Li Li

Li Li is the Area Head of Neuroscience and a Professor of Neural Science and Psychology at NYU Shanghai. She is also a Global Network Professor at the Center for Neural Science at NYU. Prior to joining NYU Shanghai, she was Associate Professor of Psychology at The University of Hong Kong. Li obtained her PhD in Cognitive Science from Brown University (Providence, RI, US), and a BS in Psychology from Peking University (Beijng, China). After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Schepens Eye Research Institute and the Department of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA, US), she worked as a senior research associate in the Human Systems Integration Division at NASA Ames Research Center (Moffett field, CA, US) before moving back to Asia. Professor Li serves as Action Editor for Perception and i-Perception (Sage), eNeuro (Society for Neuroscience), and is on the Editorial Board of Displays (Elsevier).  

Select Publications

• Li, L.*, Ni, L., Lappe, M., Niehorster, D.C., & Sun, Q.  (2018).  No special treatment of independent object motion for heading perception. Journal of Vision, 18(4):19. DOI: 10.1167/18.4.19
• Rushton, S.K.*, Chen, R.R., & Li, L.*  (2018).  Ability to identify scene-relative object movement is not limited by, or yoked to, ability to perceive heading. Journal of Vision, 18(6):11. DOI: 10.1167/18.6.11
• Rushton, S.K.*, Niehorster, D.C., Warren, P.A, & Li, L.* (2018). The primary role of flow processing in the identification of scene-relative object movement. The Journal of Neuroscience, 38(7),1737-1743
• Chen, R.R., Niehorster, D.C., & Li, L.* (2017). Effect of travel speed on the visual control of steering toward a goal. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000477
• Niehorster, D.C., & Li, L.* (2017). Accuracy and tuning of flow parsing for visual perception of object motion during self-motion. i-Perception, May-June, 1-18. DOI: 10.1177/2041669517708206

Education

• PhD, Cognitive Science
  Brown University
• MA, Cognitive Psychology
  Stony Brook University