Yan Yang
Institute of Biophysics
Chinese Academy of Sciences
China
Biography
March. 2016 Supported by the Young Thousand Talents Program 2015-present Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor 2012-2015　　Duke University School of Medicine, Research Associate 2007-2009　　University of California, San Francisco, Postdoctoral Scientist 2002-2007　　Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ph.D. March. 2016 Supported by the Young Thousand Talents Program 2015-present Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor 2012-2015　　Duke University School of Medicine, Research Associate 2007-2009　　University of California, San Francisco, Postdoctoral Scientist 2002-2007　　Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ph.D.
Research Interest
Correction and instruction are the way of life. When babies waddle and toddle or hoopsters shoot a basketball, our brains learn motor skills by errors or mistakes. However, the ability of motor learning and controlvaries considerably among individuals. It depends on sensory perception, motivation, motor experience as well as age and health. These multiple facets make motor learning and control appealing topics for understanding the human nervous system in health and disease. My laboratory investigates neural circuits underlying motor learning and control. Our goal is to answer three questions bystudying eye movements in human and non-human primates: 1. The representation of motor timing 2. Multisensory instructions for motor learning 3. Motor learning and control in aging and diseases
Publications
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Yan Yang*, Stephen G Lisberger*, (2014) Purkinje-cell plasticity and cerebellar motor learning are graded by complex-spike duration. Nature, 510(7506):529-32. (* Corresponding authors).
