全国优秀博士学位论文 

国家自然科学基金委“优秀青年科学基金”

北脑青年学者

Wu, Y.Y., Teng, X.B.*, Du. Y.* (2025). Eye blinks synchronize with musical beats during music listening. PLoS Biology, 23(11), e3003456. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003456

Zhang, L., Ross, B., Du, Y.*, Alain, C.* (2025). Long-term musical training can protect against age-related upregulation of neural activity in speech-in-noise perception. PLoS Biology, 23(7), e3003247. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003247

Jin, X.H.#, Xing, Y.#, Lyu, B.H., Ding, J.H., Wang, X.Y., Tang, Y.*, Du, Y.* (2025). Cognitive training reorganizes lateralization of fronto-parietal network in vascular cognitive impairment, Brain Communications, fcaf394.  

https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcaf394

Zhang, L., Du, Y.*, Zatorre, R.J.* (2025). Visual congruency of performers’ movements enhances vocal music reward through Mu entrainment. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, nsaf089. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaf089

You, S.Q.#, Jiang, X.T.#, Du, Y.* (2025). Beyond valence: A predictive coding framework for major-minor mode perception and its therapeutic implications. Physics of Life Reviews, 53,131-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2025.03.002

Zhao, W.Y.*, Li, Z.Y., Li, X., Du, Y.* (2025). Progressive neural engagement within the IFG-pMTG circuit as gesture and speech entropy and MI advances. eLife, https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.99416.3

Wu, G.W., Cui, Z.X., Wang, X.Y.*, Du, Y.* (2024). Unveiling the core functional networks of cognition: An ontology-guided machine learning approach. NeuroImage, 298, 120804. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120804

Wang, X.Y.*, Krieger-Redwood, K., Cui, Y.N., Smallwood, J., Du, Y.*, Jefferies, E.* (2024). Macroscale brain states support the control of semantic cognition. Communications Biology,7, 926. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06630-7

Wang, X.Y.*, Krieger-Redwood, K., Lyu, B.H., Lowndes, R., Wu, G.W., Souter, N.E., Wang, X.K., Kong, R., Shafiei, G., Bernhardt, B.C., Cui, Z.X., Smallwood, J., Du, Y.*, Jefferies, E. (2024). The brain’s topographical organization shapes dynamic interaction patterns that support flexible behaviour based on rules and long term knowledge. Journal of Neuroscience, e2223232024. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2223-23.2024

Jin, X.H., Zhang, L., Wu, G.W., Wang, X.Y., Du, Y.* (2024). Compensation or preservation?Different roles of functional lateralization in speech perception of oldernon-musicians and musicians. Neuroscience Bulletin, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-024-01234-x

Liang, B.S., Li, Y.C., Zhao, W.Y., Du, Y.* (2023). Bilateral human laryngeal motor cortex in perceptual decision of lexical tone and voicing of consonant. Nature Communications, 14, 4710. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40445-0

Zhang, L., Wang, X.Y., Alain, C., Du, Y.* (2023). Successful aging of musicians: Preservation of sensorimotor regions aids audiovisual speech-in-noise perception. Science Advances, 9, eadg7056. (Cover Story) https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adg7056

Klarlund, M.*, Brattico, E., Pearce, M., Wu, Y.Y., Vuust, P., Overgaard, M., Du, Y.* (2023). Worlds apart? Testing the cultural distance hypothesis in music perception of Chinese and Western listeners. Cognition, 235, 105405. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105405

Zhang, L., Du, Y.* (2022). Lip movements enhance speech representations and effective connectivity in auditory dorsal stream. Neuroimage, 257,119311. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119311

Zhao, W.Y., Li, Y.C., Du, Y.* (2021) TMS reveals dynamic interaction between inferior frontal gyrus and posterior middle temporal gyrus in gesture-speech semantic integration. Journal of Neuroscience, 41,10356-10364.  https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1355-21.2021

Li, X., Zatorre, R.J., Du, Y.* (2021). The Microstructural plasticity of the arcuate fasciculus undergirds improved speech in noise perception in musicians. Cerebral Cortex, 31, 3975-3985. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab063

Zhang, L., Fu, X.Y., Luo, D., Xing, L.S.D., Du, Y.* (2021). Musical experience offsets age-related decline in understanding speech-in-noise: Type of training does not matter, working memory is the key. Ear and Hearing, 42, 258-270. https://doi.org/10.1097/AUD.0000000000000921

Liang, B., Du, Y.* (2018). The functional neuroanatomy of lexical tone perception: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12, 495. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2018.00495

Du, Y.*, Zatorre, R.J. (2017). Musical training sharpens and bonds ears and tongue to hear speech better. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114, 13579-13584. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1712223114

Du, Y.*, Buchsbaum, B., Grady, C., Alain, C.* (2016). Increased activity in frontal motor cortex compensates impaired speech perception in older adults. Nature Communications, 7, 12241. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12241

Du, Y., Buchsbaum, B., Grady, C., Alain, C.* (2014). Noise differentially impacts phoneme representations in the auditory and speech motor systems.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciencesof the United States of America, 111, 7126-7131. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1318738111

Du, Y., Wu, X.H., Li, L.* (2011). Differentially organized top-down modulation of prepulse inhibition of startle. Journal of Neuroscience, 31, 13644-13653. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1292-11.2011

Du, Y., Kong, L.Z., Wang, Q., Wu, X.H., Li, L.* (2011). Auditory frequency-following response: A neurophysiological measure for studying the “cocktail-party problem”. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 35, 2046-2057. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2011.05.008

Li, L.*, Du, Y., Li, N.X., Wu, X.H., Wu, Y.H. (2009). Top-down modulation of prepulse inhibition of the startle reflex in humans and rats. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 33, 1157-1167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2009.02.001