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WorkExperience2018-Present East China Normal University 2006-2010 Zhuhai Experimental High School ResumeAfter fighting with serious test anxiety for two years, Youcai was able to pass the college entrance exams in his fifth try in 2002. From then on, he decided to edicated to anxiety research. After graduating from Northeast Normal University in 2006.Youcai taught biology at Zhuhai Experimental High School and investigated how stress impacted the learning and memory of high school students. In 2007, Youcai became the youngest PI of the Eleventh Five-Year Project in Zhuhai. Later, he studied stress under the supervision of Professor Robert Sapolsky from Stanford University and was recommended to study psychology at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and Medical College of Wisconsin with scholarship and got Master and Doctoral degrees. During the eight years in Wisconsin, Youcai used eye tracker、EEG etc to study anxiety、learning and memory under the supervision of Prof. Christine Larson, Prof. Deborah Hannula and Prof.Anthony Greene. He also applied his research on marketing and user experience research (UX) . He founded an internet company AsianFoodMap.com in 2015, which received investment from Wall Street and is competing with Doordash, GrubHub and was invited to be acquired by EatStreet in 2018. Youcai likes films and applied eye tracking on user experience research in film and TV commercial production. He produced the film 'Scott Road' won the Milwaukee Film Festival Jury Award and was shortlisted for several film festivals. Youcai also served as the special effects producer of Hollywood film 'Boss Level', 'The Last Day of American Crime', director and producer of TV series 'F34rless'(preproduction) , TV commercial production 'Q', 'Kawa' etc. His rich experience allows him to have a cross-disciplinary background in biology, psychology, medicine, and internet fields, as well as American business management experience. In 2018, Youcai came back to China and teach at East China Normal University. He focus on how anxiety impacts learning and cognitive control, how exercise intervenes in anxiety disorder, and user experience research by using eye tracker, EEG, fNIRS, fMRI etc. He was approved the grants 'Ministry of Education's Humanities and Social Sciences Program', 'Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program', and the 'Shanghai Municipal Education Commission's scientific research project'. Watch the video introduction below: Other AppointmentsApplied Economics Reviewer Member of Chinese Psychological Society Member of Sigma Xi USA Member of Milwaukee Film Alliance, US Research FieldsEmotion, Anxiety, Implicit memory, Cognitive control, Adolescent psychology, Cognitive neuroscience Enrollment and TrainingCourseScientific ResearchGrants
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Academic AchievementsBook •The Neural Mechanism of Adolescent Anxiety and Exercise Intervention , Guangming Daily Press, ISBN: 978-7-5194-6397-7 Paper 1.Yang, Y.*, Coutinho, M. V., Greene, A. J., & Hannula, D. E. (2021). Contextual cueing is not flexible. Consciousness and Cognition, 93, 103164. (SSCI) 2.Yang, Y., Qin, L., & Ning, L.* (2021). School Violence and Teacher Professional Engagement: A Cross-National Study. Frontiers in Psychology, 12(1174). doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.628809 (SSCI) 3.Yang, Y., Miskovich, T. A., & Larson, C. L.* (2018). State Anxiety Impairs Proactive but Enhances Reactive Control. Frontiers in Psychology, 9(2570). doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02570 (SSCI) 4. Zhao, N., Zhang, X., Song, C., Yang, Y., He, B., & Xu, B.* (2018). The effects of treadmill exercise on autophagy in hippocampus of APP/PS1 transgenic mice. NeuroReport, 29(10), 819-825. (SCI) doi: 10.1097/wnr.0000000000001038 5. Zhang, D., Ren, G., Yang, Y., Bishop, B. & Honda, H.* (2018). Mining On Public Sentiment Based On Net Loan Comments. International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology,3 (8), 291-296 Poster 1.Yang, Y., Miskovich, T. & Larson, C.L. (2017).How does anxiety affect cognitive control? Proactive and reactive control under state anxiety. Poster session presented at Wisconsin Symposium on Emotion. Madison, WI 2.Yang, Y., Greene, A.J.& Hannula, D.E. (2014). Is implicit memory flexible? An eye-movement contextual cueing task’. Poster session presented at Milwaukee Chapter SFN 2011 Annual Meeting. Milwaukee, WI. 3.Yang, Y., Coutinho, M. V. C., Greene, A.J. & Hannula, D.E. (2014). Is implicit memory flexible? An eye-movement contextual cueing task. Poster session presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting. Boston, MA 4.Greene, A.J., Hopkins, L., Leo, P., Yang, Y., Hinman, A., Heffernan, P.H., Figueira, S., Browning, E., Balling, K., & Kattan, O. (2012). The Hippocampus In Inference: Distinct Hippocampal Activation For Implicit Versus Explicit Performance. Poster session presented in Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL 5.Leo, P., Hopkins, L., Yang, Y. Greene, A.J. (2011). Hippocampal Involvement in Implicit Memory. Poster session presented at Milwaukee Chapter SfN 2011 Annual Meeting. Milwaukee, WI. Film and TV commercial 1.TV series《F34less》（2022） 2.Film 《Boss Level》（2019） 3.Film《Bernie》（2019） 4.Film《keys》（2019） 5.Film《Scott Road》(2016) 6.Film《Butter Lamp》(2015) 7.TV ADs《Fushinami》（2014）、《LuckyLiu》（2014）《Q》（2015）、《Asian Fusion》（2015）etc. 8.Actor in《China Test Girls》（2015）、《Popper Baxton’s Sickly Stew》(2018) Reports about Youcai 1.《Tianmu News》:https://www.ecnu.edu.cn/info/1095/59553.htm 2.Chinese Journal Report《China Youth Daily》：http://zqb.cyol.com/html/2017-02/07/nw.D110000zgqnb_20170207_4-12.htm 3.Chinese Journal Report《Guangde News》：http://www.gdnews.gov.cn/show.asp?ID=42025 4.American Journal Report《Milwaukee Film Festival》:https://mkefilm.org/news/announcing-our-cream-city-cinema-lineup 5.American Journal Report《Crticspeak》: http://www.criticspeak.com/2017-milwaukee-film-festival-cream-city-cinema/ 6.American Journal Report《Journal Sentinel》: https://www.jsonline.com/story/entertainment/movies/2017/08/22/roller-derby-documentary-joins-cream-city-lineup-milwaukee-film-festival/587261001/ Honor
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