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foldunfold Table of Contents I. Brief biography of Yang Zhang II. Current collaborators In the US International III. Students Doctoral Students Research assistants Current Master Student Advisees in Speech-Language Pathology (MA program for ASHA clinical certification) Alumni, and Undergraduate RAs who previously worked in Zhang Lab (2005 ~ 2009)

I. Brief biography of Yang Zhang

The Principal Investigator, Yang Zhang, is a tenure-track faculty in the Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences and faculty member of the Center for Neurobehavioral Development, University of Minnesota.

Zhang obtained his PhD in Speech & Hearing Sciences from University of Washington, Seattle (Committee members: Patricia Kuhl; Toshiaki Imada; David Corina; Lee Osterhout; Margaret Rogers), MA in Linguistics from University of Iowa, IA (Advisor: Catherine Ringen), and BS in English for Science & Technology at Shanghai Jiaotong University, China. He studied psycholinguistics with Professor Richard Hurtig when at Iowa, and received training in brain imaging at University of Washington, the Communication Science Laboratories and Basic Research Laboratories of Nippon Telephone & Telegraph Corporation in Japan. Zhang is a native of Pujiang County, Zhejiang Province, China.

Zhang's specialties include

• auditory neuroscience
• speech and voice perception
• learning and cognitive development
• magnetocephalography (MEG), event-related potentials (ERP), functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)

Zhang conducts an active research program with collaborators home and abroad. Many students at doctoral, master, and undergraduate levels have been involved in research projects in Zhang lab.

II. Current collaborators

In the US Jean Decety, University of Chicago Megha Sundara, UCLA Toshiaki Imada, Patricia Kuhl, University of Washington Sheng He, University of Minnesota Jennifer Windsor, Aparna Rao at home department Wenbo Zhang, United Hospital Philip Burton, Cheryl Olman, CMRR at U of M

International Yue Wang, Simon Fraser University, Canada Bing Cheng, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China Hua Shu, Beijing Normal University, China Iku Nemoto, Masaki Kawakatsu, Keita Tanaka, Atsushi Aoyama, Tokyo Denki University, Japan

III. Students

Doctoral Students

• Sharon Miller, speech-language-hearing sciences (co-advisor: Robert Schlauch)
• Yingjiu Nie, speech-language-hearing sciences (advisor: Peggy Nelson)
• James Stevens, linguistics (co-advisor: Jeanette Gundel)

Sharon Miller presenting research at Cognitive Neuroscience Society

Research assistants

• Adam Svec, doctoral program in audiology (part-time summer RA 2009)
• David Akbari, doctoral program in audiology (full-time summer RA appointment 2008)
• Sierra Nowak, MA program in speech-language pathology (part-time RA 2008)

2009 Honors Research Scholar Program (Undergraduate)

• Kayla Kelsey (RA)
• Jason Sumontha (RA)

Undergraduate Research Assistants

• Tess Koerner (RA)
• Liz Tusler (RA)
• Snow (Xue) Bai (RA)
• Zach Grice-Patil (RA)

2009 President’s Distinguished Mentor Program Advisee

• Samantha Yang

Current Master Student Advisees in Speech-Language Pathology (MA program for ASHA clinical certification)

• Brooke Hyland
• Laura Fristad
• Jaclyn Benkofske
• Mallory Swanson

Alumni, and Undergraduate RAs who previously worked in Zhang Lab (2005 ~ 2009)