Yang Zhou

Email：yangzhou1(at)pku(dot)edu(dot)cn

Research Area:Decision-making; Consciousness; Abstract concepts; Cognitive learning; Awake macaques

Selected Publications:

1. Zhuangyi Jiang, Ziang Liu, Li Shi, Fang Fang, Shiming Tang &Yang Zhou* Single-Neuron Network Topology Governs Neural Computation and 1 Learning in Primate Cortex, Nature Communications, 2026

2.Ziang Liu, Zhuangyi Jiang, Li Shi, Fang Fang, Shiming Tang & Yang Zhou* Neural Correlates of Trial Outcome Monitoring during Long-term Learning in Primate Posterior Parietal Cortex, Nature Communications, 2025, 1 6:11681

3. Xuanyu Wu， Yang Zhou* Nonlinear feedback modulation contributes to the optimization of flexible decision-making, Elife, 2024; /eLife.96402.1

4. Yang Zhou*, Oliver Zhu and David J. Freedman* Posterior Parietal Cortex Plays a Causal Role in Abstract Memory-Based Visual Categorical Decisions, J. Neurosci.,2023; 43(23) 4315-4328

5. Yang Zhou, Krithika Mohan and David J. Freedman*, Abstract encoding of categorical decisions in medial superior temporal and lateral intraparietal cortices, J. Neurosci.,2022; 42(48) 9069-9081

6. Yang Zhou#*, Matthew Rosen#, Sruthi K. Swaminathan, Nicolas Y. Masse, Oliver Zhu and David J. Freedman*, ‘Distributed functions of prefrontal and parietal cortices during sequential categorical decisions’ ELife 2021; e58782

7. Yang Zhou*, Yining Liu, Mingsha Zhang* ‘Neuronal Correlates of Many-To-One Sensorimotor Mapping in Lateral Intraparietal Cortex’ Cereb Cortex. 2020 June 03 ;

8. Yang Zhou* and David J. Freedman* ‘Posterior Parietal Cortex Plays a Causal Role in Perceptual and Categorical Decisions’ Science, 2019 Jul 12; 365(6449):180-185,;

9. Yang Zhou, Yining Liu, Si Wu, Mingsha Zhang* ‘Neuronal representation of the saccadic timing signals in macaque lateral intraparietal area (LIP)’ Cereb Cortex. 2018 Jul 27:1-14.

10.Yang Zhou, Yining Liu, Si Wu, Haidong Lu, Mingsha Zhang* ‘Neural representation of the computation of motor error by single neurons in the parietal cortex’. Elife, 2016; 5:e10912;