Yiquan Shi

Yiquan Shi received her master degree from the Peking University, China (2006). Then she completed her doctoral study at the Ludwig-Maximilans-University (LMU) at Munich with the grade “summa cum laude” (2010). After staying 1.5 years as a Postdoc at the LMU, Yiquan Shi moved to the Faculty of Psychology of Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) to join the project SFB 940 (“Volition and Cognitive Control” as a research associate (2012-2021). She was selected by the Maria-Reiche-Mentoring Program of TUD (one of the eight selected researchers in 2018/2019 term) and the LifeTechLab of TUD (one of the six start-up incubation programs in the 2020 summer term; project “Return to Work” Cognitive Training). In June 2023, she joined the research unit “FOR 5429:  Modulation of brain networks for memory and learning by transcranial electrical brain stimulation: A systematic, lifespan approach” and works specifically in project P8 “Enhancing value-based learning by focalized Tdcs” of the Chair of Lifespan Developmental Neuroscience Unit of TUD.

• Cognitive flexibility and adaptation
• Value based learning and decision making
• Real-life self-control

including underlying mechanisms of these cognitive processes and intervention (e.g., through cognitive training, non-invasive stimulation)

Methodologies

• Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
• Resting-State fMRI
• Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)
• Eye Tracking
• Mathematical Modeling

Krönke, K.-M., Wolff, M., Shi, Y., Kräplin, A., Smolka, M. N., Bühringer, G., & Goschke, T. (2020). Functional connectivity in a triple-network saliency model predicts real-life self-control. Neuropsychologia, Volume 149, 107667. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107667

Shi, Y., Wolfensteller, U., Schubert, T., & Ruge, H. (2018). When global rule reversal meets local task switching: The neural mechanisms of coordinated behavioral adaptation to instructed multi-level demand changes. Human Brain Mapping, 39, 735–746. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.23878

Shi, Y., Meindl, T., Szameitat, A. J., Müller, H. J., & Schubert, T. (2014). Task preparation and posterior brain regions: fMRI activity in posterior stimulus-specific brain regions and their functional connectivity. Brain and Cognition, 87C, 39-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2014.03.001

Shi, Y., Zhou, X., Müller, H. J., & Schubert, T. (2010). The neural implementation of task rule activation in the cued task switching paradigm: An event-related fMRI study. Neuroimage, 51, 1253-1264. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.01.097