Publications

Luiza Mugnol‐Ugarte, Tiago Bortolini, Bo Yao, Mark Mikkelsen, Marina Carneiro Monteiro, Ana Carolina Andorinho De Freitas Ferreira, Ivanei Bramatti, Bruno Melo, Sebastian Hoefle, Fernanda Meireles, Jorge Moll, Gorana Pobric (2024). Transcranial electrical stimulation modulates emotional experience and metabolites in the prefrontal cortex in a donation task. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 14271.

Bo Yao, Graham G. Scott, Gillian Bruce, Ewa Monteith-Hodge, Sara C. Sereno (2024). Emotion processing in concrete and abstract words: Evidence from eye fixations during reading. Cognition and Emotion, 1-10.

Jaydan Pratts, Gorana Pobric, Bo Yao (2023). Bridging phenomenology and neural mechanisms of inner speech: ALE meta-analysis on egocentricity and spontaneity in a dual-mechanistic framework. NeuroImage, 282, 120399.

Olivia Mak, Samuel Couth, Christopher J. Plack, Sonja A. Kotz, Bo Yao (2023). Investigating the lateralisation of experimentally induced auditory verbal hallucinations. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 17, 1193402.

Bo Yao, Jack E. Taylor, Sara C. Sereno (2022). What can size tell us about abstract conceptual processing?. Journal of Memory and Language, 127, 104369.

Bo Yao, Jason R. Taylor, Briony Banks, Sonja A. Kotz (2021). Reading direct speech quotes increases theta phase-locking: Evidence for cortical tracking of inner speech?. NeuroImage, 239, 118313.

Bo Yao (2021). Mental simulations of phonological representations are causally linked to silent reading of direct versus indirect speech. Journal of Cognition, 4(1), 6.

Ben Alderson-Day, Jamie Moffatt, Marco Bernini, Kaja Mitrenga, Bo Yao, Charles Fernyhough (2020). Processing speech and thoughts during silent reading: Direct reference effects for speech by fictional characters in voice-selective auditory cortex and a Theory-of-Mind network. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32(9), 1637-1653.

Graham G. Scott, Anne Keitel, Marc Becirspahic, Bo Yao, Sara C. Sereno (2019). The Glasgow Norms: Ratings of 5,500 words on nine scales. Behavior Research Methods, 51(3), 1258-1270.

Bo Yao, Christoph Scheepers (2018). Direct speech quotations promote low relative-clause attachment in silent reading of English. Cognition, 176, 248-254.

Andrew J. Stewart, Jeffrey S. Wood, Elizabeth Le-Luan, Bo Yao, Matthew Haigh (2018). ‘It’s hard to write a good article’: The online comprehension of excuses as indirect replies. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71(6), 1265-1269.

Andrew J. Stewart, Elizabeth Le-Luan, Jeffrey S. Wood, Bo Yao, Matthew Haigh (2018). Comprehension of indirect requests is influenced by their degree of imposition. Discouse Processes, 55(2), 187-196.

Bo Yao, Anne Keitel, Gillian Bruce, Graham G. Scott, Patrick J. O'Donnell, Sara C. Sereno (2018). Differential emotional processing in concrete and abstract words. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 44(7), 1064-1074.

Sara C. Sereno, Christopher J. Hand, Aisha Shahid, Bo Yao, Patrick J. O'Donnell (2018). Testing the limits of contextual constraint: Interactions with word frequency and parafoveal preview during fluent reading. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71(1), 302-313.

Mario Weick, John A. Allen, Milica Vasiljevic, Bo Yao (2016). Walking blindfolded unveils unique contributions of behavioural approach and inhibition to lateral spatial bias. Cognition, 147, 106-112.

Sara C. Sereno, Graham G. Scott, Bo Yao, Elske J. Thaden, Patrick J. O'Donnell (2015). Emotion word processing: Does mood make a difference?. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:1191.

Bo Yao, Christoph Scheepers (2015). Inner voice experiences during processing of direct and indirect speech. in Frazier, L., & Gibson, E. (Ed.), Explicit and Implicit Prosody in Sentence Processing (pp. 287-307). Springer..

Bo Yao, Graham G. Scott, Phil McAleer, Patrick J. O'Donnell, Sara C. Sereno (2014). Familiarity with interest breeds gossip: Contributions of emotion, expectation, and reputation. PLoS ONE, 9(8), e104916.

Bo Yao, Milica Vasiljevic, Mario Weick, Margaret E. Sereno, Patrick J. O'Donnell, Sara C. Sereno (2013). Semantic size of abstract concepts: It gets emotional when you can’t see it. PLoS ONE, 8(9), e75000.

Bo Yao, Pascal Belin, Christoph Scheepers (2012). Brain ‘talks over’ boring quotes: Top-down activation of voice-selective areas while listening to monotonous direct speech quotations. NeuroImage, 60(3), 1832-1842.

Bo Yao, Christoph Scheepers (2011). Contextual modulation of reading rate for direct versus indirect speech quotations. Cognition, 121(3), 447-453.

Bo Yao, Pascal Belin, Christoph Scheepers (2011). Silent reading of direct versus indirect speech activates voice-selective areas in the auditory cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(10), 3146-3152.