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Qing Yu
Neuroscience Chinese academy of sciences
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shanghai
Language: English, Chinese
Working Memory
Neural Mechanisms
Cognitive Neuroscience
Brain Imaging
Fmri
Eeg
Meg
Psychophysics
Mathematical Models
Visual Cognition
Areas of Focus
- Neural mechanisms of working memory
- Neural mechanisms of imagination
- Representation of knowledge and abstract concepts in the brain
Work Experience
- 2016-2020 - University of Wisconsin-Madison - Postdoctoral and Research Scientist
- 2020-present - Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Researcher, Visual Cognition and Memory Research Group Leader
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2011 - Bachelor of Science: Peking University, Department of Psychology
- 2016 - PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience: Dartmouth College, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Publications
- Stimulus representation in human frontal cortex supports flexible control in working memory, Shao, Z.J., Zhang, M.Y., Yu, Q., 2024
- Distinct neural signatures underlying information maintenance and manipulation in working memory, Shi, D., Yu, Q., 2024
- Spatiotemporal dynamics of self-generated imagery reveal a reverse cortical hierarchy from cue-induced imagery, Hu, Y., Yu, Q., 2023
- Neural representations in visual and parietal cortex differentiate between imagined, perceived, and illusory experiences, Li, S., Zeng, X.M., Shao, Z.J., Yu, Q., 2023
- The neural codes underlying internally generated representations in visual working memory, Yu, Q., Postle, B., 2021
- Delay-period activity in frontal, parietal, and occipital cortex tracks noise and biases in visual working memory, Yu, Q., Panichello, M., Cai, Y., Postle, B., Buschman, T., 2020
- Different states of priority recruit different neural representations in visual working memory, Yu, Q., Teng, C., Postle, B., 2020
- Neural correlates of the conscious perception of visual location lie outside visual cortex, Liu, S., Yu, Q., Tse, P., Cavanagh, P., 2019
- Temporal-order-based attentional priority modulates mnemonic representations in parietal and frontal cortices, Yu, Q., Shim, WM., 2019
- Parietal-occipital interactions underlying control- and representation-related processes in working memory for nonspatial visual features, Gosseries, O., Yu, Q., LaRocque, J., Starrett, M., Rose, N., Cowan, N., Postle, B., 2018
- Occipital, parietal, and frontal cortices selectively maintain task-relevant features of multi-feature objects in visual working memory, Yu, Q., Shim, WM., 2017
- Modulating foveal representation can influence visual discrimination in the periphery, Yu, Q., Shim, WM., 2016
- Strategic control of location and ordinal context in visual working memory, Fulvio, J., Yu, Q., Postle, B., 2023
- Neuroimaging and the localization of function in visual cognition, Postle, B., Yu, Q., 2020
- The role of location-context binding in nonspatial visual working memory, Cai, Y., Fulvio, J., Yu, Q., Sheldon, A., Postle, B., 2020
- Overlapping and distinct contributions of stimulus location and of spatial context to nonspatial visual short-term memory, Cai, Y., Sheldon, A., Yu, Q., Postle, B., 2019
- Separating the present and the future, Yu, Q., Postle, B., 2018
- Spatial summation revealed in the earliest visual evoked component C1 and the effect of attention on its linearity, Chen, J., Yu, Q., Zhu Z., Peng Y., Fang, F., 2016
