Yanchao Bi
Weaving Language and Vision in the Human Brain
Speaker: Yanchao Bi, PhD, Harvard University
Yanchao Bi is a Boya professor in School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and Institute for Artificial Intelligence, at Peking University. She received her PhD from the Department of Psychology, Harvard University, working on the cognitive process of language in the laboratory of Dr. Alfonso Caramazza. In 2006 she established her laboratory at Beijing Normal University and moved to Peking University in 2024. Her lab focuses on the study of functional and neural architecture associated with semantic memory, knowledge representation, and language processing, using cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, multi-modal neuroimaging, computation modeling and other research methods.