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Ping Li, Pilar Piñar, Janet van Hell

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Ping Li
Professor of Psychology and Linguistics

Department of Psychology
Pennsylvania State University
Moore Building
University Park, PA 16802

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E-mail: pli@richmond.edu

Research Interests:

Cognitive neuroscience, psycholinguistics, bilingualism, computational and neural mechanisms of language acquisition


Recent Publications:

Li, P., & Green, D. (2007). Neurocognitive approaches to bilingualism: Asian languages. A special issue of Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 10 (2), 117-210.

Li, P., Zhao, X., & MacWhinney, B. (2007). Dynamic self-organization and early lexical development in children. Cognitive Science, 31, 581-612.

Li, P., Tan, L.-H., Bates, E., & Tzeng, O. (2006). The Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics (Vol. 1: Chinese). Cambridge University Press. 

Li, P., Sepanski, S., & Zhao, X. (2006). Language history questionnaires: A web-based interface for bilingual research. Behavioral Research Methods, 38, 202-210.

Li, P., Farkas, I., & MacWhinney (2004). Early lexical acquisition in a self-organizing neural network. Neural Networks, 17, 1345-1362.

Li, P., Jin, Z., & Tan, L. (2004). Neural representations of nouns and verbs in Chinese: An fMRI study. NeuroImage, 21, 1533-1541.

Li, X., Shu, H., Liu, Y.Y., & Li, P. (2006). Mental representation of verb meanings: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 1774-1787. 

Goodman, J.C., Dale, P.S., & Li, P. (2008). Does frequency count? Parental input and the acquisition of vocabulary. Journal of Child Language, 35, 1-17.

Hernandez, A., & Li, P. (2007). Age of acquisition: Its neural and computational mechanisms.  Psychological Bulletin, 133, 638-650.