Yirong Xiong
Master's student in University of Tübingen

Tübingen, Germany
I am a master’s student majoring in Neural Information Processing at Graduate Training Center of Neuroscience. I’m looking for a phD position.
I’m currently doing my master’s thesis at Burgalossi lab. Meanwhile I also have a cognitive science project at Human and Machine Cognition Lab in Tübingen and a computational modeling project with Dr. Vivek Sridhar in Konstanz. I did my lab rotation at Dr. Anna Levina’s lab. Before coming to Tübingen, I worked on diffusion MRI and received a master’s degree in psychology from Beijing Normal University.
My research interests are the formation of cognitive maps and its neural mechanisms. Besides, I also want to build visualization tools for research. I am the creator and core developer of open-source visualization project CCmapping, which provides a populational-based online interactive atlas of human brain callosal connectivity.
I enjoy running, reading, cooking, and playing puzzles in my free time (if there is such a thing).
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 LearningOct 2023