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Overview

Hakwan Lau is affiliated with the University of Hong Kong in China and specializes in the field of neuroscience. Their research primarily focuses on cognitive neuroscience, with a significant number of publications also related to experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, sensory systems, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Their work explores various aspects of neural and behavioral psychology studies, neural dynamics and brain function, functional brain connectivity, memory and neural mechanisms, face recognition and perception, visual perception and processing mechanisms, as well as anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes.

Hakwan Lau has contributed to multiple papers across notable scientific journals. Some recent publications include:

  • "Putting the 'mental' back in 'mental disorders': a perspective from research on fear and anxiety," 2022, Molecular Psychiatry
  • "Attention Drifting In and Out: The Boredom Feedback Model," 2021, Personality and Social Psychology Review
  • "The mnemonic basis of subjective experience," 2022, Nature Reviews Psychology
  • "Is blindsight possible under signal detection theory? Comment on Phillips (2021)," 2021, Psychological Review
  • "A little history goes a long way toward understanding why we study consciousness the way we do today," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The frequent coauthors working with Hakwan Lau include:

  • Vincent Taschereau-Dumouchel
  • Mitsuo Kawato
  • Cody A. Cushing
  • Aurelio Cortese
  • Joseph E. LeDoux

Hakwan Lau's research outputs have appeared regularly in several publication venues. These include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
  • Journal of Vision

Best Publications

  • How to measure metacognition

    Stephen M. Fleming;Stephen M. Fleming;Hakwan C. Lau;Hakwan C. Lau

  • Empirical support for higher-order theories of conscious awareness

    Hakwan Lau;Hakwan Lau;David Rosenthal

  • A signal detection theoretic approach for estimating metacognitive sensitivity from confidence ratings.

    Brian Maniscalco;Hakwan Lau;Hakwan Lau

  • What is consciousness, and could machines have it?

    Stanislas Dehaene;Stanislas Dehaene;Hakwan Lau;Hakwan Lau;Sid Kouider

  • How the Brain Translates Money into Force: A Neuroimaging Study of Subliminal Motivation

    Mathias Pessiglione;Liane Schmidt;Liane Schmidt;Bogdan Draganski;Bogdan Draganski;Raffael Kalisch;Raffael Kalisch

  • Attention to intention

    Hakwan C. Lau;Robert D. Rogers;Patrick Haggard;Richard E. Passingham

  • Relative blindsight in normal observers and the neural correlate of visual consciousness.

    Hakwan C. Lau;Richard E. Passingham

  • Understanding the Higher-Order Approach to Consciousness.

    Richard Brown;Hakwan Lau;Hakwan Lau;Joseph E. LeDoux;Joseph E. LeDoux;Joseph E. LeDoux

  • Attention Reverses the Effect of Prediction in Silencing Sensory Signals

    Peter Kok;Dobromir Rahnev;Dobromir Rahnev;Janneke F. M. Jehee;Hakwan C. Lau;Hakwan C. Lau

  • Theta-burst transcranial magnetic stimulation to the prefrontal cortex impairs metacognitive visual awareness.

    Elisabeth Rounis;Brian Maniscalco;John C. Rothwell;Richard E. Passingham

  • Unconscious Activation of the Cognitive Control System in the Human Prefrontal Cortex

    Hakwan C. Lau;Richard E. Passingham

  • Law, responsibility, and the brain.

    Dean Mobbs;Dean Mobbs;Hakwan C Lau;Hakwan C Lau;Owen D Jones;Christopher D Frith

  • Anatomical coupling between distinct metacognitive systems for memory and visual perception.

    Li Yan McCurdy;Brian Maniscalco;Janet Metcalfe;Ka Yuet Liu

  • Should a Few Null Findings Falsify Prefrontal Theories of Conscious Perception

    Brian Odegaard;Robert T. Knight;Hakwan Lau

  • Prestimulus oscillatory activity over motor cortex reflects perceptual expectations.

    F.P. de Lange;D.A. Rahnev;D.A. Rahnev;T.H. Donner;H. Lau;H. Lau

  • Attention induces conservative subjective biases in visual perception

    Dobromir Rahnev;Brian Maniscalco;Tashina Graves;Tashina Graves;Elliott Huang

  • Medial frontal cortex: from self-generated action to reflection on one's own performance.

    Richard E. Passingham;Sara L. Bengtsson;Hakwan C. Lau;Hakwan C. Lau

  • Domain-General and Domain-Specific Patterns of Activity Supporting Metacognition in Human Prefrontal Cortex

    Jorge Morales;Hakwan Lau;Stephen M. Fleming

  • Willed action and attention to the selection of action

    Hakwan C. Lau;Robert D. Rogers;Narender Ramnani;Richard E. Passingham

  • Manipulating the Experienced Onset of Intention after Action Execution

    Hakwan C. Lau;Robert D. Rogers;Richard E. Passingham

  • Theta-burst transcranial magnetic stimulation to the prefrontal cortex impairs metacognitive visual awareness

    Brian Maniscalco;Elisabeth Rounis;John C. Rothwell;Richard E. Passingham

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard E. Passingham
Richard E. Passingham University of Oxford
Mitsuo Kawato
Mitsuo Kawato Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International
Floris P. de Lange
Floris P. de Lange Radboud University
Dean Mobbs
Dean Mobbs California Institute of Technology
Chris D. Frith
Chris D. Frith University College London
Joseph E. LeDoux
Joseph E. LeDoux New York University
Michele A. Basso
Michele A. Basso University of California, Los Angeles
Thomas Thesen
Thomas Thesen New York University
Stephen M. Fleming
Stephen M. Fleming University College London
Robert D. Rogers
Robert D. Rogers Bangor University

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