Areas of Focus
- Early childhood literacy and language development
- Cross-cultural comparison of children's cognitive development
Academic Background & Achievements
- 1994 - Bachelor's Degree in Education: Shaanxi Normal University
- 1999 - Master's Degree in Education: Beijing Normal University
- 2002 - Doctorate in Science: Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Publications
- The Pausing Strategies in Chinese Preschool Children's Narratives, Liu, J., Yu, F., Feng, C., & Li, S., 2023
- Development of orientation sensitivity to Chinese characters in preschoolers: Evidence from a longitudinal study, Zhang, W., & Li, S., 2023
- The varied influence of the home literacy environment on Chinese preschoolers' word reading skills, Li, X., & Li, S., 2022
- Development of orientation sensitivity to Chinese compound characters in 4- to 6-year-old children, Zhang, W., Ni, A., & Li, S., 2021
- Event-related potential evidence in Chinese children: Type of literacy training modulates neural orthographic sensitivity, Zhao, P., Zhao, J., Weng, X., & Li, S., 2018
- Sensitivity to Stroke Emerges in Kindergartners Reading Chinese Script, Li, S & Yin, L., 2017
- Training by visual identification and writing leads to different visual word expertise N170 effects in preliterate Chinese children, Zhao, P., Li, S., Zhao, J., Gaspar, C. M., & Weng, X., 2015
- Fine neural tuning for orthographic properties of words emerges early in children reading alphabetic script, Zhao, J., Kipp, K., Gaspar, C., Maurer, U., Weng, X., Mecklinger, A., & Li, S., 2014
- Do preschool children learn to read words from environmental prints?, Zhao, J., Zhao, P., Weng, X., & Li, S., 2014
- Neural competition as a developmental process: Early hemispheric specialization for word processing delays specialization for face processing, Li, S., Lee, K., Zhao, J., Yang, Z., He, S., & Weng, X.C., 2013
- The selectivity of N170 in the left hemisphere as an electrophysiological maker for expertise in reading Chinese, Zhao, J., Li, S., Lin, S.E., Cao, X.H., He, S., & Weng, X.C., 2012