Areas of Focus
- Neural representation of concepts and knowledge
- Decoding thoughts through brain activity using fMRI
Academic Background & Achievements
- Ph.D.: University of South Carolina
- Postdoctoral Training: Carnegie Mellon University
Publications
- How Grammar Conveys Meaning: Language-specific spatial encoding patterns and cross-language commonality in higher-order neural space, Wang J.*, Lin H., & Cai Q.*, 2023
- Neural signatures of second language proficiency in narrative processing, Zhang R. ǂ, Wang J. ǂ, Lin H., Turk-Browne N.B., & Cai Q.*, 2023
- CCLOOW: Chinese children’s lexicon of oral words, Li L., Zhao W., Song M., Wang J.*, & Cai Q.*, 2023
- How characters are learned leaves its mark on the neural substrates of Chinese reading, Feng J., Mak H.Y., Wang J.*, & Cai Q.*, 2022
- Predicting the brain activation pattern associated with the propositional content of a sentence: modeling neural representations of events and states, Wang J., Cherkassky V.L., & Just M.A., 2017
- Neural representations of the concepts in simple sentences: concept activation prediction and context effects, Just M.A.ǂ, Wang J.ǂ, & Cherkassky, V.L., 2017
- Decoding abstract and concrete concept representation based on single-trial fMRI data, Wang J., Baucom L.B., & Shinkareva S.V., 2013
- Neural representation of abstract and concrete concepts: a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies, Wang J., Conder J.A., Blitzer D.N., & Shinkareva S.V., 2010