Biomedical Researcher II
1411C Northeast Medical Building
yxiong5@ua.edu
Biography
Yanyu Xiong, PhD, is a biomedical researcher at the Alabama Life Research Institute at The University of Alabama. She completed her doctoral research in the Cognitive Neuroscience program of the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences and a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at Indiana University.
Dr. Xiong uses behavioral paradigms combined with multimodal electrophysiological (EEG) and neuroimaging (fMRI and DTI) techniques and computational modeling to investigate the language functions of both healthy multilingual and clinical populations. She has published multiple peer-reviewed journal papers and book chapters on neural temporal, spectral, and spatial dynamics supporting mono- and multi-lingual complex sentence processing, and neuroimaging markers of verbal fluency of stroke individuals with language impairment.
Dr. Xiong has also been working with a transdisciplinary team composed of mental and rural health professionals, clinical psychologists, speech and hearing pathologists, language educators as well as engineers on multiple externally and internally funded projects, ranging from child brain development, clinical invention to enhance facial affect sensitivity of adolescents with CU traits, neurocognitive aging of veterans and stroke population, and several ongoing projects including neural changes related to AI-assisted language learning, child language delay and language markers of aging individuals with subjective cognitive decline. Dr. Xiong has served as a reviewer of multiple high-ranking neuroimaging and neuro-/psycholinguistic journals and federal agencies including NSF and NIH.
Expertise
- Cognitive neuroscience of language
- Neuroimaging techniques (EEG and MRI)
- Sentence processing
- Multilingualism
- Aphasia