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Gao Shan

Professor, Doctoral Supervisor

Doctoral Program Admissions:Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Master's Program Admissions:Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Science of Linguistics
Academic Qualifications
Social Affiliations
Research Interest
Academic Services
Research Grants
Main Publications

Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, Chengdu, China

Part-time Researcher, September 2011 – present

School of Psychology, Bangor University, Bangor, UK

Academic visitor, September 2013 – August 2014

School of Life Science and Technology, UESTC

PhD, September 2011 – December 2015

School of Psychology, Southwest China Normal University

Master, September 2002 – July 2005

School of Law and Business, Sichuan International Studies University

Bachelor, Engineering, September 1995 – July 1999


Part-time Researcher, Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education

Part-time Researcher, Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute

Part-time Researcher, Research Center for Informatic Medicine

Advisor Board Member, Chinese Association of Psycholinguistics

Language-emotion Interaction

Language-dependent Social Interaction

1.Advisory Board Member, Psycholinguistics Professional Committee, the Chinese Association for Comparative Study of English and Chinese

2.Advisory Board Member, Second Language Processing Professional Committee, the Chinese Society of Foreign Language and Culture Comparison

1. Emotional Regulation Mechanisms Underlying L1 Automatic Access in L2 Word Processing, National Social Science Foundation of China, September 2023 – December 2025

2. Mechanisms Underlying the Foreign Language Effect on Risky Decision: The Role of Emotion, Natural Science Foundation of China, January 2017 – December 2019

1.Yuan Meng#, Chunyan Liang#, Wenjing Chen, Zhaoning Liu, Chaoqing Yang, Jiehui Hu, Zhao Gao*, Shan Gao*, Neural basis of language familiarity effects on voice recognition: An fNIRS study. Cortex, 2024, 179: 1-10.

2.Wanyu Zhang, Yuxin Lan, Qian Li, Zhao Gao, Jiehui Hu, Shan Gao*, The foreign-language effect on self-positivity bias: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2023, 26(3): 570-579.

3.Wanyu Zhang, Rafał Jończyk, Yan Jing Wu, Yuxin Lan, Zhao Gao, Jiehui Hu, Guillaume Thierry*, Shan Gao*, Brain potentials reveal how emotion filters native language access when bilinguals read words in their second language. Cerebral Cortex, 2023, 33(13), 8783-8791.

4.Chaoqing Yang#, Linlin He#, Yucheng Liu, Ziyang Lin, Lizhu Luo*, Shan Gao*, Anti-saccades reveal impaired attention control over negative social evaluation in individuals with depressive symptoms. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 2023, 165: 64-69.

5.Chaoqing Yang#, Xinying Zhang#, Yuxuan Chen, Yunge Li, Shu Yu, Bingmei Zhao, Tao Wang, Lizhu Luo*, Shan Gao*, Emotion-dependent language featuring depression. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 2023, 81: 101883.

6.Changfu Pei, Yuan Qiu, Fali Li, Xunan Huang, Yajing Si, Yuqin Li, Xiabing Zhang, Chunli Chen, Qiang Liu, Zehong Cao, Nai Ding, Shan Gao*, Kimmo Alho, Dezhong Yao*, Peng Xu*. The different brain areas occupied for integrating information of hierarchical linguistic units: A study based on EEG and TMS. Cerebral Cortex, 2023, 33(8): 4740-4751.

7.Wenjing Chen, Chunyan Liang, Zhao Gao, Jiehui Hu, Tao Wang*, Shan Gao*. Language-emotion interaction modulates selective attention to a speaker’s eyes and mouth: Evidence from Chinese-English bilinguals. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022: 1-13.

8.Jiehui Hu, Xun Li, Jia Li, Wanyu Zhang, Yuxin Lan, Zhao Gao, Shan Gao*. Valence-differential mechanisms of the foreign language effect in decision-making under risk. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022: 1-14.

9.Yue Zhang, Qiqi Hu, Xinwei Lai, Zhonghua Hu*, Shan Gao*. Fear-specific leftward bias in gaze direction judgment. Scientific Reports, 2021, 11:17574.

10.Wanyu Zhang, Yunxiao Zhou, Jiehui Hu, Zhao Gao*, Shan Gao*. Anxiety- and depression-related individual differences in affective and cognitive judgments of self-referential praise and criticism. Journal of Social & Clinical Psychology, 2021, 40(3): 201-220.

11.Yajing Si, Fali Li, Fang Li, Jingwei Tu, Chanlin Yi, Qin Tao, Xiabing Zhang, Changfu Pei, Shan Gao*, Dezhong Yao, Peng Xu*. The growing from adolescence to adulthood influences the decision strategy to unfair situations. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 2021, 13(3): 586-592.

12.Ying Zheng, Yahuan Shi, Han Jia, Shan Gao*, Zhonghua Hu*. Intranasal oxytocin enhances the perception of ambiguous averted gaze in women but not in men. Psychopharmacology, 2021, 238(7): 2021-2029.

13.Mi Yang, Shan Gao*, Xiangyang Zhang*. Cognitive deficits and white matter abnormalities in never-treated first-episode schizophrenia. Translational Psychiatry, 2020, 10: 368.

14.Mi Yang#, Shan Gao#, Weisen Xiong and Xiangyang Zhang*. Sex-differential associations between cognitive impairments and white matter abnormalities in first episode and drug-naïve schizophrenia. Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 2020: 13059.

15.Lizhu Luo, Qiang Zhang, Jiaojian Wang, Qiyuan Lin, Bingmei Zhao, Min Xu, Christelle Langley, Hong Li*, Shan Gao*. The baby schema effect in adolescence and its difference from that in adulthood. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2020, 198: 104908.

16.Yahuan Shi, Jinmeng Liu, Zhonghua Hu*, Shan Gao*. Opposing sex-dependent effects of oxytocin on the perception of gaze direction. Psychopharmacology, 2020, 237(3): 869-876.

17.Shan Gao*, Lizhu Luo, Ting Gou. Criticism in a foreign language hurts less. Cognition and Emotion, 2020, 34(4): 822-830.

18.Shan Gao*, Lizhu Luo, Wanyu Zhang, Yuxin Lan, Ting Gou, Xun Li. Personality counts more than appearance for men making affective judgments of verbal comments. Frontiers in Psychology, 2019, 10: 78.

19.Shan Gao, Yayuan Geng, Jia Li, Yunxiao Zhou, Shuxia Yao*. Encoding praise and criticism during social evaluation alters interactive responses in the mentalizing and affective learning networks. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2018, 12: 611.

20.Shan Gao, Benjamin Becker, Lizhu Luo, Yayuan Geng, Weihua Zhao, Yu Yin, Jiehui Hu, Zhao Gao, Qiyong Gong, Rene Hurlemann, Dezhong Yao, and Keith M. Kendrick*. Oxytocin, the peptide that bonds the sexes also divides them. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016, 113(27): 7650-7654.

21.Shan Gao, Ondrej Zika, Robert D. Rogers, Guillaume Thierry*. Second language feedback abolishes the "hot hand" effect during even-probability gambling. The Journal of Neuroscience, 2015, 35(15): 5983-5989.

22.Shan Gao, Jiehui Hu, Diankun Gong, Sifan Chen, Keith M. Kendrick*, Dezhong Yao*. Integration of Consonant and Pitch Processing as Revealed by the Absence of Additivity in Mismatch Negativity. PLoS ONE, 2012, 7(5): e38289.

23.Jiehui Hu#, Shan Gao#, Weiyi Ma, Dezhong Yao*. Dissociation of tone and vowel processing in Mandarin idioms. Psychophysiology, 2012, 49(9): 1179-1190.

24.Shan Gao, Yonggang Wei, Junjie Bai, Chongde Lin, Hong Li*. Young children's affective decision-making in a gambling task: Does the difficulty in learning the gain/loss schedule matter? Cognitive Development, 2009, 24(2): 183-19.