Culture, ethnicity, and adolescent development; the role of non-parental adults in adolescent development; brain imaging of language and mathematical learning; culture and creativity; methodological issues in cross-cultural research; evolution, genes, and behavior.
Recent Publications
Chen, C., Xue, G., Mei, L., Chen, Chunhui, & Dong, Q. (in press). Cultural neurolinguistics. In J. Chiao (Ed.), Progress in Brain Research, (Vol. 178).
Zhu, Bi, Chen, C., Loftus, E., Lin, C., & Dong, Q. (in press). Treat and trick: A new way to increase false memory. Applied Cognitive Psychology.
Chang, E. S., Greenberger, E., Chen, C., Heckhausen, J., & Farruggia, S. (in press). Non-parental adults as social resources in the transition to adulthood. Journal of Research on Adolescence.
Xue, G., Chen, C., Lu, Z., & Dong, Q. (in press). Brain imaging techniques and their applications in decision-making research. Acta Psychologica Sinica.
Lu, C., Peng, D., Chen, C., Ning, N., Ding, G., Li, K., Yang, Y., & Lin, C. (in press). Altered effective connectivity and anomalous anatomy in the basal ganglia-thalamocortical circuit of stuttering speakers. Cortex.
Chung, W., Chen, C., Greenberger, E., & Heckhausen, J. (2009). A cross-ethnic study of adolescents’ depressed mood and the erosion of parental and peer warmth during the transition to young adulthood. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 19, 249-271.
Lessard, J., Greenberger, E., & Chen, C. (2008). Adolescents’ response to parental efforts to influence eating habits: When parental warmth matters. Journal of Youth and Adolescence.
Dmitrieva, J. Chen, C., & Greenberger, E. (2008). Whither the “whiz kids” went: Asian American students’ transition to college. In G. Li and L. Wang (Eds.), Model minority myths revisited: An interdisciplinary approach to demystifying Asian American education experiences. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
Xue, G., Zeng, F., & Chen, C. (2008). Language. In Han, J. et al. (eds.), Neuroscience (third edition, in Chinese) (pp. 939-964). Beijing, China: Peking University Medical Press.
Greenberger, E., Lessard, J., Chen, C., & Farruggia, S. P. (2008). Self-Entitled College Students: Contributions of Personality, Parenting, and motivation factors. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 37, 1193-1204.
Xue, G., Jiang, T., Chen, C., & Dong, Q. (2008). Language experience shapes early electrophysiological response to visual stimulus: The effects of writing systems, stimulus length, and presentation duration. NeuroImage, 39, 2025-2037.
Dong, Q., Mei, L., Xue, G., Chen, C., Li, T., Xue, F., & Huang, S. (2008). Sex-dependent neurofunctional predictors of long-term maintenance of visual word learning. Neuroscience Letters, 430, 87-91.
Mei, L., Chen, C., Xue, G., He, Q., Li, T., Xue, F., Yang, Q., & Dong, Q. (2008). Neural predictors of auditory word learning. NeuroReport, 19, 215-219.
Zhou, X., Chen, C., Chen, L., & Dong, Q. (2008). Holistic or compositional representation of two-digit numbers: Evidence from distance, magnitude, and SNARC effects in a number-matching task. Cognition, 106, 1525-1536.
Mei, L., Li, Y., Long, Y., Chen, C., & Dong, Q. (2008). The impact of material presentation mode on English verbal memory among Chinese children with and without formal music training. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 40, 883-888.
Mei, L., Li, Y., Huang, S., Xue, G., Chen, C., & Dong, Q. (2008). Age effect on a short-term training in discriminating a non-native phonemic contrast. Psychological Development and Education (China), (3), 89-93.
Chen, C., Xue, G., Jin, Z., & Dong, Q. (2007). Sex determines neurofunctional predictors of language learning proficiency. Neuropsychologia, 45, 741-747.
Zhou, X., Chen, Chunhui, Zhang, H., Chen, C., Zhou, R., & Dong, Q. (2007). The operand-order effect in single-digit multiplication: An ERP study of Chinese adults. Neuroscience Letters, 414, 41-44.
Wang, Y., Xue, G., Chen, C., Xue, F., & Dong, Q. (2007). Neural bases of asymmetric language switching in second-language learners: An ER-fMRI study. NeuroImage, 35, 862-870.
Zhou, X., Chen, Chuansheng., Zang, Y., Dong, Q., Chen, Chunhui, Qiao, S., & Gong, Q. (2007). Dissociated brain organization for single-digit addition and multiplication. NeuroImage, 35, 871-880.
Chen, Chunhui, Zhou, X., Chen, C., Dong, Q., Zang, Y., Qiao, S., Yang, T., & Gong, Q. (2007). The neural basis of processing anomalous information. NeuroReport, 18, 747-751.
Guo, X., Chen, C., Chen, K., Jin, Z., Peng, D., & Yao, L. (2007). Brain development in Chinese children and adolescents: A structural MRI study. NeuroReport, 18, 875-880.
Zhou, X., Chen, Y., Chen, C., Zhang, H., Jiang, T., & Dong, Q. (2007). Chinese kindergarteners’ automatic processing of numerical magnitude. Memory and Cognition, 35, 464-470.
Kasof, J., Chen, C., Himsel, A., & Greenberger, E. (2007). Values and creativity. Creativity Research Journal, 19, 105-122.
Chen, C., Himsel, A., Kasof, J., Greenberger, E., & Dmitrieva, J. (2006). Correlates of domain-general and domain-specific components of creativity. Journal of Creative Behavior, 40, 179-199.
Dong, Q., Tao, S., Li, B., Wang, W., & Chen, C. (2006). English classes without English teachers: the Pan Deng English Learning Program. Q. Jing, M. R. Rosenzweig, G. d'Ydewalle, H. Zhang, H. Chen, & K. Zhang (Eds.), Progress in Psychological Science around the World.Volume 1 Neural, Cognitive and Developmental Issues. Proceedings of the 28th International Congress of Psychology (pp. 51-70). Psychology Press.
Chang, E., Chen, C., Greenberger, E., Dooley, D., & Heckhausen, J. (2006). What do they want in life? The life goals of a multi-ethnic, multi-generational sample of high school seniors. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 35, 321-332.
Farruggia, S., Greenberger, E., Chen, C., & Heckhausen, J. (2006). Perceived social environment and adolescent well-being and adjustment: Comparing a foster care sample with a matched sample. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 35, 349-358.
Xue, G., Chen, C., Jin, Z., & Dong, Q. (2006). Cerebral asymmetry in the fusiform areas predicted the efficiency of learning a new writing system. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 923-931.
Zhou, X., Chen, C., Zhang, H., Xue, G., Dong, Q., Jin, Z., Zhang, L., Peng, C., Zhao, H., Gou, Y., Jiang, T., & Chen, Chunhui. (2006). Neural substrates for forward and backward recitation of numbers and the alphabet: A close examination of the role of intraparietal sulcus and persylvian areas. Brain Research, 1099, 109-120.
Zhou, X., Chen, C., Zhang, H., Zhou, R., Zhao, H., Chen, Chunhui, Qiao, S., Jiang, T., Guo, Y., & Dong, Q. (2006). Event-related potentials of single-digit addition, subtraction, and multiplication. Neuropsychologia, 44, 2500-2507.
Liu, L., Peng, D., Ding, G., Jin, Z., Zhang, L., Li, K., & Chen, C. (2006) Dissociation in the neural bases of Chinese tone and vowel production. NeuroImage, 29, 515-523.
Zhou, X., Chen, C., Dong, Q., Zhang, H., Chen, Chunhui, Qiao, S., Zhao, H., Jiang, T., & Guo, Y. (2006). Numerical distance effect in the N240 component in a number-matching task. NeuroReport, 17, 991-994.
Xue, G., Chen, C., Jin, Z., & Dong, Q. (2006). Language experience shapes fusiform activation: A training study. NeuroImage, 31, 1315-1326.