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2026

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Neuroscience

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81
Citations
22306
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1582
National Ranking
22

Psychology

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78
Citations
20303
World Ranking
1600
National Ranking
11

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in China Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in China Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in China Leader Award

Overview

Zhong-Lin Lu is affiliated with New York University Shanghai in China and has an extensive body of research primarily in the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Their work prominently explores various aspects of cognitive and visual neuroscience, with a strong emphasis on visual perception and ophthalmology.

The scientist's main areas of study include:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Ophthalmology
  • Epidemiology
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

The core topics addressed in their research cover:

  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Ophthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Retinal Imaging and Analysis
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Glaucoma and retinal disorders
  • Retinal Diseases and Treatments

Zhong-Lin Lu has contributed to numerous publications, with recurrent appearances in these venues:

  • Journal of Vision
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
  • Translational Vision Science & Technology

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Barbara Anne Dosher
  • Yukai Zhao
  • Yalin Wang
  • Jiajuan Liu
  • Greta S. P. Mok

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Zhong-Lin Lu are:

  • Current directions in visual perceptual learning, 2022, Nature Reviews Psychology
  • Action video game play facilitates "learning to learn", 2021, Communications Biology
  • General learning ability in perceptual learning, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Normal- and Low-Luminance Automated Quantitative Contrast Sensitivity Assessment in Eyes With Age-Related Macular Degeneration, 2021, American Journal of Ophthalmology
  • Effects of Monocular Perceptual Learning on Binocular Visual Processing in Adolescent and Adult Amblyopia, 2020, iScience

Best Publications

  • External noise distinguishes attention mechanisms.

    Zhong-Lin Lu;Barbara Anne Dosher

  • PERCEPTUAL LEARNING REFLECTS EXTERNAL NOISE FILTERING AND INTERNAL NOISE REDUCTION THROUGH CHANNEL REWEIGHTING

    Barbara Anne Dosher;Zhong-Lin Lu

  • The functional architecture of human visual motion perception

    Zhong-Lin Lu;George Sperling

  • Mechanisms of perceptual learning

    Barbara Anne Dosher;Zhong-Lin Lu

  • The Iowa Gambling Task in fMRI images.

    Xiangrui Li;Zhong Lin Lu;Arnaud D'Argembeau;Marie Ng

  • Greater Neural Pattern Similarity Across Repetitions Is Associated with Better Memory

    Gui Xue;Qi Dong;Chuansheng Chen;Zhonglin Lu

  • Bayesian adaptive estimation of the contrast sensitivity function: The quick CSF method

    Luis Andres Lesmes;Zhong-Lin Lu;Jongsoo Baek;Thomas D. Albright

  • Three-systems theory of human visual motion perception: review and update

    Zhong-Lin Lu;George Sperling

  • The dynamics of perceptual learning: an incremental reweighting model.

    Alexander A. Petrov;Barbara Anne Dosher;Zhong-Lin Lu

  • Behavioral lifetime of human auditory sensory memory predicted by physiological measures

    ZL Lu;SJ Williamson;L Kaufman

  • Perceptual learning improves contrast sensitivity and visual acuity in adults with anisometropic amblyopia.

    Yifeng Zhou;Yifeng Zhou;Changbing Huang;Pengjing Xu;Liming Tao

  • Deficits in perceptual noise exclusion in developmental dyslexia.

    Anne J Sperling;Zhong-Lin Lu;Franklin R Manis;Mark S Seidenberg

  • Noise Exclusion in Spatial Attention

    Barbara Anne Dosher;Zhong-Lin Lu

  • The impact of prior risk experiences on subsequent risky decision-making: the role of the insula.

    Gui Xue;Zhonglin Lu;Irwin P. Levin;Antoine Bechara

  • Mechanisms of perceptual attention in precuing of location.

    Barbara Anne Dosher;Zhong-Lin Lu

  • Characterizing observers using external noise and observer models: assessing internal representations with external noise.

    Zhong-Lin Lu;Barbara Anne Dosher

  • Neural correlates of envisioning emotional events in the near and far future.

    Arnaud D'Argembeau;Arnaud D'Argembeau;Gui Xue;Zhong-Lin Lu;Martial Van der Linden;Martial Van der Linden

  • Characterizing human perceptual inefficiencies with equivalent internal noise.

    Zhong-Lin Lu;Barbara Anne Dosher

  • Functional Dissociations of Risk and Reward Processing in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex

    Gui Xue;Zhonglin Lu;Irwin P. Levin;Joshua A. Weller

  • Broad bandwidth of perceptual learning in the visual system of adults with anisometropic amblyopia

    Chang-Bing Huang;Yifeng Zhou;Zhong-Lin Lu

  • Task precision at transfer determines specificity of perceptual learning.

    Pamela E. Jeter;Barbara Anne Dosher;Alexander Petrov;Zhong-Lin Lu

Frequent Co-Authors

Barbara Anne Dosher
Barbara Anne Dosher University of California, Irvine
Gui Xue
Gui Xue Beijing Normal University
Yifeng Zhou
Yifeng Zhou University of Science and Technology of China
Qi Dong
Qi Dong Beijing Normal University
Chuansheng Chen
Chuansheng Chen University of California, Irvine
Qinghua He
Qinghua He Southwest University
Antoine Bechara
Antoine Bechara University of Southern California
Franklin R. Manis
Franklin R. Manis University of Southern California
Daphne Bavelier
Daphne Bavelier University of Geneva
Mark S. Seidenberg
Mark S. Seidenberg University of Wisconsin–Madison

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