Dr. Xiaochen Y Zheng
I - left one on the picture - am a cognitive neuroscientist who’s always excited about the cognitive control processes in the brain, especially how they are shared between language and other cognitive systems.
Currently, I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, investigating the neural and cognitive mechanism of inference in language and action planning. I joined the Motivation & Cognitive Control lab in 2019, working with Roshan Cools and Hanneke den Ouden. In the meantime, I also function as a coordinating postdoc at the Dutch research consortium “Language in Interaction”, co-steering the Big Question 5 team.
Previously, I was a PhD student at the Donders Center for Cognition, supervised by Ardi Roelofs and Kristin Lemhöfer, also an alumni of International Max Planck Research School for Language Sciences. My doctoral thesis investigates the cognitive control and monitoring processes in bilingual speech production. During my PhD and my postdoc, I have also been closely collaborated with Vitória Piai on a few MEG and EEG projects on cognitive control, memory, and speech production.
Beside science, I am also curious about food, cats, and my future adventures around the world.
Favorite topics
- domain-general vs. domain-specific cognitive control
- control and monitoring in speech production
- bilingual switching and task switching
- cognitive map and model-based planning
Research methods
- electrophysiological measures (EEG, MEG)
- functional MRI
- (a little bit of) computational modelling
- and of course LOADs of behavioral measures