Rate My Professor Tina Liu

Dr. Liu earned her Ph.D. in Psychology with a focus on Cognitive Neuroscience from Carnegie Mellon University in 2018, advised by Dr. Marlene Behrmann. She holds an MPhil in Psychology specializing in Visual Cognition from the University of Hong Kong (2013) and a Bachelor of Social Sciences (First Class Honors) majoring in Psychology from the University of Hong Kong (2011). From 2018 to 2024, she was a Visiting and Postdoctoral Fellow, followed by Research Fellow, at the National Institute of Mental Health, mentored by Drs. Leslie Ungerleider and Elisha Merriam. She joined Georgetown in April 2024 and is a faculty member on the Neuroscience of Language T32 Training Grant. Key publications include "Unraveling nature and nurture in cortical (re)organization" in Nature Reviews Neuroscience (2024); "Microgenesis of plasticity in human visual cortex following large cortical resection" in Communications Biology (in press, 2024); "Holistic processing and face expertise after pediatric resection of occipitotemporal cortex" in Neuropsychologia (2024); "Layer-specific, retinotopically-diffuse modulation in human visual cortex in response to viewing emotionally expressive faces" in Nature Communications (2022); and "From Perugino to Picasso: holistic processing of faces in paintings" in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts (2023).