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Overview

Rongjun Yu is affiliated with the National University of Singapore in Singapore. Their research spans multiple areas within neuroscience and psychology, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience and experimental psychology.

The scientist's publication record includes papers addressing a range of topics in neural and behavioral psychology as well as brain connectivity. Recent works include:

  • Testing (quizzing) boosts classroom learning: A systematic and meta-analytic review, 2021, Psychological Bulletin
  • Validating a functional near-infrared spectroscopy diagnostic paradigm for Major Depressive Disorder, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Intranasal oxytocin in the treatment of autism spectrum disorders: A multilevel meta-analysis, 2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Brain network dysfunctions in addiction: a meta-analysis of resting-state functional connectivity, 2022, Translational Psychiatry
  • Goal-oriented and habitual decisions: Neural signatures of model-based and model-free learning, 2020, NeuroImage

Yu frequently publishes in leading neuroscience journals with significant contributions in:

  • NeuroImage
  • Human Brain Mapping
  • Scientific Reports
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Neurobiology of Stress

Their research areas are predominantly within the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology. Subfields studied include:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology

Main topics of work cover diverse aspects of brain and behavior, such as:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Child and Animal Learning Development

Yu collaborates regularly with several researchers, including Sai Sun, Shanshan Zhen, Yi Huang, Serenella Tolomeo, and Zachary Yaple. These partnerships have contributed to interdisciplinary work across related scientific communities.

Best Publications

  • Neural activity associated with monitoring the oscillating threat value of a tarantula

    Dean Mobbs;Rongjun Yu;James B. Rowe;Hannah Eich

  • A Key Role for Similarity in Vicarious Reward

    Dean Mobbs;Rongjun Yu;Marcel Meyer;Marcel Meyer;Luca Passamonti

  • Testing (quizzing) boosts classroom learning: A systematic and meta-analytic review

    Chunliang Yang;Liang Luo;Miguel A. Vadillo;Rongjun Yu

  • Frequency‐specific alternations in the amplitude of low‐frequency fluctuations in schizophrenia

    Rongjun Yu;Yi Ling Chien;Hsiao Lan Sharon Wang;Chih Min Liu

  • Disrupted functional connectivity of the periaqueductal gray in chronic low back pain

    Rongjun Yu;Randy L. Gollub;Rosa Spaeth;Vitaly Napadow

  • Validating a functional near-infrared spectroscopy diagnostic paradigm for Major Depressive Disorder

    Syeda Fabeha Husain;Rongjun Yu;Tong-Boon Tang;Wilson W. Tam

  • Stress potentiates decision biases: A stress induced deliberation-to-intuition (SIDI) model.

    Rongjun Yu

  • To do or not to do? Action enlarges the FRN and P300 effects in outcome evaluation.

    Zhiheng Zhou;Rongjun Yu;Xiaolin Zhou

  • Brain responses to outcomes of one's own and other's performance in a gambling task.

    Rongjun Yu;Xiaolin Zhou

  • Voxel-based, brain-wide association study of aberrant functional connectivity in schizophrenia implicates thalamocortical circuitry.

    Wei Cheng;Lena Palaniyappan;Mingli Li;Keith M Kendrick

  • The human amygdala parametrically encodes the intensity of specific facial emotions and their categorical ambiguity.

    Shuo Wang;Rongjun Yu;Rongjun Yu;J. Michael Tyszka;Shanshan Zhen

  • Autism Spectrum Traits in the Typical Population Predict Structure and Function in the Posterior Superior Temporal Sulcus

    Elisabeth A. H. von dem Hagen;Lauri Nummenmaa;Lauri Nummenmaa;Rongjun Yu;Andrew D. Engell;Andrew D. Engell

  • Cortical haemodynamic response measured by functional near infrared spectroscopy during a verbal fluency task in patients with major depression and borderline personality disorder.

    Syeda F. Husain;Tong-Boon Tang;Rongjun Yu;Wilson W. Tam

  • Distinct neural representations of placebo and nocebo effects.

    Sonya Freeman;Rongjun Yu;Natalia Egorova;Xiaoyan Chen

  • The neural signature of escalating frustration in humans.

    Rongjun Yu;Rongjun Yu;Dean Mobbs;Ben Seymour;James B. Rowe

  • Enhanced functional connectivity between putamen and supplementary motor area in Parkinson's disease patients.

    Rongjun Yu;Bo Liu;Lingling Wang;Jun Chen

  • Intranasal oxytocin in the treatment of autism spectrum disorders: A multilevel meta-analysis.

    Yi Huang;Xin Huang;Richard P. Ebstein;Rongjun Yu

  • Choking under pressure: the neuropsychological mechanisms of incentive-induced performance decrements.

    Rongjun Yu

  • Frequency Dependent Alterations in Regional Homogeneity of Baseline Brain Activity in Schizophrenia

    Rongjun Yu;Ming H. Hsieh;Hsiao Lan Sharon Wang;Chih Min Liu

  • Functional and Structural Brain Correlates of Socioeconomic Status

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  • Key functional circuitry altered in schizophrenia involves parietal regions associated with sense of self

    Shuixia Guo;Keith M. Kendrick;Rongjun Yu;Hsiao Lan Sharon Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Dean Mobbs
Dean Mobbs California Institute of Technology
Andrew J. Calder
Andrew J. Calder University of Cambridge
Xiaolin Zhou
Xiaolin Zhou Peking University
Tim Dalgleish
Tim Dalgleish University of Cambridge
Chris D. Frith
Chris D. Frith University College London
Lauri Nummenmaa
Lauri Nummenmaa Turku University Hospital
Ayelet Fishbach
Ayelet Fishbach University of Chicago
Gunter Schumann
Gunter Schumann King's College London
Edward R. Hirt
Edward R. Hirt Indiana University
Irving Kirsch
Irving Kirsch Harvard University

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