Xinyuan Yan
@xinyuanyan.bsky.social
postdoc in neuroscience; non-professional photographer I am slowly becoming active on social media. https://psywalkeryanxy.github.io/posts/science/
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Cutting a nerve of the hand alters the organization of digit maps in primary somatosensory cortex
Cutting a nerve of the hand alters the organization of digit maps in primary somatosensory cortex
Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 13 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02548-8Weber et al. show that the normally conserved spatial organization of the digit response maps in primary somatosensory cortex is altered in patients with surgically repaired hand nerves.
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The Pothead Whale has more neocortical neurons than any other mammal, including humans, examined to date. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-fi...
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All session recordings from #CCN2026 in New York City are now available on YouTube. Thank you again to all speakers, attendees, and sponsors for making this exciting event possible.
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Videos from CCN 2026, held in New York City, USA, August 3-6 2026 For full details of the 2026 program, visit https://2026.ccneuro.org/schedule-of-events/
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New paper from the BCM Neurosurgery research team! "Neural basis of compositional control" led by @assiachericoni.bsky.social and @justfineneuro.bsky.social ! 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Neural basis of compositional control - Nature
Behaviour of human participants in a prey-pursuit task reflects dynamic blending of goal-specific control policies, with hippocampus estimating latent states, anterior cingulate cortex orchestrating p...
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Now out in @natcomms.nature.com w/ @evfedorenko.bsky.social: across many people (>1k) and tasks (>300), the the brain's language network reliably shows up in the functional connectome (correlated activity in fMRI). 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41... Very cool work from the lab, which is led by rising-star PhD student Assia Chericoni; great effort!
Neural basis of compositional control - Nature
Behaviour of human participants in a prey-pursuit task reflects dynamic blending of goal-specific control policies, with hippocampus estimating latent states, anterior cingulate cortex orchestrating p...
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I am excited to share that our paper is accepted by @neuripsconf.bsky.social . This is an interesting work that uses tools and insights from comp cog neuroscience to understand LLMs. Nice work by @louannapan.bsky.social and @doctor-bob.bsky.social.
Hanbo Xie@psychboyh.bsky.social · 2y agoLarge Language Models can do a lot of things. But do you know they cannot explore effectively, especially in open-ended tasks? Recently, Lan Pan and I dropped a preprint to investigate how LLMs explore in an open-ended task. arxiv.org/abs/2501.18009
Ruffed Grouse 40-50 cm Canada,Alaska, N and W US permeant residents diet summer green leaves, clover, all berries seeds and insects winter buds catkins from aspen birch and cherry trees The drumming is a male mating ritual
Here's where to find the Penn Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Cognitive Computational Neuroscience next week! See you in NYC!
New paper discussing how a neural code for language must be able to explain cross-linguistic influence, given that only a minority of the world's population is monolingual! Neurocomputational mechanisms of syntactic transfer in bilingual sentence production 🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"The academic structure … makes planning for a family feel like an impossible luxury." In this Working Life, two postdocs share how, as women in academia, having children can feel impossible—and how talking about it makes them feel less alone. https://scim.ag/46uBWgD #InternationalDayOfFriendship
If you don't exercise regularly, eating less protein could have greater health benefits than a high protein diet and even increase lifespan. Learn more in Cell Press Blue: www.cell.com/cell-press-b... Bailey A. Knopf & Dudley W. Lamming
heading to nyc to give a talk at the Metacognition Science Satellite at #CCN2026 this sunday🗽🤔 catch me in the metacognition in novel task domains session @ 2:30🤗 w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social
Steve Fleming@smfleming.bsky.social · 4mo ago🚨 Announcing another edition of the Metacognitive Science satellite in NYC, August 2nd 2026 (day before CCN) 🧠 🧪 Abstract submission is now open and closes May 15th! metacognitivescience.org Co-organised with @meganakpeters.bsky.social @luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social @dobyrahnev.bsky.social
Red-billed Leiothrix (Leiothrix lutea) in India by Nelson George.
Overturning a decades-old policy, the US government will soon limit international students to no more than four years in the United States unless they can secure an extension from the US government go.nature.com/4pIa9lC
International PhD students to face strict limits on time in the US
Trump administration takes action to address ‘forever students’.
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Do animals use names? Conceptual and empirical criteria. Learn more in Trends in Cognitive Sciences: www.cell.com/trends/cogni... Kelly Jaakkola, Stephanie L. King, & Jason N. Bruck @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
1/ The world's songbirds sing in just 8 basic sounds. And where a bird lives decides which ones it uses. My first PhD paper is out now in @science.org (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee6239) Here is what we found:
At Cosyne, Chris Olah from Anthropic told us that neuroscientists had “3-4 years left to make a contribution” Why was not clear. Perhaps he was hinting at the below graph accompanying today’s Claude Science launch. Apparently we’ll all be obsolete soon.
Excited that our paper is finally out in @natneuro.nature.com 🎉 Huge thanks to all my co-authors, especially @jonasterlau.bsky.social & @randolph-helfrich.bsky.social for the support and great teamwork 🍀
Randolph Helfrich@randolph-helfrich.bsky.social · 3mo agoVery excited to share our latest paper led by @nbinish.bsky.social in @natneuro.nature.com We demonstrate how a communication subspace channels higher-dimensional PFC dynamics into lower-D motor activity to enable efficient behavior using human iEEG. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence
New lab paper ! "Shared neural geometries for bilingual semantic representations in human hippocampal neurons" led by @xinyuanyan.bsky.social. 🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Shared neural geometries for bilingual semantic representations in human hippocampal neurons
The human brain has the remarkable ability to comprehend and express similar concepts in multiple languages. To understand how it does so, we examined…
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I also wrote a blogpost about our paper, non-technical at all! psywalkeryanxy.github.io/posts/scienc...
The tower that never fell: how one brain holds two languages – Xinyuan Yan
In Genesis, humanity’s shared language is scattered at Babel. But inside the bilingual brain, we found something the story leaves out: a single, hidden map of meaning that English and Spanish both rea...
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Cell Press@cellpress.bsky.social · 2mo agoFor many bilingual people, switching between languages feels effortless. Now, scientists have figured out how bilingual brains accomplish this feat at the single neuron level. spkl.io/633297EUXJ Xinyuan Yan, Benjamin, Y. Hayden, @sameershethmd.bsky.social & colleagues @cp-cell.bsky.social
For many bilingual people, switching between languages feels effortless. Now, scientists have figured out how bilingual brains accomplish this feat at the single neuron level. spkl.io/633297EUXJ Xinyuan Yan, Benjamin, Y. Hayden, @sameershethmd.bsky.social & colleagues @cp-cell.bsky.social