About me

I am a PhD student working with Dr. Brian Levine and having frequent collaboration with Dr. Bradley Buchsbaum at Baycrest, University of Toronto. My primary interest lies in perception and memory using a cognitive computational neuroscience approach.

Previously, I was a master’s student at UChicago working with Dr. Wilma Bainbridge and Dr. Monica Rosenberg examining the predictability of memorability neural pattern and attention network on memory performance using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Besides that, I also employed deep learning and natural language processing techniques to examine the influence of image memorability on social media virality.

During my undergrad, I worked with Dr. Peter Dixon on examining the relationship between mind wandering and cognitive coupling; I also worked with Dr. Peggy St Jacques on investigating the influence of dimensionality on vividness of event-related episodic memory in virtual reality (VR) environment.

In my free time, I enjoy cooking multiple cuisines or playing some video games (I am a Pokémon fan!!!! Though you may have known from my GitHub profile haha).

If you are interested in any collaboration, feel free to send me an email!

Recent papers available online:

Peng, S., Bainbridge, W.A. (2024). Image memorability enhances social media virality. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2409.14659

Peng, S., Dixon, P. (2024). Text-based and memory-based metrics of cognitive coupling. C. J. Exp. Psychol.. https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000349