Jiayang Xiao

Stimulus-specific recruitment of human amygdala neurons predicts episodic memory encoding success

The paper shows that specific amygdala neurons in humans fire more during encoding of items later remembered, predicting episodic memory success, particularly in the right amygdala.

The neural basis of emotional generalization in empathy

This study investigates how the brain generalizes emotions across individuals, finding that the insula encodes emotions and persons separately, enabling cross-person generalization.

Insula uses overlapping codes for emotion in self and others

The paper shows that the insula uses overlapping neural patterns for recognizing self and others' emotions, while other regions use different patterns.

Brain mechanisms underlying the emotion processing bias in treatment-resistant depression

This paper investigates neural mechanisms of emotion processing bias in treatment-resistant depression using sEEG data from patients and controls, finding altered amygdala and prefrontal cortex activity patterns and their modulation by deep brain stimulation.