Research Assistant Professor

National Biomedical Imaging Center, College of Future Technology, Peking University

Biography

Dr. Yang's research investigates the neural mechanisms underlying memory. To achieve this, her lab employs a multi-modal, multi-scale approach in non-human primates, utilizing techniques such as large-scale electrophysiology, miniature two-photon microscopy, and functional ultrasound imaging, together with advanced artificial intelligence analysis, to further our understanding of memory function.

Education

2013-2020, Ph. D., Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University

Experience

2024-now, Research Assistant Professor, National Biomedical Imaging Center, College of Future Technology, Peking University

2020-2024, Postdoc, School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University

Representative publications:

1. Liu Y.#, Jia H.#, Sun H.#, …, Yang C., …, Duan X*. (2024) A high-density 1,024-channel probe for brain-wide recordings in non-human primates. Nature Neuroscience 27, 1620–1631.

2. Yang C., Naya Y*. (2023) Sequential involvements of the perirhinal cortex and hippocampus in the recall of item-location associative memory in macaques. PLOS Biology, 21(6): e3002145.

3. Yang C., Chen H., Naya Y*. (2023) Allocentric information represented by self-referenced spatial coding in the primate medial temporal lobe. Hippocampus, 1–11.

4. Yang C., Naya Y*. (2020) Hippocampal cells integrating past memory and present context for the future. PLOS Biology, 18(11): e3000876.

5. Naya Y*, Chen H., Yang C., Suzuki W. (2017) Contributions of primate prefrontal cortex and medial temporal lobe to temporal-order memory. PNAS, 114(51)13555-13560.