Xing Tian

Xing Tian is Co-Area Head of Neuroscience and an Associate Professor of Neural and Cognitive Sciences at NYU Shanghai and a Global Network Associate Professor for the Center for Neural Science at NYU. Prior to joining NYU Shanghai, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University. He holds a PhD in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science from the University of Maryland, College Park and a BS in Physics from Peking University.

Professor Tian’s research interests are in the areas of human cognitive neuroscience. More specifically, his research focuses on how the interaction between action and perception underlies speech, language, memory and other higher-level cognition. He uses behavioral, computational, electrophysiological (EEG, MEG, intracranial EEG), and neuroimaging (fMRI) methods to investigate the neural mechanisms that mediate human cognition. His work has been published in Nature Human Behaviour, Nature Neuroscience, Current Biology, PLOS Biology, Psychological Science, Cognition, Brain and Language, and Neuroimage.

Select Publications

• Yang, F., Zhu, H., Cao, X., Li, H., Fang, X., Yu, L., ... & Tian, X. (2024). Impaired motor-to-sensory transformation mediates auditory hallucinations. PLoS Biology, 22(10): e3002836. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002836
• Li, S., Zhu, H., & Tian, X. (2020). Corollary discharge versus efference copy: Distinct neural signals in speech preparation differentially modulate auditory responses. Cerebral Cortex,30(11), 5806-5820. doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaa154
• Teng, X., Ma, M., Yang, J., Blohm, S., Cai, Q., & Tian, X. (2020). Constraint structure of ancient Chinese poetry facilitates speech content grouping. Current Biology, 30(7), 1299-1305.
• Zhen, A., Hedger, S., Heald, S., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Tian, X. (2019). Manual directional gestures facilitate cross-modal perceptual learning. Cognition, 187, 178-187. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2019.03.004
• Tian, X., Ding, N., Teng, X., Bai, F., & Poeppel, D. (2018). Imagined speech influences perceived loudness of sound. Nature Human Behaviour, 2, 225–234. doi: 10.1038/s41562-018-0305-8

Education

• PhD, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
  University of Maryland, College Park
• BS, Physics
  Peking University