Chang Jiang Professor of Psychology of the State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning

IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Beijing Normal University

The Youth Council (Honorary)——Yanchao BI

Yanchao Bi is a ChangJiang professor in IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research and the State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, at Beijing Normal University. She received her PhD from the Department of Psychology, Harvard University in 2006. Her current work focuses on the study of functional and neural architecture associated with semantic memory and language, using cognitive, neuropsychological and neuroimaging methods. Her work is funded by ministry of science and technology (973project) and national science foundation of China. She serves on the editorial board of several Journals including Cognition, Neurobiology of Language, Cognitive Neuropsychology, was a Sackler scholar of psychophysiology and a Fulbright scholar, and was listed as a rising star in the Observer by the American psychological association.