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Yuxuan Zeng
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Looking for — a postdoc in vision and computational neuroscience Working on — an fMRI manuscript Home team — two newlyweds + two cats, Lumos and Dobby Collected joys — LEGO, stationery Looking for — a postdoc in vision and computational neuroscience Working on — an fMRI manuscript Home team — two newlyweds + two cats, Lumos and Dobby Collected joys — LEGO, stationery
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LAST UPDATE 05/2026

I study how people
make sense of the visual world.

Looking for PostDoc

Currently I study how vision makes sense of global and local information. Holistic processing has long been treated as a special property of face perception. My work challenges that view. Using carefully controlled non-face objects, I show that when recognition depends on configural information, object perception can also become holistic. This suggests that global structure is not a niche component of face perception, but a fundamental source of visual information that has been overlooked. I use behavioral experiments, neuroimaging, and computational modeling to study how humans and models represent local features, global structure, and the relationship between them.

AffiliationOhio State University
Dept. of Psychology
Position5th-year PhD candidate
AdvisorDr. David Osher
Curriculum vitaePDF →
Emailzeng.774@osu.edu
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Past and current.

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Bibliography, 2021—

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Get in touch.

For potential collaborations, advisors, or just to say hi —

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OfficeLezenby Hall 207
BLUESKY@yuxuanzeng →
Scholarprofile →
GitHub@zengyuxuan →
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