My primary research interest lies in exploring the relationship between physical activity and cognitive function, especially among populations (e.g. violent offenders and drug abusers) with cognitive deficits and decreased brain functioning (e.g. poor inhibition and error monitoring) by using cognitive neuroscience methods including ERPs and fNIRS. I am also interested in the negative influences of exercise addiction on emotion, inhibition, and error adjustment as well as their neuronal processing. My third research interest is analyzing how the social determinants of health (e.g. income, education, race, and sex) affect cognition and brain health.
Darla M Castelli (Supervisor)Studies the relationship between physical activity and cognitive performance in children, adolescents, and emerging adults.
Yu, C-C., Chen, C-Y., Muggleton, N. G.., Ko, C-H. & Liu, S. (2022). Acute Exercise Improves Inhibitory Control but Not Error Detection in Male Violent Perpetrators: An ERPs Study With the Emotional Stop Signal Task.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience,
16(796180).
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2022.796180/full#refer1. doi:https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.796180.
Yu, C-C., Muggleton, N., Chen, C-Y., Ko, C-H. & Liu, S. (2021). The comparisons of inhibitory control and post-error behaviors between different types of athletes and physically inactive adults.
PLOS ONE,
16(8), e0256272.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0256272. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0256272.
Continuing Fellowship, College of Education, University of Texas at Austin (2022 - 2023)
Bascome Royal & Frances Fallon Fuller Scholarship, College of Education, University of Texas at Austin (2020)
Recruitment Award, College of Education, University of Texas at Austin (2019 - 2020)
Outstanding Research Paper Award, Annual Conference of PE & Sport Academic Societies in Taiwan (2017)
Yu, C. C., Liu, S., Castelli, D. (2023). Emotional interference in inhibitory control among violent offenders, 30th Anniversary Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, United States (2023)
Yu, C. C., Baker, B., Jung, Y., Skinner, D., Castelli, D. (2022). Using Virtual Reality to Explore the Effects of Varied Workloads and Acute Exercise on Executive Function (Oral Presentation), 2nd International Webinar on Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience, Virtual Event (2022)
Yu, C. C., Liu, S., Bartholomew, J., Castelli, D. M. (2021). Acute Exercise Ameliorates Inhibition and Error Monitoring Among Drug Abusers: An ERPs Study (ePoster), American College of Sports Medicine 68th Annual Meeting, Virtual Event (2021)