研究领域:
主要利用脑电ERP\EEG技术研究珠心算训练对儿童认知功能的影响，包括注意瞬脱、数量加工等过程。另外关注面孔社会知觉信息对自我表露、合作行为、社会排斥等社交行为的影响。
近五年承担的主要科研项目：
1. 江苏省哲学社会科学规划办，20SHC009，匿名社交网络中面孔可信度和网络人际信任对自我表露的影响研究，2020-07至2022-12，在研，主持。
2. 江苏省自然科学基金青年项目，BK20190937，珠心算训练对儿童数量表征过程影响的脑电研究，2019/07-2022/11, 主持，结题。
3. 江苏省教育厅，面上项目，19KJB19005，珠心算训练对儿童数量表征过程影响的脑电研究，2019-09至2021-08，主持，结题。
4. 苏州科技大学校级社会科学青年基金，大学生孤独感与匿名社交网络使用的关系的脑电研究，2019/01-2020/12, 主持，结题。
5. 苏州市教育质量的微监测微调查项目，苏州市中学生自我效能感的调查研究，2017/09-2018/04, 主持，结题。
6. 苏州市哲学社会科学研究课题，Y2017JX24，大数据时代下社会科学普及的调查研究， 2017/05-2017/10, 结题，主持。
7. 江苏省高校哲学社会科学研究一般项目，2017SJB1365, 移动支付对消费决策的影响研究，2017/06-2019/06, 结题，参加。
发表的论文：
1. Yuan Yao*, & Danmei Diao. (2023). Impact of inhibition level on field-dependent and field-independent individuals in attentional blink. Psychological Research, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-023-01853-5
2. Yuan Yao#, Hui Zhou#, Tianyong Xu, Xuelian Ge, Fenglei Du, Chunjie Wang, Feiyan Chen. (2023). Different impacts of long-term abacus training on symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude processing in children. Biological Psychology, 108514. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108514
3. Hui Zhou#, Yuan, Yao#, Fengji Geng, Feiyan Chen, & Yuzheng Hu. (2022). Right Fusiform Gray Matter Volume in Children with Long-Term Abacus Training Positively Correlates with Arithmetic Ability. Neuroscience, 507, 28–35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2022.11.006
4. Wei, Hua, Yuan Yao*, and Lili Zhou*. Concurrent working memory task increases or decreases the flanker-related N2 amplitude. Frontiers in Psychology, 2022, 13:962153.
5. Yuan Yao#, Yunying Wu#, Tianyong Xu, Feiyan Chen*, Mining temporal dynamics with support vector machine for predicting the neural fate of target in attentional blink, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2021, 15:734660
6. Chunjie Wang, Baoming Li, Yuan Yao*, Proactive control mediates the relationship between working memory and math ability in early childhood，Frontiers in Psychology, 2021, 12:611429
7. 姚远*#，曹萌#，面孔可信度对网络自我表露的影响及其作用机制, 应用心理学，2021, 27(4), 350-357
8. 姚远*，吴云，江珂，情绪状态与可信度对面孔识别的影响，苏州科技大学学报（社科版），2022.4，94-100
9. Yuan Yao, Fenglei Du, Chunjie Wang, Yuqiu Liu, Jian Weng, Feiyan Chen, Numerical processing efficiency improved in children using mental abacus: ERP evidence utilizing a numerical Stroop task, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015, 9(245).
10. Chunjie Wang, Jian Weng, Yuan Yao, Shanshan, Dong, Yuqiu, Liu, Feiyan, Chen, Effect of abacus training on executive function development and underlying neural correlates in Chinese children, Human Brain mapping, 2017, 38(10): 5234-5249
11. Dong Shanshan, Lynne M. Reder, Yuan Yao, Yuqiu Liu, and Feiyan Chen. Individual differences in working memory capacity are reflected in different ERP and EEG patterns to task difficulty, Brain research, 2015, 1616: 146-156
12. Wang Chunjie, Fengji Geng, Yuan Yao, Jian Weng, Yuzheng Hu, and Feiyan Chen. "Abacus Training Affects Math and Task Switching Abilities and Modulates Their Relationships in Chinese Children." PloS one, 2015, 10(10): e0139930
13. Jian Huang*, Fenglei Du*, Yuan Yao, Qun Wan, Xiao-song Wang, and Feiyan Chen. "Numerical magnitude processing in abacus-trained children with superior mathematical ability: an EEG study." Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE B, 2015, 16(8): 661-671
14. Fenglei Du, Yuan Yao, Qiong Zhang, Feiyan Chen, Long-term abacus training induces automatic processing of abacus numbers in children. Perception, 2014, 43(7): 694-704
15. 姚远, 灵长类镜像神经系统研究的最新进展，生物物理学报, 2011, 27(2): 99-107
论著：
《心智解读》参编，第五章、附录一和附录二， 唐孝威主编，浙江大学出版社。
