2008-2012 心理学博士 (PhD in Psychology)
英国诺丁汉大学 心理学院 (University of Nottingham, UK)
2004-2008 生物工程学士 (Bachelor in Biological Engineering)
上海大学 生命科学学院 (Shanghai University, China)

2025-now 北京师范大学认知神经科学与学习国家重点实验室 正教授
2019-2025 北京师范大学认知神经科学与学习国家重点实验室 副教授
2015-2019 美国天普大学心理学院 博士后副研究员
2013-2015 美国纽约大学心理学院 博士后
2011-2013 英国诺丁汉大学心理学院 博士后

汪寅教授的研究方向为社会神经科学和计算社会科学，长期探索人类社会行为的基本规律和脑认知基础。通过结合行为科学、认知科学、脑科学、计算科学、人工智能等多领域前沿技术，致力于解析人类社会智能的知识概念表征、心理行为模式、认知计算基础、多尺度脑神经机制以及相关社会功能障碍（自闭症、脸盲、社恐、品行障碍）的检测和干预，并助力人工智能与人类的价值观对齐。

·           Fu, M., Chen, G., Zhang, Y., Zhang, M., Wang, Y. (2025) Comprehensive neural representations of naturalistic stimuli through multimodal deep learning. eLife,14:RP107607

·           Cheng, X., Popal, H., Wang, H., Hu, R., Zang, Y., Zhang, M., Thornton, M.A., Ma, Y., Cai, H., Bi, Y., Reilly, J., Olson, I.R., & Wang, Y. (2025) The conceptual structure of human relationships across modern and historical cultures. Nature Human Behaviour, 9(6):1162-1175.

·           Luo, S., Yuan, H., Wang, Y., & Bond, M.H. (2024) Culturomics: Taking the cross-scale, interdisciplinary science of culture into the next decade. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 167:105942

·           Fan, S., Wang, Y., Wang, Y., & Zang, Y. (2024) Revisiting resting-state functional connectivity of the amygdala and subgenual anterior cingulate cortex in depressed adolescents and adults. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, S2451-9022(24)00341

·           Chang, D., Wang, X., Chen, Y., Han, Z., Wang, Y., Liu, B., Zhang, Z., Zuo, X. (2024) Older is order: entropy reduction in cortical spontaneous activity marks healthy aging. BMC Neuroscience, 25(1):74.

·           Chen, G., Gao, X., Yan, X., Du, M., Zang, Y., & Wang, Y. (2023) Online research in psychology and its future in China.  Journal of Psychological Science. 46(5):1262-1271

·           Olson, I.R., Hoffman, L.J., Jobson, K.R., Popal, H., & Wang, Y. (2023) Little brain, little minds: The big role of the cerebellum in social development. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 60:101238

·           Metoki, A., Wang, Y., & Olson, I.R. (2021) The social cerebellum: a large-scale investigation of functional and structural specificity and connectivity. Cerebral Cortex. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab260

·           Wang, Y., Metoki, A., Xia, Y., Zang, Y., He, Y., & Olson, I.R. (2021) A large-scale structural and functional connectome of social mentalizing. NeuroImage, 236:118115

·           Asadi, N., Wang, Y., Olson, I.R. & Obradovic, Z. (2020) A heuristic information cluster search approach for precise functional brain mapping.  Human Brain Mapping, 41:2263–2280

·           Wang, Y., Metoki, A., Smith, D.V., Medaglia, J.D., Zang, Y., Benear, S., Popal, H., Lin, Y., & Olson, I.R. (2020). Multimodal mapping of the face connectome.  Nature Human Behaviour, 4:397-411.

·           Popal, H., Wang, Y., & Olson, I.R. (2019). A guide to representational similarity analysis for social neuroscience. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience,14(11):1243-1253.

·           Wang, Y., Schubert, T.W., & Quadflieg, S. (2019). Behavioral and neural evidence for an evaluative bias against other people’s mundane interracial encounters.  Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 14(12):1329-1339.

·           Wang, Y., Metoki, A., Alm, K.H., Olson, I.R. (2018). White matter pathways and social cognition.  Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 90: 350-370.

·           Wang, Y., Olson, I.R. (2018). The original social network: white matter and social cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22(6): 504-516.

·           Metoki, A., Alm, K.H., Wang, Y., Ngo, C.T., & Olson, I.R. (2017). Never forget a name: white matter connectivity predicts person memory. Brain Structure and Function. 222:4187-4201.

·           Wang, Y., Collins, J. A., Koski, J., Nugiel, T., Metoki, A., Olson, I.R. (2017).  A dynamic neural architecture for social knowledge retrieval. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 114(16): E3305–E3314.

·           Prinsen, J., Bernaerts, S., Wang, Y., de Beukelaar, T.T., Cuypers, K., Swinnen, S.P., & Alaerts, K. (2017). Direct eye contact enhances mirroring of others' movements: A transcranial magnetic stimulation study.  Neuropsychologia, 95:111-118.

·           Forbes, P., Wang, Y., & Hamilton, A. (2016). STORMy Interactions: gaze and the modulation of mimicry in adults on the autism spectrum. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24:529-535.

·           Wang, Y., & Quadflieg, S. (2015). In our own image? Emotional and neural processing differences when observing human-human versus human-robot interactions. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10 (11): 1515-1524.

·           Wang, Y., Thomas, J., Weissgerber, S. C., Kazemini, S., Ul-Haq, I., & Quadflieg, S. (2015). The headscarf effect re-visited: further evidence for a culture-based internal face processing advantage. Perception, 44(3):328–336.

·           Wang, Y., & Hamilton, A. (2015). Anterior medial prefrontal cortex implements social priming of mimicry. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10(4):486-493.

·           Wang, Y., & Hamilton, A. (2014). Why does gaze enhance mimicry? Placing gaze-mimicry effects in relation to other gaze phenomena. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67(4):747-762.

·           Wang, Y., & Hamilton, A. (2013). Understanding the role of the ‘self’ in the social priming of mimicry.  PLoS One. 8(4):e60249.

·           Wang, Y., & Hamilton, A. (2012). Social top-down response modulation (STORM)—a model of the control of mimicry in social interaction. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6:153.

·           Wang, Y., Ramsey, R., & Hamilton, A. (2011). The control of mimicry by eye contact is mediated by medial prefrontal cortex.  The Journal of Neuroscience, 31(33): 12001-12010.

·           Wang, Y., Newport, R., & Hamilton, A. (2011). Eye contact enhances mimicry of intransitive hand movements. Biology Letters, 7:7-10.