Zixin Liu
PhD student
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10/2024
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PhD student and Research Associate in the Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Hamburg. |
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09/2022 – 05/2024
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M.Sc. Entwicklungspsychologie, Teachers College, Columbia University
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| 04/2018 – 05/2022 | B.A. Individualized Major, Gallatin School of Individualized Studies, New York University |
Research Focus
I investigate cognitive development in children by examining how they adaptively update their beliefs in volatile environments. My approach integrates computational modelling, pupillometry, and socio-emotional contextual measures to quantify this learning process across varying levels of environmental uncertainty.
Publications and Presentations
Liu., Z., Kollakowski, N.-A., & Liszkowski., U. (2025) Dynamic Belief Updating under Uncertainty in Late Childhood [Preregistration]. OSF. osf.io/hq9pn
Liu., Z., Kollakowski, N.-A., Bruckner, R., & Liszkowski., U. (2026, January 15-17) Optimal Dynamic Belief Updating in Some but Not Other 8- and 10-Year-Olds [Poster session]. BCCCD 2026, Budapest, Hungary.
Liu., Z., Kollakowski, N.-A., & Liszkowski., U. (2025, September 16-19) Dynamic Belief Updating under Uncertainty in Late Childhood [Poster session]. IEEE ICDL 2025, Prague, Czech Republic.
Liu, Z., Song, T., Lambert, C. J., Chang, K., Chuaqui, K., Baer, N., Frank, R., Liu, J., Bartolomeo, P., & Spagna, A. (2025). Probing the Imaginable: Shared and Distinct Processes Between Imagery and Perception Across Semantic Domains. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 0(0).
Spagna, A., Heidenry, Z., Miselevich, M., Lambert, C., Eisenstadt, B. E., Tremblay, L., Liu, Z., Liu, J., & Bartolomeo, P. (2024). Visual mental imagery: Evidence for a heterarchical neural architecture. Physics of life reviews, 48, 113–131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2023.12.012