Three new papers from Xinchi and crew

A cornucopia of neurolinguistics.

Alumnus Xinchi Yu *25 continues to be a cornucopia of neurolinguistics, with three new publications since his May 2026 paper in Cognitive Science, co-authored with Ellen Lau and others listed below, including Utku and Allison. Xinchi 

• Cerebral Cortex - Xinchi Yu and Ellen Lau / Complementary univariate and multivariate signals inthe parietal cortex for visual working memory pointers and features
• Journal of Neurolinguistics - Xinchi Yu, Utku Türk, Allison Dods, Xing Tian and Ellen Lau / Language-derived mental object load suppresses posterior alpha power
• Biomedical Signal Processing and Control - Xinchi Yu, Dongxue Zhang, Thomas Carey, Ernst Pöppel, Ellen Lau and Tilmann Sander / Unleashing the potential of OPM-MEG to study event-related fields against low-frequency artifacts: the case of sentence processing

Xinchi left Maryland in 2025 with a PhD from the NACS program, supervised by Ellen Lau, with a thesis on "Mapping the neural taxonomy of mental objects in moment-to-moment cognition," Presently he is working with Ernst Pöppel as a guest scientist.