Institute
Principal Investigators
WANG Liping
  • Department:
  • Position:Senior Investigator
  • Research Field:Sequence learning, working memory, and consciousness
  • Phone:+86(0)21-54921691
  • E-mail:liping.wang@icpbr.ac.cn
Biography
Dr. Wang received his B.S. in Biology from East China Normal University (ECNU) Shanghai in 2003. From 2003 to 2009, he was in a joint PhD program between Johns Hopkins University and ECNU and received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience from ECNU in 2008. He then did his first postdoctoral work at the University of Tokyo in Japan, and got his second postdoc training in INSERM NeuroSpin Institute in France. Wang joined the Institute of Neuroscience full time in 2016 as Investigator and Head of Lab of Cognition.
Research Interests
By conducting psychophysics, electroencephalogram, and functional magnetic resonance imaging experiments in humans, and single/population-unit recording and two-photon calcium imaging in awake macaques and marmosets, the lab is aimed to investigate the neural and computational mechanisms of sequence learning, working memory, and consciousness.
Selected Publications

Qi, G., Fang, W.*, Li, S., Li, J., Wang, L.*  (2022)  Neural dynamics of causal inference in the macaque frontoparietal circuit.  eLife.  11: e76145

Xie, Y., Hu, P., Li, J., Chen, J., Song, W., Wang, X., Yang, T., Dehaene, S., Tang, S.,*, Min, B.*, Wang, L.*  (2022)  Geometry of sequence working memory in macaque prefrontal cortex.  Science.  375: 632-639

Jiang, Y., Komatsu, M., Chen, Y., Xie, R., Zhang, K., Xia, Y., Gui, P., Liang, Z*. , Wang, L.*  (2022)  Constructing the hierarchy of predictive auditory sequences in the marmoset brain.  eLife.  11: e74653

Zhang, H., Zhen, Y., Yu, S., Long, T., Zhang, B., Jiang, X., Li, J., Fang, W., Sigman, M., Dehaene, S.,Wang, L.*  (2022)  Working memory for spatial sequences: Developmental and evolutionary factors in encoding ordinal and relational structures.  J. Neurosci.  42: 850-864

Zeng, H., Huang, J., Li, J., Shen, Z., Gong, N., Wen, Y., Wang, L.* and Poo, M.*  (2021)  Distinct neuron populations for simple and compound calls in the primary auditory cortex of awake marmosets.  National Science Review.  8: nwab126

Gui, P., Jiang, Y., Zang, D., Qi, Z., Tan, J., Tanigawa, H., Jiang, J., Wen, Y., Xu, L., Zhao, J., Mao, Y., Poo, M., Ding, N., Dehaene, S., Wu, X.* and Wang, L.*  (2020)  Assessing the depth of language processing in patients with disorders of consciousness.  Nature Neuroscience.  23: 761-770

Fang, W., Li, J., Qi, G., Li, S., Sigman, M., Wang, L.*  (2019)  Statistical inference of body representation in the macaque brain.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA.  116(40): 20151-20157.[Commentary by H.Henrik Ehrsson. Premotor cortex implements causal inference in multisensory own-body perception. PNAS. 1914000116

Jiang, X., Long, T., Cao, W., Li, J., Dehaene, S. and Wang, L.*  (2018)  Production of supra-regular spatial sequences by macaque monkeys.  Current Biology.  28: 1851–1859.[Commentary by W. Tecumseh Fitch. Bio-Linguistics: Monkeys Break Through the Syntax Barrier. Current Biology. 28: R695–R697