My overarching goal is to study cognition in naturalistic environments using computational models. I am interested in how the brain generates predictions, detects mismatches, and updates behaviours. To investigate these processes, I use virtual reality (VR), mobile EEG, and motion data.
My current project focuses on the multi-sensory integration during active navigation in virtual reality, supervised by Robert Wilson. Read more about why VR is naturalistic in my paper in Nature Reviews Psychology.
I also study how people learn to control robotic arms during bimanual teleoperation with the da Vinci Surgical System. This project uses optimal control theory to model learning dynamics in motor learning during human–robot interaction.
Outside of the lab, I enjoy hiking and scuba diving.
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Multi-sensory integration |
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PhD in Psychology Georgia Institute of Technology | 2024 - Present |
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MA in Psychology University of Arizona | 2022 - 2024 |
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Honours BSc in Psychology; Minor: Biology and Anthropology University of Toronto | 2016 - 2020 |
Jan 2025 – Present
Dec 2023
Awarding Body: University of Arizona
Nov 2023
Awarding Body: Society for Neuroscience
Jul 2023 - Jun 2024
Funder: University of Arizona
Dec 2022
Awarding Body: University of Arizona
Nov 2022 - Nov 2023
Funder: University of Arizona
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Bayesian cue combination best predicts straight-line distance estimation with translated visual landmarks.
Neuropsychologia (2025)
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Vishwanath, A., … Huang, Y., … Wilson, R. C. |
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Leveraging Virtual Reality to Understand Human Spatial Navigation. Nature Reviews Psychology (2023) PAPER |
Huang, Y. |
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Replicability of Two Classic Experiments in Social Psychology: Implicit Association Test and Imagined Contact.
Inkblot: Undergraduate Journal of Psychology (2020)
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Huang, Y. |
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Course: Math of the Mind [16 students] Teaching Assistant |
2025 Fall |
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Course: Research Methods [30 students] Teaching Assistant |
2025 Summer |
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Course: Applied Experimental Psychology [40 students] Lab Instructor |
2025 Spring |
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Course: General Psychology [150 students] Teaching Assistant (Full Course) and Guest Lecturer (Memory) |
2024 Fall |
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Course: Vestibular System [20 students] Guest Lecturer |
2023 Spring |
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Course: Drugs and the Brain [200 students] Teaching Assistant (Full Course) and Guest Lecturer (Psychedelics) |
2023 Spring |
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Course: Psychological Measurement and Statistics [200 students] Teaching Assistant (Full Course) and Guest Lecturer (ANOVA) |
2022 Fall |
| Graduate Representative Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology |
2024 - 2025 | |
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Graduate Representative Psychology, University of Arizona |
2022 - 2024 |
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Society for Neuroscience |
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American Psychological Association |