Qingzhi Ruby Zeng
@qingzhirubyzeng.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @University of Rochester | Researching speech and communication 💬 | Fascinated by individual differences in social interaction 👥 | She/her 🇨🇳
/1 New preprint alert! 💫“Expertise Shapes the Multidimensional Perception of Stories”! 💫 We generated a novel corpus of improvised spoken stories using diverse prompts designed to elicit creative and complex narrative structure.
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
OSF
doi.org
August 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
/1 New preprint alert! 💫“Expertise Shapes the Multidimensional Perception of Stories”! 💫 We generated a novel corpus of improvised spoken stories using diverse prompts designed to elicit creative and complex narrative structure.
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Reposted by Qingzhi Ruby Zeng
The SoNIC Lab is in San Francisco for #CogSci2025; come check out our latest research!
July 30, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The SoNIC Lab is in San Francisco for #CogSci2025; come check out our latest research!
Reposted by Qingzhi Ruby Zeng
For the first time, metalinguistics and recursion are not exclusively human abilities. Large language models can do them too.
This research is an example of “behavioral interpretability” of LLMs—using prompting to understand inner representations of AI.
news.berkeley.edu/2025/07/14/a...
This research is an example of “behavioral interpretability” of LLMs—using prompting to understand inner representations of AI.
news.berkeley.edu/2025/07/14/a...
As chatbots get smarter, humans' unique language abilities are becoming less special - Berkeley News
UC Berkeley researchers say large language models have gained "metalinguistic ability," a hallmark of human language and cognition no other animal has displayed.
news.berkeley.edu
July 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
For the first time, metalinguistics and recursion are not exclusively human abilities. Large language models can do them too.
This research is an example of “behavioral interpretability” of LLMs—using prompting to understand inner representations of AI.
news.berkeley.edu/2025/07/14/a...
This research is an example of “behavioral interpretability” of LLMs—using prompting to understand inner representations of AI.
news.berkeley.edu/2025/07/14/a...
Reposted by Qingzhi Ruby Zeng
Interpersonal Cardiac Synchrony During Emotional Sharing Between Strangers: https://osf.io/nmj5k
July 14, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Interpersonal Cardiac Synchrony During Emotional Sharing Between Strangers: https://osf.io/nmj5k
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"Ideally, it will not only inspire neuroscientists to make their studies more 'natural' but also encourage behavioral ecologists to tackle the neural basis of fascinating behaviors."
@science.org reviews "Natural Neuroscience" by Nachum Ulanovsky: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@science.org reviews "Natural Neuroscience" by Nachum Ulanovsky: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
July 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM
"Ideally, it will not only inspire neuroscientists to make their studies more 'natural' but also encourage behavioral ecologists to tackle the neural basis of fascinating behaviors."
@science.org reviews "Natural Neuroscience" by Nachum Ulanovsky: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@science.org reviews "Natural Neuroscience" by Nachum Ulanovsky: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Qingzhi Ruby Zeng
Scream Club Chicago offers a safe release of bottled-up energy in weekly sessions by the lake. The breath-work practitioner says the exercise helps externalize internal tensions.
https://trib.al/ZWVNpjv
https://trib.al/ZWVNpjv
Scream Club Chicago offers a safe release of bottled-up energy
Manny Hernandez has been leading a group in weekly screaming sessions by the lake. The breath-work practitioner says the exercise helps externalize internal tensions.
trib.al
July 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Scream Club Chicago offers a safe release of bottled-up energy in weekly sessions by the lake. The breath-work practitioner says the exercise helps externalize internal tensions.
https://trib.al/ZWVNpjv
https://trib.al/ZWVNpjv
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New mewsletter out today: what using catspeak says about us 🧪 #linguistics open.substack.com/pub/purrspec...
The Social Aspect of Catspeak
What cat-inspired language says about us
open.substack.com
April 16, 2025 at 10:31 AM
New mewsletter out today: what using catspeak says about us 🧪 #linguistics open.substack.com/pub/purrspec...
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The PEER2025 schedule is up! 👇
PEER2025 is coming up fast (Friday, April 18)!
PEER2025 Program
Schedule of talks and activities for PEER2025
peer-workshop.github.io
April 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The PEER2025 schedule is up! 👇
So grateful for the recognition and support!
Congratulations to @qingzhirubyzeng.bsky.social for winning a Best Poster Award at UR's Graduate Research Day. This is actually the second time Ruby has won this award, in two different years and for two different projects. Wow!!
April 18, 2025 at 4:06 AM
So grateful for the recognition and support!
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Excited to be part of this work led by @hayoungsong.bsky.social! We used scrambled narratives, fMRI, and free-form verbal responses to study how the brain arrives at insights!
If you are curious about the brain🧠 on causal inference, insight💡, memory retrieval, and narrative comprehension🎬, this will be the one.
work by dream team @jinke.bsky.social Rhea Madhogarhia @ycleong.bsky.social @monicarosenb.bsky.social ⭐
work by dream team @jinke.bsky.social Rhea Madhogarhia @ycleong.bsky.social @monicarosenb.bsky.social ⭐
Cortical reinstatement of causally related events sparks narrative insights by updating neural representation patterns https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.12.642853v1
March 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Excited to be part of this work led by @hayoungsong.bsky.social! We used scrambled narratives, fMRI, and free-form verbal responses to study how the brain arrives at insights!
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Excited to share our new preprint! Using a narrative reading paradigm, we showed that temporal order memory reconstruction can depend on multiple sources of information - factors like knowledge about typical event order and hierarchical event structure can both play important roles! 📖🧠
New preprint from Yining Ding (@liliand.bsky.social)!
"Temporal order memory in naturalistic events is scaffolded by semantic knowledge and hierarchical event structure"
osf.io/preprints/ps...
"Temporal order memory in naturalistic events is scaffolded by semantic knowledge and hierarchical event structure"
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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osf.io
March 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Excited to share our new preprint! Using a narrative reading paradigm, we showed that temporal order memory reconstruction can depend on multiple sources of information - factors like knowledge about typical event order and hierarchical event structure can both play important roles! 📖🧠
Reposted by Qingzhi Ruby Zeng
Now out in Plos Computational Biology! We identified a generalizable neural signature of emotional arousal across contexts and individuals during movie watching.
work with the best team: @hayoungsong.bsky.social @Zihan Bai @monicarosenb.bsky.social @ycleong.bsky.social
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
work with the best team: @hayoungsong.bsky.social @Zihan Bai @monicarosenb.bsky.social @ycleong.bsky.social
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Dynamic brain connectivity predicts emotional arousal during naturalistic movie-watching
Author summary This study explores how the brain represents two key dimensions of emotional experience: valence (how positive or negative an experience feels) and arousal (the level of emotional activ...
dx.plos.org
April 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Now out in Plos Computational Biology! We identified a generalizable neural signature of emotional arousal across contexts and individuals during movie watching.
work with the best team: @hayoungsong.bsky.social @Zihan Bai @monicarosenb.bsky.social @ycleong.bsky.social
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
work with the best team: @hayoungsong.bsky.social @Zihan Bai @monicarosenb.bsky.social @ycleong.bsky.social
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
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Calling all couples in the Chicago area! 💕 I'm launching a new study with @ycleong.bsky.social and @lydiaemery.bsky.social to explore brain responses during conversations between couples. If you're interested, please fill out our brief screener! ssd.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
March 31, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Calling all couples in the Chicago area! 💕 I'm launching a new study with @ycleong.bsky.social and @lydiaemery.bsky.social to explore brain responses during conversations between couples. If you're interested, please fill out our brief screener! ssd.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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New preprint 🎉: How do episodic memory, emotions, and schemas for caregiver experiences come together in kids’ brains and verbal recall? Check out our new results showing how past and present childhood experiences shape perception and memory for movies: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Past and present caregiving experiences impact prefrontal connectivity and recall for attachment-schema narratives
We investigated how past and current caregiving experiences impacted emotional event processing by examining inter-subject functional correlation in 7- to 15-year-olds during narrative movies depictin...
www.biorxiv.org
April 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
New preprint 🎉: How do episodic memory, emotions, and schemas for caregiver experiences come together in kids’ brains and verbal recall? Check out our new results showing how past and present childhood experiences shape perception and memory for movies: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Qingzhi Ruby Zeng
Very proud to finally share our latest paper "Person Knowledge is Independently Encoded by Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames within Separate Brain Systems," officially out at Psych Science.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Person Knowledge Is Independently Encoded by Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames Within Separate Brain Systems - Robert S. Chavez, Taylor D. Guthrie, Jack M. Kapustka, 2025
Knowing the similarities among others is critical for navigating our social environments and building relationships. However, people can evaluate the similarity...
journals.sagepub.com
April 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Very proud to finally share our latest paper "Person Knowledge is Independently Encoded by Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames within Separate Brain Systems," officially out at Psych Science.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reposted by Qingzhi Ruby Zeng
Join us on May 21 for AI, Creativity & a Changing World, a special symposium on the latest in Creativity & AI research:
🔹 AI & Human Co-Creativity
🔹 Advances in Automated Creativity Scoring
🔹 Expert panel on future trends led by @roger-beaty.bsky.social
Registration opens next week!
#SfNC2025
🔹 AI & Human Co-Creativity
🔹 Advances in Automated Creativity Scoring
🔹 Expert panel on future trends led by @roger-beaty.bsky.social
Registration opens next week!
#SfNC2025
February 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Join us on May 21 for AI, Creativity & a Changing World, a special symposium on the latest in Creativity & AI research:
🔹 AI & Human Co-Creativity
🔹 Advances in Automated Creativity Scoring
🔹 Expert panel on future trends led by @roger-beaty.bsky.social
Registration opens next week!
#SfNC2025
🔹 AI & Human Co-Creativity
🔹 Advances in Automated Creativity Scoring
🔹 Expert panel on future trends led by @roger-beaty.bsky.social
Registration opens next week!
#SfNC2025
Reposted by Qingzhi Ruby Zeng
Enhancing creativity through neurofeedback:
Check out our recent paper where we use covert neurofeedback to entrain default-executive coupling during creative thinking!
Xinbing (Jack) Zhang, Jack White, Michael Luehrs, Michal Ramot, & @roger-beaty.bsky.social
t.co/glnpPNmJ6R
Check out our recent paper where we use covert neurofeedback to entrain default-executive coupling during creative thinking!
Xinbing (Jack) Zhang, Jack White, Michael Luehrs, Michal Ramot, & @roger-beaty.bsky.social
t.co/glnpPNmJ6R
April 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Enhancing creativity through neurofeedback:
Check out our recent paper where we use covert neurofeedback to entrain default-executive coupling during creative thinking!
Xinbing (Jack) Zhang, Jack White, Michael Luehrs, Michal Ramot, & @roger-beaty.bsky.social
t.co/glnpPNmJ6R
Check out our recent paper where we use covert neurofeedback to entrain default-executive coupling during creative thinking!
Xinbing (Jack) Zhang, Jack White, Michael Luehrs, Michal Ramot, & @roger-beaty.bsky.social
t.co/glnpPNmJ6R
Reposted by Qingzhi Ruby Zeng
New paper story time (now out in PNAS)! We developed a method that caused people to learn new categories of visual objects, not by teaching them what the categories were, but by changing how their brains worked when they looked at individual objects in those categories.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Sculpting new visual categories into the human brain | PNAS
Learning requires changing the brain. This typically occurs through experience, study,
or instruction. We report an alternate route for humans to a...
www.pnas.org
December 4, 2024 at 7:59 PM
New paper story time (now out in PNAS)! We developed a method that caused people to learn new categories of visual objects, not by teaching them what the categories were, but by changing how their brains worked when they looked at individual objects in those categories.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reposted by Qingzhi Ruby Zeng
List of psychology-related starter packs!
#Psychology #AcademicSky 🧪 🧵
Cross-Cultural Psychology and Quant Anthropology
by @drboothroyd.bsky.social
#Psychology #AcademicSky 🧪 🧵
Cross-Cultural Psychology and Quant Anthropology
by @drboothroyd.bsky.social
September 15, 2024 at 11:03 AM
List of psychology-related starter packs!
#Psychology #AcademicSky 🧪 🧵
Cross-Cultural Psychology and Quant Anthropology
by @drboothroyd.bsky.social
#Psychology #AcademicSky 🧪 🧵
Cross-Cultural Psychology and Quant Anthropology
by @drboothroyd.bsky.social
Excited to attend my first in-person conference since the pandemic! Stop by my poster (5097) to chat about speech, prosody, and social interactions. And don’t miss the other amazing posters from my lab too! #psynom24
November 22, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Excited to attend my first in-person conference since the pandemic! Stop by my poster (5097) to chat about speech, prosody, and social interactions. And don’t miss the other amazing posters from my lab too! #psynom24
Reposted by Qingzhi Ruby Zeng
Our lab has a new #musiccognition preprint out! This is a comprehensive look at how listeners integrate musical context across multiple timescales to complete a diverse array of tasks: memory, prediction, and event segmentation. osf.io/preprints/ps...
November 21, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Our lab has a new #musiccognition preprint out! This is a comprehensive look at how listeners integrate musical context across multiple timescales to complete a diverse array of tasks: memory, prediction, and event segmentation. osf.io/preprints/ps...