Academic Staff
- HHB729, Hung Hom Bay Campus
- +852 2766 6982
- jiaqiang.zhu@polyu.edu.hk
SCOPUS IDBiography
Jiaqiang does research in cognitive psychology. He focuses on language and music cognition in different populations, such as individuals with amusia and senior citizens. A variety of techniques are exploited, including psychophysics and electroencephalography. Recently, Jiaqiang explores statistical learning and publishes related scientific papers in Cortex, JSLHR, and JASA.
Education and Academic Qualifications
- PhD in Linguistics, Hunan University, China
Research Interests
Selected Publications
- Zhu, J., Xu, M., & Shao, J. (2026). Individuals with congenital amusia show degraded performance in a nonword repetition task with lexical tones. Cortex, 196, 140–154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2025.11.017
- Zhu, J., Chen, X., Chen, F., Zhang, C., Shao, J., & Wiener, S. (2023). Distributional learning of musical pitch despite tone deafness in individuals with congenital amusia. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 153(5), 3117–3129. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0019472
- Zhu, J., Shao, J., Chen, F., Zhang, C., & Wiener, S. (2023). Statistical information affects spoken word recognition of tone languages in stutterers: Evidence from an auditory-perceptual gating study. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66(9), 3382–3398. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_JSLHR-23-00123
- Zhang, L., Zhu, J.*, Shao, J., & Zhang, C.* (2024). The combined effects of bilingualism and musicianship on listeners’ perception of non-native lexical tones. Speech Communication, 165, Article 103147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2024.103147
- Zhou, J., Tang, Y.*, Zhu, J.*, & Chen, X. (2025). Sequence makes a difference: Effects of differential blended instructions on English word stress identification by Chinese teenager learners. Language Teaching Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/13621688251378445
