Yu, X.*, Chen, S., Pöppel, E., & Bao, Y.* (in press). After the COVID-19 pandemic, cinema attendance in China was higher in provinces with tighter norms. 

PsyCh Journal. 

Yu, X.* (in press). Why “thalamus” and “colliculus” have similar names in China. 

History of Psychology. 

Yu, X.*, Türk, U.+, Dods, A.+, Tian, X., & Lau, E. (2027). Language-derived mental object load suppresses posterior alpha power. 

Journal of Neurolinguistics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2026.101383 [📂open data]

Yu, X.*, Lau, E. (2026). Complementary univariate and multivariate signals in the parietal cortex for visual working memory pointers and features.

Cerebral Cortex. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhag123 [📂open data]

Yu, X.*, Mancha, S., Tian, X., & Lau, E. (2026). Shared neural computations for syntactic and morphological structures: evidence from Mandarin Chinese. 

Cognitive Science, 50(5), e70220. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70220 [📂open data]

Yu, X.*+, Zhang, D.+, Carey, T., Pöppel, E., Lau, E.+, & Sander, T.+ (2026). Unleashing the potential of OPM-MEG to study event-related fields against low-frequency artifacts: the case of sentence processing. 

Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 120(C), 110149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2026.110149 [📂open data]

Yu, X.* (2026). A language processing time window of around three seconds. 

Nature Reviews Psychology, 5, 155-155. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-026-00540-7

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, 51(10), 1361–1373. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001347 [📂open data]

Grateful that this article was named as Editor's Choice! 🥳

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) 

Yu, X.* (2026; submitted). Object category warps the topography of object space for behavior.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.11.711098v1 [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]