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Li Xiaoqing
Professor
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Mailing Address:  16 Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China
Email:  lixq@psych.ac.cn
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Working Experiences:
2020.8-now　　Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor
2010.3-2020.7 Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor
2005.8-2010.2 Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Assistant Professor
2005.5-2007.2 F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen, The Netherlands，Post doctorate
Educational Experiences:
2002.9-2005.7 Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ph. D
1999.9-2002.7 Department of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Master
1995.9-1999.7 Department of Education, Shandong Normal University, Bachelor
Research Interests:

Language is the vehicle for human thought and social-communicative interaction, conveying different meanings such as semantics, emotion, and intentions. I am primarily interested in how the human brain understands these meanings from language, as well as the mechanisms for the improvement of language comprehension.

We are using the EEG, fMRI, and computational modelling techniques to investigate the following questions: 1) the temporal neutral dynamics, brain networks, and computational mechanisms by which the human brain binds different sources of information (such as lexical semantic, speech prosody, contextual information) to reach language comprehension; 2) perceptual learning of speech processing (e.g., comprehending the semantic, emotional, or intentional meanings from speech segment/prosody); 3) the impact of musical expertise on speech comprehension.
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Selected Publications:

1. He, Y., Shao, X., Liu, C., Fan, C., Jefferies, E., Zhang, M.*, & Li, X.* (2024). Diverse frontoparietal connectivity supports semantic prediction and integration in sentence comprehension. Journal of Neuroscience.

2. Gao, P., Jiang, Z., Yang, Y., Zheng, Y., Feng, G.*, & Li, X.* (2024). Temporal neural dynamics of understanding communicative intentions from speech prosody. NeuroImage, 299, 120830.

3. Zheng, Y. Y., Gao P. K., & Li X. Q.* (2023) The modulating effect of musical expertise on lexical-semantic prediction in speech-in-noise comprehension: Evidence from an EEG study. Psychophysiology, 60(11), e14371.

4. Zhao, Z. T., Ding, J. F., Wang, J. Y., Chen, Y. Y.*, & Li, X. Q.* (2023). The flexibility and representational nature of phonological prediction in listening comprehension: Evidence from the visual world paradigm. Language and Cognition, 1-24.

5. Ding, J. F., Zhang, Y. P., Liang, P. P., & Li, X. Q.* (2023) Modulation of working memory capacity on predictive processing during language comprehension. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 38:8, 1133-1152.

6. Guo, X. Y., Li, X. Q.*, & Yang, Y. F.* (2023) How the brain processes emotional meaning of indirect reply: evidence from EEG, Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 38:9, 1302-1317.

7. Li, Y. M., Fan, C., Liu, C., & Li, X. Q.* (2023) The modulating effect of lexical predictability on perceptual learning of degraded speech. Frontiers in Language Sciences.

8. Shao, X. M., Li, M. Y., Yang, Y. F., Li, X. Q.*, Han, Z. Z.* (2022) The Neural Basis of Semantic Prediction in Sentence Comprehension. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 34 (2): 236–257.

9. Zheng, Y. Y., Zhao, Z. T., Yang, X. H., Li, X. Q.* (2021). The impact of musical expertise on anticipatory semantic processing during online speech comprehension: an electroencephalography study. Brain and Language, 221.

10. Li, X. Q.*, Ren, G. Q., Zheng, Y. Y., & Chen, Y. Y.* (2020). How Does Dialectal Experience Modulate Anticipatory Speech Processing? Journal of Memory and Language, 115, 104169.

11. Yang, X. H., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Q., & Li, X. Q.* (2020). How working memory capacity modulates the time course of semantic integration at sentence and discourse level. Neuropsychologia, 140, 107383.

12. Li, W. J.*, Zhang, H., Zheng, Z. L., & Li, X. Q.* (2019). Prosodic phrase priming during listening to Chinese ambiguous phrases in different experimental tasks. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 51, 135-150.

13. Li, X. Q.*, Shao, X. M., Xia, J. Y., & Xu, X. Y. (2019). The cognitive and neural oscillatory mechanisms underlying the facilitating effect of rhythm regularity on speech comprehension. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 49, 155-167.

14. Li, X. Q.*, & Chen Y. Y.* (2018). Unattended processing of hierarchical pitch variations in spoken sentences. Brain and Language, 183, 21-31.

15. Li, X. Q.*, Zhang, Y. P., Xia, J. Y., & Swaab, T. Y. (2017). Internal mechanisms underlying anticipatory language processing: Evidence from event-related-potentials and neural oscillations. Neuropsychologia, 102, 70-81.

16. Li, X. Q.*, Zhang, Y. P., Li, L., & Du, X. F.* (2017). Attention is shaped by semantic level of event-structure during speech comprehension: an electroencephalogram study. Cognitive Neurodynamics, 11, 467-481.

17. Li, X. Q., & Chen Y. Y.* (2015). Representation and Processing of Lexical Tone and Tonal Variants: Evidence from the Mismatch Negativity. PloS One, 12, 1-24.

18. Li, X. Q.*, Zhao, H. Y., Zheng Y. Y., & Yang Y. F. (2015). Two-stage interaction between word order and noun animacy during online thematic processing of sentences in Mandarin Chinese. Language Cognition and Neuroscience, 30, 555-573.

19. Li, X. Q.*, Lu Y., & Zhao, H. Y. (2014). How and when predictability interacts with accentuation in temporally selective attention during speech comprehension. Neuropsychologia, 64, 71-84

20. Li, X. Q.*, Zheng Y. Y., Zhao, H .Y., & Xia J. Y. (2014). How the speed of working memory updating influences the on-line thematic processing of simple sentences in Mandarin Chinese. Cognitive Neurodynamics, 8, 447-464.

21. Li, X. Q.*, Zhao, H. Y., & Lu Y. (2014). The relation between thematic role computing and semantic relatedness processing during on-line sentence comprehension. PloS One, 9, 1-15.

22. Li, X. Q.*, & Yang. Y. F. (2013). How Long-Term Memory and Accentuation Interact during Spoken Language Comprehension. Neuropsychologia, 51, 967-978.

23. Li, X. Q.*, & Ren, G. Q. (2012). How and when accentuation influences temporally selective attention and subsequent semantic processing during on-line spoken language comprehension: An ERP study. Neuropsychologia, 50, 1882-1894.

24. Li, X. Q.*, & Lu, Y. (2011). How accentuation influences semantic short-term memory representations during on-line speech processing: an ERP Study. Neuroscience, 193, 217-228.

25. Li, X. Q., Chen, Y.Y., & Yang, Y. F.* (2011). Immediate integration of different types of prosodic information during on-line spoken language comprehension: An ERP Study. Brain Research, 1386, 139-152.

26. Li, X. Q.*, Yang, Y. F., & Lu, Y. (2010). How and when prosodic boundaries influence syntactic parsing under different discourse contexts: An ERP study. Biological Psychology, 83, 250-259.

27. Li, X. Q., Yang, Y. F.*, & Ren, G. (2009). Immediate integration of prosodic information from speech and visual information from pictures. Neuroscience, 161, 59-66.11.

28. Li, X. Q., Yang, Y. F., & Hagoort, P*. (2008). Pitch accent and lexical tone processing in Chinese discourse comprehension: An ERP study. Brain Research, 1222, 192-200.

29. Li, X. Q., Hagoort, P., & Yang, Y. F.* (2008). Event-related Potential Evidence on the Influence of Accentuation in Spoken Discourse Comprehension in Chinese. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(5), 1-10.

30. Wang, L.*, Li, X. Q., & Yang, Y. F.* (2014). A review on the cognitive function of information structure during language comprehension. Cognitive Neurodynamics.

31. Ren, G., Yang, Y. F.*, Li, X. Q. (2009). Early cortical processing of linguistic pitch patterns as revealed by the mismatch negativity. Neuroscience, 162, 87-95.
Grants:

1. 2022-2025 “The cognitive and neural mechanism by which listeners understand communicative intentions from prosodic pattern of speech”, Project funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32171057).
2. 2013-2016 “How accentuation modulates selective temporal attention in continuous speech: Searching for the underlying cognitive and neural mechanisms”, Project funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31271091).
3. 2009-2011 “The internal mechanism and neural basis underlying how pitch accent influences spoken discourse comprehension”, Project for Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30800296).
4. 2007-2009, “How pitch accent affects semantic unification: Searching for the time characteristics and the underlying cognitive mechanisms”, Young Scientists Fund by Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.