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Overview

Ya Wang is affiliated with Capital Normal University in China. Their research spans multiple disciplines, including neuroscience, psychology, and medicine. The scientist has contributed extensively to subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, and neurology.

Their work centers on topics related to functional brain connectivity studies, neural dynamics and brain function, mental health research, schizophrenia research and treatment, cognitive functions and memory, neural and behavioral psychology studies, and psychological and temporal perspectives research.

Ya Wang has published research in several prominent venues. Frequent publication outlets include PsyCh Journal, Schizophrenia Bulletin, Frontiers in Psychiatry, Asian Journal of Psychiatry, and Research Square.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Ya Wang include:

  • A meta-analysis of the effects of episodic future thinking on delay discounting, 2021, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Microglial Activation and Oxidative Stress in PM2.5-Induced Neurodegenerative Disorders, 2022, Antioxidants
  • Altered brain structural and functional connectivity in schizotypy, 2020, Psychological Medicine
  • Neurological Soft Signs Are Associated With Altered Cerebellar-Cerebral Functional Connectivity in Schizophrenia, 2020, Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Impaired Topological Properties of Gray Matter Structural Covariance Network in Epilepsy Children With Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizures: A Graph Theoretical Analysis, 2020, Frontiers in Neurology

Collaboration is a notable aspect of Ya Wang's career, with frequent co-authors including Raymond C. K. Chan, Ji-fang Cui, Tian-xiao Yang, Simon S. Y. Lui, and Xiaojing Qin.

Best Publications

  • A Meta-Analysis of Working Memory Impairments in Autism Spectrum Disorders

    Ya Wang;Yi-bing Zhang;Lu-lu Liu;Ji-fang Cui

  • Neurological Soft Signs in Schizophrenia: A Meta-analysis

    Raymond C. K. Chan;Ting Xu;Ting Xu;R. Walter Heinrichs;Yue Yu

  • The Temporal Experience of Pleasure Scale (TEPS): exploration and confirmation of factor structure in a healthy Chinese sample.

    Raymond C.K. Chan;Yan fang Shi;Man kin Lai;Yu na Wang

  • Examination of postconcussion-like symptoms in healthy university students: Relationships to subjective and objective neuropsychological function performance ☆

    Ya Wang;Raymond C.K. Chan;Yongyu Deng

  • Anticipatory and consummatory components of the experience of pleasure in schizophrenia: cross-cultural validation and extension.

    Raymond C.K. Chan;Ya Wang;Ya Wang;Jia Huang;Yanfang Shi

  • The effect of implementation intention on prospective memory: a systematic and meta-analytic review.

    Xing-jie Chen;Ya Wang;Lu-lu Liu;Ji-fang Cui

  • Working Memory in Early-School-Age Children with Asperger’s Syndrome

    Jifang Cui;Dingguo Gao;Yinghe Chen;Xiaobing Zou

  • Objective measures of prospective memory do not correlate with subjective complaints in schizophrenia.

    Raymond C.K. Chan;Ya Wang;Zheng Ma;Xiao-hong Hong

  • Meta-analysis of prospective memory in schizophrenia: nature, extent, and correlates.

    Ya Wang;Jifang Cui;Raymond C.K. Chan;Yongyu Deng

  • Neurological soft signs discriminate schizophrenia from major depression but not bipolar disorder

    Qing Zhao;Yan-tao Ma;Simon S.Y. Lui;Wen-hua Liu

  • Neural correlates of uncertain decision making: ERP evidence from the Iowa Gambling Task

    Ji-fang Cui;Ji-fang Cui;Ying-he Chen;Ya Wang;David H.K. Shum

  • Neurological Soft Signs and Their Relationships to Neurocognitive Functions: A Re-Visit with the Structural Equation Modeling Design

    Raymond C. K. Chan;Raymond C. K. Chan;Ya Wang;Li Wang;Eric Y. H. Chen

  • Executive functioning in healthy elderly Chinese people.

    Han Lin;Raymond C.K. Chan;Liuning Zheng;Tianxiao Yang

  • Prospective memory deficits in subjects with schizophrenia spectrum disorders: a comparison study with schizophrenic subjects, psychometrically defined schizotypal subjects, and healthy controls.

    Ya Wang;Raymond C.K. Chan;Xin Yu;Chuan Shi

  • Prospective memory in schizophrenia: Further clarification of nature of impairment

    Ya Wang;Raymond C.K. Chan;Raymond C.K. Chan;Xiaohong Hong;Zheng Ma

  • The Development of a Chinese Equivalence Version of Letter–Number Span Test

    Raymond C. K. Chan;Ya Wang;Yongyu Deng;Yani Zhang

  • Abnormal white matter structural connectivity in adults with obsessive-compulsive disorder

    J Gan;M Zhong;J Fan;W Liu

  • Social Functioning in Chinese College Students with and without Schizotypal Personality Traits: An Exploratory Study of the Chinese Version of the First Episode Social Functioning Scale

    Yi Wang;Ya-hsuan Yeh;Sin-man Tsang;Wen-hua Liu

  • Clinical Utility and Lifespan Profiling of Neurological Soft Signs in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders

    Raymond C. K. Chan;Weizhen Xie;Fu-lei Geng;Ya Wang

  • EXPRESS: A meta-analysis of the effects of episodic future thinking on delay discounting:

    Jun-Yan Ye;Qing-Yu Ding;Ji-Fang Cui;Zhe Liu

  • Neurological soft signs in individuals with schizotypal personality features.

    Raymond C. K. Chan;Ya Wang;Qing Zhao;Chao Yan

Frequent Co-Authors

Raymond C.K. Chan
Raymond C.K. Chan Chinese Academy of Sciences
David Shum
David Shum Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Eric F.C. Cheung
Eric F.C. Cheung Castle Peak Hospital
Simon S.Y. Lui
Simon S.Y. Lui University of Hong Kong
David L. Neumann
David L. Neumann Griffith University
Ann M. Kring
Ann M. Kring University of California, Berkeley
Diane C. Gooding
Diane C. Gooding University of Wisconsin–Madison
Adrian Raine
Adrian Raine University of Pennsylvania
Raquel E. Gur
Raquel E. Gur University of Pennsylvania
Yong-Gang Yao
Yong-Gang Yao Chinese Academy of Sciences

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