Principal Investigator at State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning in China

Dr. Xue is a Professor at Beijing Normal University, a Principal Investigator at IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research. He is also a ChangJiang Chair Professor and a distinguished Scholar in Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing. Dr. Xue is mainly engaged in the research on cognitive and neural mechanisms of human learning and memory, including memory coding, extraction, consolidation and optimization, executive function, decision-making and adaptive learning, language and second language learning. As the first author or corresponding author, Dr. Xue has published more than 100 academic papers in high-impact journals such as Science, PNAS, TiCS, Current Biology, eLife, Journal of Neuroscience, Cerebral Cortex, etc. He is currently the Deputy Editor in Chief of the journal Cortex and serves on the editorial board of Journal of Psychology. In recent years, Dr. Xue has taken a leading role in National Science Foundation key projects, 973 Projects, and many international collaborative projects between China and Israel. Dr. Xue has won the first prize in natural science given by the Ministry of Education in 2013 and 2019, and was selected as Elsevier's highly cited scholar in Chinese psychology in 2019 and 2020