报告题目：From Salience to Memory：How the Brain Learns to See, Ignore, and Remember the World

报告人：王本驰教授 南方医科大学

时间：2026年5月26日上午11点

地点：心理学部415会议室

报告人简介：王本驰，南方医科大学粤港澳大湾区脑科学与类脑研究中心独立PI，三级教授，博士生导师。实验室综合运用多种技术手段，包括眼动追踪、头皮与颅内脑电、功能性磁共振成像以及计算建模，探究人类认知加工的神经基础及神经调控，重点关注注意、记忆与学习。主要探讨多种形式的学习，包括知觉学习、统计学习、序列学习、联结学习以及自动化学习，如何重塑神经活动，并在时间尺度上重组认知过程。除了观察性研究之外，我们还开展脑刺激与脑机接口研究，结合人类与跨物种方法，检验因果机制并推动科研成果的转化应用。近年来，作为第一和通讯作者在美国心理学会官方期刊Journal of Experimental Psychology系列，Neuroimage，Nature Human Behaviour，PNAS，Nature Communications和Trends in Cognitive Sciences等认知和神经科学的核心期刊发表论文29篇，其中2篇为ESI高被引论文。文章引用率2000余次，H-index为18。兼任阿姆斯特丹自由大学的博士生导师，Visual Cognition和应用心理学的编委，Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Psychological Science和Journal of Experimental Psychology系列等诸多期刊的审稿人。

报告摘要：Adaptive behavior depends on the ability to rapidly identify salient information in complex environments and transform these transient attentional signals into stable memory representations. Traditionally, salience processing and memory formation have been studied as largely separate functions, with salience linked to frontoparietal attentional systems and memory associated with medial temporal structures. Here, we propose a unified framework in which salience acts as an early gateway for memory encoding and learning. Combining human intracranial electrophysiology, scalp EEG, neural decoding, and statistical learning paradigms, we show that highly salient information generates enhanced neural representations at early stages of visual competition, biases attentional selection dynamics, and produces long-lasting changes in cortical representational space. Importantly, these effects extend beyond transient attentional capture, influencing hippocampal ripple activity, oscillatory coordination, and experience-dependent learning signals across time. We further demonstrate that learned environmental regularities can reshape future salience computations, revealing a bidirectional interaction between attention and memory systems. Together, these findings suggest that salience is not merely a mechanism for selecting information, but a fundamental process through which the brain determines what becomes encoded, stabilized, and ultimately remembered.