2014 – Now. Associate Professor, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 2011 – 2013. Visiting student, University of California, Irvine, U.S 2010 – 2014. Ph. D., Cognitive Neuroscience, Beijing Normal University 2007 - 2010. M.S.D., Developmental and Educational Psychology, Beijing Normal University 2002 - 2006. B.A., English Major, Sichuan International Studies University

Brain plasticity and visual perception

Brain plasticity and visual perception

Zhang M, Chen C, Xue G, Lu Z, Mei L, Wei M, Xue H, He Q, Dong Q (accepted) Language-general and -specific white matter microstructural bases for reading. Neuroimage. Zhang M, Li J, Chen C, Xue G, Lu Z, Mei L, Xue H, Xue F, He Q, Wei M, Dong Q(2014) Resting-state functional connectivity and reading abilities in first and second languages. Neuroimage 84C: 546-553. Zhang M, Li J, Chen C, Mei L, Xue G, Lu Z, He Q, Wei M, Dong Q (2013) The contribution of the left mid-fusiform cortical thickness to Chinese and English reading in a large Chinese sample. Neuroimage 65:250-256. Zhang M, Jiang T, Mei L, Yang H, Chen C, Xue G, Dong Q (2011) It's a word: Early electrophysiological response to the character likeness of pictographs. Psychophysiology 48:950-959. Mei, L., Xue, G., Lu, Z., He, Q., Zhang, M, Wei, M., Xue, F., Chen, C., Dong, Q. (2014). Artificial language training reveals the neural substrates underlying addressed and assembled phonologies. PLoS One, 9(3): e93548. Mei L, Xue G, Lu ZL, He Q, Zhang M, Xue F, Chen C, Dong Q (2013) Orthographic transparency modulates the functional asymmetry in the fusiform cortex: An artificial language training study. Brain Lang 125:165–172. Lei X, Chen C, He Q, Moyzis R, Xue G, Cao Z, Li J, Li H, Zhu B, Zhang M, Dong Q (2012) Haplotype polymorphism in the alpha-2B-adrenergic receptor gene influences response inhibition in a large Chinese sample. Neuropsychopharmacology 37:1115-1121. Mei L, Xue G, Chen C, Xue F, Zhang M, Dong Q (2010) The "visual word form area" is involved in successful memory encoding of both words and faces. Neuroimage 52:371-378.