Yifei He

Publications

* shared first or senior authorship. Full list also on Google Scholar.

Preprints

Xue, Q., Liu, Y., Yuan, M., Zhang, Z., Kircher, T., Chen, L.*, & He, Y.* (submitted). Subject preference as a flexible interpretive heuristic in thematic role assignment. PsyArXiv. (* shared senior authorship). osf.io/4sxk5

Huang, J., Tan, R., Feng, R., Straube, B., Zhang, S., & He, Y. (2026). How social exclusion shapes intertemporal choice: self-control resources as the central bridge. PsyArXiv. doi:10.31234/osf.io/5rnfc_v1

Chen, L., Yang, G., Qu, X., Li, D., Zhao, C., Wu, J., Zeng, K., He, Y.*, Hartwigsen, G.*, Chen, R.*, & Friederici, A. D.* (2026). Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation Unravels the Causal Role of the Left Inferior Frontal Gyrus in Syntactic Processing. Research Square rs-8717654. (* shared senior authorship). doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-8717654/v1

Tumanyants, A., Straube, B., Mulert, C., & He, Y. (2026). Local predictive context modulates evidence accumulation and boundary separation during semantic priming. PsyArXiv. doi:10.31234/osf.io/n8egj_v3

Liu, Y., Kircher, T., Chen, L., He, Y.*, & Straube, B.* (2026). The impact of co-speech gesture on sentence memory and metacognitive confidence. PsyArXiv. (* shared senior authorship). doi:10.31234/osf.io/a8gcp_v1

Leinweber, K., He, Y., Büchsenschütz, K., Hofmann, S. G., Kircher, T., & Straube, B. (2025). The relationship between self-reported gesture use and neuropsychological functioning in a transdiagnostic sample of patients with mental disorders. SSRN 5352659. doi:10.2139/ssrn.5352659

Huang, J., Straube, B., & He, Y. (2025). Dissecting the hierarchy of gesture comprehension: Evidence from a multilevel priming paradigm and drift-diffusion model. PsyArXiv. doi:10.31234/osf.io/r5nb9_v1

Ody, E., Kircher, T., Straube, B.*, & He, Y.* (2024). Voluntary action sharpens sensory prediction and facilitates neural processing of contingent sensory stimuli. bioRxiv. (* shared senior authorship). doi:10.1101/2024.12.03.626576

Sommer, J., Hansen-Schirra, S., Nagels, A., & He, Y. (2021). Processing linguistic negation with and without truth-value evaluation: Evidence from N400 and theta oscillations. PsyArXiv. doi:10.31234/osf.io/wkyve

Peer-reviewed journal articles

26. Leinweber, K., He, Y., Kircher, T., & Straube, B. (2026). Dysfunctional neural processing of object-related speech with semantically unrelated vs related co-verbal gesture in schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Neuropsychologia, 233, 109586. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2026.109586

25. Trujillo, J., Straube, B., & He, Y. (2026). Discourse context and co-speech gestures jointly shape hierarchical prediction during the processing of a multimodal narrative. Neurobiology of Language, 7, NOL.a.276. doi:10.1162/nol.a.276

24. Ody, E., Kircher, T., He, Y.*, & Straube, B.* (2025). Differential effects of self-initiated, externally triggered, and passive movements on action-outcome processing: Insights from sensory and motor-preparatory ERPs. European Journal of Neuroscience, 62(5), e70236. (* shared senior authorship) doi:10.1111/ejn.70236

23. Huang, J., Feng, R., Straube, B., He, Q., Zhang, S., & He, Y. (2025). Transcranial direct current stimulation alleviates the negative impact of immediate and chronic social exclusion on intertemporal decision-making. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 20(1), nsaf065. doi:10.1093/scan/nsaf065

22. Wei, H., He, Y., Kauschke, C., Scharinger, M., & Domahs, U. (2025). L2-categorisation of linguistic and emotional prosody in German: an EEG study. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 40(9), 1262–1279. doi:10.1080/23273798.2025.2526466

21. Hermann, A., Benke, C., Blecker, C. R., de Haas, B., He, Y., Hofmann, S. G., ... & Kirchner, L. (2024). Study protocol TransTAM: Transdiagnostic research into emotional disorders and cognitive-behavioral therapy of the adaptive mind. BMC Psychiatry, 24(1), 657. doi:10.1186/s12888-024-06108-0

20. Osorio, S., Straube, B., Meyer, L.*, & He, Y.* (2024). The role of co-speech gestures in retrieval and prediction during naturalistic multimodal narrative processing. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 39(3), 367–382. (* shared senior authorship) doi:10.1080/23273798.2023.2295499

19. He, Y., Sommer, J., Hansen-Schirra, S., & Nagels, A. (2024). Multivariate pattern analysis of EEG reveals nuanced impact of negation on sentence processing in the N400 and later time windows. Psychophysiology, 61(4), e14491. doi:10.1111/psyp.14491

18. Ody, E., Kircher, T., Straube, B.*, & He, Y.* (2023). Pre-movement event-related potentials and multivariate pattern of EEG encode action outcome prediction. Human Brain Mapping, 44(17), 6198–6213. (* shared senior authorship) doi:10.1002/hbm.26506

17. Ody, E., Straube, B.*, He, Y.*, & Kircher, T.* (2023). Perception of self-generated and externally-generated visual stimuli: Evidence from EEG and behavior. Psychophysiology, 60(8), e14295. (* shared senior authorship) doi:10.1111/psyp.14295

16. Yue, J., Wang, P., Li, J., Li, Z., Liang, X., & He, Y. (2022). Short-term habituation of auditory N1 in spoken word-forms is modulated by phonological information. Brain Sciences, 12(10), 1279. doi:10.3390/brainsci12101279

15. Wang, P., He, Y., Maess, B., Yue, J., Chen, L., Brauer, J., ... & Knösche, T. R. (2022). Alpha power during task performance predicts individual language comprehension. NeuroImage, 260, 119449. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119449

14. Cuevas, P.*, He, Y.*, Steines, M., & Straube, B. (2022). The processing of semantic complexity and co-speech gestures in schizophrenia: A naturalistic, multimodal fMRI study. Schizophrenia Bulletin Open, 3(1), sgac026. (* shared first authorship) doi:10.1093/schizbullopen/sgac026

13. Meyer, L., Lakatos, P., & He, Y. (2021). Language dysfunction in schizophrenia: Assessing neural tracking to characterize the underlying disorder(s)? Frontiers in Neuroscience, 15, 640502. doi:10.3389/fnins.2021.640502

12. He, Y., Steines, M., Sammer, G., Nagels, A., Kircher, T., & Straube, B. (2021). Modality-specific dysfunctional neural processing of social and non-social information in schizophrenia. NeuroImage: Clinical, 29, 102568. doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2021.102568

11. Cuevas, P., He, Y., Billino, J., Kozasa, E., & Straube, B. (2021). Age-related effects on the neural processing of semantic complexity in a continuous narrative: Modulation by gestures already present in young to mid-aged adults. Neuropsychologia, 151, 107725. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107725

10. He, Y., Luell, S., Muralikrishnan, R., Straube, B., & Nagels, A. (2020). Gesture’s body orientation modulates the N400 for visual sentences primed by gestures. Human Brain Mapping, 41(17), 4901–4911. doi:10.1002/hbm.25166

9. Wroblewski, A., He, Y., & Straube, B. (2020). Dynamic causal modelling suggests impaired effective connectivity in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders during gesture–speech integration. Schizophrenia Research, 216, 175–183. doi:10.1016/j.schres.2019.12.005

8. Hou, J., He, Y., Zhao, X., Thai, J., Fan, M., Feng, Y., & Huang, L. (2020). The effects of job satisfaction and psychological resilience on job performance among residents of the Standardized Residency Training: A nationwide study in China. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 25(9), 1106–1118. doi:10.1080/13548506.2019.1709652

7. Cuevas, P., Steines, M., He, Y., Nagels, A., Culham, J., & Straube, B. (2019). The facilitative effect of gestures on the neural processing of semantic complexity in a continuous narrative. NeuroImage, 195, 38–47. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.03.054

6. Straube, B., Wroblewski, A., Jansen, A., & He, Y. (2018). The connectivity signature of co-speech gesture integration: The superior temporal sulcus modulates connectivity between areas related to visual gesture and auditory speech processing. NeuroImage, 181, 539–549. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.07.037

5. He, Y., Nagels, A., Schlesewsky, M., & Straube, B. (2018). The role of gamma oscillations during integration of metaphoric gestures and abstract speech. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1348. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01348

4. He, Y., Steines, M., Sommer, J., Gebhardt, H., Nagels, A., Sammer, G., Kircher, T., & Straube, B. (2018). Spatial-temporal dynamics of gesture–speech integration: A simultaneous EEG–fMRI study. Brain Structure and Function, 223(7), 3073–3089. doi:10.1007/s00429-018-1674-5

3. He, Y., Steines, M., Sammer, G., Nagels, A., Kircher, T., & Straube, B. (2018). Action-related speech modulates beta oscillations during observation of tool-use gestures. Brain Topography, 31(5), 838–847. doi:10.1007/s10548-018-0641-z

2. He, Y., Gebhardt, H., Steines, M., Sammer, G., Kircher, T., Nagels, A., & Straube, B. (2015). The EEG and fMRI signatures of neural integration: An investigation of meaningful gestures and corresponding speech. Neuropsychologia, 72, 27–42. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.04.018

1. Straube, B., He, Y., Steines, M., Gebhardt, H., Kircher, T., Sammer, G., & Nagels, A. (2013). Supramodal neural processing of abstract information conveyed by speech and gesture. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 7, 120. doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00120