Yue Du
Yue Du is a research associate in the BLAM lab.
He received a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from Beijing Normal University and PHD in Kinesiology from University of Maryland, College Park.
Yue’s current research aims to understand the cognitive and computational principles supporting motor behaviors and motor skill acquisition from two distinct directions; 1) understanding whether the way we learn skills differs with age (e.g., children vs. adults), and 2) understanding how the nature of motor skills and its abstract representation changes as a function of practice (e.g., novices vs. experts).
Contact Information
ydu27 [at] jhu.edu
210 Carnegie
550 N Wolfe Street
Baltimore
MD 21287
Publications
(* corresponding)
Du, Y.*, Haith, A.M. (Under Review) Seemingly "habitual” responses can be caused by both habits and strategic action selection. PsyArxiv https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/7qs4r
Kita, K., Du, Y., Haith, A.M. (Under Review) Switching between newly learned motor skills. bioRxiv https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.22.586357v1
Du, Y.*, Clark, J. E. (Under Review) Reaction time in the serial reaction time task does not reflect age-related development of implicit sequence learning.
Du, Y.*, Haith, A.M. (Under Review) Habits are not automatic. PsyArxiv https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/gncsf
Du, Y.*, Haith, A.M. (In Revision) Dissociable habits of response preparation versus response initiation. PsyArxiv https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/akz3b
Du, Y.*, Forrence, D.A., Metcalf, D.M, Haith, A.M. (In Press) Action initiation and action inhibition follow the same time course when compared under matched experimental conditions. BioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.29.497798
Kita, K., Du, Y., Haith, A.M. (2023) Evidence for a common mechanism supporting invigoration of action selection and action execution. Journal of Neurophysiology,130, 238-246.
Du, Y.*, Krakauer, J. W., Haith, A. M. (2022) The relationship between habits and motor skills in humans. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 26, 371-387.
Prashad, S., Du, Y., & Clark, J. E. (2021). Sequence structure has a differential effect on underlying motor learning processes. Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 9, 38–57.
Du, Y.*, Clark, J. E. (2020) Beyond the Mean Reaction Time: Trial-by-Trial Reaction Time Reveals the Distraction Effect on Perceptual-Motor Sequence Learning. Cognition 202:104287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104287
Du, Y.*, Clark, J. E. (2018) The” motor” in implicit motor sequence learning: A foot-stepping serial reaction time task. Journal of Visualized Experiments: JoVE.
Du, Y.*, Clark, J. E., & Whitall, J. (2017) Timing at peak force may be the hidden target controlled in continuation and synchronization tapping. Experimental Brain Research, 235, 1541–1554. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-017-4918-3
Du, Y.*, Valentini, N. C., Kim, M. J., Whitall, J., & Clark, J. E. (2017) Children and adults both learn motor sequences quickly, but do so differently. Frontiers in Psychology, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00158
Du, Y.*, Clark, J. E. (2016) New insights into statistical learning and chunk learning in implicit sequence acquisition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-016-1193-4
Du, Y.*, Prashad, S., Schoenbrun, I., & Clark, J. E. (2016) Probabilistic motor sequence yields greater offline and less online learning than fixed sequence. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00087
Massie, C. L., Du, Y., Conroy, S. S., Krebs, H. I., Wittenberg, G. F., Bever, C. T., & Whitall, J. (2016) A clinically relevant method of analyzing continuous change in robotic upper extremity chronic stroke rehabilitation. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 30, 703–712. https://doi.org/10.1177/1545968315620301
Refereed conference proceedings
Du, Y.*, Haith, A. M. (2021) Dissociable habits of response preparation and response initiation. In Proc. Advances in Motor Learning and Motor Control.
Du, Y.*, Forrence, A. D., Metcalf, D. M., Haith, A. M.. (2020) When going can be faster than stopping: Rethinking response inhibition as a flexible decision about whether or not to act. Proc. Advances in Motor Learning and Motor Control.