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Yin Wang, PhD

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Post Doctoral Researcher

 

Temple University

Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory

Recent Publications:
 
Wang, Y., Metoki, A., Alm, K.H., Olson, I.R. (in press). White matter pathways and social cognition. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
 
Wang, Y., Olson, I.R. (in press). The original social network: white matter and social cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 
 
Wang, Y., Collins, J. A., Koski, J., Nugiel, T., Metoki, A., Olson, I.R. (2017). A Dynamic Neural Architecture for Social Knowledge Retrieval. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 114(16): E3305–E3314.
 
Wang, Y., & Quadflieg, S. (2015). In our own image? Emotional and Neural Processing Differences When Observing Human-Human versus Human-Robot Interactions. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10 (11): 1515-1524
 
Wang, Y., Thomas, J., Weissgerber, S. C., Kazemini, S., Ul-Haq, I., & Quadflieg, S. (2015). The Headscarf Effect Re-Visited: Further Evidence For A Culture-Based Internal Face Processing Advantage. Perception, 44(3):328–336
 
Wang, Y., & Hamilton, A. (2015). Anterior medial prefrontal cortex implements social priming of mimicry. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10(4):486-493
 
Wang, Y., & Hamilton, A. (2014). Why does gaze enhance mimicry? Placing gaze-mimicry effects in relation to other gaze phenomena. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67(4):747-762.
 
Wang, Y., & Hamilton, A. (2013). Understanding the role of the ‘self’ in the social priming of mimicry. PLoS One. 8(4):e60249.
 
Wang, Y., & Hamilton, A. (2012). Social top-down response modulation (STORM)—a model of the control of mimicry in social interaction. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6:153
 
Wang, Y., Ramsey, R., & Hamilton, A. (2011). The control of mimicry by eye contact is mediated by medial prefrontal cortex. The Journal of Neuroscience, 31(33): 12001-12010
 

Wang, Y., Newport, R., & Hamilton, A. (2011). Eye contact enhances mimicry of intransitive hand movements. Biology Letters, 7:7-10

Ongoing Projects:

 

  • The neural basis of social knowledge
  • The functional and structural connectome of the social brain
Research Interests:

 

  • Social Cognition (social perception, social memory and social decision-making)
  • Mirror System and Mentalizing System