Luchuan Xiao

Luchuan Xiao is a Researcher in the Department of Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium, with additional unpaid consultancy at the Brussels University Consultation Center. Xiao's work centers on individual differences in sensory processing sensitivity (SPS), examining how highly sensitive individuals process emotional cues and attentional information in experimental contexts.

Education:

• PhD in Psychology from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Xiao's research spans cognitive psychology and affective neuroscience, specifically investigating the neural and behavioral mechanisms of SPS. Using paradigms like spatial cueing and orientation discrimination, the work explores attentional cautiousness, emotional reactivity, and metacognitive awareness in high-SPS individuals. Key findings indicate heightened cautiousness in attentional processing during emotional conflict, linking personality traits to cognitive control mechanisms.

Publications from 2022-2025 reveal consistent experimental focus on SPS, employing reaction time measurements and metacognitive assessments to analyze how sensory sensitivity modulates perceptual decision-making. The research bridges personality psychology with cognitive neuroscience to explain individual differences in information processing.

Xiao actively collaborates within VUB's Brain, Body and Cognition research group, integrating physiological and behavioral approaches to study the interplay between cognition, emotion, and sensory processing in diverse experimental contexts.