023, 33: 1186–1206. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhac129
Ren, J., F. Huang, Y. Zhou, L. Zhuang, J. Xu, C. Gao, S. Qin and J. Luo* (2020). "The function of the hippocampus and middle temporal gyrus in forming new associations and concepts during the processing of novelty and usefulness features in creative designs." NeuroImage 214: 116751. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116751
Ren, J., Konrad, B. N., Wagner, I. C., & Dresler, M. (2023). Mnemonic training contextualizes working memory with long-term memory representations: Commentary on Miller et al. (2022). European Journal of Neuroscience, 57(10), 1639–1641. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15981
Ren, J.#, K. Liu#, W. Shen* and J. Luo* (2020). "In search of the emotional experience of innovative products across categories." PsyCh Journal. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1002/pchj.393
Zhang, H.#, J. Ren# (Co-first Author), C. Liu and J. Luo* (2019). "Conformity effect of the evaluation of creative products." Acta Psychologica Sinica 51(6). https://doi.org/10.3724/sp.J.1041.2019.00688
Zhu,Y., Y. Zeng, J. Ren, L. Zhang, C. Chen, G. Fernández, S. Qin* (2022). "Emotional learning retroactively promotes memory integration through rapid neural reactivation and reorganization. " eLife 11:e60190. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.60190
Jia, L., J. Ren, F. Li, F. Huang* (2024), Evaluation standards regulate the generation and selection of novel ideas in creative behaviors: insights from individual differences in event-related potentials, Cerebral Cortex, 34, bhae133, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae133
Huang, F.*, X. Fu, J. Song, J. Ren, F. Li, Q. Zhao (2024), Divergent thinking benefits from functional antagonism of the left IFG and right TPJ: a transcranial direct current stimulation study, Cerebral Cortex, 34, 1-9, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhad531
Preprint
Ren, J., Konrad, B. N., Zhu, Y., Li, F., Czisch, M., Dresler, M*., & Wagner, I. C*. (2025). Method of loci training yields unique neural representations that support effective memory encoding (p. 2025.02.24.639840). bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.24.639840