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Ping Li
Professor of Psychology, Linguistics, and Information Sciences and Technology
Department of Psychology
Pennsylvania State University
Moore Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 863-3921
Fax:(814)863-7002
E-mail: pul8@psu.edu
Research Interests:
Cognitive neuroscience, psycholinguistics, bilingualism, computational and neural mechanisms of language acquisition
Recent Publications:
Li, P. (2009). Lexical organization and competition in first and second languages: Computational and neural mechanisms. Cognitive Science, 33, 629-664.
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., Tan, L.-H., Bates, E., & Tzeng, O. (2006). The Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics (Vol. 1: Chinese). Cambridge University Press. (General Editor: Li, P.)
Li, P., Zhao, X., & MacWhinney, B. (2007). Dynamic self-organization and early lexical development in children. Cognitive Science, 31, 581-612.
Chan, A.. Luke, K., Li, P., Yip, V., Li, G., Weekes, B., & Tan, L. (2008). Neural correlates of nouns and verbs in early bilinguals. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1145, 30-40.
Goodman, J.C., Dale, P.S., & Li, P. (2008). Does frequency count? Parental input and the acquisition of vocabulary. Journal of Child Language, 35, 515-531.
Hernandez, A., & Li, P. (2007). Age of acquisition: Its neural and computational mechanisms. Psychological Bulletin, 133, 638-650.
Hernandez, A., Li, P., & MacWhinney, B. (2005). The emergence of competing modules in bilingualism. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 220-225.
Zhao, J., Shu, H., Zhang, L., Wang, X., Gong, Q., & Li, P. (2008). Cortical competition during language discrimination. NeuroImage, 43, 624-633.
Zhao, X., & Li, P. (2009). The acquisition of lexical and grammatical aspect in a developmental lexicon model. Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences, 47, 1075-1112.