Leting Zhang (张乐婷)

Leting Zhang (张乐婷)

Assitant Professor @Lerner College, UDel

Teach Psychology Fundamentals in Summer Session I

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I’m glad to announce that I will be the instructor of record for Psychology Fundamentals (PSYCH 9B/ PSCI 11B) at UCI in Summer Session I. Today is the first day of my teaching. In the following 5 weeks, I will lecture on in-depth topics of general psychology including learning, memory, thought processes, language, intelligence, motivation, emotion, and development.


This is the first time I teach an entire university course as an instructor. In the senior year of my undergraduate, I interned as an instructor to teach psychology in Guangzhou 10th Middle School. In the past year, I taught a few data science guided projects to the public on Coursera. Both instructor experiences prepared me to teach online about psychology.

Here is a summer music playlist contributed by my students. Enjoy it!

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Host CNLM Panel ‘How Addiction Hijacks the Brain’

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This evening, I hosted the CNLM ambassador’s panel “How Addiction Hijacks the Brain: What Animal Models Can Tell Us About the Neurobiology of Drugs of Abuse”. This panel features four UCI addiction experts Dr. Christie Fowler, Dr. Ariana Nelson, Dr. Jessica Childs, and PhD candidate Mitchell Farrell. This is the second panel hosted by CNLM Adult Outreach Committee and we have over 60 attendees from the Irvine community. Although the audience size in summer is smaller than during the school year, I really enjoyed facilitating the panel discussion, learned about neural mechanisms underlying drug addiction, and was deeply inspired by scientists who are determined to devote their lifelong career to improving people’s mental health.

Present at OHBM 2021

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Today, I presented my work on head direction signals in the human brain at this year’s annual meeting of the organization for human brain mapping (OHBM). The conference focuses on understanding the organization of the human brain using neuroimaging methods. At this conference, I learned about new fMRI data analyses methods and different perspectives on open science and publishing.

Present at spatial@ucsb.global2021: Spatial Data Science for a Sustainable Future

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This afternoon, I gave a poster presentation of my latest findings of head direction signals in the human brain at spatial@ucsb.global2021 - the annual spatial conference hosted by the Spatial Center at UC Santa Barbara with a topic on “Spatial Data Science for a Sustainable Future”. I’m glad to share my fresh research findings with my UCSB colleagues in both geography and psychology.

Present at Virtual Spring CNLM Conference - Memory: It’s About Time

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Today, I gave a short talk on “head direction signals during navigation” at this year’s Virtual Spring CNLM Conference with the topic “Memory: It’s About Time”. My talk took place in one of the data blitz sessions entitled “Memory Matters: Studies Examining Human Memory”. It was great to learn about the cutting-edge research from neuroscientists across the U.S. with a focus on learning and memory.