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73
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1986
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14

Overview

Hua Shu is affiliated with Beijing Normal University in China and specializes in research across multidisciplinary fields, primarily focusing on Psychology and Medicine. Their work spans a significant number of publications within Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Materials Chemistry, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, and Imaging.

The research topics Hua Shu has explored include:

  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Multisensory Perception and Integration
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Cognitive and Developmental Aspects of Mathematical Skills

Hua Shu's recent papers illustrate an interest in reading systems, cognitive deficits in dyslexia, and the influence of language on perception. Notable publications include:

  • "A universal reading network and its modulation by writing system and reading ability in French and Chinese children," 2020, eLife
  • "Universal and Specific Predictors of Chinese Children With Dyslexia - Exploring the Cognitive Deficits and Subtypes," 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Perception of musical melody and rhythm as influenced by native language experience," 2020, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • "The Beijing Sentence Corpus: A Chinese sentence corpus with eye movement data and predictability norms," 2021, Behavior Research Methods
  • "Series of Luminescent Lanthanide MOFs with Regular SHG Performance," 2021, Inorganic Chemistry

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Hua Shu include Linjun Zhang, Yating Wan, Benyuan Cheng, Tifeng Xia, and Yang Zhang. These collaborations show a recurring partnership in interdisciplinary research efforts.

Hua Shu's work is disseminated through several key publication venues, indicating an active presence in both psychological and chemical research communities. Leading venues for their work include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Brain Sciences

Best Publications

  • Properties of School Chinese: Implications for Learning to Read

    Hua Shu;Xi Chen;Richard C. Anderson;Ningning Wu

  • Understanding Chinese Developmental Dyslexia: Morphological Awareness as a Core Cognitive Construct.

    Hua Shu;Catherine McBride-Chang;Sina Wu;Hongyun Liu

  • Morphological Awareness Uniquely Predicts Young Children's Chinese Character Recognition

    Catherine McBride-Chang;Hua Shu;Aibao Zhou;Chun Pong Wat

  • Changing Models across Cultures: Associations of Phonological Awareness and Morphological Structure Awareness with Vocabulary and Word Recognition in Second Graders from Beijing, Hong Kong, Korea, and the United States.

    Catherine Mcbride-Chang;Jeung-Ryeul Cho;Hongyun Liu;Richard K. Wagner

  • Phonological awareness in young Chinese children.

    Hua Shu;Hong Peng;Catherine McBride-Chang

  • The role of morphological awareness in children's vocabulary acquisition in English

    Catherine McBRIDE–CHANG;Richard K. Wagner;Andrea Muse;Bonnie W.-Y. Chow

  • Chinese Children's Character Recognition: Visuo-Orthographic, Phonological Processing and Morphological Skills.

    Hong Li;Hua Shu;Catherine McBride‐Chang;Hongyun Liu

  • Role of Radical Awareness in the Character and Word Acquisition of Chinese Children

    Hua Shu;Richard Chase Anderson

  • Morphological Awareness, Orthographic Knowledge, and Spelling Errors: Keys to Understanding Early Chinese Literacy Acquisition

    Xiuli Tong;Catherine McBride-Chang;Hua Shu;Anita M-Y. Wong

  • What's in a word?: Morphological awareness and vocabulary knowledge in three languages

    Catherine McBride-Chang;Twila Tardif;Jeung-Ryeul Cho;Hua Shu

  • Readers of Chinese extract semantic information from parafoveal words.

    Ming Yan;Eike M. Richter;Hua Shu;Reinhold Kliegl

  • Flexible saccade-target selection in Chinese reading

    Ming Yan;Reinhold Kliegl;Eike M. Richter;Antje Nuthmann

  • Morphology, Orthography, and Phonology in Reading Chinese Compound Words

    Xiaolin Zhou;William Marslen-Wilson;Marcus Taft;Hua Shu

  • ERP signatures of subject–verb agreement in L2 learning

    Lang Chen;Hua Shu;Youyi Liu;Jingjing Zhao

  • Tracing children's vocabulary development from preschool through the school-age years: An 8-year longitudinal study

    Shuang Song;Mengmeng Su;Cuiping Kang;Hongyun Liu

  • What Is in the Naming? A 5-Year Longitudinal Study of Early Rapid Naming and Phonological Sensitivity in Relation to Subsequent Reading Skills in Both Native Chinese and English as a Second Language

    Jinger Pan;Catherine McBride-Chang;Hua Shu;Hongyun Liu

  • The role of compound awareness in Chinese children’s vocabulary acquisition and character reading

    Xi Chen;Meiling Hao;Esther Geva;Jin Zhu

  • Phonetic awareness: Knowledge of orthography–phonology relationships in the character acquisition of Chinese children.

    Hua Shu;Richard C. Anderson;Ningning Wu

  • Syllable, phoneme, and tone : psycholinguistic units in early Chinese and English word recognition

    Catherine McBride-Chang;Xiuli Tong;Hua Shu;Anita M.Y. Wong

  • Incidental learning of word meanings while reading: a Chinese and American cross-cultural study

    Hua Shu;Richard C. Anderson;Houcan Zhang

  • Role of Radical Awareness in the Character and Word Acquisition of Chinese Children. Technical Report No. 615.

    Hua Shu;Richard C. Anderson

Frequent Co-Authors

Catherine McBride-Chang
Catherine McBride-Chang Purdue University West Lafayette
Reinhold Kliegl
Reinhold Kliegl University of Potsdam
Twila Tardif
Twila Tardif University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Richard C. Anderson
Richard C. Anderson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Yanchao Bi
Yanchao Bi Peking University
Franck Ramus
Franck Ramus École Normale Supérieure
Stanislas Dehaene
Stanislas Dehaene Collège de France
George K. Georgiou
George K. Georgiou University of Alberta
Iris Levin
Iris Levin Tel Aviv University
Margit Burmeister
Margit Burmeister University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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