Yirong Xiong
Intern at Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
credit:
Lunevani and Kalle
I’m currently doing an intership at Prof. Gilles Laurent’s lab in Frankfurt and I’m about to start my graduate study in XDBio program at Johns Hopkins University and Janelia Research Campus.
During my Master’s study at University of Tübingen, I majored in Neural Information Processing at Graduate Training Center of Neuroscience. I worked in Human and Machine Cognition Lab and studied how attention modulates learning and memory. Meanwhile I studied dynamical systems in spatial decision making with Dr. Vivek Sridhar in Konstanz. I did my master’s thesis in Burgalossi lab, and my lab rotation in Dr. Anna Levina’s lab. Before my study in Tübingen, I studied at Beijing Normal University and worked on corpus callosum topography using diffusion MRI (CCmapping).
My current research interests are learning and memory, especially in the context of spatial navigation. When I am not in lab, I enjoy writing popular science blogs. Besides, I love running, reading, cooking, and playing puzzles in my free time.
Fun fact about me: in the pilot scan of my own experiment, I found my left cerebellum is almost missing. Ever since that, this has been the best excuse of my poor dancing skill. I’ve made a Valentine’s day poster of my brain scan.
selected publications
- JNeuroscienceCallosal fiber length scales with brain size according to functional lateralization, evolution, and developmentJournal of Neuroscience, 2022Publisher: Soc Neuroscience
- CCN2023Selective Memory for Reward-Relevant Features Is Modulated by Expertise during Reward Learning2023