语言是人类进行人际互动和思维活动的物质载体，传递着语义、情感和意图等意义。我主要对语言意义理解的认知神经机理感兴趣，同时关注语言理解能力的干预提升技术及其作用机理。

研究重点是从心理学、神经语言学和计算建模等角度，探讨1）人脑整合多维信息（词汇语义、口语韵律、语境和个人特点等）实现意义/意图理解的动态时间历程、脑功能网络和计算模式，2）语言理解的学习和老化过程及其神经机理，3）话语理解等听觉认知能力的干预提升技术，4）音乐经验与话语理解的关系。

英文杂志文章：

1. He, Y., Shao, X., Liu, C., Fan, C., Jefferies, E., Zhang, M.*, & Li, X.* (2024). Diverse frontoparietal connectivity supports semantic prediction and integration in sentence comprehension. Journal of Neuroscience.
2. Gao, P., Jiang, Z., Yang, Y., Zheng, Y., Feng, G.*, & Li, X.* (2024). Temporal neural dynamics of understanding communicative intentions from speech prosody. NeuroImage, 299, 120830.
3. Zheng, Y. Y., Gao P. K., & Li X. Q.* (2023) The modulating effect of musical expertise on lexical-semantic prediction in speech-in-noise comprehension: Evidence from an EEG study. Psychophysiology, 60(11), e14371.
4. Zhao, Z. T., Ding, J. F., Wang, J. Y., Chen, Y. Y.*, & Li, X. Q.* (2023). The flexibility and representational nature of phonological prediction in listening comprehension: Evidence from the visual world paradigm. Language and Cognition, 1-24.
5. Ding, J. F., Zhang, Y. P., Liang, P. P., & Li, X. Q.* (2023) Modulation of working memory capacity on predictive processing during language comprehension. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 38:8, 1133-1152.
6. Guo, X. Y., Li, X. Q.*, & Yang, Y. F.* (2023) How the brain processes emotional meaning of indirect reply: evidence from EEG, Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 38:9, 1302-1317.
7. Li, Y. M., Fan, C., Liu, C., & Li, X. Q.* (2023) The modulating effect of lexical predictability on perceptual learning of degraded speech. Frontiers in Language Sciences. 
8. Shao, X. M., Li, M. Y., Yang, Y. F., Li, X. Q.*, Han, Z. Z.* (2022) The Neural Basis of Semantic Prediction in Sentence Comprehension. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 34 (2): 236–257.
9. Zheng, Y. Y., Zhao, Z. T., Yang, X. H., Li, X. Q.* (2021). The impact of musical expertise on anticipatory semantic processing during online speech comprehension: an electroencephalography study. Brain and Language, 221.
10. Li, X. Q.*, Ren, G. Q., Zheng, Y. Y., & Chen, Y. Y.* (2020). How Does Dialectal Experience Modulate Anticipatory Speech Processing? Journal of Memory and Language, 115, 104169.
11. Yang, X. H., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Q., & Li, X. Q.* (2020). How working memory capacity modulates the time course of semantic integration at sentence and discourse level. Neuropsychologia, 140, 107383.
12. Li, W. J.*, Zhang, H., Zheng, Z. L., & Li, X. Q.* (2019). Prosodic phrase priming during listening to Chinese ambiguous phrases in different experimental tasks. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 51, 135-150.
13. Li, X. Q.*, Shao, X. M., Xia, J. Y., & Xu, X. Y. (2019). The cognitive and neural oscillatory mechanisms underlying the facilitating effect of rhythm regularity on speech comprehension. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 49, 155-167.
14. Li, X. Q.*, & Chen Y. Y.* (2018). Unattended processing of hierarchical pitch variations in spoken sentences. Brain and Language, 183, 21-31.
15. Li, X. Q.*, Zhang, Y. P., Xia, J. Y., & Swaab, T. Y. (2017). Internal mechanisms underlying anticipatory language processing: Evidence from event-related-potentials and neural oscillations. Neuropsychologia, 102, 70-81.
16. Li, X. Q.*, Zhang, Y. P., Li, L., & Du, X. F.* (2017). Attention is shaped by semantic level of event-structure during speech comprehension: an electroencephalogram study. Cognitive Neurodynamics, 11, 467-481.
17. Li, X. Q., & Chen Y. Y.* (2015). Representation and Processing of Lexical Tone and Tonal Variants: Evidence from the Mismatch Negativity. PloS One, 12, 1-24.
18. Li, X. Q.*, Zhao, H. Y., Zheng Y. Y., & Yang Y. F. (2015). Two-stage interaction between word order and noun animacy during online thematic processing of sentences in Mandarin Chinese. Language Cognition and Neuroscience, 30, 555-573.
19. Li, X. Q.*, Lu Y., & Zhao, H. Y. (2014). How and when predictability interacts with accentuation in temporally selective attention during speech comprehension. Neuropsychologia, 64, 71-84
20. Li, X. Q.*, Zheng Y. Y., Zhao, H .Y., & Xia J. Y. (2014). How the speed of working memory updating influences the on-line thematic processing of simple sentences in Mandarin Chinese. Cognitive Neurodynamics, 8, 447-464.
21. Li, X. Q.*, Zhao, H. Y., & Lu Y. (2014). The relation between thematic role computing and semantic relatedness processing during on-line sentence comprehension. PloS One, 9, 1-15.
22. Li, X. Q.*, & Yang. Y. F. (2013). How Long-Term Memory and Accentuation Interact during Spoken Language Comprehension. Neuropsychologia, 51, 967-978.
23. Li, X. Q.*, & Ren, G. Q. (2012). How and when accentuation influences temporally selective attention and subsequent semantic processing during on-line spoken language comprehension: An ERP study. Neuropsychologia, 50, 1882-1894.
24. Li, X. Q.*, & Lu, Y. (2011). How accentuation influences semantic short-term memory representations during on-line speech processing: an ERP Study. Neuroscience, 193, 217-228.
25. Li, X. Q., Chen, Y.Y., & Yang, Y. F.* (2011). Immediate integration of different types of prosodic information during on-line spoken language comprehension: An ERP Study. Brain Research, 1386, 139-152.
26. Li, X. Q.*, Yang, Y. F., & Lu, Y. (2010). How and when prosodic boundaries influence syntactic parsing under different discourse contexts: An ERP study. Biological Psychology, 83, 250-259.
27. Li, X. Q., Yang, Y. F.*, & Ren, G. (2009). Immediate integration of prosodic information from speech and visual information from pictures. Neuroscience, 161, 59-66.11.
28. Li, X. Q., Yang, Y. F., & Hagoort, P*. (2008). Pitch accent and lexical tone processing in Chinese discourse comprehension: An ERP study. Brain Research, 1222, 192-200.
29. Li, X. Q., Hagoort, P., & Yang, Y. F.* (2008). Event-related Potential Evidence on the Influence of Accentuation in Spoken Discourse Comprehension in Chinese. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(5), 1-10.
30. Wang, L.*, Li, X. Q., & Yang, Y. F.* (2014). A review on the cognitive function of information structure during language comprehension. Cognitive Neurodynamics.
31. Ren, G., Yang, Y. F.*, Li, X. Q. (2009). Early cortical processing of linguistic pitch patterns as revealed by the mismatch negativity. Neuroscience, 162, 87-95.

中文杂志文章:
1. 李晓庆, 杨玉芳. (2005). 不一致性重读对口语语篇加工中信息激活水平的影响. 心理学报. 37(3), 258-290.
2. 李晓庆, 杨玉芳. (2005). 重读与信息结构对语篇理解加工的影响. 心理学报. 37(1), 34-40.
3. 李晓庆，杨玉芳. (2005). 一致性重读在口语语篇临场加工中的作用。语言科学, 4(5), 36-41.
4. 李晓庆, 杨玉芳. 语篇中指代词的分布规律与心理机制. (2004). 心理科学进展, 12(1), 1-9.
5. Yang, Y.F., Li X.Q. (2004). The Role of Accentuation in Spoken Discourse Comprehension. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 36(4), 393-399. （《心理学报》英文版）

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部分在研项目

2022-2025，中国国家自然科学基金面上项目，基于“韵律特征”理解话语意图的认知神经机制，负责人

部分完成项目

1.国家自然科学基金重点项目，互联网话语理解的心理机制与计算建模，2015.1-2019.12，主要参与人

2.2013-2016，中国国家自然科学基金面上项目，“重读对口语加工中‘时间选择性注意’的调控及其认知神经基础”（31271091），负责人

3. 2009-2011，中国国家自然科学基金青年基金项目，“重读影响口语语篇语义整合的内部机制和时空特点”（30800296），负责人

4. 2007-2009，中国科学院心理研究所青年科学基金，“重读影响口语语篇理解的时间特点和内部机制”，负责人