Kehui Zhang

Kehui Zhang
Visiting Assistant Professor of Practice in Psychology, NYU Shanghai
Email
kehui.z@nyu.edu
Room
N818

Kehui Zhang is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Practice in Psychology at NYU Shanghai. She holds PhD, MS and MA degrees from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, and a BS degree from the Pennsylvania State University.

Kehui is broadly interested in human language and literacy acquisition. Her research aims to explore the universal land language-specific skills that children need to learn a language across difficult 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) 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.
  • 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
  • Sun, X., Marks, R., Zhang, K.H., Yu, C. L., Eggleston, R., Nickerson, N., Chou, T.L., Hu, X.S., Tardif, T., Satterfield, T., & Kovelman, I. (2022). Brain bases of English morphological processing: A comparison between Chinese-English, Spanish-English bilingual, and English monolingual children. Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13251
  • Marks, R. A., Eggleston, R., Sun, X., Yu, C. L., Zhang, K.H., Nickerson, N., Hu, X., & Kovelman, I. (2021). The neurobiological basis of morphological processing for typical and impaired readers. Annals of Dyslexia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11881-021-00239-9

Education

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

Research Interests

  • Bilingualism
  • Dyslexia
  • Language and literacy acquisition
  • Neuro-cognitive mechanism underlying language and reading

Courses Taught

  • Introduction to Psychology
  • Cognitive Psychology