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WANG Zhiwei
  • Department：
  • Position：Associate Investigator
  • Research Field：Consciousness
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  • E-mail：zhiwei.wang@icpbr.ac.cn
Biography

I earned a Bachelor's degree in biotechnology from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2011 and completed my Ph.D. in Neurobiology at the Institute of Neuroscience (ION), Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2018. Subsequently, I pursued postdoctoral research at the Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology (previously ION) and joined ICPBR in 2020. I became an Associate Investigator since July 2023.


Research Interests

I am currently conducting research on the mechanism of consciousness, focusing on two main aspects:(1) Investigating the brain network that supports consciousness through the process of consciousness recovery. My work involves exploring the network dynamic during recovery of consciousness using simultaneous fMRI, EEG recording, and electrical stimulation of the arousal ascending reticular system in non-human primates. (2) Investigating the network and neuronal mechanisms underlying metacognition in both humans and monkeys. This research aims to gain insights into how metacognitive abilities are represented and processed in the brain, both in humans and our primate counterparts.


Selected Publications

·         Dan-Chao Cai#, Zhiwei Wang#, Tingting Bo#, Shengyao Yan#, Yilin Liu, Zhaowen Liu, Kristina Zeljic, Xiaoyu Chen, Yafeng Zhan, Xiu Xu, Yasong Du, Yingwei Wang, Jing Cang, Guang-Zhong Wang, Jie Zhang, Qiang Sun, Zilong Qiu, Shengjin Ge, Zheng Ye, Zheng Wang, “MECP2 duplication causes aberrant GABA pathways, circuits and behaviors in transgenic monkeys: neural mappings to patients with autism.”, Journal of Neuroscience, 2020, DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2727-19.2020 (co-first author)

·         Zhiwei Wang, Kristina Zeljic, Qinying Jiang, Yong Gu, Wei Wang, Zheng Wang, “Dynamic network communication in the human functional connectome predicts perceptual variability in visual illusion.”, Cerebral Cortex, 2018, DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhw347

·         Yanxia Pan#, Lijia Wang#, Zhiwei Wang#, Chan Xu, Wenwen Yu, Lothar Spillmann, Yong Gu, Zheng Wang, Wei Wang, “Representation of illusory and physical rotations in human MST: a cortical site for the pinna illusion.”, Human brain mapping, 2016, DOI: 10.1002/HBM.23156 (co-first author)