Hsin-Ping Tian

	PhD candidate
	Taiwan International Graduate Program in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience
	Email: a0958001547@gmail.com

Education

• PhD Exchange Program. Berlin Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Lab, Institute of Psychology and Ergonomics, Technische Universität Berlin (May 2024 – March 2025)
• M.Sc. in Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan (2021).
• B.Sc. in Department of Psychology, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taoyuan, Taiwan (2018).

Publications & Presentations

Publications

1. Tien, H. P.*, & Chang, E. C. (2024). Inequivalent and uncorrelated response priming in motor imagery and execution. Frontiers in psychology, 15, 1363495.

Conference Publications & Presentations

1. Tien, H.-P.*, Gramann, K., & Chang, E. C. (2025, May). Impaired Orientation Encoding in Motor Imagery: The Cognitive Load of Simulated Movement. Oral presentation at the 2025 Research of Imagery and Observation Conference, Brussels, Belgium.
2. Tien, H.-P.*, & Chang, E. C. (2023, March). Does Motor Imagery Require More Cognitive Resource Than Motor Execution? Poster presentation at the 2023 Annual Meeting of Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, California, United States.
3. Tien, H.-P., & Chang, E. C.* (2022, April). Determining surface electromyography activation during motor imagery: Comparison between fixed vs. adaptive thresholding approaches. Poster presentation at the 2022 Annual Meeting of Taiwan Society of Cognitive Neuroscience Meeting, Taiwan.
4. Tien, H.-P., & Chang, E. C.* (2021, March). Prime-Probe Repetition Revealed Partial Functional Equivalence between Motor Imagery and Execution. Poster presentation at the 2021 Annual Meeting of Cognitive Neuroscience Society, United States.
5. Tien, X.-P., & Chang, E. C.* (2019, November). Comparing Imagery and Execution of Force Control under the Feedback of Where and What. Poster presentation at the 2019 Annual Meeting of PsychonomicSociety, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Teaching & Training

Teaching Experience

• Teaching Assistant, National Central University (NCU)
  • Biostatistics-the Application of R language (1121)
  • The Learning Brain (1082, 1091, 1092)

Workshops & Training

• Neuromatch Academy Computational Neuroscience Summer School (July 2025)
  • Certificate available: https://portal.neuromatchacademy.org/certificate/6d0e3438-d6ab-4e49-b2dd-df8d612f49bd
• NeuroAI Summer School Taiwan (September 2025)
• Open Neuroscience in Taiwan Workshop (June 2025)
• Magnetoencephalography Training Course II (July 2023)
• Statistical Science Camp, Academia Sinica (September 2020)
• Coupled Oscillators and Synchronization Workshop (September 2019)
• Biomedical Engineering and Data Science Workshop (September 2019)
• Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Training Course I (January 2019)
• Magnetoencephalography Training Course I (January 2019)

Awards & Recognition

• 2025 (114th Year) Dissertation Writing Award for PhD Candidates in Humanities and Social Sciences, 2025 (July)
• 2025 Graduate Students Study Abroad Program, NSTC, Taiwan, 2025 (September)
• 2023 Psychonomic Society J. Frank Yates Student Travel Award, 2023 (July)
• Travel grants from NSTC/MOST, Taiwan
  • For the 2025 Research in Imagery and Observation (RIO) Conference, 2025 (May)
  • For the 2023 Annual Meeting of Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2023 (March)
  • For the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, 2019 (November)
• Honorable Mention Award in Student Presentation Competition
  • 2022 Taiwan Society of Cognitive Neuroscience Annual Meeting, 2022 (May)
  • 2021 Taiwan Society of Cognitive Neuroscience Annual Meeting, 2021 (May)
• Research Excellence Scholarship from ICN NCU, 2019 (December) & 2020 (December)
• First Place Award, College Affairs Data Competition, NCU, 2019 (November)

Other Experience

• Internship: Neuroscience and Brain Disease Center, China Medical University Hospital, August – September 2019
• Invited Lab Talk: "Motor Imagery Requires More Than Execution: Cognitive Load and Attentional Demands Revealed" presented online to the Berlin Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Lab, July 3, 2025