北京师范大学认知神经科学与学习国家重点实验室副教授。1999年毕业于中国医科大学临床医学专业；2001年起，先后于中科院心理研究所与德国马普人类认知与脑科学研究所接受有关认知神经科学的训练，并于2006年获德国莱比锡大学认知神经科学博士学位。
代表论文：
Yang, W. X., Feng, J., Huang, W. T., Zhang, C. X., & Nan, Y. (2013). Perceptual pitch deficits coexist with pitch production difficulties in music but not Mandarin speech. Front Psychol., 4, 1024.
Nan, Y. & Friederici, A. D. (2013). Differential roles of right temporal cortex and Broca's area in pitch processing: evidence from music and Mandarin. Hum.Brain Mapp., 34, 2045-2054.
Peretz, I., Gosselin, N., Nan, Y., Caron-Caplette, E., Trehub, S. E., & Beland, R. (2013). A novel tool for evaluating children's musical abilities across age and culture. Front Syst.Neurosci., 7, 30.
Nan, Y., Sun, Y., & Peretz, I. (2010). Congenital amusia in speakers of a tone language: association with lexical tone agnosia.Brain, 133, 2635-2642.
Nan, Y., Friederici, A. D., Shu, H., & Luo, Y. J. (2009). Dissociable pitch processing mechanisms in lexical and melodic contexts revealed by ERPs. Brain Res., 1263, 104-113.
Nan, Y., Knosche, T. R., & Friederici, A. D. (2009). Non-musicians' perception of phrase boundaries in music: A cross-cultural ERP study. Biol.Psychol., 82, 70-81.
Nan, Y., Knosche, T. R., Zysset, S., & Friederici, A. D. (2008). Cross-cultural music phrase processing: an fMRI study.Hum.Brain Mapp., 29, 312-328.
Nan, Y., Knosche, T. R., & Friederici, A. D. (2006). The perception of musical phrase structure: a cross-cultural ERP study. Brain Res., 1094, 179-191.
Nan, Y., Knosche, T. R., & Luo, Y. J. (2006). Counting in everyday life: discrimination and enumeration. Neuropsychologia, 44,11
