Publications
Speech perception and language comprehension:
[1]. Zhao, W.Y.*, Li, Z.Y., Li, X., Du, Y.* (2025). Progressive neural engagement within the IFG-pMTG circuit as gesture and speech entropy and MI advances. eLife. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.99416.3
[2]. Liang, Baishen, Li, Yanchang, Zhao, Wanying, & Du, Yi. (2023). Bilateral human laryngeal motor cortex in perceptual decision of lexical tone and voicing of consonant. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 14(1), 15.
[3]. Zhang, Lei, Wang, Xiuyi, Alain, Claude, & Du, Yi. (2023). Successful aging of musicians: Preservation of sensorimotor regions aids audiovisual speech-in-noise perception. SCIENCE ADVANCES, 9(17), 11.
[4]. Lei Zhang, & Yi Du. (2022). Lip movements enhance speech representations and effective connectivity in auditory dorsal stream. Neuroimage, 257, 119311.
[5]. 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.
[6]. Liang, B., Du, Y.* (2018). The functional neuroanatomy of lexical tone perception: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12, 495.
[7]. 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.
[8]. 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.
[9]. 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.
[10]. 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.
[11]. 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:
[1]. Lyu, B.H., Li, Y.C., Albouy, P., Morillon, B., Zatorre, R.J.*, & Du, Y.* (2025). Spectrotemporal modulation sensitivity in speech and melody processing among mandarin speakers. Ear and Hearing. https://doi.org/10.1097/AUD.0000000000001751
[2]. Wu, Y.Y., Teng, X.B.*, Du. Y.* (2025). Eye blinks synchronize with musical beats during music listening. PLoS Biology, 23(11), e3003456. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003456
[3]. Zhang, L., Ross, B., Du, Y.*, Alain, C.* (2025). Long-term musical training can protect against age-related upregulation of neural activity in speech-in-noise perception. PLoS Biology, 23(7), e3003247. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003247
[4]. Zhang, L., Du, Y.*, Zatorre, R.J.* (2025). Visual congruency of performers’ movements enhances vocal music reward through Mu entrainment. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, nsaf089. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaf089
[5]. You, S.Q.#, Jiang, X.T.#, Du, Y.* (2025). Beyond valence: A predictive coding framework for major-minor mode perception and its therapeutic implications. Physics of Life Reviews, 53, 131-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2025.03.002
[6]. Jin, X.H., Zhang, L., Wu, G.W., Wang, X.Y., Du, Y*. (2024). Compensation or preservation? Different roles of functional lateralization in speech perception of older non-musicians and musicians. Neuroscience Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-024-01234-x
[7]. 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.
[8]. 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.
[9]. 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.
[10]. 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.
Brain Topography and neural plasticity:
[1]. Jin, X.H.#, Xing, Y.#, Lyu, B.H., Ding, J.H., Wang, X.Y., Tang, Y.*, Du, Y.* (2025). Cognitive training reorganizes lateralization of fronto-parietal network in vascular cognitive impairment. Brain Communications, fcaf394. https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcaf394
[2]. Wang, X., Lyu, B., Krieger-Redwood, K. et al. (2025). Feature similarity, a sensitive method to capture the functional interaction of brain regions and networks to support flexible behavior. Communications Biology, 8, 1776. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-09165-7
[3]. Wu, G., Cui, Z., Wang, X.*, & Du, Y.* (2024). Unveiling the core functional networks of cognition: An ontology-guided machine learning approach. NeuroImage, 298, 120804. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120804
[4]. Wang, X.*, Krieger-Redwood, K., Cui, Y. Yi Du* & Elizabeth Jefferies*. (2024). Macroscale brain states support the control of semantic cognition. Commun Biol 7, 926. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06630-7
[5]. Wang, X.*, Krieger-Redwood, K., Lyu, B., Lowndes, R., Wu, G., Souter, N. E., ... & Jefferies, E*. (2024). The Brain’s Topographical Organization Shapes Dynamic Interaction Patterns That Support Flexible Behavior Based on Rules and Long-Term Knowledge. Journal of Neuroscience, 44(22).
[6]. Zhang, G., Xu, Y., [Wang, X]., Li, J., Shi, W., Bi, Y., & Lin, N. (2023). A social-semantic working-memory account for two canonical language areas. Nature Human Behaviour, 7(11), 1980-1997..
[7]. 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.
[8]. Jefferies, E., Wang, X. (2021). Semantic cognition: semantic memory and semantic control. Oxford research encyclopedia of psychology.
[9]. 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
[10]. 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.
Auditory processing in animal models:
[1]. 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.
[2]. Du, Y., Wu, X.H., Li, L.* (2011). Differentially organized top-down modulation of prepulse inhibition of startle. Journal of Neuroscience, 31, 13644-13653.
[3]. 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.
[4]. 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.
[5]. 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.
[6]. 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.
[7]. 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.
[8]. 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.
[9]. 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.