About Me

I am Yunkai Yang, a Research Assistant at Shenzhen University. In September 2026, I will move to Hong Kong to pursue my MSc in Neuroscience at the City University of Hong Kong.

I obtained my B.S. in Applied Psychology from Henan University in 2025. My research interests lie at the intersection of Social Neuroscience and Computational Neuroscience. I have extensive experience in multimodal neuroimaging techniques, including fMRI, fNIRS, EEG, and MEG, and I apply advanced computational methods such as MVPA, HMM, and deep learning to understand the neural mechanisms of social behavior.

News & Publications

• [2026/09] I will start my Master's journey in Neuroscience at the City University of Hong Kong.
• [2026/07] I presented a poster on interpersonal emotion regulation at the ISRE 2026 conference in Brisbane, Australia, and was honored to receive an ISRE 2026 Travel Award. [Poster]
• [2026/07] Our work on neural decoding in social interaction using single-brain and inter-brain features was presented as a poster at the 28th Annual Meeting of the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) in Beijing, China. [Poster]
• [2026/02] Our paper "Bidirectional Benefits: Inter-Brain Synchronization and Role-Specific Neural Signatures in Interpersonal Emotion Regulation" has been accepted for publication in Emotion.
• [2026/01] Our work "Differential Emotional Responses and Relief Mechanisms Across Social Exclusion Roles" is forthcoming in Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience.
• [2025/10] We published "An fNIRS hyperscanning dataset on the modulation of synchrony by social relationship during social touch" in Scientific Data.
• [2025/02] Our large-scale collaborative study "Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages" was published in Nature Human Behaviour.