Areas of Focus
- Cognitive and Brain Mechanisms of Human Emotion Generation and Representation
- Behavioral Performance and Mechanisms of Interaction between Emotion and Other Cognitive Functions
Work Experience
- 2020-2022 - Radboud University Nijmegen - Postdoctoral Researcher
- Current - Nanjing Normal University - Professor
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2020 - PhD in Experimental Psychology: University of South Carolina
- 2020-2022 - Postdoctoral Research: Radboud University Nijmegen
- Principal Investigator of National Natural Science Foundation Youth Project
- Reviewer for over 20 journals including Science Advances, Emotion, eLife, Journal of Neuroscience, Human Brain Mapping
Publications
- The effect of auditory valence on subsequent visual semantic processing, Gao, C., Hayes, W. M., LaPierre, M., & Shinkareva, S. V., 2023
- Audiovisual integration in the human brain: a coordinate-based meta-analysis, Gao, C., Green, J. J., Yang, X., Oh, S., Kim, J., & Shinkareva, S. V., 2023
- Affective valence of words differentially affects visual and auditory word recognition, Gao, C., Shinkareva, S. V., & Peelen, M. V., 2022
- SCOPE: The South Carolina Psycholinguistic Metabase, Gao, C., Shinkareva, S. V., & Desai, R. H., 2022
- Crossmodal negativity bias in semantic processing, Gao, C., Wedell, D. H., & Shinkareva, S. V., 2022
- Evaluating non-affective cross-modal congruence effects on emotion perception, Gao, C., Wedell, D. H., & Shinkareva, S. V., 2021
- Modality-general and modality-specific audiovisual valence processing, Gao, C., & Shinkareva, S. V., 2021
- Evoked and induced power oscillations linked to audiovisual integration of affect, Gao, C., Xie, W., Green, J. J., Wedell, D. H., Jia, X., Guo, C., & Shinkareva, S. V., 2021
- An fMRI study of affective congruence across visual and auditory modalities, Gao, C., Weber, C. E., Wedell, D. H., & Shinkareva, S. V., 2020
- Estimating the maximum likelihood root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA) with non-normal data: A Monte-Carlo study, Gao, C., Shi, D., & Maydeu-Olivares, A., 2020
- The brain basis of audiovisual affective processing: Evidence from a coordinate-based activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis, Gao, C., Weber, C. E., & Shinkareva, S. V., 2019
- Distinguishing abstract from concrete concepts in supramodal brain regions, Gao, C., Baucom, L. B., Kim, J., Wang, J., Wedell, D. H., & Shinkareva, S. V., 2019
- The neural sources of N170: Understanding timing of activation in face‐selective areas, Gao, C., Conte, S., Richards, J. E., Xie, W., & Hanayik, T., 2019
- Temporal dynamics of audiovisual affective processing, Gao, C., Wedell, D. H., Green, J. J., Jia, X., Mao, X., Guo, C., & Shinkareva, S. V., 2018
- Modeling audiovisual integration of affect from videos and music, Gao, C., Wedell, D. H., Kim, J., Weber, C. E., & Shinkareva, S. V., 2018
- The role of retrieval mode and retrieval orientation in retrieval practice: insights from comparing recognition memory testing formats and restudying, Gao, C., Rosburg, T., Hou, M., Li, B., Xiao, X., & Guo, C., 2016