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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

Alan Lai, Xiao-Jing Wang (2026)
Metabotropic Glutamatergic Signaling Adaptively Controls Trans-thalamic Communication
bioRxiv . doi:10.64898/2026.07.25.740691

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

John Hongyu Meng, Xiao-Jing Wang (2026)
Global error signal guides local optimization in mismatch calculation
Nature Communications . doi: 10.1038/s41467-026-70354-x

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

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

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