By using a combination of behavioral, psychophysiological, neurophysiological, and brain imaging methods, our lab investigates how cognition and emotion modulate somatosensory processing, such as touch, pain and itch, in the human brain. We also explore topics in which pain serves as an important stimulus modality, such as empathy and reinforcement learning. Our long-term goal is to understand how people process, percept, and respond to information related to pain and somatosensation, to enhance the basic knowledge of cognitive neurosciences, and to provide novel insights into the management of relevant neuropsychiatric disorders. Our lab is based in the Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Sciences (GIBMS) at the College of Medicine, National Taiwan University (NTU)..
