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• Xiao-Jing Wang's textbook: Theoretical Neuroscience: Understanding Cognition was published on February 28th!
• Xiao-Jing Wang was recognized in 2024 as a Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate Analytics, Web of Science Group
• Postdoctoral fellow John Hongyu Meng will take a Researcher (PI) position at Guangdong Institute of Intelligence Science and Technology. Congratulations, John!
• Postdoctoral fellow Yue Liu will take a tenure-track faculty position at Florida Atlantic University. Congratulations, Yue!

Recent publications

Xiao-Jing Wang
Theoretical Neuroscience: Understanding Cognition
CRC Press . Link to Purchase Textbook

Xiao-Jing Wang (2026
Toward a foundational brain model of intelligence
Current Opinion in Neurobiology . doi:10.1016/j.conb.2026.103198

Aldo Battista , Camillo Padoa-Schioppa, Xiao-Jing Wang (2026)
A neural circuit framework for economic choice from building blocks of valuation to compositionality in multitasking
Neuron . doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2025.12.010

Loic Magrou, Panagiota Theodoni , Amy F.T. Arnsten, Marcello G. P. Rosa, Xiao-Jing Wang (2026)
Cell Reports . doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2025.116847

Ulysse Klatzmann, Sean Froudist-Walsh, Daniel P. Bliss, Panagiota Theodoni, Jorge Mejias, Meiqi Niu, Lucija Rapan, Nicola Palomero-Gallagher, Claire Sergent, Stanislas Dehaene, Xiao-Jing Wang (2025)
A dynamic bifurcation mechanism explains cortex-wide neural correlates of conscious access
Cell Reports. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2025.115372

Rachel A. Swanson, Elisa Chinigo , Daniel Levenstein, Xiao-Jing Wang , Jayeeta Basu, Gyorgy Buzsaki (2025)
Topography of putative bi-directional interaction between hippocampal sharp-wave ripples and neocortical slow oscillations
Neuron. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2024.12.019

John Hongyu Meng*, Yijie Kang*, Alan Lai , Michael Feyerabend, Wataru Inoue, Julio Martinez-Trujillo, Bernardo Rudy, Xiao-Jing Wang (2024)
In search of transcriptomic correlates of neuronal firing-rate adaptation across subtypes, regions, and species: a Patch-Seq analysis
BioRxiv. doi:10.1101/2024.12.05.627057

Yue Liu, Xiao-Jing Wang (2024)
Flexible gating between subspaces in a neural network model of internally guided task switching
Nature Communications. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-50501-y

Loïc Magrou*, Mary Kate P. Joyce*, Sean Froudist-Walsh, Dibyadeep Datta, Xiao-Jing Wang, Julio Martinez-Trujillo, Amy F.T. Arnsten (2024)
The meso-connectomes of mouse, marmoset, and macaque: network organization and the emergence of higher cognition
Cerebral Cortex. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhae174

Xingyu Ding, Sean Froudist-Walsh, Jorge Jaramillo, Junjie Jiang, Xiao-Jing Wang (2024)
Cell type-specific connectome predicts distributed working memory activity in the mouse brain
eLife. doi:10.7554/eLife.85442

Xiao-Jing Wang, Junjie Jiang, Ulises Pereira-Obilinovic (2023)
Bifurcation in space: Emergence of function modularity in the neocortex
BioRxiv. doi:10.1101/2023.06.04.543639

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