Publications

Papers

Implicit Statistical Learning

Weng Y-L., Schneider J., & Qi Z. (2024). Children track probabilistic information in speech differently from adults. In: L. K. Samuelson, S. L. Frank, M. Toneva, A. Mackey, & E. Hazeltine (Eds.), Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 46: 4137-4142. UC Merced eScholarship.

Hu A., Kozloff V., Owen Van Horne A., Chugani D., & Qi Z. (2024). Dissociation between linguistic and nonlinguistic statistical learning in children with autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 54: 1912-1927. DOI: 10.1007/s10803-023-05902-1.

Schneider J.M., Scott T.L., Legault J., & Qi Z. (2024) Limited but specific engagement of mature language network during linguistic statistical learning. Cerebral Cortex. 34(4), bhae123. DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhae123. [Preprint]

Zinszer B.D., Hannon J., Hu A., Kouadio E.A., Akpé H., Tanoh F., Wang M.L., Qi Z., & Jasinska K. (2023). Statistical learning in children’s emergent L2 literacy: Cross-cultural insights from rural Côte d’Ivoire. Developmental Science. 00, e13448. DOI: 10.1111/desc.13448. [Preprint]

Zinszer, B. D., Hannon, J., Kouadio, É., Akpé, H., Tanoh, F., Hu, A., Qi, Z., & Jasińska, K. (2023). Does non-linguistic segmentation still predict literacy in an L2 education? Statistical learning in Ivorian primary schools. Language Learning. DOI: 10.1111/lang.12603. [2023 Recipient of Outstanding Article of the Year]

Schneider J.M., Weng Y-L., Hu A., & Qi Z. (2022). Linking the neural basis of distributional statistical learning with transitional statistical learning: The paradox of attention. Neuropsychologia. 172: 108284. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108284

Earle F.S., Qi Z. (2022). Overnight changes to dual-memory processes reflected in speech-perceptual performance. Attention, Perception, Psychophys. 84: 231–243.

Schneider J.M., Hu A., Legault J., & Qi Z. (2020). Measuring statistical learning across modalities and domains in school-aged children via an online platform and neuroimaging techniques. Journal of Visualized Experiments. e61474. DOI: 10.3791/61474. [Video Protocol]

Qi Z., Sanchez Araujo Y., Georgan W. C., Gabrieli J.D.E., & Arciuli J. (2019). Hearing matters more than seeing: A cross-modality study of statistical learning and reading ability. Scientific Studies of Reading, J. DOI: 10.1080/10888438.2018.1485680

Autism, Language Impairment, and Reading Disorder

Hu A., Qi Z., & Franich K. (2023) Accommodation to vocal pitch in children with autism. In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. 3912–3916. Guarant International.

Ozernov-Palchik O.*, Qi Z.*, Beach S.D., & Gabrieli J.D.E. (2023). Intact procedural memory and impaired auditory statistical learning in adults with dyslexia. Neuropsychologia.188:108638. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108638. [Preprint]

O’Brien A.M., Perrachione T.K., Wisman Weil L., Sanchez Araujo Y., Halverson K., Harris A., Ostrovskaya I., Kjelgaard M., Wexler K., Tager-Flusberg H., Gabrieli J.D.E, & Qi Z. (2023). Altered engagement of the speech motor network is associated with reduced phonological working memory in autism. NeuroImage: Clinical. 37:103299. DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2022.103299.

Lu C.*, Qi Z.*, Harris A., Wisman Weil L., Han M., Halverson K., Perrachione T. K., Kjelgaard M., Wexler K., Tager-Flusberg H., & Gabrieli J. D. E. (2016) Shared neuroanatomical substrates for impaired phonological working memory across reading disability and autism. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 1(2): 169-177, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2015.11.001

Social Cognition and Word Learning

Ning J., Hu A., Qi Z., & Sheng L. (2024). Novel word learning in multilingual children with and without autism spectrum disorder: roles of social cognition, multilingualism and vocabulary proficiency. In: L. K. Samuelson, S. L. Frank, M. Toneva, A. Mackey, & E. Hazeltine (Eds.), Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 46: 3829-3835. UC Merced eScholarship.

Trice K., Cohen E., & Qi Z. (2024). Engaging nonverbal theory-of-mind boosts novel word retention in adults. In: L. K. Samuelson, S. L. Frank, M. Toneva, A. Mackey, & E. Hazeltine (Eds.), Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 46: 3303-3310. UC Merced eScholarship.

Cognitive Neuroscience of Second Language Learning

Qi Z. & Legault J. (2020). Neural hemispheric organization in successful adult language learning: is left always right? Psychology of Learning and Motivation. 72: 119-163. DOI: 10.1016/bs.plm.2020.02.004

Qi Z., Han M., Wang Y., de Los Angeles C., Liu Q., Garel K., Chen E., Whitfield-Gabrieli S., Gabrieli J.D.E., & Perrachione T.K. (2019). Speech processing and plasticity in right hemisphere predict real-world foreign language learning in adults. Neuroimage. 192: 76-87. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.03.008

Qi Z.*, Beach S. D.*, Finn A. S., Minas J., Goetz C., Chan B., & Gabrieli J. D. E. (2017). Dissociable language learning strengths are predicted by native-language N400 and P600. Neuropsychologia. 98: 177-191.

Qi Z., Han M., Garel K., Chen E. S., & Gabrieli J. D. E. (2015). White-matter structure in the right hemisphere predicts Mandarin Chinese learning success. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 33: 14-28.

Psycholinguistics

Qi Z., Love J., Fisher C.L., & Brown-Schmidt S. (2020). Referential context and executive functioning influence children’s resolution of syntactic ambiguity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000886

Ryskin, R., Qi, Z., Covinton, N., Duff, M., & Brown-Schmidt, S. (2018). Knowledge and Learning of Verb Biases in Amnesia. Brain and Language, 180-182: 62-83

Ryskin R. A., Qi Z., Duff M. C., & Brown-Schmidt S. (2017). Verb biases are shaped through lifelong learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 43(5): 781-794.

Qi Z., Yuan S., & Fisher C. L. (2011) Where does verb bias come from: Experience with particular verbs affects online sentence processing, In N. Danis, K. Mesh, & H. Sung (Eds.), Proceedings of 35th Boston University Conference on Language Development. 500-512. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Neuroimaging Characteristics of Typical and Atypical Brain Development

McIlvain G., Schneider J.M., Matyi M.A., McGarry M.D.J., Qi Z., Spielberg J., & Johnson C.L. (2022). Mapping brain mechanical property maturation from childhood to adulthood. NeuroImage. 263(August): 11950. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119590

Anteraper S.A., Guell X., Collin G., Qi Z., Ren J., Nair A., Seidman L., Keshavan M., Zhang T., Tang Y., Li H., McCarley R.W., Niznikiewicz M., Shenton M.E., Stone W., Wang J., & Whitfield-Gabrieli S. (2021). Abnormal function in dentate nuclei precedes the onset of psychosis: a longitudinal fMRI study in high-risk individuals. Schizophrenia Bulletin. DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbab038

Collin G., Seidman J.L., Keshavan M.S., Stone W.S., Qi Z., Zhang T., Tang Y., Li H., Anteraper S.A., Niznikiewicz M.A., McCarley R.W., Shenton M.E., Wang J., & Whitfield-Gabrieli S. (2020). Functional connectome organization predicts conversion to psychosis in clinical high-risk youth from the SHARP Program. Molecular Psychiatry. 25(10): 2431-2440.

Manuscripts Under Review

Weng Y-L., Owen Van Horne A., & Qi Z. (under review). Learning through prediction: a case of verb bias learning. https://psyarxiv.com/hvj4d/.

Saratsli D.*, Trice K.*, Papafragou A., & Qi Z. (under review) Pragmatics and social cognition in learning and remembering words. https://psyarxiv.com/gv4an.

Tang W., Christiansen M.H., Qi Z. (2022): Human statistical learning dynamically shapes the hippocampal processing of temporal associations. bioRxiv 2022.04.04.487009. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.04.487009

Ovans Z., Ayala A., Asmah R., Hu A., Montoute M., Van Horne A., Qi Z., Morini G., & Huang Y.T. The feasibility of online (virtual-world) eye-tracking with young children.

Qi Z., Anteraper S.A., Collin G., Nieto-Castnon A., Pasternak O., Seidman L., McCarley R.W., Li H., Zhang T., Tang Y., Xu L., Keshavan M.S., Niznikiewicz M., Stone W.S., Wang J., Shenton M.E., & Whitfield-Gabrieli S. (in revision). Resting-state connectivity analysis reveals markers of resilience to psychosis in a study on clinical high-risk youth in Shanghai.

(*: equal contribution)

Conference Presentations

Hu, A., Trice, K., Lanka, P., & Qi, Z. (2024). The changing roles of the language and attention systems in statistical learning across development. Talk presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.

Siles, B., Hu, A., Chan, K., Ciriello, A., Christiansen, M. H., & Qi, Z. (2024). Validity of a gamified statistical learning task as a measure of children’s real-world language learning. Talk presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development . Boston, MA.

Aumonier, L., Trice, K., Qi, Z., Latham, T., & Hofweber, J. (2024). How modality-specific are statistical learning processes in the context of sign languages? Comparing native signers and non-signers. Poster presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.

Weng, Y., Van Horne, A. O., & Qi, Z. (2024). Linking prediction and language learning in children: A case of verb bias. Poster presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development . Boston, MA.

Weng Y., Schneider J., & Qi Z. (2024). Developmental Differences in Tracking Probabilistic Information in Speech. Poster presented at Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning. San Sebastian, Spain.

Trice K., Chan K., Aumonier L., Hofweber J., & Qi Z. (2024). Visual Statistical Learning Across Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Domains in Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals. Poster presented at Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning. San Sebastian, Spain.

Aumonier L., Qi Z., Trice K., & Hofweber J. (2024). How modality-specific are statistical learning processes in the context of sign languages? Comparing native signers and non-signers. Poster presented at Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning. San Sebastian, Spain.

Davidson K., Liu T., Ancheta T., Hardy I. M., Kershenbaum A., Perrachione T.K., Qi Z., Gabrieli J.D.E., Tager-Flusberg H., & Zuk J. (2024). Speech timing in relation to white matter organization in autistic and non-autistic children. Poster presented at International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting. Melbourne, Australia.

Hu A., Trice K., Lanka P., & Qi Z. (2024). Children are better linguistic statistical learner than adults. Talk presented at Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning. San Sebastian, Spain.

Tang W, Lanka P., & Qi Z. (2024). Hierarchical processing among hippocampal, striatal and visual regions during implicit learning of temporal regularity. Talk presented at Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning. San Sebastian, Spain.

Tang W, Christiansen MH, & Qi Z. (2024). Learning in chunks: A model of hippocampal representations for processing temporal regularities in statistical learning. Talk presented at Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Philadelphia, PA.

Trice K., DiNardo A., Chan K., Foster V., Bilsel E., Kennedy N., Voso L., Gracia S., Montoute M., & Qi Z. (2024). Heterogeneous Patterns of Word Learning in Children with Autism. Talk presented at Meetings of Language in Autism, Durham, NC.

Hu A. & Qi Z. (2024). Accommodation to Vocal Pitch in Autistic Children. Poster presented at Meeting On Language in Autism, Durham, NC.

Hu A. & Qi Z. (2024). Contributions of Vocabulary and Theory of Mind to Word Learning Across Social Contexts in Autistic Children. Poster presented at Meeting On Language in Autism, Durham, NC.

Trice K., Di Nardino A., & Qi Z. (2023). Word Learning through Pragmatic Inference in Children with Autism: a Web-Based Eye-Tracking Study. Talk presented at Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, USA. Slides.

Hu A., Qi Z., & Franich K. (2023) Accommodation to Vocal Pitch in Children with Autism. Talk presented at International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.

Hu A., Qi Z., Redmond S., & Franich K. (2023). Accommodation to Vocal Pitch in Children with Autism. Poster presented at Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.

Schneider J.M., Fan T., Golinkoff R.M., & Qi Z. (2023). Input or uptake: statistical learning moderates the relationship between language input and vocabulary size. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Hu A., Trice K., Kozloff V., Owen Van Horne A., Chugani D., & Qi Z. (2023). Multimodal statistical learning in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Talk at Meetings of Language in Autism, Durham, NC.

Trice K., Papafragou A., & Qi Z. (2023). No advantage of pragmatic inference for vocabulary retention in children with autism. Meetings of Language in Autism, Durham, NC.

Hu A. & Qi Z. (2023). Word learning and retention from overhearing as a resilience factor for vocabulary acquisition in autistic children. Meetings of Language in Autism, Durham, NC.

Ovans Z., Ayala A., Asmah R., Hu A., Montoute M., Van Horne A., Qi Z., Morini G., & Huang Y.T. (2023). The feasibility of online (virtual-world) eye-tracking with young children. Annual Human Sentence Processing Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.

Hu A., Trice K., Yi-Lun Weng, & Qi Z. (2022). Less-is-more: A developmental fMRI study on auditory statistical learning. Talk at Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, USA.

Schneider J.M., Scott T.L., Legault J., & Qi Z. (2022). The heterogeneous engagement of the language brain regions during auditory statistical learning: an fMRI study. Society for Neurobiology of Language, Philadelphia, USA.

Hu A., Trice K., Yi-Lun Weng, & Qi Z. (2022). Greater plasticity in the language network in children than adults during statistical learning. Society for Neurobiology of Language, Philadelphia, USA.

O’Brien A., Perrachione T.K., Tager-Flusberg H., Gabrieli J.D.E., & Qi Z. (2022). Reduced phonological working memory in autism is associated with altered speech-motor engagement. Society for Neurobiology of Language, Philadelphia, USA.

Hu A., & Qi Z. (2022) Dissociated learning processes in the development of statistical learning. Talk at Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning. San Sebastian, Spain

Tang W., Christiansen M. H., & Qi Z. (2022). Human statisical learning dynamically shapes the hippocampal processing of temporal associations. Poster at International Conference on Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning, San Sebastian, Spain.

Hu A., Kozloff V., Owen Van Horne A., & Qi Z (2022). Disassociation between linguistic and nonlinguistic statistical learning in children with autism. Poster at International Conference on Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning, San Sebastian, Spain.

Schneider J., Scott L., Legault J., & Qi Z. (2022). The heterogenous engagement of the language net work during statistical learning. Poster at International Conference on Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning, San Sebastian, Spain.

Weng Y., Owen Van Horne A., & Qi Z. (2022). Prediction in verb bias learning: an individual differences approach. Talk at the Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (Virtual Conference).

Trice K., Saratsli D., Papafragou A., & Qi Z. (2021). Pragmatic inference and social cognition in acquiring (and remembering) word meanings. Talk at Boston University Conference on Language Development (Virtual Conference). Video

Tang W. & Qi Z. (2021). Autocorrelated activity in the human hippocampus encodes transition patterns during visual statistical learning. Talk at the 17th Annual Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Philadelphia, PA.

McIlvain G., Schneider J., Matyi MA., DiFabio MS., Delgorio PL., McGarry MDJ., Spielberg JM., Qi Z., Johnson CL. (2021). Regional brain mechanical properties throughout maturation from childhood to adulthood. Poster at International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Conference.

McIlvain G., Schneider J., Matyi MA., McGarry MDJ., Spielberg JM ., Qi Z., Johnson CL. (2021) . Dimorphic sex differences in brain viscoelastic properties from childhood to adulthood. Poster at OHBM 2021 Annual Meeting.

O’Brien A., Qi Z., Tager-Flusberg H., & Gabrieli JDE. (2021). Atypical neural representation of phonological working memory in children with autism. Poster at 20th International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting.

Hu A., Kozloff V., & Qi Z. (2021) Relationship between linguistic statistical learning and grammar development in children with autism spectrum disorder. Poster at SRCD Virtual Biennial Meeting.

Trice K., Hernandez M., Saratsli D., Heisler D., & Qi Z. (2021) Pragmatic inference facilitates word retention in school-aged children. Short Talk at CUNY Virtual Conference on Human Sentence Processing.

Trice K., Hernandez M., Saratsli D., Heisler D., & Qi Z. (2021) Pragmatic complexity and the development of social cognition in children’s word learning and retention. Poster at SRCD Virtual Biennial Meeting.

Tang W., & Qi Z. (2021) Temporal dynamics of visual statistical learning in the human hippocampus. Poster at Computational and Systems Neuroscience Virtual Meeting.

Weng Y-L., Schneider J.M., & Qi Z. (2020). Neural sensitivity to local and global distributional information in speech changes as a function of development. Poster at Boston University Conference on Language Development (Virtual Conference). Video

Weng Y-L., Nguyen A, Ryskin R., & Qi Z. (2020) Neural representation of syntactic prediction: a simultaneous eye-tracking and EEG study. Poster at Society for Neurobiology of Language (Virtual Conference). Video

Saratsli D., Papafragou A. & Qi Z. (2020). Social cognition and pragmatic inference in word learning. Poster at Boston University Conference on Language Development (Virtual Conference). Video

Weng Y-L., Nguyen A, Ryskin R., & Qi Z. (2020) Prediction and sentence ambiguity resolution: A simultaneous eye-tracking and EEG study Poster at Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Amherst, MA. https://osf.io/meetings/cuny2020/

Hu A., Kozloff V., & Qi Z. (2019). Multimodal Statistical Learning in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Poster at Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.

Schneider J.M., Arnon I., Nguyen A., Mendez K., & Qi Z. (2019). Does prior language experience hinder statistical learning? Poster at Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.

Schneider J.M., Weng Y-L., Kozloff V., Nguyen A., & Qi Z. (2019). Neural sensitivity to speech distributional information underlies statistical learning. Poster at the Society for Neurobiology of Language Conference, Helsinki, Finland.

Qi Z., Nguyen A., Ozernov-Palchik O., Beach S., May S., Arciuli J., & Gabrieli J.D.E. (2018). Statistical learning in reading development and reading impairment. Poster at Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.

Nguyen A., Sanchez Araujo Y., Georgan W., Arciuli J., & Qi Z. (2018). Re-examine the reliability of statistical learning tasks across domains and modalities. Poster at Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans.

Kozloff V., Nguyen A., Arciuli J., & Qi Z. (2018). Statistical learning in a noisy environment is associated with vocabulary. Poster at Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.

Mendez K., Nguyen A., Kozloff V., & Qi Z. (2018). The role of native language in statistical learning success. Poster at University of Delaware’s ninth annual Undergraduate Research and Service Scholar Celebratory Symposium, Newark, DE.

Perrachione, T.K., Babcock, S., Han, M., Salvatore, J., Minas, J., Finn, A.S., Gabrieli, J.D.E., & Qi, Z. (2018). Neural responses during procedural memory tasks are related to foreign language learning outcomes. Poster at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.

Ryskin, R., Qi, Z., Duff, M., & Brown-Schmidt, S. (2018) The effects of aging on verb bias and learning. Talk at the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, CA

Qi, Z., Han, M., Wang, Y., de los Angeles, C., Liu, Q., Garel, K., Chen, E.S., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., Gabrieli, J.D.E., & Perrachione T.K. (2017) Speech processing and plasticity in the right hemisphere predict real-world foreign language learning in adults. Poster at the Society for Neurobiology of Language, Baltimore, MD.

Qi, Z., Sanchez Araujo, Y., Georgan, W. C., Gabrieli, J.D.E., & Arciuli, J. (2017). Hearing matters more than seeing: A cross-modality study of statistical learning and reading ability. Talk at The 3rd meeting of the New England Research on Dyslexia Society, Storrs, CT.

Qi, Z. & Whitfield-Gabrieli, S. (2017) How does the restless brain inform us about the risks for psychosis? Talk at Shanghai Forum of Early Phase of Psychosis Identification and Intervention, Shanghai, China.

Ryskin, R., Qi, Z., Covinton, N., Duff, M., & Brown-Schmidt, S. (2017) Knowledge and Learning of Verb Biases in Amnesia. Poster at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Cambridge, MA.

Ryskin, R., Qi, Z., Duff, M., & Brown-Schmidt, S. (2017) Syntactic variability between and within speakers: When to adapt, when to generalize? Talk at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Cambridge, MA.

Qi, Z., Han, M., Minas, J., Finn, A. S., & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2017) Cortical plasticity of sentence processing after classroom-based language training experience. Poster at Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

QLAB

Language Acquisition and Brain Laboratory