Ye Zhang, Ph.D
E-mail: zhangye.lucia@gmail.com
Research area: visual word recognition, face perception
Experience
12/2012～present: Lecturer, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China
07/2012～present: Associative research fellow, Center for Cognition and Brain Disorders, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China
2019.02～2017.08: Visiting scholar, Department of Psychology,Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
2017.02～2017.05: Visiting scholar, Department of Psychology,Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
11/2011～04/2012: Visiting scholar, Department of Psychology,University of Quebec, Gatineau, Canada
09/2007～07/2010: Research Assistant/lab coordinator, School of Psychology,Southwest University, Chongqing
09/2007～07/2010: External Lecturer, Southwest University, Chongqing
Education
09/2009～05/2012: PhD, Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
07/2010～05/2012: Joint-educated PhD candidate, Vision perception, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
09/2006～09/2009: M.sc., Cognitive psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
09/2001～07/2005: BA, Psychology, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot, China
Awards
2007-2008: Southwest University scholarship, The first prize of outstanding graduate students
2008-2009: Outstanding academic publications of graduate students
2009: Outstanding master graduate of Southwest University
2009: Outstanding master thesis of Southwest University
2009-2010: Outstanding academic publications of graduate students
2009-2010: Outstanding graduate students of Southwest University
2010-2012: China Scholarship Council Graduate Scholarship
2011: Outstanding master thesis of Chongqing
Funding Projects
Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province(General Project,No.LY18C090010):Neural speficity of Chinese character recognition in visual system, 2018-2020, Principle Investigator.
Natural Science Foundation of China (Youth Project, No. (31400974): Study of cognitive nature and neural source location of recognition potential, 2015-2017, Principle Investigator.
Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province(Youth Project,No.LQ14C090004):Cognitive and neural mechanism underlying early processing of Character recognition,2014-2016, Principle Investigator.
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC): Cultural impact on extraction and integration of visual information, 2013-2018, Co-researcher.
Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30970892): The cognitive and neural mechanism underlying early processing of categorical information during visual recognition, 2010 - 2012,Co-researcher.
Main Publications
1. Luo, C., Chen, W., Zhang, Y.*, Gaspar, C.M.*(2019). Rapid stream stimulation can enhance the stimulus selectivity of early evoked responses to written characters but not faces. PLoS ONE 14(3): e0213637.
2. Estephan, A., Fiset, D., Saumure, C., Plouffedemers, M., Zhang, Y., Sun, D., & Blais, C. (2018). Time Course of Cultural Differences in Spatial Frequency Use for Face Identification. Scientific Reports, 8(1).
3. Yang, Q.*, Luo, C., & Zhang, Y.*(2017). Individual Differences in the early recognition of moral information in lexical processing: an event-related potential study. Scientific Reports, 7: 1475.
4. Luo, C., Chen, W., & Zhang, Y.*(2017). The Inversion Effect for Chinese Characters is modulated by radical organization.Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 46:791–803.
5. Tardif, J., Fiset, D.,Zhang, Y., Estephan, A., Cai, Q., Luo, C., & Blais, C. (2017). Culture Shapes Spatial Frequency Tuning for Face Identification. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, 43(2):294-306.
6. Wang, H., J, X., Zhang, Y., Wang, J. (2016). Single-subject morphological brain networks: connectivity mapping, topological characterization and test–retest reliability. Brain and Behavior, 6(4), e00448.
7. Sun, D., Zhang, Y.(2016). The functional specialization and collaboration of the bilateral fusiform face areas. Advances in Psychological Science (in Chinese), 24(4), 510-516.
8. Zhang, Y., Shao, H., Gaspar, C., Chen, W., Zhu, J., Tang, Y., He, S., Weng, X. (2015). Face information processing in the left inferior temporal lobe: An ECoG case study. Science Bulletin (in Chinese), 25: 2438-2446.
9. Yang, Q., Yan, L., Luo, J., Li, A., Zhang, Y., Tian, X., & Zhang, D. (2013). Temporal Dynamics of Disgust and Morality: An Event-Related Potential Study. PloS one, 8(5), e65094.
10. Zhang, Y.,Zhang, Q. (2011). Specificity of category-relatedareas in ventral visual cortex. Advances in Psychological Science (Review in Chinese), 19(1), 42-49.
11. Zhao, G., Liu, Q. (co-first author), Zhang, Y.,Jiao, J., Zhang, Q., Sun, H., Li, H. (2011). The amplitude of N2pc reflects the physical disparity between target item and distracters. Neuroscience Letters, 491, 68-72.
12. Zhang, Y., Liu Q., Yang Q., & Zhang Q. (2010). Electrophysiologicalcorrelates of early processing of visual word recognition: N2 as an index of visual category feature processing. Neuroscience Letters, 473, 32–36.
13. Zhang, Y.& Zhang, Q. (2010). Cognitive function analysisof RecognitionPotential. Advances in Psychological Science (Review in Chinese), 18(1), 28-33.
14. Xiao, X., Zhang, Q.,Jia, L., Zhang, Y.,& Luo, J. (2010). Temporalcourse of cognitive control in a picture–word interference task. NeuroReport, 21:104–107.
15. Zhang, Y., Qiu, J., Huang, H., Bao, B., & Zhang, Q. (2009). Chinesecharacter recognition in mirror reading: Evidence from event-related potential. International Journal of Psychology, 44 (5), 360–368.
16. Zhang, Y.,Liu, Q., & Zhang, Q. (2009). The recognition potential reflects an intermediate level of visual representation. Neuroscience Letters, 2009, 454, 86–90.
17. Yang, J., Zhang, Y.,& Zhang, Q. (2009). Material selectionfor the study of neural bases of explicit self-esteem. Psychological science (In Chinese), 32(1), 44-47.
18. Liu, Q., Li, H., Campos, J.L., Wang, Q., Zhang, Y., Qiu, J., Zhang, Q., & Sun, H. (2009). The N2pc component in ERP and the lateralization effect of language on color perception. Neuroscience Letters, 454, 58–61.
19. Zhang, Y., Yuan, J., Bao, B., & Zhang, Q.(2008). The recognition potentialand rotated Chinese Character. Brain Research, 1233, 98-105.
20. Qiu, J., Li, H., Wei Y.G., Liu, Q, Zhang, Y., & Zhang, Q.L.(2008). Neural mechanismsunderlying the processing of Chinese and English words in a word generation task: An event-related potential study. Psychophysiology, 45(6), 970-976.
21. Yang, J., Li, H., Zhang, Y., Qiu, J., & Zhang, Q. (2007). The neural basis of riskydecision-making in a blackjack task. NeuroReport, 18(14), 1507-1510.
Conference Presentations
1. Luo,C. Chen, W., & Zhang, Y.* Modulation of radical organization to the inversion effect of Chinese characters (2017). The Association for Reading and Writing in Asia (ARWA) Annual Conference, February, 24-25, Hong Kong.
2. Luo, C., Gaspar, C., & Chen, W., Zhang, Y.*Bridging the “gap” between recognition potential and N170 (2016). The 22nd Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Geneva, Switzerland, June, 26-30.
3. Tardif , J., Zhang, Y., Fiset, D., Cai, Q., Luo, C., Sun, D., Tanguay, S., Estéphan, A., Gosselin, F., Blais, C. (2015). Westerners and Easterners use different spatial frequencies for face recognition. Vision Sience Society 15th Annual Meeting, Florida, USA,May 10 – 15.
4. Zhang, Y., Gaspar, C., Shao, H., Zhu, J., Tang, Y., Chen, W., He, S., Weng, X. (2013). Face information processing in the left inferior temporal lobe – an ECoG casestudy. Poster Presentation, the 9thAsia-Pacific Conference on Vision, Suzhou, China.
5. Fiset, D., Blais, C., Zhang, Y.,Hébert, K., Gosselin, F., Willenbockel, V., Dupuis-Roy, N., Bub, D., Zhang, Q., Tanaka, J. (2012). Caucasian and Asian observers used the same visual features for race categorization. Poster Presentation, Vision Sience Society 12th Annual Meeting, Florida, USA.
6. Zhang, Y., Liu, Q., & Zhang, Q (2009). The recognition potential reflects an intermediate level of visual representation. The 9th International Conference on Cognitive Science，Beijing, China, May 25-27.