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Selected Publications & Preprints

• Yang, G.* & Jiang, J. (2024). Cost-benefit Tradeoff Mediates the Transition from Rule-based to Memory-based Processing during Practice. PLOS Biology, accepted. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002987

• Yang, G., Haiyan Wu, Qi Li, Xun Liu*, Zhongzheng Fu, Jiefeng Jiang (2024) Dorsolateral prefrontal activity supports a cognitive space organization of cognitive control. eLife 12:RP87126. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.87126.5

• Yang, G.^#, Wang, K.^#, Nan, W., Li, Q., Zheng, Y., Wu, H., & Liu, X. (2022). Distinct Brain Mechanisms for Conflict Adaptation within and across Conflict Types. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 34(3), 445-460. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01806.

• Yang, G.^#, Xu, H.^#, Li, Z., Nan, W., Wu, H., Li, Q., & Liu, X. (2021). The Congruency sequence effect is modulated by the similarity of conflicts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 47(10), 1705-1719. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001054.

• Li, Z., Goschl, F., & Yang, G.* (2020). Dissociated Neural Mechanisms of Target and Distractor Processing Facilitated by Expectations. Journal of Neuroscience (Journal Club), 40(10), 1997-1999. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2562-19.2020.

• Yang, G., Nan, W., Zheng, Y., Wu, H., Li, Q., & Liu, X. (2017). Distinct cognitive control mechanisms as revealed by modality-specific conflict adaptation effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43(4), 807-818. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000351

• Li, Q.^#, Yang, G.^#, Li, Z., Qi, Y., Cole, M. W., & Liu, X. (2017). Conflict detection and resolution rely on a combination of common and distinct cognitive control networks. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 83, 123-131. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.09.032.

Other first/corresponding-author Publications

• Yang, G., Wu, H., Qi, Y., & Liu, X. (2021). Cognitive and neural mechanisms of human gender processing. Advances in Psychological Science [Chinese], 29(1),1-10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3724/SP.J.1042.2020.02008

• Raiha, S.^#, Yang, G.^#, Wang L., Dai W., Wu H., Meng G., Zhong B, Liu X (2020). Altered Reward Processing System in Internet Gaming Disorder. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11:599141. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.599141

• Ouyang, Y.^*, Yang, G.^*, Zhu, Y., Tan, Q., & Liu, X. (2020). Better regulatory performance without greater cognitive resource expenditure: The effect of motivational states on self-regulation. Personality and Individual Differences, 166. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110170

• Yang, G., Li, Z., Wu, H., & Liu, X. (2019). Generality and specificity of cognitive control: research logics and debates. Acta Physiologica Sinica [Chinese], 71(1), 140–148. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13294/j.aps.2018.0096.

• Yang, G., Nan, W., Li Q., & X., L. (2015). Behavioral and electrophysiological profiles reveal domain-specific conflict processing. Advances in Computational Psychophysiology, 33-34.

Co-authored Publications

• Xu, H., Yang, G., Göschl, F., Nolte, G., Ren, Q., Li, Z., … & Liu, X. (2024). Distinct and common mechanisms of cross-model semantic conflict and response conflict in an auditory relevant task. Cerebral Cortex, 34(3), bhae105. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae105

• Xu, H., Yang, G., Wu, H., Xiao, J., Li, Q., Liu, X. (2024). Distinct mechanisms underlying cross-modal semantic conflict and response conflict processing. Cerebral Cortex, bhad539 https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhad539

• Nan, W., Yan, L., Yang, G., Liu, X., Fu, S (2021). Two processing stages of the SNARC effect. Psychological Research, 1-11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01506-5

• Yan, L., Yang, G., Nan, W., Liu, X., Fu, S (2021). The SNARC effect occurs in the response-selection stage. Acta Psychologica, 215, 103292. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2021.103292

• Wang, L., Yang, G., Zheng, Y., Li, Z., Qi, Y., Li, Q., & Liu, X (2021). Enhanced neural responses in specific phases of reward processing in individuals with internet gaming disorder. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 10(1), 99-111. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2021.00003

• Qi, Y., Yang, G., Fu, D., Li, Z., & Liu, X (2021). Developmental neuroscience of cognitive control: the future path and layout. Scientia Sinica Vitae [Chinese], 51. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1360/SSV-2020-0248

• Li, Z., Yang, G., Wu, H., Li, Q., Xu, H., Göschlc, F., Nolte, G., Liu, X (2021). Modality-specific neural mechanisms of cognitive control in a Stroop-like task. Brain and Cognition, 147, 105662. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2020.105662

• Fu, D., Weber, C., Yang, G., Kerzel, M., Nan, W., Barros, P., Wu, H., Liu, X., & Wermter, S. (2020). What Can Computational Models Learn From Human Selective Attention? A Review From an Audiovisual Unimodal and Crossmodal Perspective. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 14, 10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2020.00010

• Yu, H., Nan, W., Yang, G., Li, Q., Wu, H., & Liu, X. (2019). Your Performance Is My Concern: A Perspective-Taking Competition Task Affects ERPs to Opponent’s Outcomes. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 13, 1162. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2019.01162

• Yang, Z., Zheng, Y., Yang, G., Li, Q., & Liu, X. (2019). Neural signatures of cooperation enforcement and violation: a coordinate-based meta-analysis. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 14(9), 919-931. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsz073

• Li, Z., Yang, G., Nan, W., Li, Q., & Liu, X. (2018). Attentional regulation mechanisms of cognitive control in conflict resolution. Advances in Psychological Science [Chinese], 26(6), 1-9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3724/SP.J.1042.2018.00966

• Tian, M., Tao, R., Zheng, Y., Zhang, H., Yang, G., Li, Q., & Liu, X. (2018). Internet gaming disorder in adolescents is linked to delay discounting but not probability discounting. Computers in Human Behavior, 80, 59-66. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.10.018

• Chen, W., Li, Q., Mei, S., Yi, W., Yang, G., Zhou, S., Liu, X., & Zheng, Y. (2018). Diminished choice effect on anticipating improbable rewards. Neuropsychologia, 111, 45-50. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.01.015

• Zheng, Y., Li, Q., Tian, M., Nan, W., Yang, G., Liang, J., & Liu, X. (2017). Deficits in voluntary pursuit and inhibition of risk taking in sensation seeking. Human Brain Mapping. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.23807

• Zhou, P., Yang, G., Nan, W., & Liu, X. (2015). The time course of attentional modulation on emotional conflict processing. Cognition & Emotion, 1-17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2015.1020051