Areas of Focus
- Language Psychology
- Language Comprehension
- Pragmatic Processing
- Second Language Processing
Work Experience
- 2021.09 - Present - Beijing Language and Culture University - Lecturer
- 2019.08 – 2021.08 - Institute of International Chinese Education, Beijing Language and Culture University - Assistant Researcher
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2016.09 – 2019.07 PhD in Basic Psychology: Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2013.09 – 2016.07 Master's in Applied Psychology: Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2007.09 – 2011.07 Bachelor's in Applied Psychology: Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Hosted and completed 1 project funded by the Ministry of Education, 3 university/college-level projects, and currently working on 1 project
- Published 15 academic papers, including 11 SCI/SSCI articles and 3 CSSCI articles
- Invited to present at the 9th Young Scholars Forum on World Chinese Teaching and the 2nd Young and Middle-aged Scholars Forum on Research Methods in International Chinese Education
Publications
- The Spontaneous Activities of the Multiple Demand Network are related to Individual Differences in Indirect Replies Comprehension, Zhang, X., Wang, Y., Yang, X., & Yang, Y., 2024
- Conventionality determines the time course of indirect replies comprehension: An ERP study, Zhang, X., Pan, X., Yang, X., & Yang, Y., 2023
- Individual difference in emotion attenuation brought by indirect replies is related to resting-state brain activity, Zhang, X., Xu, M., Yang, X., & Yang, Y., 2023
- Abnormal Dorsal Caudate Activation Mediated Impaired Cognitive Flexibility in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, Xu, H., Zhang, X., & Bai, G., 2022
- How working memory capacity modulates the time course of indirect replies comprehension: an event-related potential study, Zhang, X., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z., Yang, X., & Yang, Y., 2021
- How working memory capacity modulates the time course of semantic integration at sentence and discourse level, Yang, X., Zhang, X., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Q., & Li, X., 2020
- Updating emotional information in daily language comprehension: the dynamic influence of topic shifts, Zhang, X., Yang X., & Yang, Y., 2019
- Uncovering cortical activations of discourse comprehension and their overlaps with common large-scale neural networks, Yang, X.,Lin N., Li H., Zhang X., Wang, Y., Zhang, Q., Zuo, X., Yang, Y., 2019
- How context features modulate the involvement of the working memory system during discourse comprehension, Yang, X., Zhang, X., Yang, Y., & Lin, N., 2018
- The Interplay between topic shift and focus in the dynamic construction of discourse representations, Yang, X., Zhang, X., Wang, C., Chang, R., & Li, W., 2017
- High working memory load impairs the effect of cognitive reappraisal on emotional response: Evidence from an event-related potential study, Gan, S., Yang, J., Chen, X., Zhang, X., & Yang, Y., 2017