Research
research

  Xin Meng

 


SUNY State College of Optometry
Vision Sciences
33 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036
Office: 212 938-5777
Fax: 212 938-5754
xmeng@sunyopt.edu 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • 3D Shape from motion;
  • The role of both horizontal and vertical disparity in depth perception;
  • Binocular rivalry;
  • Whether the oblique effect is determined by the physical or the perceptual orientation (or direction) of the stimuli;
  • Nonlinear analysis of EEG and MEG signals.

Curriculum Vitae

Education | Experience in Neuroscience | Publications |
Conference Abstracts | | Awards | Service

EDUCATION

Capital University of Medical Sciences, B.S., Biomedical Engineering, 1994. 
Fudan University , Ph.D., Biophysics, 2001.

EXPERIENCE IN NEUROSCIENCE

2005,8-Now
SUNY Optometry College, Vision Science , Postdoctoral Fellow.

2001,9-2005,8
Worked on psychophysical experiment in Columbia University , Postdoctoral Fellow. 

1998,9-2001,7
Worked on the information transmission in human cerebral cortex and the complexity measures of consciousness in Fudan University , Shanghai.

2001,1-2001, 5
Worked on MEG processing in Laboratory for Human Brain Dynamics in BSI at RIKEN, Japan, as a visiting researcher.

2000,7-2000,9 
Worked on MEG processing in Laboratory for Human Brain Dynamics in BSI at RIKEN, Japan, as a summer internship student. 

1999,12-2000,2 
Worked in Beijing lab of Cognitive Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. 
1993-1998 

Worked on EEG processing and ANN in the Bio-cybernetics laboratory of Capital University of Medical Sciences, Beijing. 

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PUBLICATIONS

Meng, X., Mazzoni, P., & Qian, N.(2006), Cross-fixation transfer of motion aftereffects with expansion motion , Vision Research, 46:3681-3689.

Meng, X. & Qian,N. (2005),  The Oblique Effect Depends on Perceived, Rather Than PhysicalOrientation and Direction, Vision research, 45:3402-3413.

Chen, Y.Z., Meng, X., Matthews,N. & Qian, N. (2005). Efffects of attention on motion repulsion, Vision research, 45(10), 1213-1348.

Meng, X., Chen, Y.Z. & Qian, N. (2004). Both Monocular and BinocularSignals Contribute to Motion Rivalry, Vision research,  44(1),45-55.

Gu, F., Shen, E.,  Meng, X., Cao, Y. & Cai, Z.(2004). Higher order complexity of time series, InternationalJournal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 14 (8), 2979-2990.

Matthews, N., Meng, X., Xu, P., & Qian, N. (2003). A physiological theory of depth perception from vertical disparity. Vision Res, 43 (1), 85-99. 

Gu, F., Meng, X., Shen, E. & Cai, Z. (2003). Can we measure consciousness with EEG complexities? International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 13(3), 733-742.

Meng, X., Xu, J. & Gu, F. (2001). Generalized Dimension of the intersection between EEGs, Biological Cybernetics, 85, 313-318 

Meng, X., Xu, J. & Gu, F. (2001). The singular spectrum of EEG from epileptic patterns, Acta Biophysica Sinica, 17, 86-90

Meng, X., Shen, E., Chen F., & Gu F. (2000). Coarse graining in complexity analysis of EEG I. Over coarse graining and a comparison among three kinds of complexities, Acta Biophysica Sinica, 16, 701-706

Shen E., Qiu Z., Meng X., & Gu F. (2000) Coarse grainingin complexity analysis of EEG II. The Influence of quantization on complexityanalysis, Acta Biophysica Sinica, 16, 707-710

Gu F., Chen F., Meng X., Xu J., Yu X. & Qiu Z. (2000). Information transmission in the thinking process of human brains, Abstract of Academic Journals of China, 6, 649-651

Chen F.,  Xu J., Gu F., Yu X., Meng X., & Qiu Z.(2000). Dynamic process of information transmission complexity in human brains, Biological Cybernetics, 83,355-366

Meng X., &OUYANG K.(1997). Several Nonlinear Dynamic Methods of EEG Signal Analysis, Beijing Biomedical Engineering, 16(3), 135-140. 

Meng X., &Ouyang, K.(1995). The TechnicalRequirements for Holter System and the Method of Neural Network, Beijing Biomedical Engineering, 14(3), 146-152. 

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CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS

Meng, X., Zaidi, Q. (2008). Interactions between eye-movements and prior assumptions for 3-D shape from motion. Poster will be presented at Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, Naples, FL.

Meng, X., Zaidi, Q. (2007). Feature correspondence versus motion energy in 3-D shape perception. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, Sarasota, FL.

Meng, X., Zaidi, Q. (2006). Perceived velocity gradients and the rigidity of 3-D shape percepts. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, Sarasota, FL.

Zaidi, Q., Meng, X.,(2006), Activation of competing perceptual assumptions for 3-D shape. Talk given at the European Conference on Visual Perception, St-Petersburg, Russia.

Meng, X., Qian, N. (2003). The oblique effect depends on the perceived, rather than physical, orientation and direction. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, Sarasota, FL.

Meng, X., Chen, Y., & Qian, N. (2002). Both monocular and binocular signals contribute to motion rivalry. Program No. 219.1. 2002 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner, Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2002. Talk given at Society for Neuroscience annual meeting.

Meng, X., OUYANG, K.  "Complexity---A New Method for Processing EEG Signal"  IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks and Signal Processing (ICNNSP'95), Vol.2, PP1237-1240, 1995. 

MENG, X, Kai OUYANG, K. "Simplify the EEG Signal into Symbol Series and Study the Complexity of It"  Chinese Conference on Biomedical Electronics'95 (CBME'95), 1995. 
(Won the third prize of young researcher paper competition at Chinese Conference on Biomedical Electronics'95(CBME'95).) 

MENG, X, OUYANG, K.  "The Automatic Detection of Epileptic Waves in Long-term EEGs" 
Chinese Conference on Biomedical Electronics'93 (CBME'93), 1993. 
(Won the second prize of young researcher paper competition at Chinese Conference on Biomedical Electronics'93 (CBME'93).) 

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AWARDS

First class scholarship for 1999-2000, Fudan University.
Excellent report of doctoral forum, 2000, Fudan University.
Third prize of young researcher paper competition at Chinese Conference on Biomedical Electronics'95(CBME'95).
The second prize of young researcher paper competition at Chinese Conference on Biomedical Electronics'93 (CBME'93).

SERVICE

Member of the Vision Science Society.
Member of the Society for Neuroscience.
Reviewer for Vision Research.

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