2026 Li Hai Tan: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	55	4671	4299	65	62	145	12954
Psychology	55	4374	4045	39	38	140	12892

Overview

Li Hai Tan is affiliated with Shenzhen University in China and has contributed extensively to fields intersecting medicine, neuroscience, and psychology. Their research portfolio includes 22 publications in medicine, 18 in neuroscience, and 14 in psychology, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience and developmental and educational psychology.

Their work also touches on radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, molecular biology, and surgery, reflecting a broad interdisciplinary approach. Subfields such as cognitive neuroscience and developmental and educational psychology form a significant portion of their scholarly output.

Key research topics covered by Li Hai Tan include neurobiology of language and bilingualism, reading and literacy development, neural and behavioral psychology studies, language development and disorders, stroke rehabilitation and recovery, hand gesture recognition systems, and human pose and action recognition.

Their publication venues include:

Cerebral Cortex
Frontiers in Psychology
Brain and Language
Human Behaviour and Brain
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Frequent collaborators include Yulong Zhou, Di Yuan, Veronica P. Y. Kwok, Shijun Qiu, and Wai Ting Siok, reflecting a pattern of sustained co-authorship and research partnerships.

Recent papers exemplifying Li Hai Tan's research are:

"Intelligent rehabilitation in an aging population: empowering human-machine interaction for hand function rehabilitation through 3D deep learning and point cloud" (2025), published in Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
"Distinct spatiotemporal patterns of syntactic and semantic processing in human inferior frontal gyrus" (2022), published in Nature Human Behaviour
"A Lifespan fMRI Study of Neurodevelopment Associated with Reading Chinese" (2020), published in Cerebral Cortex
"Long-Term Physical Exercise and Mindfulness Practice in an Aging Population" (2020), published in Frontiers in Psychology
"Whole-Brain Functional Networks for Phonological and Orthographic Processing in Chinese Good and Poor Readers" (2020), published in Frontiers in Psychology

Best Publications

Neuroanatomical correlates of phonological processing of Chinese characters and alphabetic words: A meta-analysis

Li Hai Tan;Angela R. Laird;Karl Li;Peter T. Fox

724
Citations
Biological abnormality of impaired reading is constrained by culture

Wai Ting Siok;Charles A. Perfetti;Zhen Jin;Li Hai Tan;Li Hai Tan

706
Citations
Reading depends on writing, in Chinese

Li Hai Tan;John A. Spinks;Guinevere F. Eden;Charles A. Perfetti

653
Citations
The neural system underlying Chinese logograph reading.

Li Hai Tan;Ho-Ling Anthony Liu;Charles A. Perfetti;John A. Spinks

627
Citations
The lexical constituency model: some implications of research on Chinese for general theories of reading.

Charles A. Perfetti;Ying Liu;Li Hai Tan

612
Citations
Neural Systems of Second Language Reading Are Shaped by Native Language

Li Hai Tan;John A. Spinks;Ching Mei Feng;Wai Ting Siok

519
Citations
The time course of graphic, phonological, and semantic activation in Chinese character identification

Charles A. Perfetti;Li Hai Tan

479
Citations
Brain activation in the processing of Chinese characters and words: a functional MRI study.

Li Hai Tan;John A. Spinks;Jia Hong Gao;Ho Ling Liu

470
Citations
A structural–functional basis for dyslexia in the cortex of Chinese readers

Wai Ting Siok;Zhendong Niu;Zhen Jin;Charles A. Perfetti

351
Citations
Lie detection by functional magnetic resonance imaging

Tatia M C Lee;Ho Ling Liu;Li Hai Tan;Chetwyn C H Chan

347
Citations
Diffusion tensor imaging of normal white matter maturation from late childhood to young adulthood: voxel-wise evaluation of mean diffusivity, fractional anisotropy, radial and axial diffusivities, and correlation with reading development.

Deqiang Qiu;Li-Hai Tan;Ke Zhou;Pek-Lan Khong

346
Citations
Reading in two writing systems: Accommodation and assimilation of the brain's reading network

Charles A. Perfetti;Ying Liu;Julie Fiez;Jessica Nelson

275
Citations
Functional anatomy of syntactic and semantic processing in language comprehension.

Kang Kwong Luke;Ho Ling Liu;Yo Yo Wai;Yung Liang Wan

258
Citations
Phonological codes as early sources of constraint in Chinese word identification: A review of current discoveries and theoretical accounts

Li-Hai Tan;Charles A. Perfetti

225
Citations
Role of early presemantic phonological code in Chinese character identification.

Li Hai Tan;Rumjahn Hoosain;Dan-ling Peng

219
Citations
Neural representations of nouns and verbs in Chinese: an fMRI study.

Ping Li;Zhen Jin;Li Hai Tan

212
Citations
Visual Chinese Character Recognition: Does Phonological Information Mediate Access to Meaning?

Li Hai Tan;Charles A. Perfetti

210
Citations
Language affects patterns of brain activation associated with perceptual decision.

Li Hai Tan;Alice H. D. Chan;Paul Kay;Paul Kay;Pek-Lan Khong

210
Citations
An fMRI study with written Chinese.

Li Hai Tan;Ching Mei Feng;Ching Mei Feng;Peter T. Fox;Jia Hong Gao;Jia Hong Gao

188
Citations
Language regions of brain are operative in color perception

Wai Ting Siok;Paul Kay;William Shi Yuan Wang;Alice H D Chan

187
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jia-Hong Gao Peking University

Peter T. Fox The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Charles A. Perfetti University of Pittsburgh

Jinhu Xiong University of Iowa

Brendan S. Weekes University of Hong Kong

Julie A. Fiez University of Pittsburgh

Yijun Liu University of Florida

Yihong Yang National Institute on Drug Abuse

Guinevere F. Eden Georgetown University Medical Center

Tatia M.C. Lee University of Hong Kong

External Links

Personal website of Li Hai Tan

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