Jing Zhao, Associate professor

E-mail: zhaojing561@126.com

Research direction

Cognitive and neural bases of visual word processing

Cognitive and neural bases of reading development and dyslexia

Early screening and intervention of developmental dyslexia

Learning experience

2002 September---2006 July   Hebei Normal University

2006 September---2012 June   Institute of Psychology CAS

2010 October---2011 October  Saarland University Germany

Work experience

2012 July---up to now      Hangzhou Normal University

Scientific research

Research projects

从发展认知神经科学角度研究文字加工系统的形成机制，国家自然科学基金面上项目，201801-202112，主持人

N170作为汉语发展性阅读障碍潜在早期诊断指标的研究，国家自然科学基金青年项目，201401-201612，主持人

广告牌和商品包装：环境文字对儿童早期阅读发展的影响，浙江省自然科学基金一般项目，201701-201912，主持人

Published papers

Huidong Xue^#, Zhiguo Wang, Yufei Tan, Hang Yang, Wanlu Fu, Licheng Xue, & Jing Zhao^*. Resting-state EEG reveals global network deficiency in dyslexic children. Neuropsychologia, 2020, 138, 1-8.

Jing Zhao, Urs Maurer, Sheng He, Xuchu Weng^*. Development of neural specialization for print: Evidence for predictive coding in visual word recognition. PLoS Biology, 2019, 17(10).

Licheng Xue^#, Urs Maurer, Xuchu Weng, & Jing Zhao^*. Familiarity with visual forms contributes to a left-lateralized and increased N170 response for Chinese characters. Neuropsychologia, 2019, 134, 1-8.

Xiaoxian Zhang, Wanlu Fu, Licheng Xue, Jing Zhao^*, & Zhiguo Wang. Children with Mathematical Learning Difficulties Are Sluggish in Disengaging Attention. 2019, 1-9.

Wanlu Fu^#, Jing Zhao^*, Yun Ding, & Zhiguo Wang. Dyslexic children are sluggish in disengaging spatial attention. Dyslexia, 2019, 25(2), 158-172.

Jing Zhao^*, Hang Yang, Xuchu Weng, & Zhiguo Wang. Emergent attentional bias toward visual word forms in the environment: evidence from eye movements, 2018. Frontiers in Psychology, 2018, 1-7.

Yufei Tan^#, Xiuhong Tong, Wei Chen, Xuchu Weng, Sheng He, Jing Zhao^*Vernier but not grating acuity contributes to early stage of visual word processing. Neuroscience Bulletin, 2018, 34(3), 517-526.

Hang Y.^#, Zhao, J.^*, Gaspar, C.^*, Chen, W., Tan, Y., Weng, X. Selectivity of N170 for visual words in the right hemisphere: Evidence from single-trial analysis. Psychophysiology, 2017, 54(8)，1128-1137.

Ding, Y.^#, Zhao, J.^*, He, T., Tan, Y., Zheng, L., & Wang, Z. Selective Impairments in Covert Shifts of Attention in Chinese Dyslexic Children. Dyslexia, 2016, 22(4), 362-378.

Jing Zhao, Kipp, Kerstin., Carl Gaspar, Urs Maurer, Xuchu Weng, Axel Mecklinger, & Su Li^*. Fine neural tuning for orthographic properties of words emerges early in children reading alphabetic script. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2014, 26, 2431-2442.

Jing Zhao, Pei Zhao, Xuchu Weng, & Su Li^*. Do preschool children learn to read words from environmental prints? PLOS one, 2014, 9, e85745.

Jing Zhao, Su Li^*, Si’en Lin, Xiaohua Cao, Sheng He, & Xuchu Weng^*. The selectivity of N170 in the left hemisphere as an electrophysiological marker for expertise in reading Chinese. Neuroscience Bulletin, 2012, 28, 577-584.

The teaching works

Education of children with learning difficulties

Sports rehabilitation training

Evaluation and Intervention of Learning Disabilities