Areas of Focus
- Cognitive Psychology
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Psycholinguistics
- Sentence Processing
- Bilingual Cognition
Work Experience
- 1998-08 to 1999-12 - Beijing Normal University - Lecturer
- 2000-01 to 2001-12 - Peking University - Postdoctoral Researcher
- 2002-02 to 2002-08 - Peking University - Lecturer
- 2003-09 to 2004-04 - University of Michigan - Visiting Scholar
- 2002-08 to Present - Peking University - Associate Professor
Academic Background & Achievements
- 1998 - PhD: Beijing Normal University
- Secretary General: Chinese Psychological Society's Psycholinguistics Committee
- Executive Director: Chinese-English Comparative Research Association's Psycholinguistics Committee
- Editorial Board Member: Journal of Neurolinguistics
Publications
- Cognitive Mechanisms in Chinese Sentence Processing, Yaxu Zhang, 2022
- Bilingual Cognition and Language Processing, Yaxu Zhang, 2021
Awards
- Teaching Excellence Award (2006-2007): Peking University
- Zhengda Award for Teaching Excellence (2010): Peking University