YANG Siqin​​

YANG Siqin, born in Xinhuang, Hunan Province, holds a Bachelor of Arts in Chinese Language and Literature from the Experimental Class for Humanities at Tsinghua University. She subsequently earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua University. From 2022 to 2024, she served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Liberal Arts, Renmin University of China. Since 2025, she has been working as an Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Her primary research interests lie in experimental linguistics and psycholinguistics, with a specific focus on Chinese syntactic studies and cross-language interactions.

E-mail: yangsq@mail.cass.org.cn

Major Publications

1.Yang, S. Q., Jiang, M. H. (2024). Second language activation in native language word recognition among Chinese Japanese learners. Foreign Language Teaching and Research, 56(4), 594-606. (CSSCI)

2.Yang, S. Q., Jiang, S. Y, Jiang, M. H, & Guo, Q. (2024). Lexical pathway from L2 to L1 activation in intermediate proficient bilinguals: behavioral and ERP evidence. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2024.1270377. (SCI, Q2)

3.Yang, S. Q., Jiang, M. H. (2024). Cross-Language activation pathways based on word recognition ERP data: from second language to native language. Journal of Chinese Information Processing, 38(4), 28-37. (CCF_T1 | PKU Core | CSCD)

4.Yang, S. Q., Jiang, M. H. (2024). Analysis of and reflections on the bilingual lexical activation model. Tsinghua Studies in Linguistics (Vol. 5), 291-306.

5.Yang, S. Q., Jiang, M. H. (2022). Semantic and syntactic processing of Chinese [S + V + O] simple sentence structures—ERPs evidence. Journal of Tsinghua University (Science and Technology), 62(12), 2053-2060. (CSCD_JCR Q1)

6.Yang, S. Q., Cai, Y. Y., Xie, W., & Jiang, M. H. (2021). Semantic and syntactic processing during comprehension: ERP evidence from Chinese QING structure. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.701923. (SCI, Q2)

7.Yang, S. Q., Zhang, X. C., & Jiang, M. H. (2021). Bilingual brains learn to use L2 alliterations covertly like poets: Brain ERP evidence. Frontiers in Psychology, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.691846. (SSCI, Q1)

8.Yang, S. Q., Zhang, X. C., & Jiang, M. H. (2021). Reading literary fiction affects face emotion recognition: An ERP Evidence. Journal of Chinese Information Processing, 35(9), 94-101. (CCF_T1 | PKU Core | CSCD)

9.Yang, S. Q., Xu, W. Y., Jiang, M. H., & Zhang, X. C. (2020). The Difference of Cognitive Processing Between Phonetic Puns and Semantic Puns in Chinese: An ERP Evidence. Journal of Chinese Information Processing, 34(1), 1-9. (CCF_T1 | PKU Core | CSCD)

10.Zhang, X., Yang, S., & Jiang, M. (2020). Rapid implicit extraction of abstract orthographic patterns of Chinese characters during reading. Plos One, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32084247. (SCI, Q1)

Conference Presentations                                                                                                                                                                                            

2024

   The 23rd China National Conference on Computational Linguistics (CCL 2024)

   Presented: Effects of L2 Experience on Native Language Processing Across Different Linguistic Modes

2023

   The 22nd China National Conference on Computational Linguistics (CCL 2023)

   Presented: Cross-language Activation Pathways from L2 to L1: ERP Evidence from Lexical Recognition

2021

   The 13th National Conference on Cognitive Science & 7th China and World Cognitive Science Conference

   Presented: Semantic and Syntactic Processing in Comprehension: ERP Evidence from Chinese "Qing"-Structures

2019

   The 11th National Conference on Cognitive Science & 5th China and World Cognitive Science Conference

   Presented: Cognitive Neural Processing Differences Between Homophonic and Semantic Puns in Chinese

   The 18th China National Conference on Computational Linguistics (CCL 2019)

   Presented: Neural Dissociation of Homophonic vs. Semantic Puns in Chinese: ERP Evidence

2018

   The 10th National Conference on Cognitive Science & 4th China and World Cognitive Science Conference

   Presented: Impact of Reading Literary Fiction on Facial Emotion Recognition

Publications                                                                                            

   2022, Member of the Editorial Committee, Language, Brain Evolution and Cognition (Brain Science and Cognitive Science Series)

   2019, Member of the Editorial Committee, ERP Brain Cognition in Language (Brain Science and Cognitive Science Series)

Research Grants                                                                                          

   2024–2025, Principal Investigator, General Funding Program (Batch 75), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2024M753591)

   2021–2025, Participant, Key Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China: Cognitive Mechanisms and Computational Modeling of Language Comprehension (Grant No. 62036001)

   2015–2020, Participant, Major Project of National Social Science Fund of China: Neural Mechanisms of Non-literal Language Processing in Chinese (Grant No. 14ZDB154)

   2015–2019, Participant, Key Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China: Cognitive Processing Mechanisms and Computational Models for Chinese (Grant No. 61433015)