Dr. Xiaoqing HU

Associate Professor

Office: 6.62

Phone: (852) 3917-2291

Email: xiaoqinghu@hku.hk

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?

Recent Preprints

Chen, D., Yao, Z., Liu, J., Wu, H., & Hu, X.^* (2023). In-group Social Conformity Updates the Neural Representation of Facial Attractiveness. bioRxiv 2023.02.08.527779; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.08.527779

Liu, J., Xia, T., Chen, D., Yao, Z., Zhu, M., Antony, J. W., Lee, T.M.*, & Hu, X.^* (2023). Item-specific memory reactivation supports overnight memory consolidation. bioRxiv 2023.01.25.525599; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.25.525599

Yao, Z., Xia, T., Zhang, Z., Lin, X., Qin, P., Ma, Y., & Hu, X.^* (2022). Reactivating positive personality traits during sleep impacts self-evaluative memories. bioRxiv 2022.11.27.518064, https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.11.27.518064

Lin, X., Chen, D., Yao, Z., Anderson, M.*, & Hu, X.^* (2021). Observing the suppression of individual aversive memories from conscious awareness. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.17.464746v3

Key Publications

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. 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]

Geng, H., Chen, J.^*, Hu, C., Jin, J., Chan, R., Li, Y., Hu, X., Zhang, R.^*, & Zhang, L. (2022). Promoting computation psychiatry in China. Nature Human Behaivor, 6, 615-617. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01328-4 (Comment)

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), 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), https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.13208

Xie, H., Hu, X., Mo, L., & Zhang, D.^*. (2021) Forgetting positive social feedback is difficult: ERP evidence from a directed forgetting paradigm. Psychophysiology. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13790

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

Hu, X.^*, Gawronski, B., & Balas, R. (2017). Propositional versus dual-process accounts of evaluative conditioning: II. The effectiveness of counter-conditioning and counter-instructions in changing implicit and explicit evaluations. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8. 858-866. doi:10.1177/1948550617691094

Hu, X.^*, Bergström, Z.M., Gagnepain, P., & Anderson, M.C. (2017). Suppressing unwanted memories reduces their unintended influences. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26, 197-206. doi: 10.1177/0963721417689881

Hu, X.^*, Gawronski, B., & Balas, R. (2017). Propositional versus dual-process accounts of evaluative conditioning: I. The effects of co-occurrence and relational information on implicit and explicit evaluations. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43, 17-32. doi: 10.1177/0146167216673351

Hu, X., Antony, J. W., Creery, J. D., Vargas, I. M., Bodenhausen, G. V., & Paller, K. A.^* (2015). Unlearning implicit social biases during sleep. Science, 348, 1013-1015. doi: 10.1126/science.aaa3841.

Hu, X.^*, Bergström, Z. M., Bodenhausen, G. V., & Rosenfeld, J. P. (2015). Suppressing unwanted autobiographical memories reduces their automatic influences: Evidence from electrophysiology and an implicit autobiographical memory test. Psychological Science, 26, 1098-1106. doi: 10.1177/0956797615575734.

RESEARCH LABORATORY

Social & Cognitive Neuroscience Lab