Culture, ethnicity, and adolescent development; the role of non-parental adults in adolescent development; brain imaging of language and mathematical learning; evolution, genes, and behavior.
Web Links of Research Sites
- Laboratory for Socio-Cultural Research on Adolescent and Young Adult Development
- The Brain and Behavior Lab
- Research Opportunities (Undergraduate)
Recent Publications (since 2011)
For the complete list, please download my CV above or go to: http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/cschen/publications/)
In press
Chen, M., Xu, Z., Zhai, J., Bao, X., Zhang, Q., Gu, H., Shen, Q., Cheng, L., Chen, X., Wang, K., Deng, X., Ji, F., Liou, C., Li, J., Dong, Q., Chen, C. (in press). Evidence of IQ-modulated association between ZNF804A gene polymorphism and cognitive function in schizophrenia patients. Neuropsychopharmacology.
Zhang, H., Chen, C., & Zhou, X. (in press). Neural correlates of numbers and mathematical terms. NeuroImage.
Lu, C., Chen, C., Peng, D., You, W., Zhang, X., Ding, G., Deng, X., Yan, Q., & Howell, P. (in press). Neural anomaly and reorganization in speakers who stutter: a short-term intervention study. Neurology.
Lam, B. T., Chen, C., & Greenberger, E. (in press). The important roles of non-parental adults in Vietnamese-American adolescents’ cultural and socioemotional development. Journal of Social Work and Mental Health.
Wei, W., Lu, H., Zhao, H., Chen, C., Dong, Q., & Zhou, X. (in press). Gender differences in children’s arithmetic performance are accounted for by gender differences in language abilities. Psychological Science.
Shane, J., Heckhausen, J., Lessard, J., Chen, C., & Greenberger, E. (in press). Career-related goal pursuit among post-high school youth: relations between personal control beliefs and control strivings. Motivation and Emotion.
Zhang, H., Chang, K., Zhang, F., Greenberger, E., & Chen, C. (in press). Mental health problems and coping styles of urban and rural high school students in China. Journal of Community Psychology.
Zhu, B., Chen, Chuansheng, Loftus, E., He, Q., Chen, Chunhui, Lei, X., Lin, C., & Dong, Q. (in press). Brief exposure to misinformation can lead to long-term false memory propensity. Applied Cognitive Psychology.
Lei, X., Chen, Chuansheng, He, Q., Moyzis, R., Xue, G., Chen, Chunhui, Cao, Z., Li, Jin, Li, H., Zhu, B., Zhang, M., Li, Jun, & Dong. Q. (in press). Haplotype polymorphism in the alpha-2b-adrenergic receptor gene influences response inhibition in a large Chinese sample. Neuropsychopharmacology.
Zhai, J., Cheng, L., Zhang, Q., Shen, Q., Chen, M., Chen, X., Wang, K., Deng, X., Xu, Z., Ji, F., Liu, C., Li, J., Dong, Q., & Chen, C. (in press). S100B gene polymorphisms predict prefrontal spatial function in both schizophrenia patients and healthy individuals. Schizophrenia Research.
Davis, E. L., Greenberger, E., Charles, S. T., & Chen, C. (in press). Emotion experience and regulation in China and the United States: How do culture and gender shape emotion responding? International Journal of Psychology
Chang, K., Xia, Y., Zhang, H., & Chen, C. (in press). Testing the effectiveness of the Knowledge and Behavior (K&B) Therapy in patients of hemiplegic stroke. Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation.
Xue, G., Chen, C., Mei, L., Lu, Z., & Dong. Q. (in press). The cognitive neuroscience of learning to read. In Lou, Y. & Lu, Z. (Eds.). Cognitive Neuroscience.
Lessard, J., Greenberger, E., & Chen, C. (in press). Self-entitlement. In Levesque, R. J. R. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Youth Development.
2011
Chen, Chunhui, Chen, Chuansheng, Moyzis, R., Dong, Q., He, Q., Zhu, B., Li, Jin, Li, Jun, & Lessard, J. (2011). Sex modulates the associations between the COMT gene and personality traits. Neuropsychopharmacology. 36, 1593–1598.
Wan, Q., Chen, C., Wu, C., & Qian, X. (2011). Repetition benefit in mental rotation is independent of stimulus repetition. Memory and Cognition. Doi:10.3758/s13421-010-0061-0.
Zhang, Y., Haddad, E., Torres, B., & Chen, C. (2011). The reciprocal relationships among parents’ expectations, adolescents’ expectations, and adolescents’ achievement: A two-wave longitudinal analysis of the NELS data. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. 40, 479–489. DOI 10.1007/s10964-010-9568-8
Zhang, M., Jiang, T., Mei, L., Yang, H., Chen, C., Xue, G., & Dong, Q. (2011). It’s a word: Early electrophysiological response to the character likeness of pictographs. Psychophysiology, 48, 950–959. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2010.01153.x.
Germo, G., Farruggia, S., Greenberger, E., & Chen, C. (2011). Adolescents in foster care and their attachment-security to significant others: a one-year longitudinal study. In J. Jaworski (Ed.), Advances in sociology research, Vol. 8 (pp.131-150). Huntington, NY: Nova Science Publishers. Also in A. M. Colombus (Ed.), Advances in psychology research, Vol. 73 (pp.131-150). Huntington, NY: Nova Science Publishers.
Haddad, E., Chen, C., & Greenberger, E. (2011). The role of important non-parental adults (VIPs) in the lives of older adolescents: A comparison of three ethnic groups. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. 40:310–319. DOI 10.1007/s10964-010-9543-4
Lessard, J., Greenberger, E., Chen, C., & Farruggia, S. (2011). Are youths’ feelings of entitlement always “bad”?: Evidence for a distinction between exploitive and non-exploitive dimensions of entitlement. Journal of Adolescence, 34, 521–529. doi:10.1016/j.adolescence.2010.05.014
Xue, G., Mei, L., Chen, C., Lu, Z., Poldrack, R. A., & Dong, Q. (2011). Spaced learning enhances subsequent recognition memory by reducing neural repetition suppression. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23. 1624–1633.
Li, Jin, Chen, Chuansheng, Chen, Chunhui, He, Q., Li, H., Li, Jun, Moyzis, R., Xue, G., & Dong. Q. (2011). Neurotensin receptor 1 gene (NTSR1) polymorphism is associated with working memory. Plos ONE, 6 (3) e17365 . doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0017365.t001.
Chen, Chunhui, Chen, Chuansheng, Moyzis, R., Dong, Q., He, Q., Li, H., Li, J., Lessard, J., & Stern, H. (in press, 2011). Genetic variations in the dopaminergic system and alcohol use: A multiple regression approach. Addiction Biology. doi:10.1111/j.1369-1600.2011.00348.x
Yu, X., Chen, C., Pu, S., Wu, C., Li, Y., Jiang, T., & Zhou, X. (in press, 2011). Dissociation of subtraction and multiplication in the right parietal cortex: Evidence from intraoperative cortical electrostimulation. Neuropsychologia. DOI:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.06.015.
Zhang, Q., Shen, Q., Xu, Z., Chen, M., Cheng, L., Zhai, J., Gu, H., Bao, X., Chen, X., Wang, K., Deng, X., Ji, F., Liu, C., Li, J., Dong, Q., & Chen, C. (in press, 2011). The effects of CACNA1C gene polymorphism on spatial working memory in both healthy controls and patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. Neuropsychopharmacology.1-8.
Wei, W., Yuan, H., Chen, C., & Zhou, X. (in press, 2011). Cognitive correlates of performance in advanced mathematics. British Journal of Educational Psychology. DOI:10.1111/j.2044-8279.2011.02049.x
Zhou, F., Zhao, Q., Chen, C., & Zhou, X. (2011). Mental representations of arithmetic facts: evidence from eye movement recordings supports the preferred operand-order-specific representation hypothesis. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, DOI10.1080/17470218.2011.616213.
Zhu, B., Chen, C., Moyzis, R.K., Dong,Q., Chen, C., He, Q., Stern, H.S., Li, H., Li, Jin, Li, Jun, Lessard, J., & Lin, C. (2011). Genetic variations in the dopamine system and facial expression recognition in healthy Chinese college students. Neuropsychobiology.DOI: 10.1159/000329555
Chen, Chunhui, Chen, Chuansheng, Moyzis, R., Stern, H. He, Q., Li, H., Li, J., Zhu, B., & Dong, Q. (2011). Contributions of dopamine-related genes and environmental factors to highly sensitive personality: A multi-step neuronal system-level approach. PLoS ONE, 6(7), e21636.
Zhou, X., Booth, J. R., Lu, J., Zhao, H., Butterworth, B., Chen, C., Dong, Q. (2011). Age-independent and age-dependent neural substrate for single-digit multiplication and addition arithmetic problems. Developmental Neuropsychology, 36, 338-352. DOI: 10.1080/87565641.2010.549873
Zhai, J., Zhang, Q., Cheng, L., Chen, M., Wang, K., Liu, Y., Deng, X., Chen, X., Shen, Q., Xu, Z., Ji, F., Liu, C., Dong, Q., Chen, C., & Li, J. (2011). Risk variants in the S100B gene, associated with elevated S100B levels, are also associated with visuospatial disability of schizophrenia. Behavioural Brain Research, 217, 363-368.