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Guosheng Ding is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has a research focus spanning neuroscience and psychology, with particular emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and developmental and educational psychology. Their work addresses various aspects of brain function related to language, reading, and neural connectivity.

The scientist's research covers several key topics, including:

  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Neural dynamics and brain function

Guosheng Ding has contributed extensively to the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with a total of 61 publications focused on neuroscience and 22 on psychology. Their subfields include cognitive neuroscience (55 publications), developmental and educational psychology (11 publications), social psychology (8 publications), statistics and probability (7 publications), and neurology (5 publications).

The scientist has published research in several prominent venues, with multiple contributions in:

  • Brain Structure and Function
  • NeuroImage
  • Neuropsychologia
  • eLife
  • Cerebral Cortex

Recent notable papers include:

  • "Affiliative bonding between teachers and students through interpersonal synchronisation in brain activity" (2020, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience)
  • "A universal reading network and its modulation by writing system and reading ability in French and Chinese children" (2020, eLife)
  • "The cerebellum and cognition: further evidence for its role in language control" (2022, Cerebral Cortex)
  • "Reading across writing systems: A meta-analysis of the neural correlates for first and second language reading" (2021, Bilingualism Language and Cognition)
  • "Intrinsic Cerebro-Cerebellar Functional Connectivity Reveals the Function of Cerebellum VI in Reading-Related Skills" (2020, Frontiers in Psychology)

Guosheng Ding frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Hehui Li
  • Lanfang Liu
  • Chunming Lu
  • Xiangzhi Meng
  • Manli Zhang

Best Publications

  • Leader emergence through interpersonal neural synchronization

    Jing Jiang;Chuansheng Chen;Bohan Dai;Guang Shi;Guang Shi

  • Language proficiency modulates the engagement of cognitive control areas in multilinguals

    Jubin Abutalebi;Jubin Abutalebi;Pasquale A. Della Rosa;Guosheng Ding;Brendan Weekes

  • The nature of the mental representation of radicals in Chinese: a priming study.

    Guosheng Ding;Danling Peng;Marcus Taft

  • Specialization of phonological and semantic processing in Chinese word reading

    James Booth;Dong Lu;Douglas D. Burman;Tai Li Chou

  • Structural plasticity of the left caudate in bimodal bilinguals

    Lijuan Zou;Guosheng Ding;Jubin Abutalebi;Hua Shu

  • Altered effective connectivity and anomalous anatomy in the basal ganglia-thalamocortical circuit of stuttering speakers.

    Chunming Lu;Danling Peng;Chuansheng Chen;Ning Ning;Ning Ning

  • Enhancement of teaching outcome through neural prediction of the students' knowledge state.

    Lifen Zheng;Chuansheng Chen;Wenda Liu;Yuhang Long

  • The neural substrate of analogical reasoning: an fMRI study.

    Qian Luo;Conrad Perry;Danling Peng;Zhen Jin

  • Neural mechanisms for selectively tuning in to the target speaker in a naturalistic noisy situation.

    Bohan Dai;Bohan Dai;Chuansheng Chen;Yuhang Long;Lifen Zheng

  • Neural mechanisms underlying semantic and orthographic processing in Chinese-English bilinguals.

    Guosheng Ding;Conrad Perry;Danling Peng;Lin Ma

  • The neural substrates for atypical planning and execution of word production in stuttering.

    Chunming Lu;Chuansheng Chen;Ning Ning;Guosheng Ding

  • How does language distance between L1 and L2 affect the L2 brain network? An fMRI study of Korean–Chinese–English trilinguals

    Say Young Kim;Ting Qi;Xiaoxia Feng;Guosheng Ding

  • Second language experience modulates functional brain network for the native language production in bimodal bilinguals

    Lijuan Zou;Jubin Abutalebi;Benjamin Zinszer;Xin Yan

  • Dissociation in the neural basis underlying Chinese tone and vowel production.

    Li Liu;Danling Peng;Guosheng Ding;Zhen Jin

  • Bilingualism alters brain functional connectivity between "control" regions and "language" regions: Evidence from bimodal bilinguals.

    Le Li;Jubin Abutalebi;Lijuan Zou;Xin Yan

  • Affiliative bonding between teachers and students through interpersonal synchronisation in brain activity.

    Lifen Zheng;Wenda Liu;Yuhang Long;Yu Zhai

  • Emotional valence of words modulates the subliminal repetition priming effect in the left fusiform gyrus: an event-related fMRI study.

    Qian Luo;Danling Peng;Zhen Jin;Duo Xu

  • A universal reading network and its modulation by writing system and reading ability in French and Chinese children.

    Xiaoxia Feng;Xiaoxia Feng;Irene Altarelli;Irene Altarelli;Karla Monzalvo;Guosheng Ding

  • The role of large-scale neural interactions for developmental stuttering.

    C. Lu;N. Ning;N. Ning;D. Peng;G. Ding

  • fMRI evidence for the automatic phonological activation of briefly presented words.

    Dan-ling Peng;Guo-sheng Ding;Conrad Perry;Duo Xu

  • Neural anomaly and reorganization in speakers who stutter: A short-term intervention study

    Chunming Lu;Chuansheng Chen;Danling Peng;Wenping You

  • Semantic processing of Chinese in left inferior prefrontal cortex studied with reversible words

    John X. Zhang;Jie Zhuang;Lifei Ma;Wei Yu

  • Neural deficits in second language reading: fMRI evidence from Chinese children with English reading impairment

    Hanlin You;Nadine Gaab;Na Wei;Alice Cheng-Lai

  • Neural correlates for naming disadvantage of the dominant language in bilingual word production.

    Yongben Fu;Di Lu;Chunyan Kang;Junjie Wu

  • The dynamic nature of assimilation and accommodation procedures in the brains of Chinese-English and English-Chinese bilinguals.

    Yafeng Sun;Yafeng Sun;Danling Peng;Guosheng Ding;Ting Qi

  • Dynamic spatial organization of the occipito-temporal word form area for second language processing.

    Yue Gao;Yafeng Sun;Chunming Lu;Guosheng Ding

  • Neural deficits in auditory phonological processing in Chinese children with English reading impairment

    Xiangzhi Meng;Hanlin You;Meixia Song;Amy S. Desroches

  • Brain activations associated with sign production using word and picture inputs in deaf signers.

    Zhiguo Hu;Wenjing Wang;Hongyan Liu;Danling Peng

  • Aberrant topologies and reconfiguration pattern of functional brain network in children with second language reading impairment

    Lanfang Liu;Hehui Li;Manli Zhang;Zhengke Wang

  • Structural correlates of literacy difficulties in the second language: Evidence from Mandarin-speaking children learning English.

    Hehui Li;James R. Booth;Nathalie N. Bélanger;Xiaoxia Feng

Frequent Co-Authors

James R. Booth
James R. Booth Vanderbilt University
Chuansheng Chen
Chuansheng Chen University of California, Irvine
Jubin Abutalebi
Jubin Abutalebi Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Yuan Deng
Yuan Deng Beihang University
Hua Shu
Hua Shu Beijing Normal University
Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz
Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Stanislas Dehaene
Stanislas Dehaene Collège de France
Franck Ramus
Franck Ramus École Normale Supérieure
Kuncheng Li
Kuncheng Li Capital Medical University
Jiang Qiu
Jiang Qiu Southwest University

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