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Xiaolin Zhou

Xiaolin Zhou

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Psychology

D-Index
56
Citations
10071
World Ranking
4253
National Ranking
36

Overview

Xiaolin Zhou is affiliated with Peking University in China and conducts research primarily in the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology. Their work spans a range of subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Molecular Biology, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

They have contributed extensively to topics related to the psychology of moral and emotional judgment, neural and behavioral psychology studies, action observation and synchronization, emotions and moral behavior, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, neural dynamics and brain function, as well as visual perception and processing mechanisms.

Xiaolin Zhou's recent notable papers include:

  • A Generalizable Multivariate Brain Pattern for Interpersonal Guilt, 2020, Cerebral Cortex
  • Computational and Neurobiological Substrates of Cost-Benefit Integration in Altruistic Helping Decision, 2021, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Understanding particularized and generalized conversational implicatures: Is theory-of-mind necessary?, 2020, Brain and Language
  • Integration of social status and trust through interpersonal brain synchronization, 2021, NeuroImage
  • Neurocomputational evidence that conflicting prosocial motives guide distributive justice, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their research outputs are frequently published in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), NeuroImage, SSRN Electronic Journal, Cerebral Cortex, and Scientific Reports.

Xiaolin Zhou has collaborated with several frequent co-authors across multiple publications. These include:

  • Hongbo Yu
  • Xiaoxue Gao
  • Lihui Wang
  • Xuejun Bi
  • Yang Hu

Best Publications

  • The P300 and reward valence, magnitude, and expectancy in outcome evaluation.

    Yan Wu;Xiaolin Zhou

  • Experimental effects and individual differences in Linear Mixed Models: Estimating the relationship between spatial, object, and attraction effects in visual attention

    Reinhold Kliegl;Ping Wei;Michael Dambacher;Ming Yan

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

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

  • Executive control in language processing

    Zheng Ye;Xiaolin Zhou;Xiaolin Zhou

  • Modulation of the brain activity in outcome evaluation by interpersonal relationship: An ERP study

    Yue Leng;Xiaolin Zhou

  • Conflict control during sentence comprehension: fMRI evidence.

    Zheng Ye;Xiaolin Zhou

  • To do or not to do? Action enlarges the FRN and P300 effects in outcome evaluation.

    Zhiheng Zhou;Rongjun Yu;Xiaolin Zhou

  • Morphological Structure in the Chinese Mental Lexicon

    Xiaolin Zhou;William Marslen-wilson

  • The relative time course of semantic and phonological activation in reading Chinese.

    Xiaolin Zhou;William Marslen-Wilson

  • Phonology, Orthography, and Semantic Activation in Reading Chinese

    Xiaolin Zhou;Xiaolin Zhou;William Marslen-Wilson

  • Brain responses to outcomes of one's own and other's performance in a gambling task.

    Rongjun Yu;Xiaolin Zhou

  • Effects of single-session versus multi-session non-invasive brain stimulation on craving and consumption in individuals with drug addiction, eating disorders or obesity: A meta-analysis.

    Sensen Song;Anna Zilverstand;Wenjun Gui;Hui-jie Li

  • Words, Morphemes, and Syllables in the Chinese Mental Lexicon.

    Xiaolin Zhou;William Marslen-wilson

  • Social distance modulates recipient's fairness consideration in the dictator game: An ERP study

    Yin Wu;Marijke C. Leliveld;Xiaolin Zhou

  • The nature of sublexical processing in reading Chinese characters.

    Xiaolin Zhou;William Marslen-Wilson

  • Semantic and syntactic processing in Chinese sentence comprehension: Evidence from event-related potentials

    Zheng Ye;Yue-jia Luo;Angela D. Friederici;Xiaolin Zhou;Xiaolin Zhou

  • Auditory and speech processing and reading development in Chinese school children: behavioural and ERP evidence.

    Xiangzhi Meng;Xiaoguang Sai;Cixin Wang;Jue Wang

  • Interaction between value and perceptual salience in value-driven attentional capture

    Lihui Wang;Hongbo Yu;Xiaolin Zhou;Xiaolin Zhou

  • Social Comparison Affects Brain Responses to Fairness in Asset Division: An ERP Study with the Ultimatum Game

    Yin Wu;Yin Wu;Yuqin Zhou;Eric van Dijk;Marijke C. Leliveld

  • Involvement of cognitive control in sentence comprehension: evidence from ERPs.

    Zheng Ye;Xiaolin Zhou;Xiaolin Zhou

  • Revisiting the impact of OXTR rs53576 on empathy: A population-based study and a meta-analysis

    Pingyuan Gong;Pingyuan Gong;Huiyong Fan;Jinting Liu;Xing Yang

Frequent Co-Authors

Hermann J. Müller
Hermann J. Müller Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
William D. Marslen-Wilson
William D. Marslen-Wilson University of Cambridge
Rongjun Yu
Rongjun Yu National University of Singapore
Reinhold Kliegl
Reinhold Kliegl University of Potsdam
Jan Theeuwes
Jan Theeuwes Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Eric van Dijk
Eric van Dijk Leiden University
Hua Shu
Hua Shu Beijing Normal University
Stefan Pollmann
Stefan Pollmann Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Yuejia Luo
Yuejia Luo Shenzhen University
Torsten Schubert
Torsten Schubert Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

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