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Qingqing Qu

Professor, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Doctoral supervisor, university lecturer of Chinese Academy of Sciences, selected for the first batch of special research positions of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Science and Technology New Star, China Association for Science and Technology Young Talent Promotion Project, Chinese Academy of Sciences Youth Promotion Association. Her research focuses on the cognitive neural mechanisms of language processing. She has presided over a number of National Natural Science Foundation projects. The research was published in PNAS, Psychological Science, Cerebral Cortex, Cognition, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuropsychologia, Brain and Language, Journal of Experimental Psychology: LMC/HPP and other journals.

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Working Experience

  • 2023— present Professor
  • 2020-2023. Specially-appointed junior researcher, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
  • 2013-2020 Associate professor, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Education Experience

  • 2009 - 2013, Ph.D, University of Bristol, UK.
  • 2008 - 2009, M.Sc, University of Bristol, UK.

Research Interest

  • Cognitive and neutral mechanisms underlying language processing

Awards

  • 2019. Scholarship of Youth Talent Project sponsored by China Association for Science and Technology.
  • 2016. Member of Youth Innovation Promotion Association, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
  • 2013. Bristol University Commendation for Excellence in a Doctoral Thesis.

Teaching Experience

  • Sino-Danish College, Univerisity of Chinese Academy of Science, Cognitive Science (Courses Taught in English)
  • Department of Psychology, Univerisity of Chinese Academy of Science, Psycholingustic (Courses Taught in Chinese)

Social Appointments

  • Eye Movement Psychology of Chinese Psychological Society, Committee member, 2017–2021
  • Second Language Processing Research of Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies, Committee member, 2017–2021
  • Psycholinguistics of Comparative Studies between Chinese and English, Committee member, 2013–2019

Current grants as principal investigator

  • National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 31771212, The functional unit of phonological encoding in Chinese spoken production: Study on phonemes, 2018.01-2021.12, RMB 560,000

  • National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 31400967, Cognitive processes and time courses underlying written production, 2015.01-2017.12, RMB 240,000

  • National Natural Science Foundation of China, International (Regional) Cooperation and Exchange Project, No.61621136008, Crossmodal Learning: Adaptivity, Prediction and Interaction, ,2016.1.1-2019. 12.30, RMB 1,000,000 (Co-PI)

  • Youth Talent Project, China Association for Science and Technology, 2019-2021, RMB 450,000.

  • Granted membership of Youth Innovation Promotion Association, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2017.1.1-2021.12.30, RMB 800,000

  • Young Talents, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, project name: "The Process of Writing Chinese", 2013.10 -2015.09, fund: RMB 100,000.

Publications

Journal Papers in English

Zhai, M., Feng, C., Qu, Q.*, & Fischer-Baum, S.* (2025). The primacy of taxonomic semantic organization over thematic semantic organization during picture naming. Cognition, 254, 105951. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105951

Huang, Z., Feng, C., & Qu, Q.* (2023). Predicting coarse-grained semantic features in language comprehension: evidence from ERP representational similarity analysis and Chinese classifier. Cerebral Cortex, bhad116 (5-Year IF = 5.998).

Wei, W., Huang, Z., Feng, C., & Qu, Q.* (2023). Predicting Phonological Information in Language Comprehension: Evidence from ERP Representational Similarity Analysis and Chinese Idioms. Cerebral Cortex, bhad209 (5-Year IF = 5.998).

Li, X. & Qu, Q.* (2023). Verbal working memory capacity modulates semantic and phonological prediction in spoken comprehension. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. doi:10.3758/s13423-023-02348-5

Li, X., Li, X. & Qu, Q.*(2022). Predicting phonology in language comprehension: Evidence from the visual world eye tracking task in Chinese. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 48(5), 531–547. (SSCI-JCR-2021: Q2, 5-Year IF = 3.304)

Feng, C., Damian, M. F. & Qu, Q.* (2022). A joint investigation of facilitation and interference effects of semantic and phonological similarity in a continuous naming task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001139 (SSCI-JCR-2021: Q1, 5-Year IF = 3.532)

Qu, Q.*, Feng, C.*, & Damian, M. F. (2021). Interference Effects of Phonological Similarity in Word Production Arise from Competitive Incremental Learning. Cognition, 212, 104738. (SSCI-JCR-2021: Q1, 5-Year IF = 4.698)

Feng, C., Damian, M. F. & Qu, Q.* (2021). Parallel Processing of Semantics and Phonology in Spoken Production: Evidence from Blocked Cyclic Picture Naming and EEG. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 33(4), 725–738. (SSCI-JCR-2021: Q2, 5-Year IF = 3.689)

Qu, Q.* & Damian, M. F. (2020). An electrophysiological analysis of the time course of phonological and orthographic encoding in written word production. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 35, 360-373. (SSCI-JCR-2021: Q1, 5-Year IF = 3.212)

Qu, Q.*, Chen, F., Hou, F., & Damian, M. F. (2020). Syllables and phonemes as planning units in Mandarin Chinese spoken word production: Evidence from ERPs. Neuropsychologia, 146, 107559. (SSCI-JCR-2021: Q2, 5-Year IF = 3.563)

Feng, C. & Qu, Q.* (2020). Phonological inhibition in written production. Psychological Research.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-020-01414-0 (SSCI-JCR-2021: Q2, 5-Year IF = 2.539)

Qu, Q.* & Damian, M. F. (2019). Orthographic effects in Mandarin spoken language production. Memory & Cognition, 47(2), 326-334. (SSCI-JCR-2021: Q3, 5-Year IF = 2.825)

Qu, Q.* & Damian, M. F. (2019). The role of orthography in second-language spoken word production: Evidence from Tibetan–Chinese bilinguals.Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(11), 2597-2604. (SSCI-JCR-2021: Q3, 5-Year IF = 2.582)

Xu, P., Qu, Q.*, Shen, W., & Li, X. (2019). Co-activation of taxonomic and thematic relations in spoken word comprehension: Evidence from eye movements. Frontiers in Psychology, 10:964. (SSCI-JCR-2021: Q1, 5-Year IF = 4.426)

Perret, C. & Qu, Q. (2019). EEG Methods of Exploring Written Word Production. In Cyril Perret and Thierry Olive (Eds). Spelling and Writing Words. France: BRILL.

Qu, Q.*, Cui, Z. L., & Damian, M. F. (2018). Orthographic effects in second-language spoken word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44(8), 1325-1332. (SSCI-JCR-2021: Q1, 5-Year IF = 3.532)

Shen, W., Qu, Q. Q, & Tong, X. H.* (2018). Visual attention shifts to printed words during spoken word recognition in Chinese: The role of phonological information. Memory & Cognition, 46(4), 642-654. (SSCI-JCR-2021: Q3, 5-Year IF = 2.825)

Qu, Q.*, & Damian, M. F. (2017). Orthographic effects in spoken word recognition: Evidence from Chinese,Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24(3), 901-906. (SSCI-JCR-2021: Q1, 5-Year IF = 5.606)

Damian, M. F., & Qu, Q.* (2017). Exploring the role of logographemes in Chinese handwritten word production. Reading and Writing, 1-27. (SSCI-JCR-2021: Q1, 5-Year IF = 3.208)

Shen, W., Qu, Q. Q, Ni, A., Zhou, J., & Li, X.* (2017). The time course of morphological processing during spoken word recognition in Chinese. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24(6), 1957-1963. (SSCI-JCR-2021: Q1, 5-Year IF = 5.606)

Damian, M. F. E., & Qu, Q. (2017). Syllables as representational units in English handwritten production? In Sylvie Plane et al. (Eds). Research on Writing: Multiple Perspectives. France. WAC Clearinghouse.

Qu, Q.*, Zhang, Q. F. & Damian, M. F. (2016). Tracking the Time Course of Lexical Access in Orthographic Production: An Event-Related Potential Study of Word Frequency Effects in Written Picture Naming, Brain and Language, 159, 118-126. (SSCI-JCR-2021: Q1, 5-Year IF = 3.512)

Qu, Q.*, Damian, M. F., & Li, X. (2016). Phonology contributes to writing: Evidence from a masked priming task.Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 31(2), 251-264. (SSCI-JCR-2021: Q1, 5-Year IF = 3.212)

Shen, W., Qu, Q.*, & Li, X.* (2016). Semantic information mediates visual attention during spoken word recognition in Chinese: Evidence from the printed-word version of visual-world paradigm. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 78(5), 1267-1284. (SSCI-JCR-2021: Q3, 5-Year IF = 2.360)

Qu, Q.*, & Damian, M. F. (2015). Cascadedness in Chinese written word production. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:1271. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01271. (SSCI-JCR-2021: Q1, 5-Year IF = 4.426)

Qu, Q.*, Damian, M. F., & Kazanina, N. (2013). Reply to O’Seaghdha et al.: Primary phonological planning units in Chinese are phonemically specified. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS response letter), 110(1), E4. (SCI-JCR-2021: Q1, 5-Year IF = 13.450)

Damian, M. F.*, & Qu, Q. (2013). Is handwriting constrained by phonology? Evidence from Stroop tasks with written responses and Chinese characters, Frontiers in Psychology, 4:765. (SSCI-JCR-2021: Q1, 5-Year IF = 4.426)

Qu, Q.*, Damian, M. F., & Kazanina, N. (2012). Sound-sizes segments are significant for Mandarin speakers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 109(35), 14265-14270. (SCI-JCR-2020: Q1, 5-Year IF = 13.450)

Qu, Q.*, Damian, M. F., Zhang, Q. F., & Zhu, X. B. (2011). Phonology Contributes to Writing: Evidence from Written Word Production in a Nonalphabetic Script. Psychological Science, 22, 1107-1112. (SSCI-JCR-2021: Q1, 5-Year IF = 9.647)

Qu, Q., Liu,W.,& Li, X.(2018). The functional unit of phonological encoding in Chinese spoken production: Study on phonemes. Advances in Psychological Science， 26(9), 1535–1544.

Han,H., Xu,P., Qu, Q., Cheng,X., & Li, X.(2019). Cross-modal integration of audiovisual information in language processing. Advances in Psychological Science, 27(3), 475-489.

Gu J., Gao Z., Qu Q..(2020). The Word Boundary Effect of Chinese Character Position Processing. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 18(2): 193-199.

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Journal Papers in Chinese

Book Chapters

Conference Presentations

  • Neural Representations of semantic and phonological processing in language production, Department of Psychological Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, May 2022.
  • “Temporal dynamics and cognitive mechanisms of language production”, Department of Psychological Sciences, Aberdeen University, March 2022.
  • “Temporal dynamics and cognitive mechanisms of language production”, Virtual Psycholinguistics Forum, May 2021.
  • Cognitive Mechanisms underlying Chinese Language Production, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jan. 2021.
  • Qu, Q. (2020). The Interface between Spoken and Written Language Processing. Talk presented at the "Cognitive Tea", Department of Psychological Sciences, Rice University, Houston, United States, February 2020.
  • Qu, Q., & Feng, C. (2019). Form Overlap Effects in Spoken and Written Word Production . Poster presented at the 60th Annual Meeting of Psychonomic Society, Montreal, Canada, November 2019.
  • Qu, Q., Feng, C., & Damian, M. F. (2019). Phonological/ Orthographic Facilitation and Inhibition in Spoken/Written Word Production: Evidence from a Chinese Blocked Cyclic Task.　 Poster presented at AMLaP (Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing), Moscow, Russia, September 2019.
  • Qu, Q., Feng, C., & Damian, M. F. (2019). Syllabic and phonemic effects in Chinese spoken language production: Evidence from ERPs. poster slam presented at SNL (the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society of the Neurobiology of Language), Helsinki, Finland, August 2019.
  • Qu, Q., & Damian, M. F. (2018). Phoneme as a planning unit in Chinese spoken language production: Evidence from ERPs. Poster presented at theInternational Workshop on Language Production, Nijmegen, Netherlands, July 2018.
  • Qu, Q., Damian, M. F., Zhang, Q. F., & Zhu, X. B. (2017). The role of orthography in native and nonnative spoken word production. Talk presented at the 20th Meeting of the ESCoP(European Society for Cognitive Psychology), Potsdam, Germany, September 2017.
  • Qu, Q., & Damian, M. F. (2016). Orthographic effects in spoken word recognition: Evidence from Chinese. Poster presented at the International Workshop on Language Production, Santiago, United States, July 2016.
  • Qu, Q., & Damian, M. F. (2014). An electrophysiological analysis of time course of phonological and orthographic encoding in written word production. Poster presented at the International Workshop on Language Production, Geneva, Swiss, July 2014.
  • Qu, Q., & Damian, M. F. (2014). An electrophysiological analysis of the time course of phonological and orthographic encoding in written word production. Poster presented at AMLaP (Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing), Edinburgh, UK, September 2014.
  • Qu, Q., Damian, M. F., Zhang, Q. F., & Zhu, X. B. (2011). Phonology Contributes to Writing: Evidence From Written Word Production in a Nonalphabetic Script. Talk presented at the 17th Meeting of the ESCoP(European Society for Cognitive Psychology), San Sebstian, Spain.
  • Qu, Q., Damian, M. F. (2011). Cascaded Processing of Lexical Access in Written Production: Evidence from the Colour Naming Task. Poster presented at AMLaP (Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing), Paris, France.

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