研究方向

致力于社会认知神经科学研究，结合行为实验、计算建模和神经科学手段（EEG和fMRI）等多种研究方法，探究人类奖赏决策行为发生和异常的认知神经机制。

个人简历

郑亚，博士，教授，博士生导师，广州大学“百人计划”青年杰出人才。在eLife

Psychological Medicine、Emotion、NeuroImage、Human Brain Mapping等期刊以第一或通讯作者发表SCI/SSCI论文60余篇（JCR-Q1区论文50余篇），主持国家自然科学基金项目3项、其他省部级课题多项。国家自然科学基金通讯评审专家，多个国内外期刊审稿人。截止到2026年4月，累计指导硕士、博士研究生30余人，指导学生第一作者身份发表SCI/SSCI论文30余篇。课题组已毕业硕士研究生中有15人在北京大学、北京大学第六医院、北京师范大学、浙江大学及中山大学等国内知名高校继续攻读博士学位。欢迎有心理学、计算机、医学学习背景的同学加入课题组攻读硕士、博士学位，也诚邀国内外优秀博士毕业生合作开展博士后研究。

教育背景

2004年9月－2007年6月：湖南师范大学，硕士，基础心理学专业

2012年9月－2015年6月：中国科学院心理研究所，博士，认知神经科学专业

科研项目

[1] 亲社会努力影响奖赏加工的认知神经机制，国家自然科学基金面上项目，2026.01–2029.12，主持

[2] 认知努力影响奖赏加工的后效机制，国家自然科学基金面上项目，2020.01–2023.12，主持

[3] 奖赏期待和结果评价的认知神经机制，国家自然科学基金青年项目，2016.01–2018.12，主持

近五年代表论著（^*为通讯作者；^#为第一或共同第一作者的课题组学生）

[1] Zheng, Y.*, & Tang, R^#. (2026). Dissociable after-effects of prosocial acts: Effort is costly for others but valued for self. eLife, 13:RP103566.

[2] Yang, Z.^#, Li, X., & Zheng, Y.* (2026). Effort shapes empathy: Distinct after-effects of cognitive and physical exertion on pain empathy. Emotion, In Press.

[3] Zhao, J.^#, Deng, L.^#, & Zheng, Y.* (2026). Disentangling uncertainty signals in neural reward dynamics. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, In Press.

[4] Zheng, Y.*, Jiang, H.^#, & Yang, Z. (2026). When effort fuels risk: Cognitive exertion increases risk-taking for gains but reduces it for losses. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, In press.

[5] Liang, S.^#, Zhao, J.^#, Liang, Y., Li, X., Yang, W.*, & Zheng, Y.* (2026). Altered neural profile of reward evaluation under risk and ambiguity in intolerance of uncertainty. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 201, 105021.

[6] Gao, B.^#, Liao, M.^#, Wu, J., & Zheng, Y.* (2026). Immediate reward bias in adolescent non-suicidal self-injury: Evidence from delay and probability discounting tasks. Journal of Affective Disorders, 121626.

[7] Wang, Z.^#, Zhou, S., Gao, B., Sang, H., & Zheng, Y.* (2026). Inefficient integration between effort and reward in anhedonia. Psychological Medicine, 56, e62.

[8] Li, X.^#, Yang, Z., Liu, G., Zhao, J., Yang, W., & Zheng, Y.* (2026). Stimulus Novelty Inhibits Reward Evaluation: EEG Evidence. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1556(1).

[9] Zhou, L., Wen, H., Chen, S., Liu, G., & Zheng, Y.* (2026). Sensation seeking is characterized by blunted neural distinction between risk and ambiguity during reward processing. Personality and Individual Differences, 248, 113492.

[10] Liu, G.^#, Liang, Y., Yang, W.*, & Zheng, Y.* (2025). Neural dynamics underlying uncertain reward evaluation in individuals with intolerance of uncertainty. Psychophysiology, 62(9), e70131

[11] Jiang, H.^#, & Zheng, Y.^* (2025). Effort expenditure increases risk-taking for improbable rewards. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 51(8), 1396-1410.

[12] Liang, Y.^#, An, P., Liu, G., & Zheng, Y.^* (2025). Blunted perceived control effect on reward anticipation in trait anxiety. Journal of Affective Disorders, 388, 119559.

[13] Zhao, J.^#, Li, Q., Yang, W., & Zheng, Y.^* (2025). Hyposensitivity to losses under risk but hypersensitivity to gains under ambiguity during feedback evaluation. Biol Psychol, 109025

[14] Chen, S.^#, Wu, M., Zhao, J., Liu, G., Yang, W., & Zheng, Y.^* (2025). Dissociable effects of perceived control on reward-related neural dynamics under risk and ambiguity. NeuroImage, 308, 121067

[15] Guan, C.^#, Zhou, S., Wang, Z., Gao, B.^*, & Zheng, Y.^* (2025). Greater neural delay discounting on reward evaluation in anhedonia. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 25(1), 100542

[16] Zheng, Y.*, Yang, C.^#, Jiang, H., & Gao, B. (2024). Neural dynamics underlying the illusion of control during reward processing. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 19(1), nsae063.

[17] Zheng, Y.^*, Tang, R.^#, Xue, L., Wang, Z., & Shi, P. (2024). Attention modulates facial expression processing in subsyndromal depression: A behavioral and ERP study. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 201, 112359

[18] Wen, H.^#, Wu, M., Wang, Z., Gao, B., & Zheng, Y.^* (2024). Aberrant effort-based reward dynamics in anhedonia. Cerebral Cortex, 34(5), bhae193.

[19] Zheng, Y.^*, Zhang, M., & Wu, M. (2024). Effort discounts reward-based control allocation: A neurodynamic perspective. Psychophysiology, 61(2), e14451.

[20] Zheng, Y., Guan, C., Wang, Z., Yang, W., & Gao, B.^* (2023). Electrocortical correlates of hypersensitivity to large immediate rewards in sensation seeking. NeuroImage, 284, 120456.

[21] Jiang, H.^#, & Zheng, Y.^* (2023). Dissociable neural after-effects of cognitive and physical effort expenditure during reward evaluation. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 23(6), 1500-1512.

[22] Zheng, Y., Wang, Z.^*, Gao, B.^*, Zhou, L., & Li, Q. (2023). Dysfunction of visual novelty detection in physical but not social anhedonia in a non-clinical sample. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 23(4), 100407.

[23] Wu, M.^#, & Zheng, Y.^* (2023). Physical effort paradox during reward evaluation and links to perceived control. Cerebral Cortex, 33(15), 9343-9353

[24] Zheng, Y., & Mei, S.^* (2023). Neural dissociation between reward and salience prediction errors through the lens of optimistic bias. Hum Brain Mapping, 44(12), 4545-4560.

[25] Zheng, Y.^*, Shi, P., Deng, L., Jiang, H., & Zhou, S.^* (2023). Contextual valence influences the neural dynamics of time and magnitude representation during feedback evaluation. Psychophysiology, 60(10), e14335.

[26] Deng, L.^#, Li, Q., Zhang, M., Shi, Pu., & Zheng, Y.^* (2023). Distinct neural dynamics underlying risk and ambiguity during valued-based decision making. Psychophysiology, 60(3), e14201.

[27] Zhang, M.^#, & Zheng, Y.^* (2022). Neural dynamics of effort-modulated reward processing. Psychophysiology, 59(10), e14070.

[28] Wang, Z.^#, Li, Q., Nie, L., & Zheng, Y.^* (2020). Neural dynamics of monetary and social reward processing in social anhedonia. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 15(9), 991-1003.

[29] Nie, L.^#, Zhou, S., Wang, Z., Wang, M., Wang, Y., & Zheng, Y.^* (2020). Impaired perceptual processing of facial expression categorization in social anhedonia. Psychophysiology, 57(12), e13682.

[30] Zheng, Y.^*, An, T., Li, Q., & Xu, J. (2020). Distinct electrophysiological correlates between expected reward and risk processing. Psychophysiology, 57(10), e13638.

[31] Zheng, Y., Gu, R.^*, & Pfabigan, D.M.^* (2020). Editorial: Temporal dynamics of reward processing in humans: From anticipation to consummation. Frontiers in Psychology, 11(1901). [Editorial]

[32] Chang, Y., Wang, Y., Mei, S., Yi, W., & Zheng, Y.^* (2020). Blunted neural effects of perceived control on reward feedback in major depressive disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders, 276, 112-118.

[33] Zheng, Y., Yi, W., Cheng, J., & Li, Q. (2020). Common and distinct electrophysiological correlates of feedback processing during risky and ambiguous decision making. Neuropsychologia, 107526.

[34] Zheng, Y.^*, Wang, M., Zhou, S., & Xu, J. (2020). Functional heterogeneity of perceived control in feedback processing. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 15(3), 329-336.

[35] Yi, W. ^#, Mei, S., Zhang, M., & Zheng, Y.^* (2020). Decomposing the effort paradox in reward processing: Time matters. Neuropsychologia, 137, 107311.

[36] Li, Q., Wang, Y., Yang, Z., Dai, W., Zheng, Y.^*, Sun, Y., & Liu, X. (2020). Dysfunctional cognitive control and reward processing in adolescents with Internet gaming disorder. Psychophysiology, 57(2), e13469.

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