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Publications (*: corresponding author; +: equal contributions; my name in bold)
Yu, X., Thakurdesai, S. P., Xie, W*. (2025). Associating everything with everything else, all at once: Semantic associations facilitate visual working memory formation for real-world objects.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001347 [📂open data]
Yu, X.* (2025). Mapping the neural taxonomy of mental objects in moment-to-moment cognition.
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_02348
Yu, X.*, & Lau, E. (2025). Same set of visual pointers for biological and non-biological objects in working memory.
Visual Cognition, 32(8), 687–700. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2025.2487860 [📂open data]
Yu, X.*, Lau, E. (2025). A finite set of content-free pointers in visual working memory: magnetoencephalography (MEG) evidence
NeuroReport, 36(3), 153-160. https://doi.org/10.1097/WNR.0000000000002132 [📂open data]
Bao, Y.+*, Zhou, B.+, Yu, X.*, Mao, L., Gutyrchik, E., Logothetis, N., & Pöppel, E. (2024). Conscious vision in blindness: a new perceptual phenomenon implemented on the “wrong” side of the brain.
PsyCh Journal, 13(6), 885-892. https://doi.org/10.1002/pchj.787
Yu, X., Pöppel, E., Zhan, W., & Bao, Y.* (2024). Cognitive entailments among “the true, the good, the beautiful”: a mainland Chinese sample.
Cognitive Processing, 25, 647-654. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-024-01200-5 [📂open data]
Yu, X.*, Li, J., Zhu, H., Tian, X., & Lau, E. (2024). Electrophysiological hallmarks for event relations and event roles in working memory.
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 17. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2023.1282869
Yu, X.*, & Lau, E.* (2023). The Binding Problem 2.0: beyond perceptual features.
Cognitive Science, 47(2), e13244. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13244
Sütterlin, C.*, & Yu, X. (2021). Aristotle’s dream: Evolutionary and neural aspects of aesthetic communication in the arts.
PsyCh Journal, 10(2), 224-243. https://doi.org/10.1002/pchj.416 (Special Issue "Neuroaesthetics", edited by Semir Zeki, Yan Bao, Ernst Pöppel)
Preprints (*: corresponding author; +: equal contributions; my name in bold)
Yu, X.*, Lau, E. (2025; submitted). Features fade, pointers persist: dissociable parietal mechanisms in visual working memory formation and maintenance.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.02.662888v1 [open data coming soon]
Yu, X.*, Raghavan, P., Niu, X., Bao, Y., Pöppel, E., Xie, W.* (2025; submitted). Universal beauty of abstract art predicted by deep neural networks.
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/uphbj_v1 [open data coming soon]
Yu, X.*, Türk, U.+, Dods, A.+, Tian, X., & Lau, E. (2025; submitted). Non-visually-derived mental objects tax "visual" pointers.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.02.651748v1 [open data coming soon]
Yu, X.*+, Zhang, D.+, Carey, T., Pöppel, E., Lau, E.+, & Sander, T.+ (2025; in revision). Unleashing the potential of OPM-MEG to study event-related fields against low-frequency artifacts: the case of sentence processing.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.14.643182v1 [open data coming soon]
Yu, X.*, Mancha, S., Tian, X., & Lau, E. (2024; in revision). Shared neural computations for syntactic and morphological structures: evidence from Mandarin Chinese.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.31.578104v2 [suppl. materials] [open data coming soon]
This manuscript has undergone much revision since the first version (v1), please only refer to the latest version (v2).
Posters/Presentations
Yu, X., Raghavan, P., Desai, S. A., Bao, Y., Pöppel, E., & Xie, W. Universal beauty of abstract artwork predicted by artificial neural network models. Vision Science Society (VSS 2025), May 16-20, 2025, St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA.
Yu, X., & Lau, E. A finite set of content-free pointers in visual working memory: MEG evidence. Working Memory Symposium (WMS 2024), July 9-12, 2024, Online.
Yu, X., & Lau, E. Shared pointers for biological and non-biological objects in visual working memory. International Conference on Working Memory (ICWM 2024), June 25-27, 2024, Leeds, UK.
Yu, X., & Lau, E. Shared pointers for biological and non-biological objects in visual working memory. Vision Science Society (VSS 2024), May 17-22, 2024, St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA.
Yu, X., & Lau, E. Load-dependent and capacity-limited response in the posterior parietal cortex during visual working memory retention: MEG evidence. MEG North America Workshop 2023, November 8-9, 2023, Bethesda, USA.
Yu, X., Tian, X., & Lau, E. Exploring the EEG marker for syntactic and "morphological" structure building: evidence from Mandarin Chinese. Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2023), October 24-26, 2023, Marseille, France. [poster]
Yu, X., & Lau, E. The neural basis of agent-patient relations in working memory. Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2022), October 6-8, 2022, Philadelphia, USA.
Yu, X., Li, J., Zhu, H., Tian, X., & Lau, E. Electrophysiological hallmarks for event relations and event roles in working memory. Salzburg Mind Brain Annual Meeting (SAMBA 2022), July 14-15, Salzburg, Austria.
Yu, X., Li, J., Zhu, H., Tian, X., & Lau, E. Towards an electrophysiological hallmark for agents vs. patients in working memory. Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2021), October 5-8, 2021, Online.
Chen, S., Yu, X., & Pöppel, E. The 3 second time window in birdsongs: Beyond defining a territory, poster on 8th International Conference on Spatial Cognition (ICSC 2021), September 13-17, 2021, Online. (for the conference program please see here.)
Yu, X. Effects of lexical tone and voice onset time on single-syllable duration perception in Mandarin, oral presentation on the Satellite Symposium on “Time and Cognition”, LMU-ChAN 4th Scientific Forum, November 22-24, 2018, Beijing, China. (for the full program please refer to here.)
Some other works
Yu, X. (2019). Lexical and syntactic contact of Chinese and Japanese in early 20th century: analyzing Nisshigōbengo. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/ktv26. [manuscript] Note: This manuscript is in Chinese, but it does have an English abstract, from which you can grasp the key points of this article.
Yu, X. Lexical and syntactic contact of Chinese and Japanese in early 20th century: analyzing Nisshigōbengo, Poster Session of Linguistic Institute 2019, July, 2019, USA. [poster]
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