Kehui Zhang

Kehui Zhang is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Practice in Psychology and Neuroscience at NYU Shanghai. She holds Ph.D, M.S. and M.A. degrees from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, and a B.S. degree from the Pennsylvania State University.

Kehui is broadly interested in human language and literacy acquisition. Her research aims to explore the universal and language-specific skills that children need to learn languages across different cultures and investigates how bilingualism influence language and literacy development. Additionally, she is also interested in understanding the mechanisms behind reading disabilities, such as dyslexia, and effective interventions to support language learning in children. Kehui’s research incorporates both behavioral and brain imaging techniques, such as functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) and structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI & sMRI) to unravel the neuro-cognitive processes involved in reading acquisition.

Select Publications

• Zhang, K.H, Sun, X., Yu, C.L., Kovelman I., Cross-linguistic transfer in bilingual children’s phonological and morphological awareness skills - A longitudinal perspective. (2024). Bilingualism Language and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728924000439
• Kou J.W., Fan, L.Y., Chen, H.C., Chen, S.Y., Hu, X.S., Zhang, K.H., Kovelman, I., Chou, T.L., Neural substrates of L2-L1 transfer effect on phonological awareness in young Chinese-English bilingual children. (2024) Neuroimage. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120592
• Zhang, K.H, Sun, X., Yu, C. L., Eggleston, R., Marks, R., Nickerson, N., Chou, T.L., Hu, X.S., Booth, J., Tardif, T., Satterfield, T., & Kovelman, I. (2023). Phonological and morphological literacy skills in English and Chinese: A cross- linguistic neuroimaging comparison of Chinese-English bilingual and monolingual English children”. Human Brain Mapping. http://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26419
• Sun, X., Zhang, K.H, Marks, R. A., Nickerson N., Eggleston, R., Yu, C-L., Chou, T-L., Tardif, T., Kovelman, I., (2022). What’s in a word? Cross-linguistic influences on Spanish-English and Chinese-English bilingual children’s word reading development. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13666 

• Zhang, K.H, Eggleston., R.L., Kovelman I. (2022). Brain imaging methods and bilingual readers and writers. The Routledge Handbook of International Research on Writing. https//doi:10.4324/9780429437991-46

   

Education

• PhD, Education and Psychology
  University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
• MS, Psychology
  University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
• MA, Education
  University of Michigan – Ann Arbor