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Jianfeng Yang (杨剑峰)
Associate Professor

Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

16 Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China.

Resume:
2012/03 - present, Associate Professor, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

2009/09 - 2012/03, Assistant Professor, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

2007/08 - 2009/08, Post Doc., Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA.

2005/08 - 2006/01, Visiting Scholar, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA.

2005/05 - 2005/08, Visiting Scholar, Richmond University, Richmond, USA.

2002/09 - 2007/06, Doctor Candidate, School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.

1998/07 – 2002/08, Teacher, Guangdong Puning Normal School, Puning, China.

1998/06, B.S., Department of Psychology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, China.

Research Interests:
Research on visual word reading including cognitive behavioral, computation modeling and fMRI studies.

Selected publications:
Jianfeng Yang, Xiaojuan Wang, Jie Yang, Einar Mencl, Hua Shu, Jason D. Zevin. Language-Specificity in the Brain of Reading: Task by Language Interaction. (Submitted).

Jason Zevin, Jianfeng Yang, Taking models and neuroimaging to task: What do we know about how people actually read? In Miller, B., Cutting, L., & McCardle, P. (Eds), Unraveling the Behavioral, Neurobiological, and Genetic Components of Reading Comprehension. Baltimore: Paul Brookes Publishing. (Forthcoming).

Jianfeng Yang, Hua Shu, Bruce D. McCandliss, Jason D. Zevin (2013). Orthographic influences on division of labor in learning to read Chinese and English: Insights from computational modeling. Bilingulism: Language and Cognition, 16(2): 354-366.

Jianfeng Yang, Xiaojuan Wang, Hua Shu, Jason D. Zevin (2012), Task by stimulus interactions in brain responses during Chinese character processing, NeuroImage, 60(2): 979-990.

Jianfeng Yang, Xiaojuan Wang, Hua Shu, Jason D. Zevin (2011). Brain networks associated with sublexical properties of Chinese characters. Brain and Language, 119(2): 68-79.

Xiaojuan Wang, Jianfeng Yang, Hua Shu, Jason D. Zevin (2011). Left fusiform BOLD responses are inversely related to word-likeness in a one-back task. NeuroImage. 2011, 55(3): 1346-1356.

Jason D. Zevin, Jianfeng Yang, Jeremy Skipper, Bruce D. McCandliss (2010), Domain General Change Detection Accounts for “Dishabituation” Effects in Temporal–Parietal Regions in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies of Speech Perception, The Journal of Neuroscience, 2010, 30(3):1110-1117.

Jianfeng Yang, Bruce McCandliss, Hua Shu, Jason Zevin (2009). Simulating language-specific and language-general effects in a statistical learning model of reading. Journal of Memory and Language, 61(2), 238-257.

Jianfeng Yang, Bruce McCandliss, Hua Shu, Jason Zevin (2008), The division of labor between phonology and semantics in reading: simulation across languages, In B.C. Love, K. McRae, & V.M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceeding of 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitve Science Society.pp: 445-450.

Jianfeng Yang, Jason Zevin, Hua Shu, Bruce McCandliss and Ping Li (2006), A Triangle Model of Chinese Reading. In Proceeding of 28th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Vancouver, BC, Canada, pp:912-917.

Xiaojuan Wang, Jianfeng Yang(2013). The dynamic neural network and its development of visual word processing. Advances in Psychological Science. 2013, 21(2): 199-204. (In Chinese)

Xiaojuan Wang, Hua Shu, Jianfeng Yang(2011). A computer simulation on Chinese characters learning of primary school children. Highlights of Sciencepaper Online. 4(5): 469-474. (In Chinese)

Xiaojuan Wang, Hua Shu, Jianfeng Yang(2010). Visual Word Form Area and Its Functional Role in the Neutral Network of Reading. Advances in Psychological Science. 18(8): 1199-1207. (In Chinese)

Jianfeng Yang, Hua Shu (2008). The connectionist model of Chinese character reading, Acta Psychologica Sinica. 2008, 40(5): 516-522 (in Chinese).

Xiaojuan Wang, Jianfeng Yang, Hua Shu (2008). Connectionist acquired dyslexia: a review of primary system hypothesis, Advances in Psychological Science. 16(6): 868-873 (in Chinese).

Oral Presentations:
Jianfeng Yang, Bruce D. McCandliss, Hua Shu, Jason D. Zevin. Division of Labor between semantics and phonology in normal and disordered reading development across languages. The 30th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Wallington DC, USA. 2008.

Jianfeng Yang, Jason Zevin, Hua Shu, Bruce McCandliss and Ping Li (2006), A Triangle Model of Chinese Reading. The 28th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2006.

Conference Abstracts:
Jianfeng Yang, Xiaojuan Wang, Einar Mencl, Jie Yang, Hua Shu, Jason Zevin (2012). Universal brain network in reading and listening to continuous narratives across Chinese and English. The fourth annual Neurobiology of Language Conference. October 25-27, 2012, San Sebastian, Spain.

Xiaojuan Wang, Jianfeng Yang, Hua Shu, Einar Mencl, Jason Zevin (2012). Common brain regions for high-order language processing in reading and listening Chinese story.The 18th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping. June 10-14, 2011, Beijing, China.

Jianfeng Yang, Yujia Luo, Yufang Yang(2012) BOLD responses revealed emotion evaluation in speech comprehension depend much on prosody than semantics. The 18th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping. June 10-14, 2011, Beijing, China.

Jason Zevin, Jianfeng Yang, Xiaojuan Wang, Hua Shu (2011). Stimulus by Task Interactions in Chinese Character Processing. The 3rd Neurobiology of Language Conference (NLC2011). Nov. 10-11, Annapolic, MD, USA.

Jason Zevin, Jianfeng Yang, Modeling reading in two languages in a single computational framework. International Symposium on Bilingualism Oslo (ISB8), June 16-18, 2011, OSLO, Norway.

Jason Zevin, Xiaojuan Wang, Jianfeng Yang, Hua Shu (2010). Pre-Psychonomics Visual Word Recognition Miniconference (PPWRM) at Washington University, Nov. 2011, St. Louis, MO.

Jason Zevin, Jianfeng Yang, Jeremy Skipper, & Bruce McCandliss (2009). Responses to two types of behaviorally relevant variability in speech in a passive fMRI paradigm. The 16th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS2009).

Jianfeng Yang, Jianping Lu, Hua Shu (2006), Simulating the Morpheme Impact on Semantic Access of Chinese Two Characters Words, the 1st Conference of Sino-Western Exchanges in Cognitive Neuroscience (CSWE-CNS 2006), October 25-28, 2006 in Beijing, China.

Hua Shu, Jianfeng Yang, Hongbing Xing, Ping Li (2005), A SOM Model To Explore The Role Of Family And Frequency On Acquisition Of Chinese Phonogram. In Proceeding of International Conference on Neural Networks and Brain (ICNN&B2005), Oct 13th-15th, Beijing, 2005.