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Du Yi
Professor
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Mailing Address:  16 Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China
Email:  duyi@psych.ac.cn
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Resume:

2000-2005 B.M., Peking University Medical Science Center, Beijing, China
2005-2011 Ph.D. in Psychology, Peking University, Beijing, China
2012-2015 Postdoc, Rotman Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2015-2016 Postdoc, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
2016
–  present Professor, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Research Interests:

Auditory and across-modal processing; Speech perception and comprehension; Music perception, reward and plasticity; Life-span development of speech processing; Auditory and speech function in brain disorders

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Achievements:

2013 National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award of China

2016 National Natural Science Fund for Outstanding Young Scholars

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We are recruiting! Multiple postdoc positions are available! If interested, please contact Dr. Du directly.

Selected Publications:

Liang, B.S., Li, Y.C., Zhao, W.Y., Du, Y.* (2023). Bilateral human laryngeal motor cortex in perceptual decision of lexical tone and voicing of consonant. Nature Communications, 14, 4710.
Zhang, L., Wang, X.Y., Alain, C., Du, Y.* (2023). Successful aging of musicians: Preservation of sensorimotor regions aids audiovisual speech-in-noise perception. Science Advances, 9, eadg7056.
Klarlund, M.*, Brattico, E., Pearce, M., Wu, Y.Y., Vuust, P., Overgaard, M., Du, Y.* (2023). Worlds apart? Testing the cultural distance hypothesis in music perception of Chinese and Western listeners. Cognition, 235, 105405. 
Zhang, L., Du, Y.* (2022). Lip movements enhance speech representations and effective connectivity in auditory dorsal stream. Neuroimage, 257,119311.
Zhao, W.Y., Li, Y.C., Du, Y.* (2021) TMS reveals dynamic interaction between inferior frontal gyrus and posterior middle temporal gyrus in gesture-speech semantic integration. Journal of Neuroscience, 41,10356-10364.
Li, X., Zatorre, R.J., Du, Y.* (2021). The Microstructural plasticity of the arcuate fasciculus undergirds improved speech in noise perception in musicians. Cerebral Cortex, 31, 3975-3985.
Zhang, L., Fu, X.Y., Luo, D., Xing, L.S.D., Du, Y.* (2021). Musical experience offsets age-related decline in understanding speech-in-noise: Type of training does not matter, working memory is the key. Ear and Hearing, 42, 258-270.
Liang, B., Du, Y.* (2018). The functional neuroanatomy of lexical tone perception: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12, 495.
Du, Y.*, Zatorre, R.J. (2017). Musical training sharpens and bonds ears and tongue to hear speech better. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114, 13579-13584.
Du, Y.*, Buchsbaum, B., Grady, C., Alain, C.* (2016). Increased activity in frontal motor cortex compensates impaired speech perception in older adults. Nature Communications, 7, 12241.
Du, Y., He, Y., Arnott, S.R., Ross, B., Wu, X.H., Li, L.*, Alain, C.* (2015). Rapid tuning of auditory “what” and “where” pathways by training. Cerebral Cortex, 25, 496-506.
Du, Y., Buchsbaum, B., Grady, C., Alain, C.* (2014). Noise differentially impacts phoneme representations in the auditory and speech motor systems.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciencesof the United States of America, 111, 7126-7131.
Du, Y., He, Y., Ross, B., Bardouille, T., Wu, X.H., Li, L.*, Alain, C.* (2011). Human auditory cortex activity shows additive effects of spectral and spatial cues during speech segregation. Cerebral Cortex, 21, 698-707. 
Du, Y., Wu, X.H., Li, L.* (2011). Differentially organized top-down modulation of prepulse inhibition of startle. Journal of Neuroscience, 31, 13644-13653.
Du, Y., Kong, L.Z., Wang, Q., Wu, X.H., Li, L.* (2011). Auditory frequency-following response: A neurophysiological measure for studying the “cocktail-party problem”. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 35, 2046-2057.
Li, L.*, Du, Y., Li, N.X., Wu, X.H., Wu, Y.H. (2009). Top-down modulation of prepulse inhibition of the startle reflex in humans and rats. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 33, 1157-1167. 

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