Publications

Xia, T.#*, Jin, X.#, Chen, D., Zuo, X., Yao, Y., Zhang, Y., Yuan, T., Zhang, Z., Li, X., Lai, C. S. W., & Hu, X.* (2026). Closed-loop auditory stimulation during sleep shapes cortical responses and memory consolidation depending on spindle timing. bioRxiv. [DOI]

Chen, D., Xia, T., Liu, J., Zhang, Y., Zuo, X., Wu, H., Lai, C. S. W., & Hu, X. (2026). Reactivating conflicting evaluative memories during sleep reduces decision ambivalence. bioRxiv. [DOI]

Tsang, Y.C.#, Xia, T.#*, Leung, W., & Hu, X.* (2026). Temporal proximity to sleep determines emotional memory interference. Learning & Memory, 33(5), a054156. [DOI]

Xia, T.*, Hu, C.-P., Türker, B., Munoz Musat, E., Naccache, L., Arnulf, I., Oudiette, D.*, & Hu, X.* (2026). How sleeping minds decide: State-specific reconfigurations of lexical decision-making. PLoS Computational Biology, 22(2), e1014007. [DOI]

Xia, T.*, Hu, X.* (2025). Memory editing during sleep: mechanisms, clinical applications, and technological innovations. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. [DOI]

Liu, J.*, Chen, D., Xia, T., Zeng, S., Xue, G., & Hu, X.* (2025). Slow-wave sleep and REM sleep differentially contribute to memory representational transformation. Communications Biology, 8, 1407. [DOI]

Xia, T., Chen, D., Zeng, S., Yao, Z., Liu, J., Qin, S., Paller, K.A., Torres-Platas, S.G., Antony, J.W., & Hu, X.* (2024). Aversive memories can be weakened during human sleep via the reactivation of positive interfering memories. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(31), e2400678121. [DOI]

Chen, D., Xia, T., Yao, Z., Zhang, L., & Hu, X.* (2024). Modulating social learning-induced evaluation updating during human sleep. npj Science of Learning, 9, 43. [DOI]

Yao, Z., Xia, T., Wei, J., Zhang, Z., Lin, X., Zhang, D., Qin, P., Ma, Y.*, & Hu, X.* (2024). Reactivating positive personality traits during sleep promotes positive self-referential processing. iScience, 27, 110341. [DOI]

Zhao, J., Xia, T., & Hu, C. (2024). The status quo, challenges, and recommendations of pre-registration in psychological science. Advances in Psychological Science, 32(5), 715–727. (in Chinese) [DOI]

Liu, J., Xia, T., Chen, D., Yao, Z., Zhu, M., Antony, J.W., Lee, T.M.*, & Hu, X.* (2023). Item-specific neural representations during human sleep support long-term memory. PLoS Biology, 21(11): e3002399. [DOI]

Xia, T., Yao, Z., Guo, X., Liu, J., Chen, D., Liu, Q.*, Paller, K.A., & Hu, X.* (2023). Updating memories of unwanted emotions during human sleep. Current Biology, 33(2), 309–320. [DOI]

Xia, T., Antony, J., Paller, K.A., & Hu, X.* (2023). Targeted memory reactivation during sleep influences social bias as a function of slow-oscillation phase and delta power. Psychophysiology. [DOI]

Jin, R., Xia, T., Gawronski, B., & Hu, X.* (2023). Attitudinal Effects of Stimulus Co-occurrence and Stimulus Relations: Sleep Supports Propositional Learning Via Memory Consolidation. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 14(1), 51–59. [DOI]