2012.09-2015.06 北京师范大学 硕士

2016.10-2020.08 英国约克大学 博士

2019.10-2021.10 英国约克大学 博士后

2021.10-2025.12 中国科学院心理研究所 助理研究员

2025.12-至今 中国科学院心理研究所 副研究员

主要采用行为实验与脑影像相结合的方法，研究语义加工及语义控制的认知神经机制。

1. Wang, X., Lyu, B., Krieger-Redwood, K., Souter, N. E., Shafiei, G., Lin, N., Smallwood, J., Jefferies, E., & Du, Y. (2025). Feature similarity, a sensitive method to capture the functional interaction of brain regions and networks to support flexible behavior. Communications Biology, 8(1), 1776.

2. Wang, X., Krieger-Redwood, K., Cui, Y., Smallwood, J., Du, Y., & Jefferies, E. (2024). Macroscale brain states support the control of semantic cognition. Communications Biology, 7(1), 926.

3. Wang, X., Krieger-Redwood, K., Lyu, B., Lowndes, R., Wu, G., Souter, N. E., Wang, X., Kong, R., Shafiei, G., Bernhardt, B. C., Cui, Z., Smallwood, J., Du, Y., & Jefferies, E. (2024). The brain’s topographical organization shapes dynamic interaction patterns that support flexible behavior based on rules and long-term knowledge. Journal of Neuroscience, 44(22).

4. Wang, X., Krieger-Redwood, K., Zhang, M., Cui, Z., Wang, X., Karapanagiotidis, T., Du, Y., Leech, R., Bernhardt, B. C., Margulies, D. S., Smallwood, J., & Jefferies, E. (2023). Physical distance to sensory-motor landmarks predicts language function. Cerebral Cortex, 33(8), 4305～4318.

5. Wang, X., Gao, Z., Smallwood, J., & Jefferies, E. (2021). Both default and multiple-demand regions represent semantic goal information. Journal of Neuroscience, 41(16), 3679～3691.

6. Wang, X., Margulies, D. S., Smallwood, J., & Jefferies, E. (2020). A gradient from long-term memory to novel cognition: Transitions through default mode and executive cortex. NeuroImage, 220, 117074.

7. Wang, X., Bernhardt, B. C., Karapanagiotidis, T., De Caso, I., Gonzalez Alam, T. R. del J., Cotter, Z., Smallwood, J., & Jefferies, E. (2018). The structural basis of semantic control: Evidence from individual differences in cortical thickness. NeuroImage, 181, 480～489.

8. Mckeown, B., Goodall-Halliwell, I., Wallace, R., Chitiz, L., Mulholland, B., Karapanagiotidis, T., Hardikar, S., Strawson, W., Turnbull, A., Vanderwal, T., Ho, N., Wang, H.-T., Xu, T., Milham, M., Wang, X., Zhang, M., Gonzalez Alam, T. R. J., Vos de Wael, R., Bernhardt, B., Margulies, D., Wammes, J., Jefferies, E., Leech, R., & Smallwood, J. (2025). Self-reports map the landscape of task states derived from brain imaging. Communications Psychology, 3(1), 8.

9. Wu, G., Cui, Z., Wang, X., & Du, Y. (2024). Unveiling the core functional networks of cognition: An ontology-guided machine learning approach. NeuroImage, 298, 120804.

10. Jin, X., Zhang, L., Wu, G., Wang, X., & Du, Y. (2024). Compensation or preservation? Different roles of functional lateralization in speech perception of older non-musicians and musicians. Neuroscience Bulletin, 40(12), 1843～1857.

11. Krieger-Redwood, K., Steward, A., Gao, Z., Wang, X., Halai, A., Smallwood, J., & Jefferies, E. (2024). Graded and sharp transitions in semantic function in left temporal lobe. Brain and Language, 251, 105402.

12. Lin, N., Zhang, X., Wang, X., & Wang, S. (2024). The organization of the semantic network as reflected by the neural correlates of six semantic dimensions. Brain and Language, 250, 105388.

13. Gao, Z., Zheng, L., Gouws, A., Krieger-Redwood, K., Wang, X., Varga, D., Smallwood, J., & Jefferies, E. (2023). Context free and context-dependent conceptual representation in the brain. Cerebral Cortex, 33(1), 152～166.

14. Krieger-Redwood, K., Steward, A., Gao, Z., Wang, X., Halai, A., Smallwood, J., & Jefferies, E. (2023). Creativity in verbal associations is linked to semantic control. Cerebral Cortex, 33(9), 5135～5147.

15. Zhang, G., Xu, Y., Wang, X., Li, J., Shi, W., Bi, Y., & Lin, N. (2023). A social-semantic working-memory account for two canonical language areas. Nature Human Behaviour, 7(11), 1980～1997.

16. Zhang, L., Wang, X., Alain, C., & Du, Y. (2023). Successful aging of musicians: Preservation of sensorimotor regions aids audiovisual speech-in-noise perception. Science Advances, 9(17), eadg7056.

17. Souter, N., Wang, X., Thompson, H., Krieger-Redwood, K., Halai, A. D., Lambon Ralph, M. A., Thiebaut de Schotten, M., & Jefferies, E. (2022). Mapping lesion, structural disconnection, and functional disconnection to symptoms in semantic aphasia. Brain Structure and Function, 227(9), 3043～3061.

18. Zhang, M., Bernhardt, B. C., Wang, X., Varga, D., Krieger-Redwood, K., Royer, J., Rodríguez-Cruces, R., Vos de Wael, R., Margulies, D. S., Smallwood, J., & Jefferies, E. (2022). Perceptual coupling and decoupling of the default mode network during mind-wandering and reading. eLife, 11, e74011.

19. Gao, Z., Zheng, L., Chiou, R., Gouws, A., Krieger-Redwood, K., Wang, X., Varga, D., Lambon Ralph, M. A., Smallwood, J., & Jefferies, E. (2021). Distinct and common neural coding of semantic and non-semantic control demands. NeuroImage, 236, 118230.

20. Jefferies, E., & Wang, X. (2021). Semantic cognition: Semantic memory and semantic control. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology.

21. Zhang, M., Varga, D., Wang, X., Krieger-Redwood, K., Gouws, A., Smallwood, J., & Jefferies, E. (2021). Knowing what you need to know in advance: The neural processes underpinning flexible semantic retrieval of thematic and taxonomic relations. NeuroImage, 224, 117405.

22. Ho, N. S. P., Wang, X., Vatansever, D., Margulies, D. S., Bernhardt, B., Jefferies, E., & Smallwood, J. (2019). Individual variation in patterns of task focused, and detailed, thought are uniquely associated within the architecture of the medial temporal lobe. NeuroImage, 202, 116045.

23. Turnbull, A., Wang, H. T., Murphy, C., Ho, N. S. P., Wang, X., Sormaz, M., Karapanagiotidis, T., Leech, R. M., Bernhardt, B., Margulies, D. S., Vatansever, D., Jefferies, E., & Smallwood, J. (2019). Left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex supports context-dependent prioritisation of off-task thought. Nature Communications, 10(1), 3816.