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Yizhou Lyu (Louisa)
@lyulouisa.bsky.social
PhD student @UCLA | Social and Affective Neuroscience
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A new study in 'Nature Human Behavior' led by UChicago researchers combines fMRI data and natural language processing to understand how emotions lead to enhanced memory encoding, or "stickiness."

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New Research Explores What Makes Emotional Memories Stick - DSI
By Sarah Steimer We can think of emotional experiences as sticky, explains the study’s senior author Yuan Chang (YC) Leong, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and DSI Affiliate Resear...
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October 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Out now in @nathumbehav.nature.com! We applied graph theoretic analyses to fMRI data of participants watching movies/listening to stories. Integration across large-scale functional networks mediates arousal-dependent enhancement of narrative memories. Open access link: rdcu.be/eKKAw
October 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Excited to share our new paper out in PNAS: “Neural predictors of hidden, persistent psychological states at work.” Full paper at bit.ly/47oaGRR

We brought portable fNIRS into the field to predict the subjective work-related “lenses” of business leaders. Check out the thread below for more! 1/8
October 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Excited to share our new review on how neuroimaging and computational models can help uncover how people see what they want to see, now out at @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! It was a blast writing this with Haena Kim and @iancballard.bsky.social

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A neurocomputational account of motivated seeing
Do goals, beliefs, and desires affect visual experience? This question has long been controversial in cognitive science. There exists extensive litera…
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July 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Pharmacological manipulations offer unique, powerful & imo underutilized ways to test the sensitivity & specificity of brain-based biomarkers of behavior. New from an amazing team led by @lyulouisa.bsky.social & @annacorriveau.bsky.social
Methamphetamine modulates functional connectivity signatures of sustained attention and arousal https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.20.655181v1
May 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Now out in #JNeurosci: www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

People infer intentions from other's behaviors. How do individual differences in hostile attribution bias affect how they process social scenarios? w/ Zishan Su, Professor Dawn Neumann, Professor Kim Meidenbauer, @ycleong.bsky.social
Hostile attribution bias shapes neural synchrony in the left ventromedial prefrontal cortex during a...
Hostile attribution bias refers to the tendency to interpret social situations as intentionally hostile. While previous research has focused on its developmental origins and behavioral consequences, t...
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February 6, 2024 at 6:59 PM