Professor Yi Du is the PI of the Lab of Auditory, Speech, and Music at the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She received her B.S. from Peking University Health Science Center in 2005 and Ph.D. in Psychology from Peking University in 2011. From 2012-2015, she worked as a postdoc fellow at University of Toronto (Rotman Research Institute) and McGill University (Montreal Neurological Institute). Through the integration of psychophysics, neuroimaging (fMRI, MEG and EEG) and neuromodulation (TMS and tES) techniques, her research delves into the cognitive neural mechanisms underlying speech and music processing, with particular interest in 1) speech perception and comprehension; 2) musical training experience-related plasticity; and 3) musical perception and reward. She has published papers in high-profile journals, including Nature Communications, Science Advances, PNAS, Neuroimage, Journal of Neuroscience, and Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. Her research is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China for Outstanding Young Scholars and Scientific and Technological Innovation 2030 Major Project.

Title: Processing of hierarchical structure and reward in music: Insights from neuroimaging and eye movements