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I was born in China in 1983 and grew up in my hometown until I turned 17. I traveled to Beijing for my undergraduate studies in 2000 and got my B.S. and M.S. from Beijing Normal University, majoring in Electronics and Psychology, respectively. Since 2007, I have been studying for my Ph.D. in the United States. I am now a third year student in the Perception, Action and Cognition Division of the Psychology department at the University of Connecticut. My main focus is the study of Language and Cognition. My research interests are reading and reading disability. I am also involved with several projects at Haskins Laboratories, which is renowned for research on speech and reading. I like hiking, climbing, and reading in my spare time.

 

Here is My Curriculum Vitae. Enjoy it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jingjing Zhao

Language and Cognition Program

Department of Psychology

      University of Connecticut, CT, 06269, U.S.A.

jingjing.zhao@uconn.edu

 

                                             

 

 

 

 

Education

2007-Present  Haskins Laboratories & Language and Cognition Program, Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut

 Major: Experimental Psychology (Perception, Action and Cognition)

2004-2007      School of Psychology, BNU

State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, BNU

Major: Basic Psychology

Degree: Master of Science

2000-2004    College of Information Science and Technology, BNU

Major: Science and Technology Electronic Information

Minor: Psychology

Degree: Bachelor of Science

 

                                                                                                                       

Publications & Manuscripts

Zhao, J., Rueckl, J. (in preparation). The Role of Orthography and Phonology in Letter Position Coding: Evidence from a New Paradigm for Transposed-Letter Effects.

Zhao, J., Wang, X., Frost, S., Sun, W., Fang, S-Y., Mencl, E., Shu, H., Pugh, K. & Rueckl, J. (in preparation). The Neurobiology of Chinese reading: how it resembles and varies from English.

Zhao, J., Guo, J., Zhou, F., Xi, J., & Shu, H. (in preparation). Holistic Recognition of Chinese Single Spoken Word: Evidence from the influence of Phonological Mismatch on ERP component of N400.

Zhao, J., Shu,H., Zhang,L., Wang, X., Gong, Q., & Li, P. (2008). Cortical Competition during Language Discrimination. NeuroImage, 43(3):624-33.

Chen, L., Shu, H., Liu, Y., Zhao, J., & Li, P. (2007). ERP Signatures of Subject-Verb Agreement in L2 Learning. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 10: 161-174.

Zhao, J., Mu, S. , Shu, H., & Wang, C. (2006). EEG analysis based on Morlet wavelet transform. Chinese Journal of Medical Physics, 23(1): 56-59. (written in Chinese)

Zhao, J. & Shu, H.: Gamma band activity in human brain. Unpublished Technical Report. (written in Chinese)

 

Dissertation

Zhao, J. (2007). Neural Networks of Language Discrimination. Master’s Dissertation.

Zhao, J. (2004). Time-Frequency Analysis Principles and Applications in EEG analysis. Bachelor’s Dissertation (BNU’s Excellent Thesis Paper of Bachelor Degree, BNU).

 

Conference Presentations

Zhao, J., Wang, X., Frost, S., Sun, W., Fang, S-Y., Mencl, E., Shu, H., Pugh, K. & Rueckl, J. (2009, March). Investigating the neurobiology of Chinese reading: how it differs from English, Poster presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. San Francisco, CA.
Zhao, J., Guo, J., Zhou, F., Xi, J. & Shu, H. (2009, March). Time course of Chinese Single Spoken Word Recognition in context:  Evidence from the influence of phonological mismatch on ERP component of N400, Poster presented at the 22nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Davis, CA.

Zhao, J., Shu, H., Zhang, L., Wang, X., Gong, Q. (2007, June). Neural Networks of Language Discrimination. Talk presented at 2007 Annual Meeting of General Psychology and Experimental Psychology by Chinese Psychology Association, Nanjing.

Zhao, J., Mu, S. & Shu, H. (2006, October). Bimodal speech perception in Chinese. Poster presented at 1st Conference of Sino-Western Exchanges in Cognitive Neuroscience, Beijing.

Chen, L., Shu, H., Liu, Y., Zhao, J., & Li, P. (2006, October). ERP effects of subjective-verb agreement violations in Chinese-English Learners and native English speakers. Poster presented at 1st Conference of Sino-Western Exchanges in Cognitive Neuroscience, Beijing.

Zhao, J., Mu, S. & Shu, H. (2005, October). The mechanism of visual speech perception: evidence from performance and brain potential. Talk presented at 10th National Conference of Psychology in China, Shanghai. (in Chinese)

 

Honors, Awards & Scholarships

Excellent Thesis Paper of Bachelor Degree, BNU (2004)

Excellent Student of Bachelor Degree, BNU (2004)

Awards in National College-student Electronics Design Contest (2003)

First Prize Academic Scholarship, BNU (2002-2003)

Second Prize Academic Scholarship, BNU (2001-2002)

Third Prize Academic Scholarship, BNU (2000-2001)

 

Expertise

fMRI: experiment design (block & event-related), data collection, and analysis (SPM, AFNI, MRIcro)

EEG/ERP: experiment development, data acquisition (Neuroscan, EGI), and analysis (Scan, Besa)

Psychology tools and methods: E-Prime, DMDX, STIM

Speech synthesis and acoustic analysis: Praat, Kllatt, Cooledit

Statistical analysis and scientific graphing: SPSS, Lisrel

Programming languages: Matlab, C/C++

 

Academic Experience

Research Assistant, Haskins Laboratories, Aug. 2008–May. 2009

• Conducted research on Neurobiological Model of Skilled Reading.

• Conducted research on Phonological Bases of Reading Disability.

Research Assistant, Haskins Laboratories & Language and Cognition Program, Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Jan. 2008–May. 2008

• Conducted research on Morphology Learning.

Research Assistant, State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, BNU, Sep. 2004–Nov. 2006

• Conducted research on neural substrates of speech perception, especially the rhythm, pitch and phonology perception.

• Examined the categorical perception of lexical tones and underlying brain mechanisms using psychophysical measurement, brain imaging, and brain waves, especially mismatch negativity (MMN).

• Conducted a study on visual speech perception (McGurk effect) and analyzed its raw EEG data using Time-frequency Analysis method.

• Participated in an ERP study of subject-verb agreement in Chinese-English L2 learners.

Research Assistant, School of Psychology, BNU, Nov. 2003–Aug. 2004

• Conducted cognitive behavioral experiments on orthographic, phonological effects and distractor frequency effect in speech production using picture word interference paradigm.

• Participated in the experiment design and data collection of brain imaging studies on sub-lexical processing in Chinese character reading.

• Participated in stimuli preparation and data collection in child development experiments on reading and phonological awareness.

Teaching Assistant, Language and Cognition Program, Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Aug. 2007–Jan. 2008

• Grading for Department of Psychology

Teaching Assistant, School of Psychology, BNU, Apr. 2006

• Teacher of Experimental Psychology for an undergraduate class

 

Volunteer Experience & Social Activities

Vice President of Chinese Students and Scholars Association at University of Connecticut, Storrs, August, 2007 – August, 2008

1st Workshop of “Promoting Cognitive Neuropsychology in China”, Beijing, April 14-16, 2006

28th International Congress of Psychology (ICP2004), Beijing, August 8-13, 2004

Centennial Commemoration of BNU, 2002

 

Part-time Job

Chinese Teacher for Chinese School at UConn, Storrs, CT, Jan., 2008 - Present

Private Tutor for a Primary School Student, Beijing, Sep., 2003 - July, 2004

Private Tutor for a High School Student, Beijing, Sep. - Dec., 2001

Private Tutor for Two Pre-high School Students, Tieling, Liaoning, July - Aug., 2000

Private Tutor for Two Pre-middle School Students, Tieling, Liaoning, July - Aug., 1997

 

Hobbies

Hiking

Climbing

Reading