Chuanli Zang - Academic Staff

Dr Chuanli Zang started her academic career at Tianjin Normal University (TNU), China where she received her PhD in Psychology (2010). During her PhD, she received a China Scholarship Council (CSC) grant to allow her to work with Professor Simon Liversedge at the University of Southampton for a year (2009-2010). After her PhD, Chuanli took a Lectureship position at TNU (2010) and received successive promotions to Full Professor (2018).

From 2016 to 2017, she was awarded a further CSC grant to support a second collaborative research visit to the UK to continue her collaboration with Professor Liversedge. Based on this research, in 2018, Chuanli and Simon made a grant application to the Economic and Social Research Council and Chuanli and were awarded a 4 year grant to fund her to work in the UK on this project. After successfully completing the ESRC grant project, she pursued her academic career full time in the UK.

Chuanli is interested in eye movements during reading, and in particular investigating how readers foveally and parafoveally process words and Multi-Constituent Units during natural Chinese reading. Her interests include word segmentation, saccade targeting and parafoveal processing in reading. Recently she has developed an interest in the use of co-registration methodology (i.e., eye movements and Fixation-Related Potentials) to investigate the processes that underlie reading.

Use the links below to view their profiles:

She regularly delivers presentations at major international conferences including the annual Psychonomic Society Meeting, European Conference on Eye Movements, and China International Conference on Eye Movements. She has also been invited to present and discuss her research in colloquia at numerous universities in the UK and abroad. Below are a sample of her presentations over the recent years.
Zang, C., Yi, N., Bai, X., Yan, G., & Liversedge, S.P. (2023). Parafoveal processing of popular internet phrases supports the Multi-Constituent Unit (MCU) hypothesis. Paper presented at the Psychonomic Society 64th Annual Scientific Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA, November 16-19, 2023.
Zang, C., Bai, X., Yan, G., & Liversedge, S.P. (2023). The multi-constituent unit hypothesis: Theoretical and empirical context, findings and implications (I). Paper presented at the 9th China International Conference on Eye Movements, Tianjin, China, September 20-22. Keynote talk.
Zang, C., & Liversedge, S.P. (2023). The multi-constituent unit hypothesis and its implications for serial and parallel accounts of lexical processing in natural reading. University of Southampton University, Southampton, May 10, 2023. Zang, C., Lu, Z., Bai, X., Yan, G., & Liversedge, S.P. (2022). Parafoveal processing in Chinese reading: Further evidence for the Multi-Constituent Unit (MCU) Hypothesis. Paper presented at the Psychonomic Society 63rd Annual Scientific Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, November 17-20, 2022.
Zang, C., Wang, S., Bai, X., Yan, G., & Liversedge, S.P. (2022). Foveal and parafoveal processing of Chinese four-character idioms and phrases in reading. Paper presented at the 21st European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM), Leicester, UK, August 21-25, 2022.
Zang, C., Lu, Z., Bai, X., Yan, G., & Liversedge, S.P. (2022). Parafoveal processing in Chinese reading: Further evidence for the Multi-Constituent Unit (MCU) Hypothesis. Paper presented at the 21st European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM), Leicester, UK, August 21-25, 2022.

Dr Chuanli Zang

Qualifications

Areas of interest and expertise

External affiliations and memberships