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General Information

Full Name Weiyong Xu
Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä
Address Kärki Aa255, Mattilanniemi 6, Jyväskylä, Finland
Email weiyong.w.xu@jyu.fi
Phone 358468448471
Website https://weiyongxu.github.io/
ORCID 0000-0003-4453-9836

Work Experience

  • 2022 - 2025
    Postdoctoral Researcher
    Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä
    • Research topics - The reorganization of memory representations during rest and sleep
  • 2020 - 2022
    Postdoctoral Researcher
    Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä
    • Research topics - Bodily rhythms and learning
  • 2015 - 2020
    Doctoral Student
    Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä
    • Research topics - Brain activity changes related to learning of audiovisual associations in reading

Education

  • 2015 - 2020
    Doctor of Philosophy
    Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä
    • Thesis - Brain activity changes related to learning of audiovisual associations in reading
  • 2013 - 2015
    Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering
    Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University
    • Thesis - Functional connectivity and complex network analysis of the aging brain
  • 2009 - 2013
    Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering
    School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University
    • Thesis - EEG functional connectivity of vascular dementia patients in an oddball task

Conferences

  • 2025
    ICON 2025
    • Oral talk in symposium - The learning brain across the lifespan neural resources, imaging indicators and relevance for cognitive competence
  • 2024
    FENS 2024
    • Poster
  • 2024
    Synchrony summer school 2024
    • Poster

Funding

  • 2022 - 2025
    • Academy of Finland Postdoctoral project

Awards and honours

  • 2017
    • Winner of the best poster competition in Annual Research Seminar of Centre for Interdisciplinary Brain Research (CIBR)
  • 2010 - 2013
    • Siyuan Student Scholarship (Xi'an Jiaotong University)

Teaching

  • 2023
    • PSYS2102 Master's thesis ending seminar
  • 2022
    • CNSJ1202 Designing cognitive neuroscience research (instructor)
    • CIBA120 EEG data analysis Demo using MNE Python
  • 2021
    • CIPA113 Bilingual Development (essays grading)
    • CIPA112 Psychology of Language (essays grading)
  • 2019
    • CIPA213 Developmental Language Related Disorders (instructor)
  • 2016 - 2019
    • CIPA100 Psychology Research at JYU (essays grading)
  • 2017
    • PSYS123 Neuropsychology 3B MEG demonstrations (instructor)
  • 2016
    • Introduction to scripting experiments with Presentation (instructor)

Service

  • Ad Hoc Reviewer
    • NeuroImage
    • Frontiers in Psychology
    • Journal of Neuroscience
    • Child Development
    • Journal of Neurolinguistics
    • Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
    • Acta Psychologica
    • npj Science of Learning
    • Journal of Open Source Software