Talks and presentations
Human Navigation
Direction
Cheng, Y. , Chrastil, E.R.. The Emergence of Head Direction Signals in a Complex Environment. Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Virtual. June, 2021. [news]
Cheng, Y. , Chrastil, E.R.. The Emergence of Head Direction Signals in Human Navigation. spatial@ucsb.global2021: Spatial Data Science for a Sustainable Future, Virtual. June, 2021. [news]
Cheng, Y. , Chrastil, E.R.. Head Direction Signals During Navigation. Virtual Spring CNLM Conference - Memory: It’s About Time, Virtual. May, 2021. [news]
Cheng, Y. . Finding the Compass: Head Direction Signals in the Human Brain. UCI CNLM Awards Ceremony, Virtual. May, 2021. [news]
Cheng, Y. , Chrastil, E.R.. The Emergence of Head Direction Signals in Human Navigation, The Emergence of Head Direction Signals in Human Navigation. UCI Associated Graduate Students (AGS) Symposium, Virtual. April, 2021. Audience Choice Award [news]
Cheng, Y. , Chrastil, E.R.. The Emergence of Head Direction Signals in Human Navigation, Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) Annual Meeting, Virtual. March, 2021. [news]
Cheng, Y. , Chrastil, E.R.. The Emergence of Head Direction Signals in Human Navigation, Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (INP) recruitment session, Virtual. Jan., 2021. [news]
Cheng, Y. , Chrastil, E.R.. The Emergence of Head Direction Signals in Human Navigation, Society for Neuroscience Global Connectome, Virtual. Jan., 2021. [news]
Cheng, Y. , Chrastil, E.R. The Emergence of Head Direction Signals in Human Navigation, Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, Virtual. Nov., 2020. [news]
Cheng, Y. , Ling, S., Stern, C. E., Huang, A., Chrastil, E.R. Travel Direction as a Fundamental Component of Human Navigation, Neuromatch Conference 3.0, Virtual. Oct., 2020. [news] [video]
Cheng, Y. , Ling, S., Stern, C. E., Huang, A., Chrastil, E.R. Travel Direction as a Fundamental Component of Human Navigation, Interdisciplinary Navigation Symposium (iNAV), Virtual. Oct., 2020. [news]
Cheng, Y. . Travel Direction as a Fundamental Component of Human Navigation, UCI Cognitive Sciences Department Graduate Student Presentation Bonanza, Irvine. Jan., 2020.
Cheng, Y. , Ling, S., Stern, C. E., Huang, A., Chrastil, E.R. Travel Direction as a Fundamental Component of Human Navigation, Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (INP) recruitment session, Irvine. Jan., 2020.
Cheng, Y. , Ling, S., Stern, C. E., Huang, A., Chrastil, E.R. Travel Direction as a Fundamental Component of Human Navigation, Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada. Nov., 2019.
Cheng, Y. , Ling, S., Stern, C. E., Huang, A., Chrastil, E.R. Travel Direction as a Fundamental Component of Human Navigation, Interdisciplinary Navigation Symposium (iNAV), Quebec, Canada. June, 2018.
Cheng, Y. , Ling, S., Stern, C. E., Huang, A., Chrastil, E.R. Are You Getting Closer to the Sun or to the Moon? An Unusual Motion Adaptation Effect of Travel Direction. spatial@ucsb.local2018, UCSB Center for Spatial Studies. University of California, Santa Barbara. June, 2018.
Distance
- Cheng, Y. . Domain-General Distance Representation, Spring Quarter UCSB Geography Department Colloquium, Santa Barbara. May, 2019.
Sex Difference
- Cheng, Y. . What Are the Sex Differences in Navigation Training? Using Sea Hero Quest Dataset, UCSB Crossroads Symposium, Santa Barbara. Nov., 2019.
Spatial Cognition
Cheng, Y. , Hegarty, M., Chrastil, E.R. Embodied Experience of the ‘Wrong’ Hand, Not World Knowledge, Supports the Mental Rotation of Hands, Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, USA. Nov., 2018.
Cheng, Y. , Hegarty, M., Chrastil, E.R. Performance Discrepancy Between Left-handers and Right-handers Reveals Multisensory Integration in the Mental Rotation of Hands, Spatial Cognition, Tübingen, Germany. Aug., 2018.
Cheng, Y. . Left Hand, Right Hand. 2018 Spatial Lightning Talks, UCSB Center for Spatial Studies, Santa Barbara. Feb., 2018. [video]
Decision Making
Cheng, Y. , Chrastil, E.R. From Individual Cognitive Maps to a Collective Cognitive Map: Prescriptive Guidelines, Collective Spatial Cognition Specialist Meeting, Santa Barbara. April, 2019.
Chrastil, E.R., Nicora, G., Davis, R., Smith, J., Cheng, Y. The Influence of Decision-Making on Spatial Learning and Memory: An Individual Differences Approach, Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA. Nov., 2017.
Cheng, Y. , Qu, C. Cost Consideration Driven by Prosociality in Third-party Punishment: Using Feedback Related Negativity, Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA. Oct., 2015.
Memory
- Cheng, Y. , Liang, Y., Tang, Z. Mixed Time-Based and Event-Based Prospective Memory: A Behavioral Study, the 16th National Academic Congress of Psychology, Nanjing, China. Nov., 2013.
Others
Downs, M., Brun, J., Huang, T., Cheng, Y. . Greater Than the Sum of the Parts: Collaboration in and Beyond the U.S. LTER Network, Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Virtual. Aug., 2020.
Downs, M., Davis, F., Brun, J., Huang, T., Cheng, Y. . Greater Than the Sum of the Parts: Collaboration in the U.S. LTER Network, International Long-Term Ecosystem Research Open Science Meeting (ILTER OSM), Leipzig, Germany. Sept., 2019.