Publications

2025
Ying Choon Wu, Amy Eguchi, Robert Twomey, & Mayumi Otsuki (accepted). Making Computer Science Concepts Visible and Virtually Tangible through Creative Coding in Virtual Reality. International Society of the Learning Sciences Annual Meeting. June 10-13, 2025, Helsinki, Finland.

Amy Eguchi, Ying Choon Wu, & Robert Twomey (accepted). Embodied Creative Coding for Multi-Modal Embodied Learning. The 36th International Conference of the Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education. March 17-21, 2025, Orlando, Florida.

Leon Lange, Jacob Yenney & Ying Choon Wu (accepted). Dynamic VR Modulation with EEG Feedback for Psychedelic Simulation. IEEEVR. March 8-12, 2025, Saint-Malo, France.

Alejandro Lobo, Amy Eguchi, Robert Twomey, & Ying Choon Wu (2025). Balanced Creative Coding for Motivation and Learning Transfer. 56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Feb 26 – March 1, 2025, Pittsburgh, USA. 10.1145/3641555.3705134

Leon Lange, Jacob Yenney & Ying Choon Wu (accepted). Bridging Psychedelic VR and BCI: Enhancing User Experience through Adaptive EEG-Guided Neural Modulation. Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction. March 4-7, 2025, Bordeaux, France.

2024

Ying Choon Wu, Leon Lange, Jacob Yenney, Qiao Zhang, and Erik Harpstead. (2024). Scaffolded versus Self-Paced Training for Human-Agent Teams. In International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI ’24), November 24–27, 2024, Swansea, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 10.1145/3687272.3690873

Lange, L., Sankar, V. V., Appelbaum, L. G., Broderick, R. C., Cai, Y., Chordiya, P., Jung, T. P., Spurzem, G. J. and Wu, Y. C. (2024). Decoding Psychological Stress during Laparoscopic Surgery Training: Insights from EEG.  31st International Conference ICONIP 2024.

Ying Choon Wu, Biayna Bogosian, Jacob Yenney, Patrick Coleman, Daniel Jalali, Joshua Pallag, Akshit Nassa, and Thomas Sharkey. (2024). Balboa Park Alive!: Exploring Biodiversity through Mobile Augmented Reality. In Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference Appy Hour (SIGGRAPH Appy Hour ’24), July 27–August 01, 2024, Denver, CO, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 10.1145/3664294.3664358

 Liu, W., Stevenson, C., Chang, C., Thurman, S., Cohen Hoffing, R., Jung, T.-P., & Wu, Y. C. (2024). Gaze intersection points reveal the onset of visual processing during eye and head movement. 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Orlando, FL, USA, 2024, pp. 1-4.  10.1109/EMBC53108.2024.10781581

Lay, R., Bhutada, R., Lobo, A., Twomey, R., Eguchi, A., & Wu, Y. C. (2024, March). Embodied Code: Creative Coding in Virtual Reality. In Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2 (pp. 1926-1926). 10.1145/3626253.3635428

 Liu, W., Chang, C., Cohen Hoffing, R., Thurman, S., Stevenson, C., Jung, T.-P., & Wu, Y. C. (2024). Steady-State Visually Evoked Potentials (SSVEPs) in the presence of voluntary eye and head movements. Journal of Vision,  24(10), 1338-1338.

2023

Maymon, C., Grimshaw, G., Wu, Y. C. (2023) Current Topics in Behavioral Neuroscience: Virtual Reality – New Insights and Methods. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

Wu, Y. C., Maymon, C., Paden, J., Liu, W. (2023) Launching your VR Neuroscience Laboratory. In C. Maymon, G. Grimshaw, & Y. C. Wu (Eds.), Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences: Virtual Reality – New Insights and Methods. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. doi.org/10.1007/7854_2023_420  First Online: 13 June 2023; Chapter 2.

 Maymon, C., Wu, Y. C., Grimshaw, G. (2023) The Promises and Pitfalls of Virtual Reality. In C. Maymon, G. Grimshaw, & Y. C. Wu (Eds.), Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences: Virtual Reality – New Insights and Methods. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. Chapter 1.

Wu, Y. C., Chang, C., Liu, W., Stevenson, C., Cohen Hoffing, R., Thurman, S., & Jung, T.-P. (2023). Free Moving Gaze-related Electroencephalography in Mobile Virtual Environments. Journal of Vision, 23(9), 5305. doi:10.1167/jov.23.9.5305

Thurman, S., Cohen, R. H., Liu, W., Chang, C., Stevenson, C., Jung, T. P., Wu, Y. C. (2023). SSVE(PLR): Comparing target classification via pupillary light responses versus standard EEG-based SSVEP. Journal of Vision 23(9), 5889-5889.

2022

Sharkey, T., Twomey, R., Wood, T., Eguchi A., Sweet, M., and Wu, Y. (2022) Need Finding for an Embodied Coding Platform: Educators’ Practices and Perspectives.  In CSEDU (1) (pp. 216-227).

Twomey, R., Sharkey, T., Wood, T., Eguchi A., Sweet, M., and Wu, Y. (2022) An Immersive Environment for Embodied Code. ACM CHI’22. 10.1145/3491101.3519896

Wu, Y. C., Müller, H. M., & Coulson, S. (2022). Visuospatial working memory and understanding co-speech iconic gestures: Do gestures help to paint a mental picture?. Discourse Processes. 10.1080/0163853X.2022.2028087

2021

Cummings, A., Wu, Y.C., and Ogiela, D. (2021). Phonological underspecification: An explanation for how a rake can become awake. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 15, 585817. 10.3389/fnhum.2021.585817

Momsen J., Gordon J., Wu, YC, Coulson S. (2021).  Event related spectral perturbations of gesture congruity: Visuospatial resources are recruited for multimodal discourse comprehension.  Brain and Language, 216, 102916.   10.1016/j.bandl.2021.104916

2020

Cummings, A., Ogiela, D., and Wu, Y.C. (2020). The emergence of [coronal] underspecification during typical and atypical phonological development. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 14, 580697. 10.3389/fnhum.2020.580697

Momsen J., Gordon J., Wu, YC, Coulson S. (2020).  Verbal working memory and co-speech gesture processing.  Brain and Cognition, 146, 105640.  10.1016/j.bandc.2020.105640

2018

Hsu S-H, Zi Y, Wu Y C, Jackson P, and Jung T-P.  (2018) Exploring Mental State Changes during Hypnotherapy using Adaptive Mixture Independent Component Analysis of EEG, IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems.   10.1109/BIOCAS.2018.8584715

2016

Wu Y. C., Wang J., Tran A., Schperberg A., Caldwell J., Kuo P. C., Jung T. P. (2016). MoBI-Box: A next generation mobile brain-body imaging platform, IEEE International Multi-Disciplinary Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support. San Diego, California. 10.1109/COGSIMA.2016.7497793

2015

Wu, Y.C. & Coulson, S. (2015). Iconic gestures facilitate discourse comprehension in individuals with superior immediate memory for body configurations. Psychological Science. 10.1177/0956797615597671

Lin, C-L., Jung, M., Wu, Y. C., She, H-C, Jung, T-P. (2015). Brain dynamics of mathematical problem solving. International Journal of Neural Systems, 25 (2), 1550004 -15500021. 10.1142/S0129065715500045

2014

Wu, Y.C. & Coulson, S. (2014). Co-speech iconic gestures and visuo-spatial working memory.  Acta Psychologica, 153, 39-50.

Wu, Y. C. & Coulson, S. (2014). Movement span: A test of immediate memory for body movements. PLoS ONE.  DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084834.

Coulson, S. & Wu, Y. C. (2014).  Multi-modal Discourse Comprehension.  In C. Muller, A. Cienki, E. Fricke, S. H. Ladewig, D. McNeill & J. Bressem (Eds.), Body-Language-Communication: An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction (Vol. 2, pp. 1922-1929). Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

Wu Y. C., Jung M., Lock D., Chao E., Swartz, J., Jung T. P. (2014). Resting State and Task-related Brain Dynanics Supporting Insight, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Chicago, Illinois

2013

Wu Y. C., Jung M., Lock D., Chao E., Jung T. P. (2013). Discovering Optimal Brain States for Problem Solving with EEG, 6th International IEEE/EMBC Conference on Neural Engineering. San Diego, California.

 Lin, C. L., Jung, M., Wu, Y. C., & She, H. C. (2013). Brain Dynamics of Mathematical Problem Solving. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. San Diego, California.

2011

Wu, Y. C. & Coulson, S. (2011). Are depictive gestures like pictures? Commonalities and differences in semantic processing. Brain and Language, 119 (3), 184-195.

2010

Wu, Y. C. & Coulson, S. (2010). Gestures modulate speech processing early in an utterance. Neuroreport, 21 (7), 522-26.

2007

Wu, Y. C. & Coulson, S. (2007a). How iconic gestures enhance communication: an ERP study. Brain and Language, 101 (3), 234-45.

Wu, Y. C. & Coulson, S. (2007b). Iconic gestures prime related concepts: An ERP study. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 14 (1), 57-63.

2005

Wu, Y. C. & Coulson, S. (2005). Meaningful gestures: Electrophysiological evidence of gesture comprehension. Psychophysiology, 42 (6), 654-667.

Coulson, S. & Wu, Y. C. (2005).  Hemispheric asymmetries in joke comprehension. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17 (3), 494-506.20