Publications
Cognitive Science & Neural Networks
Major Publications:
Below please find a list of my major publications. If you want to request the preprints/reprints of my papers, please leave your email information in the comments section or directly send an email to me via xiaoweizhao@gmail.com. I will send the pdf files to you as soon as possible.
Edited Book or Conference Proceedings:
Zhao, X. (Ed.). Proceedings of the 47th annual meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology, Vancouver, BC. November, 2017.
Peer-Reviewed Articles in Journals:
Zhao, X., & Li, P. (under review). Fuzzy or Clear? A Computational Approach Towards Dynamic L2 Lexical-Semantic Representation. Frontiers in Communication.
Li, P., Zhang, F., Yu, A., & Zhao, X. (2019). Language History Questionnaire (LHQ 3.0): An enhanced tool for assessing multilingual experience. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728918001153
Zhao, X., & Li, P. (2013). Simulating Cross-Language Priming with a Dynamic Computational Model of the Lexicon. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 16. 288-303.
Li, P. & Zhao, X. (2013). Self-Organizing Map Models of Language Acquisition. Froniers in Psychology. 4:828. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00828
Zhao, X., Li, P., & Kohonen, T. (2011). Contextual self-organizing map: Software for constructing semantic representation. Behavior Research Methods, 43, 77-88.
Zhao, X., & Li, P. (2010). Bilingual lexical interactions in an unsupervised neural network model. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 13. 505-524
Zhao, X., & Li, P. (2009a). Acquisition of aspect in self-organizing connectionist models. Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences, 47. 1075-1112.
Zhao, X., & Li, P. (2009b). An online database of phonological representation for Mandarin Chinese. Behavioral Research Methods, 41. 575-583.
Li, P., Zhao, X., & MacWhinney, B. (2007). Dynamic Self-Organization and early lexical development in children. Cognitive Science, 31. 581-612.
Li, P., Sepanski, S., & Zhao, X. (2006). Language history questionnaires: A web-based interface for bilingual research. Behavioral Research Methods. 38, 202-210.
Zhao, X., Zhou, L., & Chen, T. (2004). Spatial and temporal behaviors in a modified evolution model based on small world networks. Communication in Theoretical Physics, 42, 242-246.
Lin, M., Zhao, X., & Chen, T. (2004). A modified earthquake model of self-organized criticality on small world networks. Communication in Theoretical Physics, 41, 557-560.
Zhao, X., Zhou, L., & Chen, T. (2003). Effects of different interactive function forms in a self-organized criticality model based on neural networks, Communication in Theoretical Physics, 40, 607-613.
Zhao, X., & Chen, T. (2003). Different power law behaviors in different specific areas of a system based on neural networks, Communication in Theoretical Physics, 40, 363-368.
Zhao, X., & Chen, T. (2002). Type of self-organized criticality model based on neural networks, Physical Review E, 65, 026114.
Zhao, X., & Chen, T. (2001). Self-organized criticality in a model based on neural networks, Communication in Theoretical Physics, 36, 351-356.
Book Chapter (Invited and Peer-reviewed):
Li, P., & Zhao, X. (2020). Connectionism. In M. Aronoff (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies Online: Linguistics. (originally published 2012, last updated 2020) New York, NY: Oxford University Press http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199772810/obo-9780199772810-0010.xml
Zhao, X. (2017). Connectionism in linguistic theory. In M. Aronoff (ed.), The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Li, P., & Zhao, X. (2017). Computational modeling. In A. De Groot & P. Hagoort (ed.), Research Methods in Psycholinguistics and the Neurobiology of Language: A Practical Guide. (pp.208 - 229) Cambridge, John Wiley & Sons Inc..
Li, P., & Zhao, X. (2015). Computational modeling of bilingual language acquisition and processing. In J. Schwieter (ed.), Cambridge handbook of bilingual processing. ( pp.85-107) Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Li, P., & Zhao, X. (2014). Connectionist Models of Language Development. In P. Brooks and V. Kempe (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language Development (pp.101-106). SAGE Publications.
Li, P., & Zhao, X. (2013a). Connectionist bilingual representation. In R.R. Heredia and J. Altaribba (ed.), Foundations of bilingual memory (pp. 63-84). New York, NY: Springer.
Li, P., & Zhao, X. (2013b). Connectionist models of second language acquisition. In M.P. Garcia Mayo et al. (eds.), Contemporary approaches to second language acquisition. (pp. 177-198). Amsterdam, the Netherlands: John Benjamins.
(The book is the recipient of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics 2014 book award)
Li, P., & Zhao, X. (2012). Connectionism. In C.A. Chapelle (ed.), The encyclopedia of applied linguistics. Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (Wiley Online Library: DOI: 10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0186)
Li, P., & Zhao, X. (2009). Computational modeling of the expression of time. In The expression of time (pp. 241-271). Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Peer-Reviewed Articles in Conference Proceedings:
Zhao, X., Li, P., Liu, Y., Fang, X., & Shu, H. (2011). Cross-Language Priming in Chinese-English Bilinguals with Different Second Language Proficiency Levels. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 801-806). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Zhao, X. & Li, P. (2008). Vocabulary development in English and Chinese: A comparative study with self-organizing neural networks. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1900-1905). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Liu, S., Zhao, X. & Li, P. (2008). Early lexical development: A corpus-based study of three languages. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1343-1348). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Zhao, X., & Li, P. (2007). Bilingual lexical representation in a self-organizing neural network. In D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Cognitive Science Society (pp. 759-760). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. (Computational Modeling Prize, 1st Place, Language)
Zhao, X., & Li, P. (2005). A self-organizing connectionist model of early word production. In Proceedings of the twenty-seventh annual conference of the cognitive science society, (pp. 2434-2439). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Zhao, X., & Chen, T. (2001b). Self-organized criticality in Artificial Neural Network, in Proceeding of CCAST Workshop, ‘complexity problems’, 137, 111-122.
Emmanuel College