Tao Wei

tao.wei@szu.edu.cn

ACEDEMIC POSITIONS

Mar 2019 -                         Assistant Professor, College of Psychology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

Sep 2016 - Jan 2019          Postdoctoral Fellow, National Key Laboratory of
                                           Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning Beijing Normal University,      
                                           Beijing, China

August 2015 - May 2016   Research Assistant, Rice University, Houston, USA

EDUCATION

August 2016      Ph.D. in Psychology                                                          

                          Advisor: Tatiana Schnur, Ph.D.                                                              

  Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

June 2010          M.S. in Psychology

                           Advisor: Yanchao Bi, Ph.D.

   Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China 

June 2007           B.S. in Psychology

                           Advisor: Yanchao Bi, Ph.D.

   Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Using behavioral, neuropsychological, neuroimaging and computational modelling approaches to understand functional and neural architecture associated with language processing and object recognition.

GRANTS

2017    The nature of object recognition in the ventral visual pathway: evidence from fMRI and computer vision. National Natural Science Foundation of China. RMB 240,000 (period 2018.01 - 2020.12).

2019    出站来深博士后科研资助. RMB 300,000 (Period 2019 - )

2021    Shenzhen Peacock Plan. RMB 1,950,000 (period 2021.01 – 2023.12)

HONORS & AWARDS

2015                   Dingwall Neurolinguistics Dissertation Fellowship, the William Orr Dingwall Foundation

2010-2014          Scholarships for Excellent Chinese Doctoral Students, China Scholarship   Council Program

2014                   Dissertation research improvement grants, Rice University

2012                   Best student paper award, Academy of Aphasia

2011-2015          Gertude Maurin fund to cover conference travel, Rice University

2011-2015          Travel award to cover conference travel, Rice University

2010                   Excellent Master Thesis Award, Beijing Normal University

2009                   Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Beijing Normal University

2007                   Honor Graduate, privilege to enter M.S. program without exam, Beijing Normal University

2005-2007          Excellent undergraduate scholarship, Beijing Normal University

PUBLICATIONS

Articles in refereed journals

Wei, T., & Schnur T. T. (2019). Being fast or slow at naming depends on recency of experience. Cognition, 182, 165-170.

Wei, T., & Schnur T. T. (2016). Long-term interference at the semantic Level: evidence from blocked-cyclic picture matching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 42, 149-157.

Harvey, D. Y., Wei, T., Ellmore, T. M., Hamiltion A. C. & Schnur T. T. (2013). Neuropsychological evidence for the functional role of the uncinate fasciculus in semantic control. Neuropsychologia, 51, 789-801.

Wei, T., Liang, X., He Y., Zang Y., Han, Z., Caramazza A., Bi, Y.  (2012). Predicting conceptual processing capacity from spontaneous neuronal activity of the left middle temporal gyrus. The Journal of Neuroscience, 32, 481–489.

Bi, Y. , Wei, T., Wu, C., Han, Z., Jiang T., & Caramazza, A. (2011). The role of the left anterior temporal lobe in language processing revisited: Evidence from an individual with ATL resection. Cortex, 47, 575-587.

Bi, Y. , Wei, T., Janssen, N., & Han, Z. (2009). The contribution of orthography to spoken word production: Evidence from Chinese. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 555-560.

Articles in progress

Wei, T., & Schnur T. T. (submitted). Neural and linguistic differences explain priming and interference during naming.

Wei, T., Hu, L., Shan, S., & Bi Y. (to be submitted). Classification at what levels? Testing the computation goals of human IT using deep-neural-network models

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Wei, T., & Schnur T. T. (2017). The Loci of the Semantic Relatedness Paradox during Speech Production. 9th Annual Meeting of Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Baltimore, MD.

Wei, T., & Schnur T. T. (2015). Opposite effects of semantically related naming experience on speech production. 56th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL.

Wei, T., & Schnur T. T. (2014). Long-lasting interference at the semantic level: Evidence from semantic blocked comprehension tasks. 55_­^th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA.

Harvey, D. Y., Wei, T., Ellmore, T. M., Hamilton, A. C., & Schnur, T. T. (2012). Neuropsychological evidence for the functional role of the uncinate fasciculus in semantic control. 50^th Academy of Aphasia Annual Meeting, San Francisco, LA. Best student paper.

Wei, T., Hamilton, A. C., Ellmore, T. M., & Schnur T. T. (2011). Functional connectivity at rest predicts word comprehension after stroke. Society for the Neurobiology of Language. Annapolis, MD. Selected for spoken presentation as in top 10% of submissions.

Geng, J., Wei, T., & Schnur, T. T. (2011). The organization of concrete concepts. 49_­^th Academy of Aphasia Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada.

Bi, Y., Feng, T., Wei, T., Lin, N., Schnur, T. T., & Martin, R. C. (2009). Re-assessment of semantic control deficits in stroke patients using blocked-cyclic naming and comprehension tasks. 47^th Academy of Aphasia Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. 

Crowther, J. E., Martin, R. C., & Wei, T. (2009). Evidence for postselection inhibition from the semantic blocked cyclic naming task. 50^th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.

Wei, T., Wu, C., Han, Z., Jiang T., Caramazza, A., & Bi, Y. (2008). The role of the left anterior temporal lobe in language processing revisited: Evidence from an individual with ATL resection. Workshop on Concepts, Actions and Objects, Rovereto.

Wei, T., Janssen, N., Han, Z., & Bi, Y. (2007). The contribution of orthography to spoken word production: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese. 12^th International Conference on the Processing of East Asia Related Languages, Tainan.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Instructor

2020, 2021                  Introduction to Psychology (心理学原理-双学位), Shenzhen University

2015                            Introduction to Cognitive Psychology, Rice University.

Guest Lecturer

2015                            Psychology of Language: Semantic interference in word comprehension, Rice University

2015                            Cognitive Neuroscience: Single case studies, Rice University

2013                            Research Methods: APA formats, Rice University

Lab Instructor

2013                            Research Methods: Data Analysis, Rice University

Teaching Assistant

2016                            Perception, Rice University

2015                            Cognitive Neuroscience, Rice University

2014                            Language Acquisition, Rice University

2013, 2011                  Research Methods, Rice University

2012                            Introduction to Psychology, Rice University

2010                            Psychology of Language, Rice University

2008                            Experimental Psychology, Beijing Normal University

ADVISING

Train undergraduate students to generate ideas from empirical papers, design and conduct experiments, analyze and report data, write experiment reports and honor thesis.

2020 – 2021               万卓昕、李菁（Fall 2017）

2016                            Bowie Lin (Fall 2014)

2015 – 2016                Yoseph Lee (Fall 2014)

2015 – 2016                Tess Weiner (Fall 2012)      

2012 – 2014                Ja Young Choi (Fall 2010)

2012 – 2013                Saira Weinzimmer (Fall 2011)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Academy of Aphasia

Psychonomic Society

Society of Neuroscience

Society for the Neurobiology of Language

SERVICE

Journal Manuscript Reviewer

Acta Psychologica

Cognition & Memory

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Coordinator for Cognitive Tea, Rice University, 2013-2014                   

Set up Cog Tea schedule, contact speakers, schedule meetings between speakers and faculty members and graduate students, and send talk announcement to the listserv