Xuan Cui

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Neuronal Oscillations Group, led by Prof. Ole Jensen, based across the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity and the Life and Mind Building.

My research focuses on how oscillatory dynamics contribute to information processing in the human brain, with a particular emphasis on language and reading. I lead a project that combines behavioural tasks with neuroimaging methods to study how the brain extracts and integrates information during natural reading, including the close coordination between visual processing, phonological representations, and eye movements.

A central theme of this work is parafoveal previewing—the ability to gain information from words that are not yet directly fixated—which is thought to play a key role in fluent reading. Importantly, this project extends beyond adult studies to a developmental perspective, examining when and how parafoveal previewing emerges during childhood and how its development relates to reading efficiency.

I am also a member of the COGITATE Consortium (Collaboration On GNW and IIT: Testing Alternative Theories of Experience), a large-scale international research collaboration dedicated to evaluating competing theories of consciousness through rigorous, preregistered experiments. Within the team, I focus on exploring patterns of neural activity and synchronization in MEG data.