State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University

Faculty

Current Faculty

Yunzhe Liu Ph.D.“Computational & Integrative Cognition” - decipher the code of intelligence yunzhe.liu#bnu.edu.cn

Educational Experience

2016 -2020　Ph.D.　Computational Neuroscience　University College London

2013 -2016　M.S.　Cognitive Neuroscience　Beijing Normal University

Professional Experience

2022.07 – present State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Professor

2021 – present State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Principal Investigator (PI)

2020 – 2021 University of Oxford, Postdoc

Research Description

How can we learn so much from so little? How can we make flexible decisions in novel context with little experience? This ability of efficient learning and inference is at the core of human intelligence. We study the neural and computational basis of its underlying cognitive process, through an integrative and cross-species approach. We combine non-invasive neuroimaging technique (fMRI, M/EEG) and invasive electrophysiology recording in both human and animals, coupled with carefully crafted cognitive tasks that enabling precise characterization of behavior.

Publications

LAST 5 YEARS - SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (# co-first; * corresponding author)

For full publications, please see: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=JTvHJzUAAAAJ

For accompanying code and model, please see: https://github.com/YunzheLiu

1. Liu, Y.*, Nour, M. , Schuck, N., Behrens, T. E., & Dolan, R. J. (2022). Decoding cognition from spontaneous neural activity. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 1-11.

2. Liu, Y.*, Dolan, R. J., Higgins, C., Penagos, H., Woolrich, M., Ólafsdóttir, H. F., Barry, C., Kurth-Nelson, Z., Behrens, T. E. (2021) Temporally delayed linear modelling (TDLM) measures replay in both animals and humans. eLife, 10: e66917.

3. Liu, Y.*, Mattar, M., Behrens, T. E., Daw, N., Dolan, R.J. (2021) Experience replay is associated with efficient nonlocal learning. Science, 372(6544).

4. Nour, M.^#,Liu, Y.^#, Arumuham, A., Kurth-Nelson, Z., Dolan, R. (2021) Impaired neural replay of inferred relational structure in schizophrenia. Cell

5. Wise, T. ^#,Liu, Y.^#, Chowdhury, F., & Dolan, R. J. (2021). Model-based aversive learning in humans is supported by preferential task state reactivation. Science Advances, eabf9616.

6. Higgins, C.^#,Liu, Y.^#,Vidaurre, D, Kurth-Nelson, Z., Dolan, R. J., Behrens, T. E., Woolrich, M (2021) Replay bursts coincide with activation of the default mode and parietal alpha network. Neuron, 109(5), 882-893.

7. Wimmer, G. E.^#,Liu, Y.^#,Vehar, N., Behrens, T. E., Dolan, R. J. (2020) Episodic memory retrieval success is associated with rapid replay of episode content. Nature Neuroscience, 1-9.

8. Liu, Y.*, Dolan, R. J., Kurth-Nelson, Z., Behrens, T. E. (2019) Human replay spontaneously reorganises experience. Cell, 178(3), 640-652.

9. Liu, Y., Lin, W., Li, W., Wang, X., Pan, X., Yan, X., Rutledge, R. Ma, Y. (2019) Oxytocin modulates social value representations in the amygdala. Nature Neuroscience, 22(4), 633.

10. Liu, Y., Lin, W., Liu, C., Wu, J., Luo, Y., Bayley, P., Qin, S. (2016) Memory consolidation reconfigures neural pathways involved in the suppression of emotional memories. Nature Communications, 7, 13375.