Tao Wei
tao.wei@szu.edu.cn
ACEDEMIC POSITIONS
Mar 2019 - Assistant Professor, College of Psychology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
Sep 2016 - Jan 2019 Postdoctoral Fellow, National Key Laboratory of
Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning Beijing Normal University,
Beijing, China
August 2015 - May 2016 Research Assistant, Rice University, Houston, USA
EDUCATION
August 2016 Ph.D. in Psychology
Advisor: Tatiana Schnur, Ph.D.
Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
June 2010 M.S. in Psychology
Advisor: Yanchao Bi, Ph.D.
Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
June 2007 B.S. in Psychology
Advisor: Yanchao Bi, Ph.D.
Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Using behavioral, neuropsychological, neuroimaging and computational modelling approaches to understand functional and neural architecture associated with language processing and object recognition.
GRANTS
2017 The nature of object recognition in the ventral visual pathway: evidence from fMRI and computer vision. National Natural Science Foundation of China. RMB 240,000 (period 2018.01 - 2020.12).
2019 出站来深博士后科研资助. RMB 300,000 (Period 2019 - )
2021 Shenzhen Peacock Plan. RMB 1,950,000 (period 2021.01 – 2023.12)
HONORS & AWARDS
2015 Dingwall Neurolinguistics Dissertation Fellowship, the William Orr Dingwall Foundation
2010-2014 Scholarships for Excellent Chinese Doctoral Students, China Scholarship Council Program
2014 Dissertation research improvement grants, Rice University
2012 Best student paper award, Academy of Aphasia
2011-2015 Gertude Maurin fund to cover conference travel, Rice University
2011-2015 Travel award to cover conference travel, Rice University
2010 Excellent Master Thesis Award, Beijing Normal University
2009 Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Beijing Normal University
2007 Honor Graduate, privilege to enter M.S. program without exam, Beijing Normal University
2005-2007 Excellent undergraduate scholarship, Beijing Normal University
PUBLICATIONS
Articles in refereed journals
Wei, T., & Schnur T. T. (2019). Being fast or slow at naming depends on recency of experience. Cognition, 182, 165-170.
Wei, T., & Schnur T. T. (2016). Long-term interference at the semantic Level: evidence from blocked-cyclic picture matching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 42, 149-157.
Harvey, D. Y., Wei, T., Ellmore, T. M., Hamiltion A. C. & Schnur T. T. (2013). Neuropsychological evidence for the functional role of the uncinate fasciculus in semantic control. Neuropsychologia, 51, 789-801.
Wei, T., Liang, X., He Y., Zang Y., Han, Z., Caramazza A., Bi, Y. (2012). Predicting conceptual processing capacity from spontaneous neuronal activity of the left middle temporal gyrus. The Journal of Neuroscience, 32, 481–489.
Bi, Y. , Wei, T., Wu, C., Han, Z., Jiang T., & Caramazza, A. (2011). The role of the left anterior temporal lobe in language processing revisited: Evidence from an individual with ATL resection. Cortex, 47, 575-587.
Bi, Y. , Wei, T., Janssen, N., & Han, Z. (2009). The contribution of orthography to spoken word production: Evidence from Chinese. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 555-560.
Articles in progress
Wei, T., & Schnur T. T. (submitted). Neural and linguistic differences explain priming and interference during naming.
Wei, T., Hu, L., Shan, S., & Bi Y. (to be submitted). Classification at what levels? Testing the computation goals of human IT using deep-neural-network models
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Wei, T., & Schnur T. T. (2017). The Loci of the Semantic Relatedness Paradox during Speech Production. 9th Annual Meeting of Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Baltimore, MD.
Wei, T., & Schnur T. T. (2015). Opposite effects of semantically related naming experience on speech production. 56th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL.
Wei, T., & Schnur T. T. (2014). Long-lasting interference at the semantic level: Evidence from semantic blocked comprehension tasks. 55th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA.
Harvey, D. Y., Wei, T., Ellmore, T. M., Hamilton, A. C., & Schnur, T. T. (2012). Neuropsychological evidence for the functional role of the uncinate fasciculus in semantic control. 50th Academy of Aphasia Annual Meeting, San Francisco, LA. Best student paper.
Wei, T., Hamilton, A. C., Ellmore, T. M., & Schnur T. T. (2011). Functional connectivity at rest predicts word comprehension after stroke. Society for the Neurobiology of Language. Annapolis, MD. Selected for spoken presentation as in top 10% of submissions.
Geng, J., Wei, T., & Schnur, T. T. (2011). The organization of concrete concepts. 49th Academy of Aphasia Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada.
Bi, Y., Feng, T., Wei, T., Lin, N., Schnur, T. T., & Martin, R. C. (2009). Re-assessment of semantic control deficits in stroke patients using blocked-cyclic naming and comprehension tasks. 47th Academy of Aphasia Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
Crowther, J. E., Martin, R. C., & Wei, T. (2009). Evidence for postselection inhibition from the semantic blocked cyclic naming task. 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.
Wei, T., Wu, C., Han, Z., Jiang T., Caramazza, A., & Bi, Y. (2008). The role of the left anterior temporal lobe in language processing revisited: Evidence from an individual with ATL resection. Workshop on Concepts, Actions and Objects, Rovereto.
Wei, T., Janssen, N., Han, Z., & Bi, Y. (2007). The contribution of orthography to spoken word production: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese. 12th International Conference on the Processing of East Asia Related Languages, Tainan.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor
2020, 2021 Introduction to Psychology (心理学原理-双学位), Shenzhen University
2015 Introduction to Cognitive Psychology, Rice University.
Guest Lecturer
2015 Psychology of Language: Semantic interference in word comprehension, Rice University
2015 Cognitive Neuroscience: Single case studies, Rice University
2013 Research Methods: APA formats, Rice University
Lab Instructor
2013 Research Methods: Data Analysis, Rice University
Teaching Assistant
2016 Perception, Rice University
2015 Cognitive Neuroscience, Rice University
2014 Language Acquisition, Rice University
2013, 2011 Research Methods, Rice University
2012 Introduction to Psychology, Rice University
2010 Psychology of Language, Rice University
2008 Experimental Psychology, Beijing Normal University
ADVISING
Train undergraduate students to generate ideas from empirical papers, design and conduct experiments, analyze and report data, write experiment reports and honor thesis.
2020 – 2021 万卓昕、李菁（Fall 2017）
2016 Bowie Lin (Fall 2014)
2015 – 2016 Yoseph Lee (Fall 2014)
2015 – 2016 Tess Weiner (Fall 2012)
2012 – 2014 Ja Young Choi (Fall 2010)
2012 – 2013 Saira Weinzimmer (Fall 2011)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Academy of Aphasia
Psychonomic Society
Society of Neuroscience
Society for the Neurobiology of Language
SERVICE
Journal Manuscript Reviewer
Acta Psychologica
Cognition & Memory
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition
Journal of Cognitive Psychology
Coordinator for Cognitive Tea, Rice University, 2013-2014
Set up Cog Tea schedule, contact speakers, schedule meetings between speakers and faculty members and graduate students, and send talk announcement to the listserv
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