Professor of Psychology, Linguistics, & Information Sciences & Technology
Co-Director, Center for Brain, Behavior, and Cognition
Facult, Center for Language Science (CLS)
Dr. Li’s research aims at understanding the relationships among language, brain, and culture. He investigates the computational and neural mechanisms underlying language acquisition and representation in both native and non-native speakers of Western languages.
Web Information
Department webpage: http://psych.la.psu.edu/directory/pul8
Brain, Language, and Computation Lab website: http://blclab.org/
Penn State Neuroscience: http://brain2015.onair.cc/psu-institute-of-neurosciences/
NSF BRAIN Initiative Grant: http://brain2015.onair.cc/neural-approaches-to-understanding-science-text/
Contact Information
Email: pul8@psu.edu
Phone: (814) 863-3921
Address: 452 Moore Building
Biography
Education and Professional Preparation
1992 Post-doctoral fellow McDonnell-Pew Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, San Diego, USA
1990-1992 Post-doctoral fellow Center for Research in Language, University of California, San Diego, USA
1990 Ph.D. in Psycholinguistics, University of Leiden, The Netherlands (graduate training at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
1986 M.A. in Theoretical Linguistics, Peking University, China
1983 B.A. in Chinese Linguistics, Peking University, China
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Research
My research aims at understanding the relationships among language, brain, and culture. In particular, we examine the dynamic changes that occur in the language learner and the dynamic interactions that occur in the competing language systems over the course of learning. We investigate the computational and neural mechanisms underlying language acquisition and representation in both native and non-native speakers of Western languages (e.g., English) and ...
