Academic Appointment

• 2018.12 ~ Now, Associate professor,
  School of Communication Science,
  Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China

• 2016.06 ~ 2018.11, Assistant professor,
  School of Communication Science,
  Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China

• 2014.09 ~ 2016.05, Assistant professor,
  Faculty of Linguistic Sciences,
  Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China

Education

• 2010.10 ~ 2014.09, Ph.D. Cognitive Science,
  Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

• 2007.09 ~ 2010.07, M.E. Cognitive Psychology,
  Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China

• 2000.09 ~ 2004.07, B.A. Teaching Chinese as a Second Language,
  Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China

Teaching Experience

• 2019 ~ Now. Experimental Psychology,
  Undergraduates, 4 hours per week, 68 hours in total

• 2019 ~ Now. Introduction to Neurolinguistics,
  Postgraduates, 2 hours per week, 34 hours in total

• 2017 ~ Now. Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences,
  Undergraduates and Postgraduates, 2 hours per week, 34 hours in total

• 2016 ~ Now. R for Modeling and Visualizing Data,
  Postgraduates and PhD candidates, 4 hours per week, 68 hours in total

• 2015 ~ Now. Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience,
  Postgraduates and PhD candidates, 2 hours per week, 34 hours in total

• 2015 ~ Now. Foundations of Scientific Research,
  Undergraduates, 3 hours per week, 54 hours in total

• 2015 Fall. General Psychology,
  Undergraduates, 3 hours per week, 54 hours in total

Professional Skills

1. Experiment techniques

• Test stimuli: Package PGF in LaTeX, ImageMagick and its implementation in R magick, OmniGraffle, as well as Pixelmator for image creating and editting; praat, Packages tuneR and seewave in R, as well as Adobe Audition for audio editing and processing; blender and Autodesk Maya for video and 3d modeling; and ffmpeg for audio and video format converting;

• Experiments building: Be familiar with package Psychtoolbox under Matlab, Presentation, package Psychopy under Python, E-prime, and Experiment Builder for script building;

• Eye-tracker: Having advanced experience in using Eyelink II/1000 plus for experiment conducting, Experiment Builder for experiment building, and Data Viewer for data pre-processing;

• E/MEG: In charge of establishing the first Child MEG lab in China; be familiar with Yokogawa MEG system for equipment maintenance and MEG data acquisition, packages fieldtrip and SPM12 under Matlab, and BESA for data processing.

2. Data processing

• R: Besides base R, be familiar with data.table, dplyr, and tidyr etc. for data preprocessing; graphics, lattice, and ggplot2 etc. for data visualization; car, lme4, and gam for computational modeling. Create the R package acqr etc. for teaching statistics and illustrating data visualization;

• Julia: Recently start to use julia, because of the speed limitations of R. Besides the base and standard libraries, be familiar with CSV.jl, DataFrames.jl (Database benchmark), and DataFramesMeta.jl etc. for data preprocessing; Plots.jl, StatsPlots.jl, and Gadfly.jl for data visualization; as well as Distributions.jl, StatsBase.jl, StatsModels.jl, GLM.jl, and MixedModels.jl for computational modeling;

3. Other

• Markup languages: Be familiar with LaTeX, markdown, R markdown (R flavoured markdown), Pluto.jl (julia package), and Jupyter for document preparing; knitr (R package) Documenter.jl and Weave.jl (Julia package) for dynamically integrating R or Julia source code into a document; Pandoc for format conversion;

• Be familiar with the free source-code editor visual studio code;

• Be familiar with the distributed version control system git, package managers conda, homebrew, and npm;

• Personal website: Use hugo under go language and the R package blogdown to build my personal website https://likan.info.

Grants, Projects, and Awards

1. Grants

• Zhan, L., Zhou, P., Zhang, L., & Crain, S. (2019 - 2023). The acquisition and online processing of irrealis in Mandarin Chinese. The National Social Science Fund of China. [Grant No. 19BYY087]. (¥200,000). Role: Principle Investigator.

• Zhan, L., Qu, Y., Xu, J., Xiao, Y., & Li, N. (2019 - 2020). The eye movements pattern and neural oscitation markers of predictive processing in language comprehension. The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. [Grant No. 19YJ080002]. (¥70,000). Role: Principle Investigator.

• Zhan, L., Shi, F., Gao, L., & Zhang, L. (2019 - 2020). The online processing and acquisition of lexical tone in Mandarin Chinese. The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. [Grant No. 18YBT15]. (¥70,000). Role: Principle Investigator.

• Shi, D., et al. (2018 - 2023). Studies of Chinese in Generative Grammar and Development of Chinese Grammar in the New Era. The Major Project of the National Social Science Found of China. [Grant No. 18ZDA291]. (¥800,000). Role: Co-Investigator.

• Si, F., et al. (2018 - 2023). Language acquisition and language cognition under the perspective of syntactic cartography. The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. [Grant No. 18ZDJ06]. (¥300,000). Role: Co-Investigator.

• Zhan, L. (2015 - 2016). Experimental explorations of possible world semantics. The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. [Grant No. 15YBB29]. (¥20,000). Role: Principle Investigator.

• Zhan, L. (2015 - 2016). Introduction to psychology and the scientific research. The Funds Supporting the Growth of the New Teachers. [Grant No. FD201530]. (¥7,000). Role: Principle Investigator.

• Zhan, L., Shi, F., Gao, L., & Zhang, L. (2015 - 2016). The Processing and acquisition of tone in Mandarin Chinese. The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. [Grant No. 15YJ050003]. (¥70,000). Role: Principle Investigator.

• Zhan, L. (2010 - 2014). The interpretation of conditionals in natural language. Cognitive Science Postgraduate Research Grant of Macquarie University. ($10,570). Role: Principle Investigator.

• Zhan, L. (20103). The hypothetical property of conditionals in natural language. Macquarie University Postgraduate Research Fund. ($4,684). Role: Principle Investigator.

2. Projects

• Zhang, L., et al. (2018 - Now). The psychological and brain development of atypical developing adolescences. The Program of WuTong Innovations Platforms. Role: Co-Investigator.

• Chen, M., et al. (2019 - Now). The study of Chinese as a second language acquisition and second language teaching (The JunCai Group). The Program of Establishing First-Class Disciplines in BLCU. Role: Co-Investigator.

3. Awards

• 2013.11. The Paula Menyuk Travel Award for the 38th Boston University Conference on Language Development. ($300).

• 2013.04. The Travel Award for the 26th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. ($350).

Professional Activities

1. Frontiers in Psychology, Review Editor in Language Sciences (2020 - )

2. Organization of international meetings

• Academic Advisory Committee, The 24th annual conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-24), Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China.

3. Ad-hoc reviews

• Frontiers in Psychology. (2020 - )
• Scientific Reports. (2018 - 2019);
• Journal of visualized experiments. (2018 - 2019);
• Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies. (In Chinese, 2016);
• SAGE Open. (2016).

4. Clinical licenses

• Licensed Examiner of Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence 4th Edition (WPPSI-VI) Chinese Version.

• Licensed Examiner of Adaptive Behavior Assessment System 2nd Edition (ABAS-II) Chinese Version.

Publications

1. Book

• Zhan, L. (2015). The Interpretation of Conditionals in Natural Language. Saarbrucken, Germany: Lap Lambert Academic Publishing.

2. Periodicals

• Zhou, P., Shi, J., & Zhan, L. (in press). Real-time comprehension of garden-path constructions by preschoolers: A Mandarin perspective. Applied Psycholinguistics.

• Zhou, P., Ma, W., & Zhan, L. (2019). A deficit in using prosodic cues to understand communicative intentions by children with autism spectrum disorders: An eye-tracking study. First Language. doi: 10.1177/0142723719885270

• Zhou, P., Zhan, L., & Ma, H. (2019). Understanding others’ minds: Social inference in preschool children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49(11), 4523-4534. doi: 10.1007/s10803-019-04167-x

• Zhou, P., Zhan, L., & Ma, H. (2019). Predictive language processing in preschool children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An eye-tracking study. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 48(2), 431-452. doi: 10.1007/s10936-018-9612-5

• Zhan, L. (2018). Using eye movements recorded in the visual world paradigm to explore the online processing of spoken language. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 140, e58086. doi: 10.3791/58086

• Zhou, P., Ma, W., Zhan, L., & Ma, H (2018). Using the visual world paradigm to study sentence comprehension in Mandarin-speaking children with autism. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 140, e58452. doi: 10.3791/58452

• Zhan, L., Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2018). Using the visual-world paradigm to explore the meaning of conditionals in natural language. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 33(8), 1049-1062. doi: 10.1080/23273798.2018.1448935

• Zhan, L. (2018). Scalar and ignorance inferences are both computed immediately upon encountering the sentential connective: The online processing of sentences with disjunction using the visual world paradigm. Frontiers in Psychology, 9. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00061

• Moscati, V., Zhan, L., & Zhou, P. (2017). Children’s on-line processing of epistemic modals. Journal of Child Language, 44(5), 1025-1040. doi: 10.1017/S0305000916000313

• Zhan, L., Crain, S., & Zhou, P. (2015). The online processing of only if- and even if- conditional statements: Implications for mental models. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 26(7), 367-379. doi: 10.1080/20445911.2015.1016527

• Zhou, P., Crain, S., & Zhan, L. (2014). Grammatical aspect and event recognition in children’s online sentence comprehension. Cognition, 133(1), 262-276. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2014.06.018

• Zhou, P., Crain, S., & Zhan, L. (2012). Sometimes children are as good as adults: The pragmatic use of prosody in children’s on-line sentence processing. Journal of Memory and Language, 67(1), 149-164. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2012.03.005

• Zhou, P., Su, Y., Crain, S., Gao, L., & Zhan, L. (2012). Children’s use of phonological information in ambiguity resolution: A view from Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Child Language, 39(04), 687-730. doi: 10.1017/S0305000911000249

3. Book chapters and conference proceedings

• Zhan, L. (2018). Magnetoencephalography (MEG) as a Technique for Imaging Brain Function and Dysfunction. In Top 10 Contributions on Psychology (Chapter 4, pp. 1-38). Telangana, India: Avid Science

• Zhan, L., Crain, S., & Zhou, P. (2013). The anticipatory effects of focus operators: A visual-world paradigm eye-tracking study of “only if” and “even if” conditionals. In N. Goto, K. Otaki, A. Sato, & K. Takita (Eds.), Proceedings of GLOW in Asia IX 2012. Mie University, Japan.

4. Peer reviewed conference presentations

• Zhan, L. (2020, October). Non-factual property entailed by conditionals has to be endorsed by a valid theory of verbal reasoning. Oral session presented at the 13th Biennial Academic Conference of Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China.

• Zhan, L., & Zhou, P. (2019, June). Children differ from adults in interpreting disjunctions: Evidence from an eye-tracking study. Poster session presented at Psycholinguistics in Iceland - Parsing and Prediction, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.

• Zhan, L. (2017, September). Scalar implicature and ignorance inference are both locally computed: Evidence from the online processing of disjunctions using the visual world paradigm. Oral session presented at the Second High-level Forum on Cognitive Linguistics, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China.

• Zhan, L., Crain, S., & Zhou, P. (2013, November). Going beyond the information that is perceived: The hypothetical property of if-conditionals in Mandarin Chinese. Oral session presented at the Second International Conference on Psycholinguistics in China, Fuzhou, China.

• Moscati, V., Zhan, L., & Zhou, P. (2013, November). Reasoning on possibilities: An eye tracking study on modal knowledge. Poster session presented at the 38th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston University, MA.

• Zhou, P., Crain, S., & Zhan, L. (2013, November). Anticipatory eye movements in children’s processing of grammatical aspect. Poster session presented at the 38th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston University, MA.

• Zhan, L., Crain, S., & Zhou, P. (2013, March). The hypothetical property of “if”-statements: A visual-world paradigm eye-tracking study. Poster session presented at CUNY2013: The 26th annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Columbia, SC.

• Zhan, L., Crain, S., & Zhou, P. (2012, July). The interpretation of conditionals. Oral session presented at the 7th International Conference on Thinking (ICT2012), Birkbeck/UCL, London, UK.

• Zhou, P., Crain, S., & Zhan, L. (2012, March). Children’s pragmatic use of prosody in sentence processing. Poster session presented at the 35th Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) Workshop: Production and Perception of Prosodically-Encoded Information Structure, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.

• Zhan, L., Crain, S., & Khlentzos, D. (2011, August). The basic semantics of conditionals in natural language. Oral session presented at the Harvard-Australia Workshop on Language, Learning and Logic, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

• Zhou, P., Crain, S., Gao, L., & Zhan, L. (2010, September). The role of prosody in children’s focus identification. Oral session presented at the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition - North America 4 (GALANA-4), Toronto, Canada.

• Zhou, P., Su, Y., Crain, S., Gao, L., & Zhan, L. (2010, August). Children’s use of prosodic information in ambiguity resolution. Oral session presented at the 8th Conference of Generative Linguistics in the Old World Asia (GLOW-in-Asia 8), Beijing, China.

5. Invited talks

• Zhan, L. (2020, October). Language and Language Development. Invited lecture given at the course of Language + organized by Prof. Si.

• Zhan, L. (2019, August). Gardener or Carpenter: Some thoughts on nurturing a child. Invited presentation given at Smiland Daycare Center.

• Zhan, L. (2018, December). Sentential reasoning and sentential connectives: Conditional, disjunction, negation, and modality. Invited presentation given at the Workshop of Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

• Zhan, L. (2018, November). Methods of cognitive neuroscience: Focus on language. Invited presentation given at the Child Cognition Laboratory, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

• Zhan, L. (2018, November). Visual world paradigm: An eye-tracking technique to study the real time processing of spoken Language. Invited presentation given at the Center for Studies of Chinese as a Second Language, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China.

• Zhan, L. (2018, October). Experimental Builder: A what-you-see-is-what-you-get tool to build experiment scripts. Invited presentation given at the Center for Studies of Chinese as a Second Language, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China.