Director & Staff

Director

Yi-Yuan Tang
Director, Texas Tech Neuroimaging Institute;
Presidential Endowed Chair in Neuroscience;
Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Arts & Sciences

Dr. Yi-Yuan Tang is internationally known in the use of functional MRI (fMRI) to examine brain connectivity in cognitive task and found cultures shape math processing in the brain. Tang is the founder of Integrative Body-Mind Training (IBMT), a means for improving self-regulation and reducing or preventing various mental disorders.

Tang is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS), the Associate Editor of Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience (SCAN). He has published more than 200 internationally/nationally peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Trends in Educational Neuroscience, Current Directions in Psychological Science, Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, NeuroReport, Neuroscience Letters, Brain and Cognition, Brain Research, Progress in Brain Research, Child Development Perspectives, Stress and Health, Psychiatry Research, Neurocomputing, Neural Networks, Pattern Recognition Letters, Physica A, Human Brain Mapping and Neuroimage, etc.

His works have been commented on and reported by leading prestigious journals such as Nature, Science, Nature Review Neuroscience, Neuron, TICS and many media such as the Associate Press, Reuters, AFP, NBC, NPR, CNN, CBC, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Time, Oprah Magazine，Parade Magazine, Reader Digest, Prevention Magazine, New Scientists, CCTV, China Daily, etc.

Tang’s research applies the tools of neuroimaging, psychosocial and physiological measures (heart rate variability, skin conductance, etc.), as well as genetic analysis, and covers the topics in cultural neuroscience, cognitive, affective and social neuroscience, developmental neuroscience, body-mind medicine, prevention science, computational neuroscience, and neuroleadership.

Experimental Sciences Building, Room 151
(806) 742-3722 ext. 358
yiyuan.tang@ttu.edu

Personal Website: www.yi-yuan.net

Selected Publications

	Yi-Yuan Tang and Michael I. Posner. Special issue on mindfulness neuroscience. 2013, Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 8(1): 1-3 [pdf]
	Yi-Yuan Tang and Michael I. Posner. Tools of the trade: theory and method in mindfulness neuroscience. 2013, Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 8(1): 118-120 [pdf]
	Tang YY, Lu Q, Fan M, Yang Y, Posner MI. Mechanisms of White Matter Changes Induced by Meditation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012, 109 (26): 10570-10574 [pdf]
	Tang YY, Rothbart MK, Posner MI. Neural correlates of establishing, maintaining and switching brain states. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2012, 16(6): 330-337 [pdf]
	Tang YY, Lu Q, Geng X, Stein EA, Yang Y, Posner MI. Short-term meditation induces white matter changes in the anterior cingulate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 2010, 107(35): 15649-52 [pdf]
	Tang YY, et al. Central and autonomic nervous system interaction is altered by short-term meditation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 2009, 106(22): 8865-70 [pdf]
	Tang YY & Posner MI. Attention Training and Attention State training. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2009, 13(5): 222-7 [pdf]
	Tang YY & Posner MI. Response to Jaeggi et al: Exploring Training methods. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2009, 13(5): 192-3 [pdf]
	Tang YY, et al. Short-term meditation training improves attention and self-regulation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 2007, 104 (43): 17152-17156 [pdf]
	Tang YY, et al. Arithmetic processing in the brain shaped by cultures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 2006, 103(28): 10775-80. (Top Story) [pdf]

Collaborative Paper

Brewer JA, Worhunsky PD, Gray JR, Tang YY, Weber J, Kober H. Meditation experience is associated with differences in default mode network activity and connectivity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Dec 13;108(50):20254-9. [pdf]

Kasey Rieken
Section Supervisor

Kasey Rieken serves as section supervisor at the Texas Tech Neuroimaging Institute. In this role he provides a knowledge MRI technologist of 10 years.
Before coming to Texas Tech, he spent 10 years in the radiology field, working in the medical community where he specialized in MRI CT and X-ray.
Rieken earned his Technology degree from Covenant School of Radiology.

Experimental Sciences Building, Room 018BF
(806) 742-3722 ext. 305
kasey.rieken@ttu.edu

Barbara Bowley
Unit Coordinator

Barbara Bowley serves as the unit coordinator at the Texas Tech Neuroimaging Institute. Barbara has been employed with the Texas Tech University System since 1999, and has served as unit coordinator for the TTUHSC Pharmacology & Neuroscience Department, senior administrative assistant to two vice provosts in the TTU Office of the Provost, and as an administrative assistant to the administrator at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Montford Unit. Barbara enjoys RV camping with her husband and their grandchildren in their Sandpiper Fifth Wheel.

Experimental Sciences Building, Room 018BE
(806) 742-3722 ext. 357
barbara.bowley@ttu.edu