周阳

北京大学心理与认知科学学院研究员

生命科学联合中心PI

电子邮件：yangzhou1(at)pku(dot)edu(dot)cn

实验室主页：https://www.psy.pku.edu.cn/szdw/qzjy/jsyjy/zhy/index.htm

研究领域：决策、意识、抽象概念、认知学习、清醒猕猴

研究兴趣：

致力于探索高级认知功能的神经机理，并试图将其应用于类脑人工智能的开发。探索灵长类动物大脑如何编码与学习抽象概念，如何介导灵活性决策、以及认知学习的神经环路和神经计算机理。方法上，将以清醒猕猴多脑区、多通道细胞外电生理记录、双光子钙成像记录为基础，同时结合以机器学习为基础的人工神经网络模型、化学遗传学刺激等方法，从单个神经元到多个大脑脑区之间的不同层次的神经活动上解析灵长类动物大脑如何实现高级认知功能。

代表性研究成果：

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;