Yongdi Zhou and Liping Wang’s Paper Published on PNAS

Yongdi Zhou and Liping Wang’s paper “Differential Roles of Delay-period Neural Activity in Monkey Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Visual-haptic Crossmodal Working Memory” was published online on PNAS on November 24, 2014. This paper indicates that neural networks in the DLPFC function sequentially in the crossmodal task from visual stimulus encoding and crossmodal information transferring between visual and tactile stimuli to the behavioural action. 
 
“Our findings may clarify the neural mechanisms by which the cerebral cortex stores information in working memory, a cognitive function of prime importance in the coordination of behavior, speech, and reasoning.” Said Zhou.
 
Professor Yongdi Zhou is currently Co-director of the NYU-ECNU Institute of Brain and Cognitive Science at NYU Shanghai and Dean of the School of Psychology and Cognitive Science at East China Normal University

Professor Liping Wang is currently an associated member of the NYU-ECNU Institute of Brain and Cognitive Science at NYU Shanghai and Assistant Professor of the School of Psychology and Cognitive Science at East China Normal University