1987/9-1991/6 Bachelor: Department of Psychology, Peking University
1991/9-1994/6 Master: Department of Psychology, Peking University
1995/9-2000/12 Ph.D.: University of California, Los Angeles
1994/7-1995/7 Assistant Researcher: Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1996/9-2000/12 Teaching Fellow: University of California, Los Angeles
2000/12-2002/10 Postdoctoral Fellow: University of Colorado at Boulder
2002/11-2003/11 Research Associate: Weill Medical College Cornell University
2003/12-2007/4 Postdoctoral Scholar: University of Kentucky College of Medicine
2007/5-2010 Assistant Professor: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
2010-Present Researcher: Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
NARSAD Young Investigator Award
Research
Neural networks of cognitive control and attention Motivation/emotion control and reward circuits Cognitive/emotional control disorders and drug addiction
Attentional modulation of emotional conflict processing with flanker tasks, Zhou, P, & Liu, X., 2013
Cognition-emotion integration in the anterior insular cortex, Gu, X., Liu, X., Van Dam, N. T., Hof, P., & Fan, J., 2013
Too little, too late or too much, too early? Differential hemodynamics of response inhibition in high and low sensation seekers, Collins, H.R., Corbly, C.R., Kelly, T.H., Liu, X., Lynam, D.R., Joseph, J.E., 2012
Parental substance abuse and function of the motivation and behavioral inhibition systems in drug-naïve youth, Ivanov, I., Liu, X., Shulz, K., Fan, J., London, E., Friston, K. et al., 2012
Cannabis-dependence risk relates to synergism between neuroticism and proenkephalin SNPs associated with amygdala gene expression: Case-control study, Jutras-Aswad, D., Jacobs, M.M., Yiannoulos, G., Roussos, P., Bitsios, P., Nomura, Y., Liu, X., & Hurd, Y., 2012
The neural processing of negative emotion postpartum: a preliminary study of amygdala function in postpartum depression, Silverman, M. E., Loudon, H., Liu, X., Mauro, C., Leiter, G., & Goldstein, M. A., 2011
Cognitive control in majority search: A computational modeling approach, Wang, H., Liu, X., & Fan, J., 2011
Common and distinct networks underlying reward valence and processing stages: A meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies, Liu, X., Hairston, J., Schrier, M., & Fan, J., 2011
Involvement of the anterior cingulate and frontoinsular cortices in rapid processing of salient facial emotional information, Fan, J., Guise, K. G., Liu, X., Gu, X., Park, Y., Martin, L., de Marchena, A., Tang, C., Minzenberg, M., & Hof, P. R., 2011
Dimensional overlap accounts for independence and integration of stimulus-response compatibility effects, Liu, X., Park, Y., Gu, X., & Fan, J., 2010
Beyond risk and ambiguity: Deciding under ignorance, Pushkarskaya, H., Liu, X., Smithson, M., & Joseph, J.E., 2010
Neural correlates of using distancing to regulate emotional responses to social situations, Koenigsberg, H.W., Fan, J., Ochsner, K., Liu, X., Guise, K.G., Pizzarello, S., Dorantes, C., Tecuta, L., Guerreri, S., Goodman, M., New, A., Flory, J., & Siever, L.J., 2010
Functional dissociation of the frontoinsular and anterior cingulate cortices in empathy for pain, Gu, X., Liu, X., Guise, K. G., Naidich, T. P., Hof, P. R., & Fan, J., 2010
Effective connectivity of the frontoparietal network during attentional control, Wang, L., Liu, X., Guise, K.G., Knight, R.T., Ghajar, J., & Fan, J., 2010
Neural correlates of the use of psychological distancing to regulate responses to negative social cues in borderline personality disorder, Koenigsberg, H.W., Fan, J., Ochsner, K., Liu, X., Guise, K.G., Pizzarello, S., Dorantes, C., Guerreri, S., Tecuta, L., Goodman, M., New, A., & Siever, L.J., 2009
A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of deliberate emotion regulation in resilience and posttraumatic stress disorder, New, A.S., Fan, J., Murrough, J.W., Liu, X., Liebman, R.E., Guise, K.G., Tang, C.Y., & Charney, D.S., 2009
The impact of socioeconomic status on the neural substrates associated with pleasure, Silverman, M.E., Muennig, P., Liu, X., Rosen, Z., & Goldstein, M.A., 2009
Neural correlates of emotional reactivity in sensation seeking, Joseph, J.E., Liu, X., Jiang, Y., Lynam, D., & Kelly, T.H., 2009
Alexithymic Trait and Voluntary Control in Healthy Adults, Gu, X., Liu, X., Guise, K. G., Fossella, J., Wang, K., & Fan, J., 2008
Searching for the majority: Algorithms of voluntary control, Fan, J., Guise, K. G., Liu, X., & Wang, H., 2008
Mid-fusiform activation during object discrimination reflects the process of differentiating structural descriptions, Liu, X., Steinmetz, N.A., Farley, A.B., Smith, C.D., & Joseph, J.E., 2008
Provisional hypotheses for the molecular genetics of cognitive development: Imaging genetic pathways in the anterior cingulated cortex, Fossella, J., Fan, J., Liu, X., Guise, K., Brocki, K., Hof, P.R., Kittappa, R., McKay, R., & Posner, M.I., 2008
Neural dysfunction in postpartum depression: An fMRI pilot study, Silverman, M.E., Loudon, H., Safier, M., Protopopescu, X., Leiter, G., Liu, X., Goldstein, M.A., 2007
Brain activation during the Stroop task in adolescents with severe substance and conduct problems: A pilot study, Banich, M.T., Crowley, T.J., Thompson, L.L., Jacobson, B.L., Liu, X., Raymond, K.M., et al., 2007
Functional dissociation in frontal and striatal areas for processing of positive and negative reward information, Liu, X., Powell, D.K., Wang, H., Gold, B.T., Corbly, C.R., & Joseph, J.E., 2007
The Involvement of the inferior parietal cortex in the numerical Stroop effect and the distance effect in a two-digit number comparison task, Liu, X., Wang, H., Corbly, C.R., Zhang, J., & Joseph, J.E., 2006
Functional dissociation of attentional selection within PFC: Response and non-response related aspects of attentional selection as ascertained by fMRI, Liu, X., Banich, M.T., Jacobson, B.L., & Tanabe, J.L., 2006
Common and distinct neural substrates of attentional control in an integrated Simon and spatial Stroop task as assessed by event-related fMRI, Liu, X., Banich, M.T., Jacobson, B.L., & Tanabe, J.L., 2004
