Steven A. Hillyard, Professor of Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego (U.C.S.D.), visited the Engineering Psychology Laboratory, the Institute of Psychology, CAS on October 25, 2012.

         Prof. Hillyard is the director of ERP Lab in University of California San Diego. He is the an internationally renowned expert on ERP (Event-related Potentials). Prof. Hillyard received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1968. He has been working on neurocognition research and has published more than two hundred papers in this area.

         Prof. Hillyard visited the driving simulators, eye tracking and EEG lab, and discussed the recent results of "the effect of chronic stress on cognition and emotion" research with the lab members. Additionally, he gave the suggestions on our future studies.