Publications

Zheng, Y., Sun, P., & Liu, X. L. (2023). Retrieval practice is costly and is beneficial only when working memory capacity is abundant. npj Science of Learning, 8(1), 8.


Williams, A. B., Liu, X. L., Hsieh, F., Hurtado, M., Lesh, T., Niendam, T., ... & Ragland, J. D. (2023). Memory-based prediction deficits and dorsolateral prefrontal dysfunction in schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 8(1), 71-78.


Antony, J., Liu, X. L., Zheng, Y., Ranganath, C., & O’Reilly, R. C. (2022). Memory out of context: Spacing effects and decontextualization in a computational model of the medial temporal lobe. bioRxiv, 2022-12.


Liu, X., Ranganath, C., & O'Reilly, R. C. (2022). A complementary learning systems model of how sleep moderates retrieval practice effects. OSF Preprints.  


Zheng, Y., Liu, X. L., Nishiyama, S., Ranganath, C., & O’Reilly, R. C. (2022). Correcting the hebbian mistake: Toward a fully error-driven hippocampus. PLoS Computational Biology, 18(10), e1010589.


Liu, X. L., O'Reilly, R. C., & Ranganath, C. (2021). Effects of retrieval practice on tested and untested information: Cortico-hippocampal interactions and error-driven learning. Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 75, 125-155.


Liu, X. L., & Ranganath, C. (2021). Resurrected memories: Sleep-dependent memory consolidation saves memories from competition induced by retrieval practice. Psychonomic bulletin & review, 28(6), 2035-2044.


Zheng, Y., Liu, X. L.(co-first author), Ranganath, C., Hsieh, L. T., Hurtado, M., Niendam, T. A., Lesh, T. A., ... & Ragland, J. D. (2021). Modulation of low frequency neural oscillations during temporal sequence learning in people with schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.


Liu, X. L., Ranganath, C., Hsieh, L. T., Hurtado, M., Niendam, T. A., Lesh, T. A., ... & Ragland, J. D. (2020). Task-specific disruptions in theta oscillations during working memory for temporal order in people with schizophrenia. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32(11), 2117-2130. 


Zhang, J., Liu, X. L. (co-first author), So, M., & Reder, L. M. (2020). Familiarity acts as a reduction in objective complexity. Memory & Cognition, 48, 1376-1387.


Ragland, J. D., Liu, X. L., Williams, A. B., Tully, L. M., Niendam, T. A., Carter, C. S., & Ranganath, C. (2020). Retrieval practice facilitation of family psychoeducation in people with early psychosis. Schizophrenia Research, 223, 186-191.


Chen, X., Zhang, M., & Liu, X. L. (2019). Retrieval practice facilitates judgments of learning through multiple mechanisms: simultaneous and independent contribution of retrieval confidence and retrieval fluency. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 987.


Zhang, M., Chen, X., & Liu, X. L. (2019). Confidence in accuracy moderates the benefits of retrieval practice. Memory, 27(4), 548-554.


Liu, X. L., Tan, D., & Reder, L. (2018). The two processes underlying the testing effect– evidence from Event-Related Potentials (ERPs). Neuropsychologia, 112, 77-85.


Reder, L. M., Liu, X. L., Keinath, A., & Popov, V. (2016). Building knowledge requires bricks, not sand: the critical role of familiar constituents in learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23(1), 271-277.


Liu, X. L., & Reder, L. (2016). fMRI exploration of pedagogical benefit of repeated testing: When more is not always better. Brain & Behavior, 6(7), e00476.


Liu, X. L., Liang, P., & Reder, L. (2014). Uncovering the neural mechanisms underlying learning from tests. PLoS ONE, 9(3), e92025.


Liu, X. L., Walsh, M. M., & Reder, L. M. (2014). An attentional-adaptation account of spatial negative priming: Evidence from event-related potentials. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 14(1), 49-61.


Rao, L. L., Liu, X. L., Li, Q., Zhou, Y., Liang, Z. Y., Sun, H. Y., ... & Li, S. (2013). Toward a mental arithmetic process in risky choices. Brain and Cognition, 83(3), 307-314.


Griffin, M., Dewolf, M., Keinath, A., Liu, X. L., Reder, L. M. (2013). Identical vs. Conceptual repetition FN400 and parietal old/new ERP components occur during encoding and predict subsequent memory. Brain Research, 1512, 68-77.


Liang, P., Manelis, A., Liu, X. L., Aizenstein, H. J., Gyulai, F., Quinlan, J. J., & Reder, L. M. (2012). Using arterial spin labeling perfusion MRI to explore how midazolam produces anterograde amnesia. Neuroscience Letters, 522(7), 113-117.