Yingzhi LU is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Psychology, Shanghai University of Sport, and a Shanghai Shuguang Scholar. Drawing on theories of cognitive psychology and employing research techniques such as EEG, neuroimaging, and motor behavior analysis, her work focuses on key scientific questions concerning action anticipation and decision-making in high-level athletes. She investigates the cognitive mechanisms underlying action information extraction, prediction-error monitoring, decision adjustment, and the development of expert advantages in sport contexts. Her research also examines the processes through which emotional states influence athletic performance, revealing the modulatory effects of negative emotions on athletes’ motor control. These findings provide important theoretical foundations for the assessment of cognitive abilities, psychological regulation, and precision training in high-level athletes. Her research has been published in international journals including Psychophysiology and Physics of Life Reviews. She has served as principal investigator for three projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and received the Second Prize of the 10th Science and Technology Award of the China Sport Science Society. She also serves as Vice Chair of the Specialized Committee on Sport Cognitive Neuroscience of the Chinese Society for Cognitive Science.