Working Experience
2022 – Now:Assistant Professor, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
2018 – 2022:Post-doctoral Researcher, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA (mentor: Prof. René Marois, Ph.D.)
2011 – 2012:Research Assistant, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China (mentor: Prof. Hua Shu, Ph.D.)
Education
2018 Ph.D. in Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience, Rice University, Houston, USA
Dissertation: Evaluating the buffer vs. embedded processes accounts of verbal short-term memory by using multivariate neuroimaging and brain stimulation approaches (Advisor: Prof. Randi Martin, Ph.D.)
2011 M.S. in Cognitive Neuroscience, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
Master Thesis: Neural basis of auditory language comprehension under the different demands of processing tasks (Advisor: Prof. Hua Shu, Ph.D.)
2008 B.S. in Physics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
Undergraduate Thesis: Diffusion tensor imaging and its application to the research on the role of uncinate fasciculus in lexical retrieval: evidence from a patient with a lesion in the left temporal pole (Advisors: Prof. Fukang Fang, Ph.D.; Prof. Hua Shu, Ph.D.)
Honors & Awards
2019 John W. Gardner Award for Best Dissertation, Rice University
2017 Dissertation Fellowship in the Cognitive, Clinical and Neural Foundations of Language, The William Orr Dingwall Foundations
Research interest
My research focuses on using experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience approaches to understand the functional and neural architecture of the human cognitive system. Specifically, I am working on the neural bases of verbal working memory by using functional magnetic resonance imaging. I also am interested in the nature of the attentional capacity limitation and its relation to working memory and consciousness. Another research interest is in exploring the relation between functional brain networks and behavioral performance by using graph theoretic tools.
Publications
Journal Article:
(* Corresponding author)
Martin R., Yue Q.*, Zahn R., & Lu Y. (2024). The role of variation in phonological and semantic working memory capacities in sentence comprehension: Neural evidence from healthy and brain damaged individuals. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience.
Yue Q. * (2023). Maintaining auditory working memory representations beyond sensory cortices makes working memory work. The Journal of Neuroscience, 43, 6714–6716.
Yue Q.*, & Martin R.* (2022). Phonological working memory representations in the left inferior parietal lobe in the face of distraction and neural stimulation. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16, 890483.
Yue Q.*, & Martin R.* (2021). Maintaining verbal short-term memory representations in non-perceptual parietal regions. Cortex, 138, 72–89.
Sun H., Yue Q., Sy J.L., Godwin D., Eaton H.P., Raghavan P., & Marois R. (2020). Increase in inter-network functional connectivity in the human brain with attention capture. Journal of Neurophysiology, 124, 1885–1899.
Ramos-Nuñez A., Yue Q., Pasalar S., & Martin R. (2020). The role of left vs. right superior temporal gyrus in speech perception: An fMRI-guided TMS study. Brain and Language, 209, 104838.
Yue Q., Martin R., Hamilton A. C., & Rose N. (2019). Non-perceptual regions in the left inferior parietal lobe support phonological short-term memory: evidence for a buffer account? Cerebral Cortex, 29(4), 1398–1413.
Yue Q., Martin R., Fischer-Baum S., Ramos-Nuñez A., Ye F., & Deem M. (2017). Brain modularity mediates the relation between task complexity and performance. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 29(9), 1532–1546.
Ramos-Nuñez A., Fischer-Baum S., Martin R., Yue Q., Ye F., & Deem M. (2017). Static and dynamic measures of human brain connectivity predict complementary aspects of human cognitive performance. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 11, 420.
Zhang L., Yue Q., Zhang Y., Shu H., & Li P. (2015). Task-dependent modulation of regions in the left temporal cortex during auditory sentence comprehension. Neuroscience letters, 584, 351–355.
Yue Q., Zhang L., Xu G., Shu H., & Li P. (2013). Task-modulated activation and functional connectivity of the temporal and frontal areas during speech comprehension. Neuroscience, 237, 87–95.
Yue Q. & Shu H. (2010). Application of diffusion tensor image in the cognitive neuroscience of language. Advances in Psychological Science, 18(9), 1369–1376. (in Chinese)
Book Chapter:
Yue Q., & Martin R. (2022). Components of language processing and their long-term and working memory storage in the brain. In Miceli, Bartolomeo and Navarro (Eds.), The Temporal Lobe (Handbook of Clinical Neurology, 3rd Series, Vol. 187, Pages 109-126). Elsevier.
Conference Abstract:
Yue Q., Dial H., and Martin R. (2016). Non-perceptual regions in the left supramarginal gyrus support phonological short-term memory: evidence from lesion-symptom mapping and fMRI studies. Frontiers in Psychology Conference Abstract: 54th Annual Academy of Aphasia Meeting. doi: 10.3389/conf.fpsyg.2016.68.00045
Academic presentations
(Bold: presenting author)
Yue Q., Newton A.R., & Marois R. Tracking task-specific activity during multitasking with ultrafast, high-field fMRI reveals serial queuing of information processing in the human brain. Nanosymposium presented at Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA, 2024
Yue Q., & Martin R. Decoding phonological working memory representations in the cerebellum: Evidence from multivariate fMRI studies. Presented at the 4th International Conference on Working Memory, Leeds, UK, 2024
Yue Q. & Martin R. Neuroimaging evidence for a dedicated phonological WM buffer. Presented at the 60th Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Montréal, Québec, 2019
Yue Q. & Martin R. Decoding verbal short-term memory in non-perceptual parietal and frontal regions: evidence for a buffer account. Poster presented at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, 2019
Yue Q. & Martin R. Evaluating the buffer vs. embedded processes accounts of verbal short-term memory: evidence from an fMRI study with representational similarity analysis. Poster presented at the ARMADILLO meeting, Houston, 2018
Yue Q., Martin R., Fischer-Baum S., & Deem M. Language and multiple demand regions jointly predict individual differences in sentence comprehension: evidence from a network approach. Poster Slam presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Baltimore, 2017
Yue Q., Martin R., Hamilton C., & Rose N. Converging evidence from univariate and multivariate fMRI analyses suggests a phonological buffer in the left supramarginal gyrus. Poster presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Baltimore, 2017
Yue Q., Dial H., & Martin R. Non-perceptual regions in the left supramarginal gyrus support phonological short-term memory: evidence from lesion-sympton mapping and fMRI studies. Poster presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of Academy of Aphasia, Llandudno, Wales, 2016
Yue Q., Martin R., Fischer-Baum S., Ramos-Nuñez A., Deem M. &, Ye F. The role of task complexity in mediating relations of whole brain modularity to task performance. Poster presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, London, 2016
Yue Q., Martin R., & Hamilton C. Non-perceptual regions in the left inferior parietal lobe support phonological short-term memory. Poster presented at the 21st Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Hawaii, 2015
Yue Q., Zhang L., Xu G., Wang X., & Shu H. Task-modulated processing of intelligible speech within and beyond temporal cortex: an fMRI study. Poster presented at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Beijing, 2012
Teaching Experience
Undergraduate level: Cognitive Psychology
Graduate level: Language and Cognition, Topics in basic psychology, Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology, Advances in Psychological Research
Professional Service
Ad hoc reviewer for journals: Nature Communications, Journal of Neuroscience, Cerebral Cortex, Cortex, Neuroimage, Human Brain Mapping, Psychological Research, etc.
