Biography

Dr. Jing Yang is Professor of Psycholinguistics at the School of International Studies, Zhejiang University. She received her bachelor's degree in Psychology from Beijing Normal University, and her MPhil and PhD degrees in Linguistics from the University of Hong Kong. She completed her postdoctoral training in the Brain, Language, and Computation Laboratory, at the Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University. Prior to joining Zhejiang University, she served as a faculty member at the Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. Her research focuses on language learning and language disorders, with particular emphasis on the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying second language acquisition and language impairments, as well as the role of individual differences. Using psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic methods, her work seeks to elucidate how brain plasticity supports language learning across populations in the digital era.