Publications

Speech perception and language comprehension

Liang, B.S., Li, Y.C., Zhao, W.Y., Du, Y.* A causal role of human laryngeal motor cortex in speech lexical tone and voicing perception. bioRxiv preprint. doi:https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.12.487725
Zhang, L., Du, Y.* (2022). Lip movements enhance speech representations and effective connectivity in auditory dorsal stream. Neuroimage, 257,119311.
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.
Liang, B., Du, Y.* (2018). The functional neuroanatomy of lexical tone perception: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12, 495.
Alain, C.*, Du, Y., Bernstein, L., Barten, T., Banai, K. (2018). Listening under difficult conditions: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis. Human Brain Mapping, 39, 2695-2709.
Hu, X.P., Wang, X.P., Gu, Y., Luo, P., Yin, S.H., Wang, L.J., Fu, C., Qiao, L., Du, Y.*, Chen, A.T.* (2017). Phonological experience modulates voice discrimination: Evidence from functional brain networks analysis. Brain and Language, 173, 67-75.
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.
Du, Y., He, Y., Arnott, S.R., Ross, B., Wu, X.H., Li, L.*, Alain, C.* (2015). Rapid tuning of auditory “what” and “where” pathways by training. Cerebral Cortex, 25, 496-506.
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 Sciences of the United States of America, 111, 7126-7131.
Du, Y., He, Y., Ross, B., Bardouille, T., Wu, X.H., Li, L.*, Alain, C.* (2011). Human auditory cortex activity shows additive effects of spectral and spatial cues during speech segregation. Cerebral Cortex, 21, 698-707.

Musical processing and training plasticity

Klarlund M, Brattico E, Pearce M, Wu Y, Vuust P, Overgaard M, Du Y*. Worlds apart? Testing the cultural distance hypothesis in music perception of Chinese and Western listeners. Cognition. 2023 Jun;235:105405. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105405.
Zhang, X.Y., Li, J.J.*, Du, Y. (2022). Melodic intonation therapy on non-fluent aphasia after stroke: A systematic review and analysis on clinical trials. Frontiers in Neuroscience,15, 24.
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.
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.
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.

The topographic properties of brain networks

Wang, Xiuyi.,Krieger-Redwood, Katya.,Zhang, Meichao.,Cui, Zaixu.,Wang, Xiaokang.,…&Jefferies, Elizabeth.(2022).Physical distance to sensory-motor landmarks predicts language function.CEREBRAL CORTEX,14.
Wang, X., Gao, Z., Smallwood, J., Jefferies, E. (2021). Both default mode and multiple-demand regions represent goal information. Journal of Neuroscience. 41 (16), 3679-3691.
Jefferies, E., Wang, X. (2021). Semantic cognition: semantic memory and semantic control. Oxford research encyclopedia of psychology.
Wang, X., Margulies, D., Smallwood, J., Jefferies, E. (2020), A gradient from long-term memory to novel cognition: transitions through default mode to executive cortex. Neuroimage, 220, 117074.
Wang, X., Bernhardt, B. C., Karapanagiotidis, T., De Caso, I., Alam, T. R. D. J. G., Cotter, Z., … & Jefferies, E. (2018). The structural basis of semantic control: Evidence from individual differences in cortical thickness. NeuroImage, 181, 480-489.
Zhang, M., Varga, D., Wang, X., Krieger-Redwood, K., Gouws, A., Smallwood, J., & Jefferies, E.(2020), Knowing what you need to know in advance: The neural processes underpinning flexible semantic retrieval of thematic and taxonomic relations. NeuroImage, 117405.
Turnbull, A., Wang, H. T., Murphy, C., Ho, N. S. P., Wang, X., Sormaz, M., … & Vatansever, D.(2019). Left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex supports context-dependent prioritisation of off-task thought. Nature Communications, 10(1), 1-10.
Ho, N. S. P., Wang, X., Vatansever, D., Margulies, D., 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, 116045.
Gao, Z., Zheng, L., Chiou, R., Gouws, A., Krieger-Redwood, K., Wang, X., Varga, D., Lambon Ralph,M., Smallwood, J., Jefferies, E., Distinct and Common Neural Coding of Semantic and Non-semantic Control Demands. NeuroImage, 118230.

Auditory processing in animal models

Du, Y., Wang, Q., Zhang, Y., Wu, X.H., Li, L.* (2012). Perceived target-masker separation unmasks responses of lateral amygdala to the emotionally conditioned target sounds in awake rats. Neuroscience, 225, 249-257.
Du, Y., Wu, X.H., Li, L.* (2011). Differentially organized top-down modulation of prepulse inhibition of startle. Journal of Neuroscience, 31, 13644-13653.
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.
Du, Y., Wu, X.H., Li, L.* (2010). Emotional learning enhances stimulus-specific top-down modulation of sensorimotor gating in socially reared rats but not isolation-reared rats. Behavioural Brain Research, 206, 192-201.
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.
Du, Y., Li, J.Y., Wu, X.H., Li, L.* (2009). Precedence effect-induced enhancement of prepulse inhibition in socially reared but not isolation-reared rats. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 9, 44-58.
Du, Y., Ma, T.F., Wang, Q., Wu, X.H., Li, L.*(2009). Two crossed axonal projections contribute to binaural unmasking of frequency-following responses in rat inferior colliculus. European Journal of Neuroscience, 30, 1779-1789.
Du, Y., Huang, Q., Wu, X.H., Galbraith, G.C., Li, L.* (2009). Binaural unmasking of frequency-following responses in rat amygdala. Journal of Neurophysiology, 101, 1647-1659.
Ping, J.L., Li, N.X., Du, Y., Wu, X.H., Li, L.*, Galbraith, G.* (2007). Auditory evoked responses in the rat: transverse subdermal electrodes register before cochlear nucleus and do not reflect later inferior colliculus activity. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 161, 11-16.
Du, Y., Ping, J.L., Li, N.X., Wu, X.H., Li, L.*, Galbraith, G.* (2007). Ultrasonic evoked responses in rat cochlear nucleus. Brain Research, 1172, 40-47.