Lang Qin

A linguist at crossroads. AP@PKU

[Jixing Li @jixingli]

We are excited to announce the BIOMAG 2026 Data Challenge, to be held this August in Beijing!

Participants will gain access to our *Le Petit Prince MEG dataset* for a cross-modal, cross-subject semantic decoding challenge.

👉 Register now: https://t.co/LPAPmsRNv7

#BIOMAG2026

[Lang Qin @Lea_qinlang]

3️⃣Successful Control of Emotional Expression in LLM Outputs: We provide causal evidence that by manipulating small sets of these interpretable emotion-specific features, we can precisely and naturalistically steer the emotional tone of an LLM’s output.

[Lang Qin @Lea_qinlang]

I am so happy to share our team's first work on LLM's language and emotion! https://t.co/GLBswSw3t6

[Lang Qin @Lea_qinlang]

2️⃣LLMs encode fine-grained emotion in language in a way that mirrors human perception：interpretable, LLM-derived emotion features accurately predict nuanced affective ratings (valence and arousal) from large-scale human behavioral datasets across English and Chinese

[Lang Qin @Lea_qinlang]

1️⃣Human-Aligned Emotional Structure: computational emotion spaces are constructed from interpretable features within LLMs. The geometry of these spaces is anchord in valence and arousal, i.e., the two core dimensions that underpin psychological theories of human emotion.

[Lang Qin @Lea_qinlang]

@MathKunyu @annadgoldie 颠倒黑白。我是北大的老师，在北大每学期都有很多留学生来，他们很多人都在我的鼓励之下去了新疆南北走访了很多地方。因为孰是孰非，我让他们亲自去看。你去过新疆吗？这些人来过中国去过新疆吗？没去过就去一趟再来对话。

[Lang Qin @Lea_qinlang]

@annadgoldie Many thanks

[Sander van Bree @sandervanbree]

Inspired by a paper from @ziruichen44 and @michaelfbonner, and the things I'm learning in @martin_hebart lab

[Tim Behrens @behrenstimb]

Twitter-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests).

[Gregory Hickok @GregoryHickok]

The brain does not perceive speech, process language, or represent conceptual knowledge. It performs adaptive tasks that involve these things. Start with the adaptive task you want to understand and then work out that system. It will all make much more sense.

[SfN Journals @SfNJournals]

#JNeurosci: Qin, Lyu et al. @PKU1898 challenge the view that visual word form area (VWFA) is specialized for reading or more general visual processes & demonstrate how this site is modulated by the frontal-parietal control network.
https://t.co/jJLW7wCvZf

[Michael Fox @foxmdphd]

“The good physician treats the disease, the great physician treats the patient who has that disease” -my favorite Osler quote

[Sylvain Baillet 🕊️ @sylvain_baillet]

Final version of the paper is out in Cortex!
Functional dissociation of anterior cingulate cortex and intraparietal sulcus in visual working memory.
https://t.co/Fx8uM4z6Vk

[Lang Qin @Lea_qinlang]

@sylvain_baillet Exactly the ref I’m searching for as the evidence that IPS is critical to working memory!

[Lang Qin @Lea_qinlang]

@sylvain_baillet #ultimateinspiration

[Lang Qin @Lea_qinlang]

Midnight off-lab shopping during the DISSERTATION week👩🏻‍💻🍶🍺🍷🥂🍾🍹🍸

[Cliff Pickover @pickover]

As you rotate the hummingbird, the colors appear to change. https://t.co/RCHQUGyQdL

[Sylvain Baillet 🕊️ @sylvain_baillet]

Please RT
1/ I am hiring @mcgillu @TheNeuro_MNI !🇨🇦🚨💥💰
Post-Doctoral Position: Neurophysiology of Speech Auditory Processing in Aging.
We are looking for a creative, post-doctoral #MEG specialist to work under our joint supervision (de Villers-Sidani & Baillet).

[Anders Eklund @wandedob]

When your colleague gets a grant that you also applied for