Elise’s NRSA F31 proposal entitled “Causal Inference in Bimanual Touch” was funded!
November 2024
Alix successfully defended her dissertation and will be heading to Duke in January!
August 2024
Jeff has joined the NIH Study Section “Human Complex Mental Function” as a standing member.
Alix has been offered an amazing post-doctoral position with Dr. Groh at Duke’s SPACE Lab!
July 2024
The Yau Lab has been awarded a new grant from Mission Connect!
Kevin was also awarded a T32 institutional training grant for postdocs which you can read more about here.
Elise received an impact score of 24 on her F31 proposal, ranking her in the 16th percentile!
June 2024
Jeff celebrated and was honored for 10 years of successful research at Baylor!
Alix gave her fantastic talk “Population-level coding of multisensory frequency signals in the human neocortex” at the 22nd Annual International Multisensory Research Forum.
We gained a new lab member! Dani will be focusing on studying the effects of selective attention on frequency-tuned somatosensory cortical responses.
May 2024
Jeff has been invited as a standing member of an NIH panel!
Elise passed her Thesis Advisory Committee meeting, moving her into the next phase of her PhD journey.
April 2024
Alix’s abstract submission to the International Multisensory Forum was accepted for a talk AND she won a student travel award!
March 2024
Elise successfully presented her poster “Causal Inference in Bimanual Touch“ at the The 32nd Annual Rush and Helen Record Forum.
Juan Carlos presented “Determining a Central Locus for Temperature Modulation of Tactile Sensitivity” to Quantitative and Computational Biosciences program students.
Juan Carlos also presented a poster for Baylor’s Medical Science Training Program annual event.
February 2024
Juan Carlos received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in February 2024! He received a monetary award of $3,000 for obtaining a competitive government-funded fellowship for the duration of 37 months.
Alix passed her thesis proposal meeting with flying colors.
January 2024
Juan Carlos received the prestigious NIH NRSA F31 Fellowship in for the project Determining a Central Locus for Temperature Modulation of Touch Sensitivity.
November 2023
Kevin’s research article “Acute loss of fingertip sensation leads to general compensatory changes in eye-hand coordination” has been accepted for presentation at Neuroscience 2023 has entered pre-print!
October 2023
We have a new lab baby! Congratulations Kevin and family ❤
September 2023
Alix’s presentation abstract “Population-level coding of multisensory frequency signals in human neocortex” has been accepted for presentation at Neuroscience 2023 taking place November 11-15 in Washington, D.C.
Juan Carlos passed his grant application in the 8th percentile!
May 2021
Alix’s paper “Effect of vibrotactile cue duration on localization performance in a wearable tactile array” accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Haptics!
April 2021
Lingyan awarded 2021 Rush and Helen Record Fellow for Outstanding Achievements!
Alix successfully defends her master’s thesis!
March 2021
Katherine awarded honorable mention for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
February 2021
Lingyan, Grace, Steffie, and Jeff’s paper “Cortical representations of phantom movements in lower limb amputees” accepted for publication in the European Journal of Neuroscience.
Kevin joins Yau Lab as a postdoctoral fellow!
December 2020
Jeff wins the Norton Rose Fulbright Faculty Excellence Award in the category of Teaching and Evaluation.
November 2020
Katherine wins a poster presentation award at the 2020 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students
Yash, Silvia, and Jeff’s paper, “Vision automatically exerts online and offline influences on bimanual tactile spatial perception” is accepted for publication in the Journal of Mathematical Psychology!
October 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Liz Halfen for successfully defending!
July 2020
Jeff awarded NSF research grant “Visuospatial modulation of bimanual touch perception in real and virtual environments”
Katherine Perks joins Yau Lab as a post-bac scholar!
April 2020
Shoaib, Kelly, Lexi, and Jeff’s paper, “Auditory and tactile frequency representations are co-embedded in modality-defined cortical sensory systems” is accepted for publication in NeuroImage!
March 2020
Jeff awarded NSF research grant “Somatosensory feature encoding and attentional modulation in human neocortex”
Liz, Shoaib, and Jeff’s paper, “Principles of tactile search over the body” is accepted for publication in the Journal of Neurophysiology!
February 2020
Lingyan wins the Graduate Student talk award at Rush and Helen Record Neuroscience Forum!
December 2019
Congratulations to Dr. Shoaibur Rahman for successfully defending!
Taek, Jung Hwan, and Jeff’s paper, “EPI distortion correction for concurrent human brain stimulation and imaging at 3T” is accepted for publication in the Journal of Neuroscience Methods!
Jeff’s entry awarded 1st prize in Plexon Probe Promotional Contest! Excited to start multi-channel recording experiments!
April 2019
Shoaib and Jeff’s paper, “Somatosensory interactions reveal feature-dependent computations” is accepted for publication in the Journal of Neurophysiology!
Sriparna Sen wins “Best Poster in Natural Sciences Division” at the Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium!
Snigdha Banda represents Yau Lab at the Indiana University Cognitive Science Program and MUCSC with her poster, “Visuospatial attention modulates motor cortex excitability” and wins “Honorable Mention for Outstanding Poster Presentation”!
March 2019
Yau Lab research program expanding into invasive neurophysiology studies in human and animal models! Stay tuned for updates!
Lingyan Wang accepted as a Fellow in the 2019 Kavli Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience!
Sriparna Sen represents Yau Lab at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting in San Francisco with her poster, “Bimanual perceptual interactions in the frequency domain differ for flutter and vibration cues”!
Austin Davids represents Yau Lab at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists with his poster, “A novel method to quantify the haptic perception of slope”!
Yau Lab alumna Kira Wegner-Clemens commits to George Washington University Psychology Graduate Program!
November 2018
Silvia, Kira, and Jeff’s paper, “Reciprocal interactions between audition and touch in flutter frequency perception” is accepted for publication in Multisensory Research!
October 2018
Alex, Ryan, and Jeff’s paper, “Touch engages visual spatial contextual processing” is accepted for publication in Scientific Reports!
September 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Lexi Crommett for successfully defending!
In collaboration with Santosh Helekar (Methodist), Silvia and Jeff’s paper, “The Strength and Spread of the Electric Field Induced by Transcranial Rotating Permanent Magnet Stimulation in Comparison with Conventional Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation” is accepted for publication in Journal of Neuroscience Methods!
August 2018
Lexi, Deeksha, and Jeff’s paper, “Multisensory perceptual interactions between higher-order temporal frequency signals” is accepted for publication in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General!
Silvia moves on to her new job at ChaiOne. Good luck! We’ll miss you!
April 2018
Lingyan passes her qualifying exam! Congrats!
Lucy Lai is awarded Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation!
Lucy Lai commits to Neuroscience Graduate Program at Harvard University!
Yau Lab work summarized in Research Features Magazine (Issue #125)
February 2018
Shoaib accepts Summer Internship at Oculus Research!
January 2018
Silvia, Shoaib, and Jeff’s paper, “Selective attention gates the crossmodal coupling between perceptual systems” is accepted for publication in Current Biology!
December 2017
Liz Halfen joins Yau Lab!
Shoaib and Taek awarded graduate student and postdoc poster presentation prizes, respectively, at UTHealth 24th Annual Neuroscience Poster Session!
November 2017
Jeff chaired a minisymposium, “Good Vibrations: Genetic, Neural, and Behavioral Links Between Auditory and Tactile Perception” at SfN 2017 in Washington, DC! Lingyan gave a talk at a nanosymposium.
Steffie leaves the lab to take a position as Visiting Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of St. Thomas.
Lucy and Shoaib each had conference papers accepted for the inaugural conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN). Lucy was also awarded a student travel grant for CCN. See you in New York City in September!
May 2017
The lab goes to IMRF 2017 in Nashville, Tennessee! Silvia, Lexi, and Lucy present posters.
Jeff presents a poster at NCM 2017 in Dublin, Ireland.
Ryan wins William C. Howell Award from the Department of Psychology and School of Social Sciences!
Kira and Ryan graduate from Rice and from the Yau Lab. Congratulations!
Lingyan joins the lab as a graduate student!
April 2017
Dakarai McCoy commits to Neuroscience Graduate Program at the University of Southern California!
Swati Pandita commits to Communications Graduate Program at Cornell University!
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