Xiaoyan Wu, PhD. Postdoc
Xiaoyan completed her PhD in psychology and cognitive neuroscience at the IDG McGovern Institute, Beijing Normal University, with Prof. Chao Liu and Prof. Hang Zhang (Peking University). During her PhD, she was a visiting scholar at the Zurich Center for Neuroeconomics at the University of Zurich, with Prof. Christian C. Ruff. Her current research focuses on semantic neural representations and verbal communication. She aims to uncover the neural circuits underlying disorganized language production in schizophrenia by using computational modeling, natural language processing Models (NLPs), large language models (LLMs) and neuroimaging techniques (fMRI and MEG).
Recent publications
- Wu, X., Ren, X., Liu, C., & Zhang, H. (2024). The motive cocktail in altruistic behaviors. Nature Computational Science, 4(9), 659-676. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-024-00685-6
- Wu, X., Fu, H., Zhang, T., Bao, D., Hu, J., Zhu, R., ... & Liu, C. A cognitive computational mechanism for mutual cooperation: The roles of positive expectation and social reward. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 56(9), 1299. https://doi.org/10.3724/SP.J.1041.2024.01299
- Wang, H., Wu, X., Xu, J., Zhu, R., Zhang, S., Xu, Z., ... & Liu, C. (2024). Acute stress during witnessing injustice shifts third-party interventions from punishing the perpetrator to helping the victim. PLoS Biology, 22(5), e3002195. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2314590121
- Jin, K., Wu, J., Zhang, R., Zhang, S., Wu, X., Wu, T., ... & Liu, C. (2024). Observing heroic behavior and its influencing factors in immersive virtual environments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(17), e2314590121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2314590121
Contact
- Phone: +41 (0)58 384 21 11
- E-mail: xiaoyan.wu@bli.uzh.ch
- Personal page: https://xiaoyanwu2024.github.io/
