Yuchao Wang

Journal Article Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · January 2023 IntroductionAs motor imagery is informed by the anticipated sensory consequences of action, including pain, we reasoned that motor imagery could provide a useful indicator of chronic back pain. We tested the hypothesis that mental motor imagery re ... Full text Cite

An analysis-ready and quality controlled resource for pediatric brain white-matter research.

Journal Article Scientific data · October 2022 We created a set of resources to enable research based on openly-available diffusion MRI (dMRI) data from the Healthy Brain Network (HBN) study. First, we curated the HBN dMRI data (N = 2747) into the Brain Imaging Data Structure and preprocessed it accord ... Full text Cite

Aesthetic appraisals of literary style and emotional intensity in narrative engagement are neurally dissociable.

Journal Article Communications biology · December 2021 Humans are deeply affected by stories, yet it is unclear how. In this study, we explored two aspects of aesthetic experiences during narrative engagement - literariness and narrative fluctuations in appraised emotional intensity. Independent ratings of lit ... Full text Cite

Preprint: Out of the Ordinary: Neural correlates of literary form and emotional content in aesthetic engagement with literature

Preprint · October 21, 2020 Full text Cite

How conspicuous are peacock eyespots and other colorful feathers in the eyes of mammalian predators?

Journal Article PloS one · January 2019 Colorful feathers have long been assumed to be conspicuous to predators, and hence likely to incur costs due to enhanced predation risk. However, many mammals that prey on birds have dichromatic visual systems with only two types of color-sensitive visual ... Full text Cite