Yongdi Zhou

(Dean, School of Psychology, SZU)

1996        Ph.D. in Neuroscience      Interdepartmental Neuroscience Ph.D. Program, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles (Supported by O'Malley Foundation)

Postdoctoral Training

1996-98   Postdoctoral Researcher in Cognitive Neuroscience (Supported by White Hall Foundation) 

Neuropsychiatric Institute, UCLA School of Medicine

Research Interests: 
The role of prefrontal and parietal cortices in crossmodal perception, working memory and decision making. 

Selected Publications:

1     Peng Gui , Yixuan Ku, Lei Li , Xiaojin Li , Mark Bodner , Fred A. Lenz , Liping Wang, and Zhou, Y-D (2017). Neural correlates of visuo-tactile crossmodal paired-associate learning and memory in humans. Neurosci., 362:181-195.

2     Ku, Y., Zhao, D., Hao, N., Hu, Y., Bodner, M. and Zhou, Y-D. (2015). Sequential Roles of Primary Somatosensory Cortex and Superior Parietal Lobule in Tactile-Visual Cross-modal Working Memory: A Single-pulse Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (spTMS) Study.  Brain Stimulation, 8:88-91.

3     Wang, L., Li, X., Lenz, F., Hsiao, S., Bodner, M, Zhou, Y-D.^# and Fuster, J. (2015). Differential Roles of Delay-period Neural Activity in Monkey Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Visual-haptic Crossmodal Working Memory. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 112: E214-E219.

4     Wang, L., Li, X., Hsiao, S., Bodner, M., Lenz, F. and Zhou, Y-D. (2012). Persistent neuronal firing in SI cortex in the absence of working memory of trial-specific features of the sample stimuli in a haptic working-memory task.   J. Cog. Neurosci. 24: 664-676.

5     Wang, L., Li, X., Hsiao, S., Bodner, M., Lenz, F. and Zhou, Y-D. (2012). Behavioral choice-related neuronal activity in monkey primary somatosensory cortex in a haptic delay task.  J. Cog. Neurosci. 24: 1634-1644.

6      Zhou, Y-D., Ardestani, A and Fuster, J.M. (2007).  Distributed and associative working memory.    Cerebral Cortex 17: i77-i87. 

7      Ohara, S., Lenz, F. and Zhou, Y-D. (2006).  Sequential neural processes of tactile-visual crossmodal working memory.    Neurosci. 139: 299-309. (special issue of working memory)

8      Ni Y and Zhou Y-D. (2005).  Teaching and learning fraction and rational numbers: The origins and implications of whole number bias.    Educational Psychologist. 40: 27-52.