Prof. Xiaoqing HU

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Northwestern University 2014
• M.S. Northwestern University 2010
• M. Education. Zhejiang Normal University 2009
• B.S. Zhejiang University 2006

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Sleep: How sleep shapes our memories, emotions and mental wellness, and how to manipulate memory and emotion during sleep?
• Memory: How memories are acquired, updated, corrected, and retrieved, and how unwelcome memories can be controlled and forgotten?
• Social Learning: How we know about ourselves, how we acquire likes and dislikes, and how we learn from others?

 

underline denotes undergraduate/research assistant/graduate/post-doc trainee author(s) under my supervision, # denotes co-first author(s), * denotes corresponding author(s).

Recent Preprints

Liu, J.*, Chen, D., Xia, T., Zeng, S., Xue, G., & Hu, X.* (2024). Slow-wave sleep and REM sleep differentially contribute to memory representational transformation. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.05.606592

Guo, S., Swire-Thompson, B., & Hu, X.* (2024). Specific media literacy tips decrease belief in AI-generated visual misinformation. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/phr79

Guo, S., Zhong, Y., & Hu, X.* (2024). Properties of AI-generated images that influence misinformation belief and correction efficacy. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/2p64a

Yue, W., Liu, J., Yao, Z., Zhang, Y., Mu, Z., & Hu, X.* (2024). Retrospective duration judgments of naturalistic events depend on memories of event boundaries

Guo, S., Chen, D., & Hu, X.* (2023) How does an alternative explanation reduce the continued influence effect of misinformation? An ERP investigation. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/z7aqc

 

Recent Publications (2020-present)

Chen, D., Xia, T., Yao, Z., Zhang, L., & Hu, X.* (2024). Modulating social learning-induced evaluation updating during human sleep. npj Science of Learning, 9, 43, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-024-00255-5

Chen, D., Yao, Z., Liu, J., Wu, H., & Hu, X.* (2024). Social conformity updates the neural representation of facial attractiveness. Communications Biology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06791-5

Lin, X., Chen, D., Liu, J., Yao, Z., Xie, H., Anderson, M.*, & Hu, X.* (2024). Observing the suppression of individual aversive memories from conscious awareness. Cerebral Cortex, 34(6), bhae080, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae080

Varma, M. M. #, Zeng, S. #, Singh, L., Holmes, E. A., Huang, J., Chiu, M, H., & Hu, X.* (2024). A systematic review and meta-analysis of experimental methods for modulating intrusive memories from lab-analogue trauma exposure in non-clinical population. Nature Human Behaviour, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01956-y

Xia, T., Chen, D., Zeng, S., Yao, Z., Liu, J., Qin, S., Paller, K.A., Torres-Platas, S. G., Antony, J.W., & Hu, X.* (2024) Aversive memories can be weakened during human sleep via the reactivation of positive interfering memories. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(31), e2400678121, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2400678121

Yao, Z., Xia, T., Wei, J., Zhang, Z., Lin, X., Zhang, D., Qin, P., Ma, Y.*, & Hu, X.* (2024). Reactivating cued approached positive personality traits during sleep promotes positive self-referential processing. iScience.27(7), 110341. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.110341

Yao, Z., Wei, J., Huang, G., Li, L., Liang, Z., Zhang, L., Wu, H., Yuan, T., Zhang, Z.*, & Hu, X.* (2024). Right frontal gamma transcranial alternating current stimulation modulates optimism biases. Neuroscience Bulletin, https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4018820/v1

Zheng Q., Huang, Y., Mu, C., Hu, X.*, Lai, C. S.W.* (2024). Selective modulation of fear memory in non-rapid eye movement sleep. Advanced Science.

Liu, J., Xia, T., Chen, D., Yao, Z., Zhu, M., Antony, J. W., Lee, T.M.*, & Hu, X.* (2023). Item-specific neural representations during human sleep support long-term memory. PLoS Biology, 21(11): e3002399. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3002399

Jin, R., Xia, T., Gawronski, B., & Hu, X.* (2023). Attitudinal effects of stimulus co-occurrence and stimulus relations: Sleep supports propositional learning via memory consolidation. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 14(1), 51-59. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506211067673

Varma, M. M.#, Chen, D.#, Lin, X., Aknin, L. B., & Hu, X.* (2023). Prosocial behavior promotes positive emotion during the COVID-19 pandemic. Emotion, 23(2), 538-553. doi: 10.1037/emo0001077

Xia, T., Antony, J.W., Paller, K.A., & Hu, X.* (2023). Targeted memory reactivation during sleep influences social bias as a function of slow-oscillation phase and delta power. Psychophysiology, 60(5), e14224. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14224

Xia, T., Yao, Z., Guo, X., Liu, J., Chen, D., Liu, Q.*, Paller, K.A., & Hu, X.* (2023). Updating memories of unwanted emotions during human sleep. Current Biology, 33(2), 309-320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.12.004

Xie, H., Lin, X., Hu, W., & Hu, X.* (2023). Emotion regulation promotes forgetting of negative social feedback: Behavioral and EEG evidence. Acta Psychologica Sinica 心理學報, 55(6), 905-919. https://journal.psych.ac.cn/xlxb/CN/10.3724/SP.J.1041.2023.00905 [in Chinese]   

Ling, J.#, Lin, X.#, Li, X., Chan, N. Y., Zhang, J., Wing, Y. K., Hu, X.*, Li, S. X.* (2022) Neural response to rewards in youths with insomnia. SLEEP, 45(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsab238

Varma, M. M., & Hu, X.* (2022) Prosocial behaviour reduces unwanted intrusions of experimental traumatic memories. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 148, 103998. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2021.103998

Xie, H., Mo, L., Li, S., Liang, J., Hu, X.*, & Zhang, D.* (2022) Aberrant social feedback processing and its impact on memory, social evaluation, and decision making among individuals with depressive symptoms. Journal of Affective Disorder, 300, 366-376. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2022.01.020

Zeng, S.#, Lin, X.#, Wang, J., & Hu, X.* (2021) Sleep’s short-term memory preservation and long-term affect depotentiation effect in emotional memory consolidation: behavioral and EEG evidence. SLEEP, 44(11), zsab155, https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsab155

Ling, J.#, Lin, X.#, Li, X., Chan, N. Y., Zhang, J., Wing, Y.K., Hu, X.*, & Li, S. X*. (2021) Altered brain activity related to inhibitory processing in youth with insomnia. Journal of Sleep Research, 30(6), https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.13398

Zeng, S., Lau, E., Li, S. X., & Hu, X.* (2021). Sleep differentially impacts involuntary intrusion and voluntary recognition of lab-analogue traumatic memories. Journal of Sleep Research, 30(3), e13208. https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.13208

Yao, Z., Lin, X., & Hu, X.* (2021) Optimistic amnesia: How online and offline processing shape belief updating and memory biases in immediate and long-term optimism biases. Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, 16(5), 453-462. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsab011

Hu, X.*, Cheng, L. Y., Chiu, M. H., & Paller, K.A. (2020). Promoting memory consolidation during sleep: A meta-analysis of targeted memory reactivation. Psychological Bulletin, 146(3), 218-244. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000223

Xie, H., Chen, Y., Lin, Y., Hu, X.*, & Zhang, D.* (2020). Can’t Forget: Disruption of the right prefrontal cortex impairs voluntary forgetting in a recognition test, Memory, 28, 60-69, https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2019.1681456

RESEARCH LABORATORY

Social & Cognitive Neuroscience Lab

RESEARCH INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES