Xiaoyu Zeng|曾笑雨
@xiaoyuzengbrain.bsky.social
PhD candidate; decision-making&intracranial EEG and electrical stimulation
http://mylab.bnu.edu.cn
http://mylab.bnu.edu.cn
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First ever public presentation of single cell evidence for non-spatial grid cells by Elena Gutierrez, Seb Veselic from Steve Kennerley lab. Steve an I have been dreaming of this moment for nearly 10 years. #sfn25
November 16, 2025 at 12:07 AM
First ever public presentation of single cell evidence for non-spatial grid cells by Elena Gutierrez, Seb Veselic from Steve Kennerley lab. Steve an I have been dreaming of this moment for nearly 10 years. #sfn25
distinct roles of vmPFC and anterior insula high-frequency activity (>50hz) in tracking pleasant and unpleasant valuation
#iEEG
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#iEEG
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Choosing the best or avoiding the worst: complementary and opponent value signals in the human brain
Whether the brain encodes the subjective value of pleasant and unpleasant situations via a single integrated circuit or through distinct pathways remains unresolved. It is also unclear how neural valu...
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November 13, 2025 at 7:10 AM
distinct roles of vmPFC and anterior insula high-frequency activity (>50hz) in tracking pleasant and unpleasant valuation
#iEEG
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#iEEG
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New work from the lab published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social by @jonasterlau.bsky.social and Jan Martini. We describe that trial-by-trial variability indexes recurrent connectivity across the cortical hierarchy, which supports reliable and flexible coding www.cell.com/neuron/abstr... (1/4)
Structure in noise: Recurrent connectivity shapes neural variability to balance perceptual and cognitive demands in the human brain
Does neural variability reflect random noise or a feature that benefits adaptive behavior?
Using intracranial recordings in humans, Terlau et al. demonstrate that neural variability
results from the r...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
New work from the lab published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social by @jonasterlau.bsky.social and Jan Martini. We describe that trial-by-trial variability indexes recurrent connectivity across the cortical hierarchy, which supports reliable and flexible coding www.cell.com/neuron/abstr... (1/4)
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🚨Job alert🚨
The lab has up to *3 postdoc openings* for comp systems neuroscientists interested in describing and manipulating neural population dynamics mediating behaviour
This is part of a collaborative ARIA grant "4D precision control of cortical dynamics"
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383909
The lab has up to *3 postdoc openings* for comp systems neuroscientists interested in describing and manipulating neural population dynamics mediating behaviour
This is part of a collaborative ARIA grant "4D precision control of cortical dynamics"
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383909
3 Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Champalimaud Foundation (Fundação D. Anna de Sommer Champalimaud e Dr.
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
November 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
🚨Job alert🚨
The lab has up to *3 postdoc openings* for comp systems neuroscientists interested in describing and manipulating neural population dynamics mediating behaviour
This is part of a collaborative ARIA grant "4D precision control of cortical dynamics"
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383909
The lab has up to *3 postdoc openings* for comp systems neuroscientists interested in describing and manipulating neural population dynamics mediating behaviour
This is part of a collaborative ARIA grant "4D precision control of cortical dynamics"
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383909
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A funny conversation with a newcomer at the contra dance in Woods Hole last night:
Me: What brings you to Woods Hole?
He: I’m a neuroscientist, working on octopuses.
Me: I’m a neuroscientist too! I study patches of human cortex that do ridiculously specific things.
He: Oh like that Kanwisher stuff?
Me: What brings you to Woods Hole?
He: I’m a neuroscientist, working on octopuses.
Me: I’m a neuroscientist too! I study patches of human cortex that do ridiculously specific things.
He: Oh like that Kanwisher stuff?
November 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
A funny conversation with a newcomer at the contra dance in Woods Hole last night:
Me: What brings you to Woods Hole?
He: I’m a neuroscientist, working on octopuses.
Me: I’m a neuroscientist too! I study patches of human cortex that do ridiculously specific things.
He: Oh like that Kanwisher stuff?
Me: What brings you to Woods Hole?
He: I’m a neuroscientist, working on octopuses.
Me: I’m a neuroscientist too! I study patches of human cortex that do ridiculously specific things.
He: Oh like that Kanwisher stuff?
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New position, new social media account. After 5 fantastic years in Tuebingen, I moved to @yale.edu and the @wutsaiyale.bsky.social this summer - which means that I’ll be recruiting PhD students and postdocs. Please help me to spread the word and see current opportunities below 👇
October 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
New position, new social media account. After 5 fantastic years in Tuebingen, I moved to @yale.edu and the @wutsaiyale.bsky.social this summer - which means that I’ll be recruiting PhD students and postdocs. Please help me to spread the word and see current opportunities below 👇
intracranial electrical stimulation on macro-electrodes & single-neuron recording from microwires. The sample size (N=30) is impressive. incredible work by Dr Jonathan Daume and Dr @urutisha.bsky.social and their colleagues.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #iEEG
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #iEEG
Hippocampal stimulation reveals causal role of persistent neural activity in human working memory
Working memory (WM) enables the temporary maintenance and manipulation of information, supporting flexible, goal-directed behavior. While converging evidence suggests that the hippocampus contributes ...
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August 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
intracranial electrical stimulation on macro-electrodes & single-neuron recording from microwires. The sample size (N=30) is impressive. incredible work by Dr Jonathan Daume and Dr @urutisha.bsky.social and their colleagues.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #iEEG
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #iEEG
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Check out our new review/perspective (w/ @juangallego.bsky.social & Devika Narain) on neural manifolds in the brain! It was a lot of fun to think through these ideas over the past couple of years, and I'm excited it's finally out in the world!
🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📄: rdcu.be/ex8hW
🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📄: rdcu.be/ex8hW
A neural manifold view of the brain - Nature Neuroscience
Recent advances in neuroscience have revealed how neural population activity underlying behavior can be well described by topological objects called neural manifolds. Understanding how nature, nurture...
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July 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Check out our new review/perspective (w/ @juangallego.bsky.social & Devika Narain) on neural manifolds in the brain! It was a lot of fun to think through these ideas over the past couple of years, and I'm excited it's finally out in the world!
🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📄: rdcu.be/ex8hW
🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📄: rdcu.be/ex8hW
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Super excited to share this new work from the lab (led by Guangyao Qi)! We demonstrate compositional social gaze codes in the prefrontal-amygdala circuits, by testing three predictions from the compositionality hypothesis. 👇👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Compositionality of social gaze in the prefrontal-amygdala circuits
Each social gaze can be deconstructed into primitive components, including gaze content, social state, and gaze duration. To reduce dimensionality and facilitate generalization, the brain needs to rep...
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July 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Super excited to share this new work from the lab (led by Guangyao Qi)! We demonstrate compositional social gaze codes in the prefrontal-amygdala circuits, by testing three predictions from the compositionality hypothesis. 👇👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Two brilliant studies combining intracranial recordings + intracranial electrical stimulation. Groundbreaking work from Josef Parvizi, Weichen Huang, Dian Lyu and colleagues! 🔥 #iEEG
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Direct interactions between the human insula and hippocampus during memory encoding
Nature Neuroscience - The hippocampus and insula communicate when processing emotional memories. Discrete sites in the human insular cortex showed changes that predicted later memory recall, while...
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July 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Two brilliant studies combining intracranial recordings + intracranial electrical stimulation. Groundbreaking work from Josef Parvizi, Weichen Huang, Dian Lyu and colleagues! 🔥 #iEEG
rdcu.be/ew77E
rdcu.be/ew77I
rdcu.be/ew77E
rdcu.be/ew77I
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The sycophantic tone of ChatGPT always sounded familiar, and then I recognized where I'd heard it before: author response letters to reviewer comments.
"You're exactly right, that's a great point!"
"Thank you so much for this insight!"
Also how it always agrees even when it contradicts itself.
"You're exactly right, that's a great point!"
"Thank you so much for this insight!"
Also how it always agrees even when it contradicts itself.
July 9, 2025 at 9:24 AM
The sycophantic tone of ChatGPT always sounded familiar, and then I recognized where I'd heard it before: author response letters to reviewer comments.
"You're exactly right, that's a great point!"
"Thank you so much for this insight!"
Also how it always agrees even when it contradicts itself.
"You're exactly right, that's a great point!"
"Thank you so much for this insight!"
Also how it always agrees even when it contradicts itself.
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Nature
Inter-brain neural dynamics in biological and artificial intelligence systems
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Inter-brain neural dynamics in biological and artificial intelligence systems
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Inter-brain neural dynamics in biological and artificial intelligence systems - Nature
Shared inter-brain neural dynamics, reflecting aspects of social interaction including self and other’s behaviours, arise in GABAergic neurons of the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex of socially interact...
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July 5, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Nature
Inter-brain neural dynamics in biological and artificial intelligence systems
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Inter-brain neural dynamics in biological and artificial intelligence systems
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Nature Neuroscience
Simultaneous intracranial recordings of interacting brains reveal neurocognitive dynamics of human cooperation
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Simultaneous intracranial recordings of interacting brains reveal neurocognitive dynamics of human cooperation
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Simultaneous intracranial recordings of interacting brains reveal neurocognitive dynamics of human cooperation - Nature Neuroscience
Using intracranial recordings in pairs of humans cooperating in interactive games, this study shows fine-grained cooperation dynamics featured by state-dependent motives and the intrabrain and interbr...
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December 24, 2024 at 11:37 AM
Nature Neuroscience
Simultaneous intracranial recordings of interacting brains reveal neurocognitive dynamics of human cooperation
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Simultaneous intracranial recordings of interacting brains reveal neurocognitive dynamics of human cooperation
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New nat. commun. Paper by Cecchi et Al. 2024 on Causal involvement of anterior insulate and ventrimedial prefrontal cortex during risky choices
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Four years of work: congrats to romane: well done !!
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Four years of work: congrats to romane: well done !!
August 29, 2024 at 7:59 PM
New nat. commun. Paper by Cecchi et Al. 2024 on Causal involvement of anterior insulate and ventrimedial prefrontal cortex during risky choices
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Four years of work: congrats to romane: well done !!
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Four years of work: congrats to romane: well done !!