Zhenghan Qi, MD, PhD

Papers

• Ovans Z., Ayala A., Asmah R., Hu A., Montoute M., Van Horne A., Qi Z., Morini G., & Huang Y.T. (2025). The feasibility of online (virtual-world) eye-tracking with young children. Open Mind.
• Trice K., Saratsli D., Papafragou A., & Qi Z. (2025). The unforgettable “mel”: Pragmatic inferences affect how children acquire and remember word meanings. Developmental Science. 28(3): e70013. DOI: 10.1111/desc.70013.
• Davison K., Liu T., Belisle R.M., Perrachione T., Qi Z., Gabrieli J.D.E., Tager-Flusburg H., Zuk J. (2025). Right-hemispheric white matter organization is associated with speech timing in autistic children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. DOI: 10.1044/2025_JSLHR-24-00548.
• Collin G, Goldenberg J. E., Chang X., Qi Z., Whitfield-Gabrieli S., Cahn W., Wang J., Stone W.S., Keshavan M.S., Shenton M.E. (2025). Brain markers of resilience to psychosis in high-Risk individuals: a systematic review and label-based meta-analysis of multimodal MRI Studies. Brain Sciences. 15, 314. DOI: 10.3390/brainsci15030314
• 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.
• 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 and selective engagement of mature language network during linguistic statistical learning. Cerebral Cortex. 34(4), bhae123. DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhae123.
• Zinszer B.D., Hannon J., Hu A., Kouadio E., Akpé H., Tanoh F., Wang M.L., *Qi Z., & *Jasinska K. (2024) Statistical learning in children’s emergent L2 literacy in rural Côte d’Ivoire. Developmental Science. 27(5): e13448. DOI: 10.1111/desc.13448.
• 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
• 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. 73(4): 1039-1086. DOI: 10.1111/lang.12603.
• 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.
• 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):119590. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119590.
• 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 [Pre-print]
• Earle F.S. & Qi Z. (2022). Overnight changes to dual-memory processes reflected in speech-perceptual performance. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. 84: 231-243. DOI: 10.3758/s13414-021-02418-7
• Zinszer B.D., Hannon J., Kouadio É., Akpé H., Tanoh F., Hu A., Qi Z., & Jasińska K. (2021, October 12). Does non-linguistic segmentation still predict literacy in an L2 education? Statistical learning in Ivorian primary schools. Language Learning. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/FTHWC
• 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. 47(5):1421-1430.
• 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 (2020)
• 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, & Cognition. 46(10): 1922-1947. DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000886.
• 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.
• Collin G., Seidman J.L., Keshavan M.S., Stone W.S., Qi Z., Zhang T., Tang Y., Li H., Anteraper S., Niznikiewicz M., McCarley R., 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. DOI: 10.1038/s41380-018-0288-x
• 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 the right hemisphere predict real-world foreign language learning in adults. NeuroImage. 192: 76-87. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.03.008
• 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. 23:1, 101-115. DOI: 10.1080/10888438.2018.148568.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Hu Z.L, Huang Y., Tao X.R., Qi Z., Chen J.Y., & Ding Y.Q. (2012). Inducible Prrxl1-CreERT2 recombination activity in the somatosensory afferent pathway. Genesis. 50(7): 552-560.
• 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.
• 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.
• Qi Z., Gold P.E. (2009) Intrahippocampal infusions of anisomycin produce amnesia: contribution of increased release of norepinephrine, dopamine and acetylcholine. Learning & Memory. 16(5): 308-314.
• Qi Z., Jiang W., & Fang C., (2006) Neurogenesis in substantia nigra of adult brain: retrospect and prospect. Chinese Journal of Clinical Neurosciences. 14 (1): 97-101

Dissertation

• Qi Z. (2012) Neurocognitive plasticity of verb bias learning in children and adults.

Manuscripts under review:

• Hu A., Trice K., Lanka P., & Qi Z. (submitted). Fast and flexible: greater neural plasticity in the language network during implicit linguistic learning in children than adults. https://psyarxiv.com/dprqe/.
• Trice K. & Qi Z. (submitted). From encoding to remembering: Pragmatic inferences reveal distinct routes of word learning in autistic children.
• Tang W., Christiansen M.H., & Qi Z. (under review). Human statistical learning dynamically shapes the hippocampal processing of temporal associations. bioRxiv 2022.04.04.487009.
• Weng Y-L., Owen Van Horne A., & Qi Z. (2023). Learning through prediction: a case of verb bias learning. https://psyarxiv.com/hvj4d/.
• *Trice K., *Saratsli D., Papafragou A., & Qi Z. (2023) Pragmatics and social cognition in learning and remembering words. https://psyarxiv.com/gv4an. 

Conference Presentations

[*: conference talks; **: peer-reviewed conference presentations; †: student presentations]

• *Hu A., Trice K., Weng Y-L., & Qi Z. (2023) The neurobiology of auditory statistical learning is more domain-specific early in life. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA. (Part of the Symposium: Can’t stop won’t stop: Statistical learning persists through development, brain damage and competing demands)
• *†Hu A., Trice K., Weng Y-L., & Qi Z. (2022) Greater plasticity in the language network in children than adults during statistical learning. Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
• *Hu A., & Qi Z. (2022) Dissociated learning processes in the development of statistical learning. Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning. San Sebastian, Spain
• †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., & Qi Z. (2022). Greater plasticity in language network in children than adults during statistical learning. Society for Neurobiology of Language, Philadelphia, USA.
• †Tak K., Henderson J., Torre G-A. A., Kapadia A.M., Qi Z., Gabrieli J.D.E., Tager-Flusberg H., & Perrachione T.K. (2022). Morphology of the posterior superior temporal plane and language abilities in autism. 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.
• *† 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, Santa Barbara, CA.
• * Tang W. & Qi Z. (2021) Autocorrelated activity in the human hippocampus encodes transition patterns during visual statistical learning. Talk at 17th Annual Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Philadelphia, PA.
• *† 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, Boston, MA.
• *Qi Z., Legault J., Weng Y-L., Hu, A., Schneider J., Kozloff V., & Robbins P. (2021) Multimodal investigation of neural correlates of auditory statistical learning in children with ASD. Symposium of characterizing and predicting the language profiles in children with autism through rich datasets. International Association for the Study of Child Language, Philadelphia, PA

• *Qi Z., Saratsli D., & Papafragou A. (2021) The Role of social cognition in word learning: meaning retention and pragmatic inferences. Talk at the Annual Meeting of Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, CA.

• **† 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., Schneider J., & 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 presented 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 presented at Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
• Schneider J.M., Weng Y., Kozloff V., Nguyen A., & Qi Z. (2019). Neural sensitivity to speech distributional information underlies statistical learning. Poster presented at the 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 presented 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 presented 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 presented at Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
• Qi Z., Campbell U., & Whitfield-Gabrieli S. (2018). Modulation of resting-state connectivity and working memory in adults with high schizotypal characteristics. Poster presented at Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Singapore.
• Qi Z., Tang Y., Zhang T., Cui H., Woodberry K.A., McCarley R.W., Shenton M.E., Li H., Stone W., Keshavan M., Wang J., Seidman L.J., & Whitfield-Gabrieli S. (2018). Atypical development of dorsal-posterior insula network in clinical high-risk patients of schizophrenia in Shanghai. Poster presented at Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Singapore.
• 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 presented 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 presented 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 presented 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 presented 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 presented 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 presented 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 presented 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 presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
• ^†Sanchez Araujo, Y., Georgan, W. C., Qi Z., Arciuli J., & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2016) Developing sensitive measures of statistical learning for school-age children. Poster presented at Psychonomics Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
• Qi, Z., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., Tang, Y., Zhang, T., Cui, H., McCarley, R., Shenton, M., Li, H., Wang, J., & Seidman, L. (2016). Association between language functional network and attenuated psychotic symptoms in clinical high-risk psychosis patients in Shanghai. Poster presented at Society for Neurobiology of Language, London, UK.
• Qi, Z., Sanchez, Y., de los Angeles, C., Harris, A., Wisman Weil, L., Halverson, K., Goetz, C., Han, M., Perrachione, T.K., Kjelgaard, M., Wexler, K., Tager-Flusberg, H., & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2016). Neural development of phonological working memory: interplay between language and memory systems. Poster presented at Society for Neurobiology of Language, London, UK.
• Han, M., Qi, Z., Thompson, T., Garel, K., Chen, ES., Yendiki, A., & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2016) White-matter plasticity of adult language learning. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York, NY
• **Ryskin, R., Qi, Z., Duff, M., & Brown-Schmidt, S. (2016) Constraints on adaptation to syntactic variability between and within speakers. Poster presented at CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Gainesville, FL
• *Qi, Z., Pantazis, D., de los Angeles, C., Perrachione, T.K., & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2015) Sensitivity to speech distributional information in children with autism: a MEG study. Talk presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, Shanghai, China
• Qi, Z., Lu, C., Harris, A., Wisman Weil, L, Han, M., Halverson, K., Perrachione, T.K., Kjelgaard, M., Wexler, K., Tager-Flusberg, H, & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2015). Transdiagnositic neural bases for phonological deficits across ASD and reading disability. Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, Shanghai, China
• Qi, Z., Lu, C., Harris, A., Wisman Weil, L., Han, M., Halverson, K., Perrachione, T.K., Kjelgaard, M., Wexler, K., Tager-Flusberg, H, & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2015). Transdiagnostic neural substrates for impaired phonological working memory across reading disability and autism. Poster presented at the Society for Neurobiology of Language, Chicago, IL
• Qi, Z., Pantazis, D., de los Angeles, C., Perrachione, T.K., & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2015) Sensitivity to speech distributional information in children with autism: a MEG study. Poster presented at the Society for Neurobiology of Language, Chicago, IL
• Beach, S.D., Qi, Z., Finn, A.S., Minas, J., Goetz, C., Chan, B., Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2015) Language learning efficacy in adults is predicted by the electrophysiological markers of native-language processing. Poster presented at the Society for Neurobiology of Language, Chicago, IL
• **Qi, Z., Pantazis, D., de los Angeles, C., Perrachione, T.K., & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2015) Sensitivity to speech distributional information in children with autism. Poster presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA
• Qi, Z., Lu, C., Harris, A., Wisman Weil, L., Han, M., Halverson, K., Perrachione, T.K., Kjelgaard, M., Wexler, K., Tager-Flusberg, T, & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2015). Transdiagnostic neural substrate for impaired phonological working memory across reading disability and autism spectrum disorder. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL
• Ryskin, R., Qi, Z., & Brown-Schmidt, S. (2015). Rapid learning of a verb bias. Poster presented at the Psychonomics Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
• Han, M., Qi, Z., Lu, C., Halverson, K., Wisman Weil, L., Kjelgaard, M., Tager-Flusberg, T., Wexler, K., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2015). Structural bases of language-impairment in children with autism. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, MA
• Qi, Z., Wang, Y., Liu, Q., de los Angeles, C., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2014). Foreign language learning experience enhances inter-hemispheric functional connectivity. Poster presented at the Biennial Conference on Resting State / Brain Connectivity. Boston, MA.
• Qi, Z., Finn, A., Ghosh, S., Minas, J., Chan, B., & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2014). Temporal dynamics of EEG topographic similarity during successful language learning. Poster presented at the Society for Neurobiology of Language, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• Qi, Z., Perrachione, T.K., Han, M., Garel, K., Chen, E., Finn, A., & Gabrieli J.D.E. (2014). Functional brain imaging predicts foreign language learning success in the classroom. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA
• Han, M., Qi, Z., Murtagh, J., Garel, K., Chen, E., & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2014). White matter integrity predicts adult second language learning outcomes. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA
• **Brown-Schmidt, S., Qi, Z., & Duff, M. (2014). Contributions of hippocampal-dependent declarative memory to on-line processing of global syntactic ambiguity. Poster presented at the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Columbus, OH
• Qi, Z., Perrachione, T. K., Harris, A., Ostrovskaya, I., Beach, S., Halverson, K., Cyr, A., Sher, K., Kjelgaard, M., Gabrieli, J.D.E., Wexler, K., & Tager-Flusberg T. (2013). Neural signatures of phonological working memory and grammatical processing in autism spectrum disorders. Poster presented at Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA
• *Qi, Z. & Fisher, C.L. (2013) Learning new linguistic information about familiar verbs in 5-year-olds and adults. Talk presented at Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, WA
• **Qi, Z. & Garnsey, S.M (2012) Individual difference in verb bias learning: an ERP study. Poster presented at the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, New York, NY.
• *Qi, Z., Garnsey, S.M. (2012) Neurocognitive plasticity in verb bias learning: an ERP study. Talk presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Chicago, IL.
• *Qi, Z., Fisher, C.L., & Brown-Schmidt, S. (2011) On recovering from ‘kindergarten path’ errors: referential context and executive functioning influence children’s online ambiguity resolution. Talk presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Paris, France.
• Qi, Z. & Garnsey, S. (2011) Learning structural biases of novel verbs: an ERP study. Poster presented at Society for Neurobiology of Language, Annapolis, MD.
• Qi, Z., Jackson, S.R., & Garnsey, S.M. (2010) The left hemisphere knows more about verbs (in most people), Poster presented at Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
• *Qi, Z., Yuan, S., & Fisher, C.L. (2010) Where does verb bias come from: Experience with particular verbs affects online sentence processing. Talk presented at Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.