Graduate Institute of Mind, Brain, and Consciousness, Taipei Medical University

Human communication dynamics lab

Claire Hui-Chuan Chang
https://gimbc.tmu.edu.tw/claire-h-c-chang/

Research Field

Psychology

Introduction

Claire Hui-Chuan Chang (張惠娟) is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate Institute of Mind, Brain, and Consciousness, Taipei Medical University. She received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience from National Yang-Ming University, with prior training in linguistics (M.A., National Chengchi University) and law (LL.B., National Taiwan University), giving her a strongly interdisciplinary background.

Before joining TMU, she conducted research at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute as a postdoctoral researcher and associate research scholar, and was a visiting fellow at Princeton University and INSERM-CEA in France. Her research focuses on human communication dynamics, narrative processing, and multi-brain neural coupling, using methods such as fMRI, EEG, and computational modeling. She has also served as a consultant for digital transformation and human-centered analytics in industry.

Aiming to reveal the mechanisms that support effective human communication, my lab studies behavioral, physiological, and neural dynamics using fMRI and EEG in ecologically valid experimental settings, including storytelling, movie viewing, hypnosis, music listening, and interactive video games. 


Research Topics

Our studies integrate four interrelated themes: 
(1) the neural dynamics and evolutionary forces underlying the cortical hierarchy of narrative processing;
(2) dynamic multi-brain neural networks that emerge during effective communication;
(3) the role of idiosyncratic prior experience in shaping narrative processing; and
(4) the interaction between implicit and explicit mechanisms of communication.


Honor

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Educational Background

09/2009-10/2015, Ph.D., Institute of Neuroscience (cognitive neuroscience group), National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
09/2006-06/2009, M.A., Institute of Linguistics, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan.
09/2002-06/2006, LL.B., College of Law, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.