Yirong Xiong

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

JNeuroscience

Callosal fiber length scales with brain size according to functional lateralization, evolution, and development

Liyuan Yang, Chenxi Zhao, Yirong Xiong, Suyu Zhong, Di Wu, Shaoling Peng, Michel Thiebaut Schotten, and Gaolang Gong

Journal of Neuroscience, 2022

Publisher: Soc Neuroscience

Bib

@article{yangCallosalFiberLength2022a,
  title = {Callosal fiber length scales with brain size according to functional lateralization, evolution, and development},
  volume = {42},
  number = {17},
  journal = {Journal of Neuroscience},
  author = {Yang, Liyuan and Zhao, Chenxi and Xiong, Yirong and Zhong, Suyu and Wu, Di and Peng, Shaoling and de Schotten, Michel Thiebaut and Gong, Gaolang},
  year = {2022},
  note = {Publisher: Soc Neuroscience},
  pages = {3599--3610},
}

Preprint
Population-based cortical mapping of callosal connections in the human brain

Yirong Xiong, Liyuan Yang, Changtong Wang, Chenxi Zhao, Junhao Luo, Di Wu, Yiping Ouyang, Michel Thiebaut Schotten, and Gaolang Gong

Oct 2022

Abs Bib

The corpus callosum (CC) is the principal white matter (WM) bundle supporting communication between the two brain hemispheres. Despite its importance, a comprehensive mapping of callosal connections is still lacking. Here, we constructed the first bidirectional population-based callosal connectional atlas between the midsagittal section of the CC and the cerebral cortex of the human brain by means of diffusion-weighted imaging tractography. The estimated connectional topographic maps within this atlas have the most fine-grained spatial resolution, demonstrate histological validity, and were reproducible in two independent samples. This new resource will revolutionize the investigation of interhemispheric communication and come with a user-friendly companion online tool (CCmapping) for easy access and visualization of the atlas.
@techreport{xiongPopulationbasedCorticalMapping2022b, type = {preprint}, title = {Population-based cortical mapping of callosal connections in the human brain}, url = {https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-2210117/v1}, language = {en}, urldate = {2022-11-26}, institution = {In Review}, author = {Xiong, Yirong and Yang, Liyuan and Wang, Changtong and Zhao, Chenxi and Luo, Junhao and Wu, Di and Ouyang, Yiping and de Schotten, Michel Thiebaut and Gong, Gaolang}, month = oct, year = {2022}, doi = {10.21203/rs.3.rs-2210117/v1}, keywords = {To-Read, /unread}, }
CCN2023

Selective Memory for Reward-Relevant Features Is Modulated by Expertise during Reward Learning

Yirong Xiong, Nir Moneta, Mihaly Banyai, and Charley Wu

Oct 2023

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