Dr. YU Mengxia

Address: Room 206, Building 8. Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, 

No. 2 Baiyun Avenue North, Baiyun District, Guangzhou.

Email: 201910084@oamail.gdufs.edu.cn

Research interests:

Cognitive neural mechanisms of language processing 

Neural mechanisms of influences of language on perception 

Education:

09/2015 - 06/2019  Beijing Normal University, Ph.D (Cognitive Neuroscience)

09/2012 - 06/2015  South China Normal University, M.Ed (Psychology)

Working Experience:

07/2019 - Present  Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS), 

National Key Research Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Yunshan Young Scholar

Honors and Awards:

07/2019 Yunshan Young Scholar Award

12/2014 National Scholarship for Postgraduate students

Journal Articles:

(# co-first author，* corresponding author)

• Yu, M., Wu, Z., Luan, M., Wang, X., Song, Y., Liu, J.^* (2018). Neural Correlates of Semantic and Phonological Processing Revealed by Functional Connectivity Patterns in the Language Network. Neuropsychologia, 121, 47-57. 

• Luo, Q.^#, Yu, M.^#, Li, Y., MO, L.^* (2019). The neural correlates of integrated aesthetics between moral and facial beauty. Scientific reports , 9(1), 1980. 

• Yu, M., Mo, C., Zeng, T., Zhao, S., Mo, L.^* (2017). Short-term trained lexical categories affect preattentive shape perception: Evidence from vMMN. Psychophysiology, 54(3), 462-468. 

• Yu, M., Li, Y., Mo, C., Mo, L.^* (2017). Newly learned categories induce pre-attentive categorical perception of faces. Scientific reports, 7(1), 14006.

• Yu, M.^#, Xu, M.^#, Li, X., Chen, Z.^*, Song, Y.^*, Liu, J. (2017). The shared neural basis of music and language. Neuroscience, 357, 208-219. 

• Yu, M.^#, Mo, C.^#, Li, Y., Mo, L.^* (2015). Distinct representations of syllables and phonemes in Chinese production: Evidence from fMRI adaptation. Neuropsychologia, 77, 253-259. 

• Mo, C.^#, Yu, M.^#, Seger, C., Mo, L.^* (2015). Holistic neural coding of Chinese character forms in bilateral ventral visual system. Brain and language, 141, 28-34. 

• Yu, M.^#, Mo, C.^#, Mo, L.^* (2014). The role of phoneme in Mandarin Chinese production: Evidence from ERPs. PloS one, 9(9), e106486. 

Conference Abstract:

• Yu, M., Song, Y., Liu, J. (2018) Global network reorganization induced by short-term visual association learning. Journal of Vision 18(10):758

• Yu, M., Wang. X., Song, Y., Liu, J. (2016) The shared neural basis of music and language. Society for Neuroscience, 2016, San Diego, California

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