研究方向：实验室致力于探索抽象概念表征和学习、灵活性决策、认知学习等高级认知功能的神经环路路和神经计算机理, 并试图将其应用于类脑人工智能的开发以及病人认知功能障碍的治疗。方法上，将以清醒猕猴多脑区、多通道细胞外电生理记录为基础，同时结合清醒猕猴双光子钙成像、类脑人工神经网络模型、药理学实验、光遗传学刺激、微电流刺激等方法。
代表性科研论文：
Yang Zhou, Oliver Zhu and David J. Freedman, ‘Posterior Parietal Cortex Plays a Causal Role in Abstract Memory-Based Visual Categorical Decisions’，J. Neurosci. 2023, 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2241-22.2023
Yang Zhou, Krithika Mohan and David J. Freedman*, ‘Distributed Category Processing Across Lateral Intraparietal and Medial Superior Temporal Cortices’, J. Neurosci., 2022 Nov 30, 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0017-22.2022
Yang Zhou#*, Matthew Rosen#, Sruthi K. Swaminathan, Nicolas Y. Masse, Oliver Zhu and David J. Freedman*, ‘Distributed functions of prefrontal and parietal cortices during sequential categorical decisions’ Elife, 2021; e58782
Yang Zhou*, Yining Liu, Mingsha Zhang* ‘Neuronal Correlates of Many-To-One Sensorimotor Mapping in Lateral Intraparietal Cortex’ Cereb Cortex. 2020 June 03 , 10.1093/cercor/bhaa145;
Yang Zhou* and David J. Freedman* ‘Posterior Parietal Cortex Plays a Causal Role in Perceptual and Categorical Decisions’ Science, 2019 Jul 12; 365(6449):180-185,;
Yang Zhou, Yining Liu, Si Wu, Mingsha Zhang* ‘Neuronal representation of the saccadic timing signals in macaque lateral intraparietal area (LIP)’ Cereb Cortex. 2018 Jul 27:1-14. doi: 10.1093;
Yang Zhou, Yining Liu, Si Wu, Haidong Lu, Mingsha Zhang* ‘Neural representation of the computation of motor error by single neurons in the parietal cortex’. Elife, 2016; 5:e10912;
Yang Zhou#, Yining Liu#, Wangzikang Zhang, and Mingsha Zhang* (2012) ‘Asymmetric influence of egocentric representation onto allocentric perception’. J. Neurosci. 32: 8354-8360;
