Christopher L. Asplund

Christopher L. Asplund is an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS), affiliated with the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Yale-NUS College. He serves as Head of Studies for Psychology at Yale-NUS and holds courtesy appointments in NUS Psychology, Institute for Digital Medicine (WiSDM), Centre for Sleep and Cognition, and Duke-NUS Neuroscience & Behavioural Disorders program. His research explores attentional control, consciousness, and the neural basis of cognition through behavioral experiments, fMRI, and EEG.

Research Focus:

• Understanding attentional states and their modulation by surprise
• Investigating individual differences in attention, including ASD/ADHD
• Exploring surprise's role in learning and pain perception
• Developing digital therapeutics for cognitive training
• Examining how consciousness and intelligence emerge from neural networks

Methodological Expertise: Behavioral experimentation, functional neuroimaging (fMRI, EEG), eye-tracking, and physiological measures.