Xinchi Yu
@xinchiyu.bsky.social
Incoming CNRS ISC (postdoc); University of Maryland (PhD); Peking U (BS&BA). Interested in shared and unique computations cross language and vision, with EEG/SQUID & OPM MEG/.... Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/xinchiyu/home
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Xinchi Yu
@xinchiyu.bsky.social
· Jul 29
Excited to share that I’ll be joining Dr. Liuba Papeo’s lab (@ljubapi.bsky.social) at CNRS Institute of Cognitive Sciences in France (@isc-mj.bsky.social) as a postdoc this fall! Grateful to be supported by the Fyssen Foundation (@fondationfyssen.bsky.social ) -- looking forward to this new chapter!
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Advances in genomics are giving exciting new perspectives on biology of speech, language & reading. My latest peer-reviewed paper is a tutorial, guiding readers from different backgrounds through the history of the field, current state-of-the-art, & where we’re heading. A taster in this thread.🧪
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Genomic Investigations of Spoken and Written Language Abilities: A Guide to Advances in Approaches, Technologies, and Discovery
Purpose: The aim of this tutorial is to show how the rise of molecular technologies
and analytical methods in human genetics yields exciting new ...
pubs.asha.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Advances in genomics are giving exciting new perspectives on biology of speech, language & reading. My latest peer-reviewed paper is a tutorial, guiding readers from different backgrounds through the history of the field, current state-of-the-art, & where we’re heading. A taster in this thread.🧪
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New paper from the lab, "Perceiving Event Structure in Brief Actions," now out in Cognitive Psychology :)
Led by the inimitable Zekun Sun
This was my lab's first foray into event cognition
gift link: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Led by the inimitable Zekun Sun
This was my lab's first foray into event cognition
gift link: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
New paper from the lab, "Perceiving Event Structure in Brief Actions," now out in Cognitive Psychology :)
Led by the inimitable Zekun Sun
This was my lab's first foray into event cognition
gift link: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Led by the inimitable Zekun Sun
This was my lab's first foray into event cognition
gift link: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Looking for a funded Ph.D. in #CogSci in an interdisciplinary, research-first program? Apply to CEU!
cognitivescience.ceu.edu/admission
Deadline February 4, 2026. Please share with any interested students!
#PsychSciSky #DevPsych #CogPsych
cognitivescience.ceu.edu/admission
Deadline February 4, 2026. Please share with any interested students!
#PsychSciSky #DevPsych #CogPsych
Applications Are Now Open for Academic Year 2026-2027 | Department of Cognitive Science
cognitivescience.ceu.edu
November 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Looking for a funded Ph.D. in #CogSci in an interdisciplinary, research-first program? Apply to CEU!
cognitivescience.ceu.edu/admission
Deadline February 4, 2026. Please share with any interested students!
#PsychSciSky #DevPsych #CogPsych
cognitivescience.ceu.edu/admission
Deadline February 4, 2026. Please share with any interested students!
#PsychSciSky #DevPsych #CogPsych
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So proud of our cover art! The pink ink–wash brain and the rice-paper background add a touch of silkpunk aesthetic 👻Huge thanks to Shuo Wang at the Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication for the beautiful design.
🚨Our November issue is now live, and it includes a study on how LLMs align with the reading brain, a generative model for structure-based molecular design, and much more! Check it out! www.nature.com/natcomputsci...
November 25, 2025 at 3:42 AM
So proud of our cover art! The pink ink–wash brain and the rice-paper background add a touch of silkpunk aesthetic 👻Huge thanks to Shuo Wang at the Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication for the beautiful design.
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New content: Souza, A. S. (2025). Refreshing Multi-Feature Objects in Visual Working Memory. Journal of Cognition, 8(1): 49, pp. 1–19. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc....
#psychscisky
#psychscisky
Refreshing Multi-Feature Objects in Visual Working Memory | Journal of Cognition
doi.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 AM
New content: Souza, A. S. (2025). Refreshing Multi-Feature Objects in Visual Working Memory. Journal of Cognition, 8(1): 49, pp. 1–19. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc....
#psychscisky
#psychscisky
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"Memory for repeated auditory textures"
📢New paper from: Berfin Bastug, Vani Rajendran, Roberta Bianco, Trevor Agus, Maria Chait, & Daniel Pressnitzer
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📢New paper from: Berfin Bastug, Vani Rajendran, Roberta Bianco, Trevor Agus, Maria Chait, & Daniel Pressnitzer
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Memory for repeated auditory textures
Even though memory plays a pervasive role in perception, the nature of the memory traces left by past sounds is still largely mysterious. Here, we pro…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"Memory for repeated auditory textures"
📢New paper from: Berfin Bastug, Vani Rajendran, Roberta Bianco, Trevor Agus, Maria Chait, & Daniel Pressnitzer
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📢New paper from: Berfin Bastug, Vani Rajendran, Roberta Bianco, Trevor Agus, Maria Chait, & Daniel Pressnitzer
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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🚨 THRILLED to share Northeastern University is hiring a new Director for our human Siemens Prisma 3T MRI Center (Associate or Full Professor levels) who will join us as faculty in our Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health! Please share widely!
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
Associate Professor/Professor and Director, Northeastern University Biomedical Imaging Center
About the Opportunity About Northeastern: Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research (R1) university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experi...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
🚨 THRILLED to share Northeastern University is hiring a new Director for our human Siemens Prisma 3T MRI Center (Associate or Full Professor levels) who will join us as faculty in our Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health! Please share widely!
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
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New content: Vergauwe, E., Hautekiet, C., & Langerock, N. (2025). An Examination of Distractor Susceptibility of Prioritized and Unprioritized Information in Visual Working Memory. Journal of Cognition, 8(1): 48, pp. 1–9. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... #psychscisky
An Examination of Distractor Susceptibility of Prioritized and Unprioritized Information in Visual Working Memory | Journal of Cognition
doi.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
New content: Vergauwe, E., Hautekiet, C., & Langerock, N. (2025). An Examination of Distractor Susceptibility of Prioritized and Unprioritized Information in Visual Working Memory. Journal of Cognition, 8(1): 48, pp. 1–9. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... #psychscisky
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Just published my "Programming for Psychologists" course! 👩💻 github.com/Naubody/prog...
Designed for Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience Master's students starting their programming journey at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social.
Feel free to share! Feedback welcome!
Designed for Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience Master's students starting their programming journey at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social.
Feel free to share! Feedback welcome!
November 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Just published my "Programming for Psychologists" course! 👩💻 github.com/Naubody/prog...
Designed for Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience Master's students starting their programming journey at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social.
Feel free to share! Feedback welcome!
Designed for Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience Master's students starting their programming journey at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social.
Feel free to share! Feedback welcome!
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Our 52nd Annual Meeting will be held from June 18–20, 2026 at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, with a pre-conference on Mental Control and Agency held at JHU on June 17
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We are currently inviting submissions of papers (talks and posters)!
Our 52nd Annual Meeting will be held from June 18–20, 2026 at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, with a pre-conference on Mental Control and Agency held at JHU on June 17
🚨🚨🚨
We are currently inviting submissions of papers (talks and posters)!
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Our 52nd Annual Meeting will be held from June 18–20, 2026 at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, with a pre-conference on Mental Control and Agency held at JHU on June 17
🚨🚨🚨
We are currently inviting submissions of papers (talks and posters)!
Our 52nd Annual Meeting will be held from June 18–20, 2026 at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, with a pre-conference on Mental Control and Agency held at JHU on June 17
🚨🚨🚨
We are currently inviting submissions of papers (talks and posters)!
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New paper with Marina Bedny out in eLife (elifesciences.org/articles/101...). Main takeaway: Different kinds of causal knowledge are supported by different semantic brain networks - consistent with the "intuitive theories" framework from developmental psychology. 1/
Animacy semantic network supports causal inferences about illness
Making causal inferences about illness, compared to making causal inferences about mechanical breakdown and reading causally unconnected sentences, activates a semantic brain network implicated in the conceptual representation of animate entities (e.g. people, animals).
elifesciences.org
November 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
New paper with Marina Bedny out in eLife (elifesciences.org/articles/101...). Main takeaway: Different kinds of causal knowledge are supported by different semantic brain networks - consistent with the "intuitive theories" framework from developmental psychology. 1/
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proud to share this work, led by the brilliant @ilinabg.bsky.social, now out in Nature! Ilina finds that speech-sound neural processing is VERY similar in a language you know and one you don't. differences only emerge at the level of word boundaries and learnt statistical structure 🧠✨
The human brain responds to the sounds of both familiar and unfamiliar languages in a similar way, according to research in Nature. The findings might guide future approaches to language learning and rehabilitation. go.nature.com/4ppvsHb #Neuroskyence 🧪
November 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
proud to share this work, led by the brilliant @ilinabg.bsky.social, now out in Nature! Ilina finds that speech-sound neural processing is VERY similar in a language you know and one you don't. differences only emerge at the level of word boundaries and learnt statistical structure 🧠✨
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📢 Save the date! 🗣️ Spread the word!
The multi-disciplinary International Conference on Memory is finally returning in summer 2027 and it's coming to Glasgow!
The multi-disciplinary International Conference on Memory is finally returning in summer 2027 and it's coming to Glasgow!
November 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
📢 Save the date! 🗣️ Spread the word!
The multi-disciplinary International Conference on Memory is finally returning in summer 2027 and it's coming to Glasgow!
The multi-disciplinary International Conference on Memory is finally returning in summer 2027 and it's coming to Glasgow!
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Coming to San Diego for SfN and/or APAN? Come check out the intracranial work from the lab (7 posters)! There's a bit of everything this year, so come say hello!
#Sfn2025 #Neuroscience #neuroskyence
@dukebrain.bsky.social @dukeneurosurgery.bsky.social @dukeengineering.bsky.social
#Sfn2025 #Neuroscience #neuroskyence
@dukebrain.bsky.social @dukeneurosurgery.bsky.social @dukeengineering.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Coming to San Diego for SfN and/or APAN? Come check out the intracranial work from the lab (7 posters)! There's a bit of everything this year, so come say hello!
#Sfn2025 #Neuroscience #neuroskyence
@dukebrain.bsky.social @dukeneurosurgery.bsky.social @dukeengineering.bsky.social
#Sfn2025 #Neuroscience #neuroskyence
@dukebrain.bsky.social @dukeneurosurgery.bsky.social @dukeengineering.bsky.social
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Really big announcement! See @wtimkey.bsky.social's thread for the details on an exciting new preprint from the NYU-UMass Syntactic Ambiguity Processing group. It is the culmination of the team's research efforts over these last couple of years, and we're really happy with it.
New Preprint: osf.io/eq2ra
Reading feels effortless, but it's actually quite complex under the hood. Most words are easy to process, but some words make us reread or linger. It turns out that LLMs can tell us about why, but only in certain cases... (1/n)
Reading feels effortless, but it's actually quite complex under the hood. Most words are easy to process, but some words make us reread or linger. It turns out that LLMs can tell us about why, but only in certain cases... (1/n)
November 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Really big announcement! See @wtimkey.bsky.social's thread for the details on an exciting new preprint from the NYU-UMass Syntactic Ambiguity Processing group. It is the culmination of the team's research efforts over these last couple of years, and we're really happy with it.
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New paper with NicoleAnayaSosa and @violastoermer.bsky.social now out in Perception! "Testing location invariance of the flashed face distortion effect" journals.sagepub.com/eprint/WVUFW...
Testing location invariance of the flashed face distortion effect - Yong Hoon Chung, Nicole C. Anaya Sosa, Viola S. Störmer, 2025
Spatially aligned faces presented in a continuous stream in the periphery appear distorted and grotesque. This flashed face distortion effect (“FFDE”) was first...
journals.sagepub.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
New paper with NicoleAnayaSosa and @violastoermer.bsky.social now out in Perception! "Testing location invariance of the flashed face distortion effect" journals.sagepub.com/eprint/WVUFW...
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I really like the cogsci thinking and music in this paper. Happy that it's finally out! Thanks @omriraccah.bsky.social and Michael Seltenreich
for leading this project.
Geometric properties of musical scales constitute a representational primitive in melodic processing
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
for leading this project.
Geometric properties of musical scales constitute a representational primitive in melodic processing
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Geometric properties of musical scales constitute a representational primitive in melodic processing
Music; Cognitive Psychology; Cognitive Science
www.cell.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I really like the cogsci thinking and music in this paper. Happy that it's finally out! Thanks @omriraccah.bsky.social and Michael Seltenreich
for leading this project.
Geometric properties of musical scales constitute a representational primitive in melodic processing
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
for leading this project.
Geometric properties of musical scales constitute a representational primitive in melodic processing
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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With sequencing of Hitler's DNA making headlines, time for a reminder: analysing a polygenic score from a dead historically-significant figure won't give new insights into that person's behaviour. In a brief paper last year, we used Beethoven's genome to directly illustrate the fallacies involved.🧪👇
Notes from Beethoven’s genome
Wesseldijk et al. compare the genomic information collected from Ludwig van Beethoven
with population-based datasets used to quantify musical achievement.
www.cell.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
With sequencing of Hitler's DNA making headlines, time for a reminder: analysing a polygenic score from a dead historically-significant figure won't give new insights into that person's behaviour. In a brief paper last year, we used Beethoven's genome to directly illustrate the fallacies involved.🧪👇
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happy to share our newly published paper in
@cp-iscience.bsky.social on the mental representation of musical scales 🎶🧠
for those interested in music, memory representations, symbolic processing, or interdisciplinary science.
@cp-iscience.bsky.social on the mental representation of musical scales 🎶🧠
for those interested in music, memory representations, symbolic processing, or interdisciplinary science.
Geometric properties of musical scales constitute a representational primitive in melodic processing
Uncovering the mental representations underlying symbolic domains is a long-standing goal of cognitive science. Music, a relatively unexplored aspect …
www.sciencedirect.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
happy to share our newly published paper in
@cp-iscience.bsky.social on the mental representation of musical scales 🎶🧠
for those interested in music, memory representations, symbolic processing, or interdisciplinary science.
@cp-iscience.bsky.social on the mental representation of musical scales 🎶🧠
for those interested in music, memory representations, symbolic processing, or interdisciplinary science.
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Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Understanding how the brain represents experienced time and how representations of space and time are integrated to form episodic memories has been a goal of much neuroscientific research. In this Per...
www.nature.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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1/n We have discovered that bees can keep track of time duration!
Bees can discriminate long 🟡🟡 vs short🟡 flashes, a bit like the "dash" and "dot" of the Morse code.
Check our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... and videoclip youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk?... @preparedmindslab.bsky.social
Bees can discriminate long 🟡🟡 vs short🟡 flashes, a bit like the "dash" and "dot" of the Morse code.
Check our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... and videoclip youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk?... @preparedmindslab.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 8:58 AM
1/n We have discovered that bees can keep track of time duration!
Bees can discriminate long 🟡🟡 vs short🟡 flashes, a bit like the "dash" and "dot" of the Morse code.
Check our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... and videoclip youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk?... @preparedmindslab.bsky.social
Bees can discriminate long 🟡🟡 vs short🟡 flashes, a bit like the "dash" and "dot" of the Morse code.
Check our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... and videoclip youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk?... @preparedmindslab.bsky.social
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👋 Researchers at Gallaudet University and Northeastern University are seeking participants for a study of ASL learning. Our study will ask you to sign about a few different topics. Participation takes about 30 minutes, and you will be paid $15.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
👋 Researchers at Gallaudet University and Northeastern University are seeking participants for a study of ASL learning. Our study will ask you to sign about a few different topics. Participation takes about 30 minutes, and you will be paid $15.
Part 1/
Part 1/
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Our new preprint on the FOODEEG open dataset is out! EEG recordings and behavioural responses on food cognition tasks for 117 participants will be made publicly available 🧠 @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social @tgro.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
FOODEEG: An open dataset of human electroencephalographic and behavioural responses to food images
Investigating the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying food choices has the potential to advance our understanding of eating behaviour and inform health-targeted interventions and policy. Large, publi...
www.biorxiv.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Our new preprint on the FOODEEG open dataset is out! EEG recordings and behavioural responses on food cognition tasks for 117 participants will be made publicly available 🧠 @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social @tgro.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Opportunity for early career researchers to spend 3 years working with us in Oxford. Cool surroundings, interesting people. Eligibility: need some UK academic connection. Get in touch if interested! Details: www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/11...
November 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Opportunity for early career researchers to spend 3 years working with us in Oxford. Cool surroundings, interesting people. Eligibility: need some UK academic connection. Get in touch if interested! Details: www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/11...
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Do a postdoc with us in San Francisco! A fellowship slot in vision science, clinical vision, blindness, or rehabilitation is available via a NEI T32 slot: 👇🏼
🚨Postdoc fellowship alert! Applications due Dec. 10🚨
Interested in vision science, accessibility, eye movements, brain plasticity, mobility or related fields? A 1-year #NIH T32-funded opening, extensible contingent on funding, has become available in SKERI’s #postdoc #fellowship program. #neurojobs
Interested in vision science, accessibility, eye movements, brain plasticity, mobility or related fields? A 1-year #NIH T32-funded opening, extensible contingent on funding, has become available in SKERI’s #postdoc #fellowship program. #neurojobs
November 8, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Do a postdoc with us in San Francisco! A fellowship slot in vision science, clinical vision, blindness, or rehabilitation is available via a NEI T32 slot: 👇🏼