Xingyang Liu
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Xingyang Liu
Research Interests
- Neuroanatomical and neurofunctional underpinnings of cognitive abilities
- Individual differences in human brain connectivity
- Individual differences in face cognition
- Structural and functional specificity in the face processing brain network
- Structural equation modeling on brain-behavior relationships
Academic positions
Since Aug. 2019 | Postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Psychology, Division of Psychological Methods and Statistics, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg |
07/2017 – 07/2019 | Postdoctoral research fellow at the Hong Kong Baptist University, Department of Physics, Centre for Nonlinear Studies |
Education
09/2012 – 07/2017 | Doctor of Engineering at the Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China (Supervisor Prof. Dr. Xinxia Cai) |
09/2008 – 06/2012 | Bachelor of Engineering at Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, PR China |
International research visits
12/2018 – 01/2019 | Visiting scientist at the Department of Psychology, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg |
| 12/2018 – 01/2019 | Visiting scientist at Department of Psychology, Universität Ulm |
| 04/2016 – 09/2016 | Research fellowship at the Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, supervised by Prof. Dr. Werner Sommer and Prof. Dr. Andrea Hildebrandt |
| 10/2015 – 03/2016 | Research fellowship at the Department of Psychology, the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, supervised by Prof. Dr. Andrea Hildebrandt and Prof. Dr. Werner Sommer |
Scholarships
10/2015 | DAAD-CAS Joint Scholarship at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences for one-year PhD study in Germany |
| 2011 | Joint Scholarship of Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) at the BIT for excellent students |
Publications
Liu X., Hildebrandt A., Meyer K., Sommer W. & Zhou C. (under review). Patterns of Individual Differences in Fiber Tract Integrity of the Face Processing Brain Network are in Line with Functional Specificity. Neuroimage
Liu, X., Hildebrandt, A., Recio, G., Sommer, W., Cai, X., & Wilhelm, O. (2017). Individual differences in the speed of facial emotion recognition show little specificity but are strongly related with general mental speed: Psychometric, neural and genetic evidence. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 11, 149
Liu, X., Liu, J., Duan, F., Liu, R., Gai, S., Xu, S., Sun J. & Cai, X. (2017). Inter-hemispheric frontal alpha synchronization of event-related potentials reflects memory-induced mental fatigue. Neuroscience letters, 653, 326-331.
Liu, X., Liu, J., Gai, S., Meyer, K., Xu, S., & Cai, X. (2016). Time–frequency distribution properties of event-related potentials in mental fatigue induced by visual memory tasks. NeuroReport, 27, 1031-1036.
Gai S., Liu J., Liu X., Wang L. & Cai Xinxia (2016). Study on the design, preparation and test of a novel dry electrode for long-term EEG measurement. Chinese Journal of Scientific Instrument, 37, 144-151
Xu S., Zhou S., Liu X., Zhou J., Wang M., Song Y., Lin N. & Cai Xinxia (2014). A Neural Signal Detection Method Based on Compressed Sensing, Journal of Network New Media (Chinese journal). 3, 21-25.
Liu, X., Xu S., Zhou S., Song Y., Luo S. & Cai X. (2014) Compressed Sensing and Reconstruction of Electrophysiological Signals Based on Wavelet Transformation. Journal of Network New Media (Chinese journal), 3, 7-13.
Conference Contributions
Liu X., Hildebrandt A., Recio G., Sommer W., Cai X. & Wilhelm, O. (Sep. 2016). Face Cognition: Domain invariance of speed abilities and their neural and genetic underpinnings. Congress of the DGPs 2016, Oral Presentation, Leipzig, Germany
Liu X., Hildebrandt A., Recio G., Sommer W., Cai X. & Wilhelm, O. (July 2016). Neural and genetic underpinnings of domain variant and invariant performance speed related abilities. European Conference on Personality (18th ECP), Oral Presentation, 2016, Timisoara, Romania.