Dr Yi Wang

Email:  yi.wang1@uq.edu.au 

Supervisor

Dr Margaret Moore

Current Research

I am a senior research assistant working with Dr. Margaret Moore. Our work in stroke patients aims to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying various post-stroke cognitive impairments and explore how information about cognition can be used to predict recovery outcomes. My previous work focused on fear learning and extinction, investigating how different modified extinction learning can reduce the return of fear.  

Research interests

• Post-stroke cognitive impairment 

• Fear learning 

Publications

Wang, Y., Ney, L. J., & Lipp, O. V. (2026). The effect of extinction training with unpaired US and US only presentations on the contextual renewal of human fear conditioning. Psychophysiology, 63(6), e70312. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.70312  

Ney, L. J., Wang, Y., Eales, K., Anderson, J., Jarvis, M., & Lipp, O. V. (2026). Semantic relevance of a conditioned stimulus does not enhance fear extinction beyond temporal proximity to the unconditioned stimulus. Psychophysiology, 63(6), e70337. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.70337  

Wang, Y., Luck, C. C., Waters, A. M., Ney, L. J., & Lipp, O. V. (2024). The effect of gradual extinction training on the renewal of electrodermal conditional responses. Psychophysiology, 61(12), e14681. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14681  

Wang, Y., Olsson, S., Lipp, O. V., & Ney, L. J. (2024). Renewal in human fear conditioning: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 159, 105606. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105606  

Yin, J., Wang, Y., Lipp, O. V., Mayo, L. M., & Ney, L. J. (2024). Examining the reliability of the emotional conflict resolution and adaptation effects in the emotional conflict task via secondary data analysis, systematic review, and meta-analysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(5), 1361–1373. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001552  

Wang, Y., Pegna, A. J., & Framorando, D. (2023). The effect of social comparison on effort: When similar and slightly better peers increase effort-related cardiovascular responses. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 192, 72-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2023.08.007   

Ney, L. J., O’Donohue, M., Wang, Y., Richardson, M., Vasarhelyi, A., & Lipp, O. V. (2023). The next frontier: Moving human fear conditioning research online. Biological Psychology, 108715. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108715 

Framorando, D., Cai, T., Wang, Y., & Pegna, A. J. (2021). Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on effort during a working-memory task. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-95639-7  

Conference presentations

Wang, Y., Ney, L. J., & Lipp, O. V. (2025, October 13 - 18). The effect of extinction training with unpaired US and US only presentations on the contextual renewal of human fear conditioning [Poster presentation]. Society for Psychophysiological Research 2025, Montréal, Quebec, Canada. 

Wang, Y., Ney, L. J., & Lipp, O. V. (2025, July 9 - 11). The effect of gradual extinction training on the contextual renewal of US expectancy in human Pavlovian conditioning [Oral presentation]. Australian Learning Group Conference 2025, Port Douglas, QLD, Australia. 

Wang, Y., Ney, L. J., & Lipp, O. V. (2025, June 17 - 20). The effect of extinction training with unpaired US and US only presentations on the contextual renewal of human fear conditioning [Oral presentation]. Experimental Psychology Conference and Asia Pacific Conference on Vision 2025, Sydney, NSW, Australia. 

Wang, Y., Ney, L. J., & Lipp, O. V. (2024, November 25 - 29). Reaction time as a measure of cognitive processes in human fear conditioning: A systematic review and meta-analysis [Poster presentation]. Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference 2024, Newcastle, NSW, Australia.