Areas of Focus
- Language comprehension and production
- Internet psychology and behavior
- Second language acquisition based on embodied theory
Work Experience
- 2018 Aug - 2019 Feb: Visiting Scholar, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington
- 2015 Jun: Visiting Scholar, School of Education, State University of New York at Oswego
- 2012 Jan - Present: Professor, Institute of Brain and Cognitive Science, Central China Normal University
- 2004 Aug - 2011 Dec: Associate Professor, Institute of Brain and Cognitive Science, Central China Normal University
Academic Background & Achievements
- 1999-2004: PhD in Experimental Psychology, Stony Brook University, New York
- 1997-1999: Master's in Applied Linguistics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- 1988-1992: Bachelor's in English Literature, Wuhan University
Publications
- Embodied Experience Promotes Emotional Words Processing and Representations, Jin, J., Liu, S., Li, Y., 2021
- The impact of the irrelevant speech on visual awareness, Liu, S., Zhou, Q., Jia, H., & Zhao, Q., 2016
- The impact of cyber-experience on action verb processing, Liu, S., Li, N., & Zhou, Z., 2015
- The impact of language labels and self-reference on new object categorical perception, Liu, S. & Meng, J., 2015
- The effects of phonological similarity and visual similarity in immediate serial recall of Chinese Characters, Li, X. & Liu, S., 2012
- The cognitive processing models of synesthesia and its neuropsychological mechanisms, Liu, S., 2012
- Processing lexical tones and emotional tones in precategorical acoustic storage, Qin, W., Liu, S., Yang, L., & Zhou, Z., 2010
- Sentence comprehension in discourse context: Evidence from the N400, Zeng, H. & Liu, S., 2009
- A corpus study on the difference of turn-taking in online audio, online video, and face-to-face conversation, Tian, Y., Liu, S., & Wang, J., 2023
- Shifts in narrative perspectives consume attentional resources and facilitate reading engagement, Jin, J. & Liu, S., 2023
Awards
- 2008: Third Prize in Teaching, Central China Normal University
- 2011: Excellence in Teaching Competition, Central China Normal University
- 2017: Third Prize, Hubei Provincial Higher Education Achievement Award
