Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- mingyuan.chu@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 273940
- Office Address
School of Psychology
William Guild Building
Room T10
Kings College
Old Aberdeen
AB24 3FX- School/Department
- School of Psychology
Qualifications
- PhD Psychology2008 - University of Birmingham
- MSc in Neuropsychology2005 - University of Bristol
- BSc in Applied Psychology2004 - Nankai University
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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Senior personal tutor
International exchange officer
- External Memberships
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Editorial Board member for GESTURE
Member of Experimental Psychology Society
Member of International Society for Gesture Studies
- Research
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Research Overview
People spontaneously produce nonverbal behaviours, such as facial expressions, gestures, and body postures, in everyday communication. These body movements play a crucial role in facilitating our spatial thinking and language processing. My research focuses on 1) the mechanisms underlying the interaction between the language and action systems; 2) how hand movements facilitate problem solving and language processing; 3) how gestures facilitate pragmatic and emotional processing during language comprehension; and 4) individual differences in gesture and speech. To address these issues, I combine multiple methodologies, including electrophysiological (EEG), virtual reality, motion tracking, eye tracking, and behavioural experimentation.
Funding and Grants
2022-2023 EPS Small Grant (PI: Mingyuan Chu)
2020-2022 Leverhulm Research Project Grant (PI: Mingyuan Chu)
2020 EPS Symposium Grant (PI: Mingyuan Chu)
2019 Research Enhancement Scheme, University of Aberdeen (PI: Mingyuan Chu)
2018-2019 EPS Small Research Grant (PI: Mingyuan Chu)
2018-2019 Carnegie Incentive Grant (PI: Mingyuan Chu)
2016-2018 British Academy Small Grant. (PI: Mingyuan Chu)
2007 Experimental Psychology Society Grindley Grant
2006-2008 School PhD Scholarship, University of Birmingham
2005-2006 Departmental PhD Scholarship, University of Bristol
2005-2008 Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
Level 2 Advanced Psychology A - Concepts And Theory
Level 3 Methodology A
Level 3 Methodology B
Level 3 Memory and Language
Level 4 Current Topics in Psychological Studies
- Publications
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Cross-cultural Differences in Using Nonverbal Behaviors to Identify Indirect Replies
Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 323-344Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIndividual differences in representational gesture production are associated with cognitive and empathy skills
Quarterly Journal of Experimental PsychologyContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241245831
Subliminal perception of others’ physical pain induces personal distress rather than empathic concern
BMC Psychology, vol. 11, no. 1, 276Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEncoding and decoding hidden meanings in face-to-face communication: Understanding the role of verbal and nonverbal behaviors in indirect replies.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: GeneralContributions to Journals: ArticlesIndividual Differences in Conversational Self-Touch Frequency Correlate with State Anxiety
Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 299-319Contributions to Journals: ArticlesFunctional organization of the ventral occipitotemporal regions for Chinese orthographic processing
Journal of Neurolinguistics, vol. 55, 100909Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2020.100909
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Intrinsic Cerebro-Cerebellar Functional Connectivity Reveals the Function of Cerebellum VI in Reading-Related Skills
Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 11, 420Contributions to Journals: ArticlesGraph theoretical analysis of functional network for comprehension of sign language
Brain Research, vol. 1671, pp. 55-66Contributions to Journals: ArticlesHow Do Gestures Influence Thinking and Speaking? The Gesture-for-Conceptualization Hypothesis.
Psychological Review, vol. 124, no. 3, pp. 245-266Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBeat that Word: How Listeners Integrate Beat Gesture and Focus in Multimodal Speech Discourse
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 28, no. 9, pp. 1255-1269Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00963
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/8363/3/jocn_a_00963.pdf
Co-thought and Co-speech Gestures Are Generated by the Same Action Generation Process
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 257-270Contributions to Journals: ArticlesElectrophysiological and kinematic correlates of communicative intent in the planning and production of pointing gestures and speech
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 27, no. 12, pp. 2352-2368Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00865
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/5591/1/jocn_a_00865.pdf
Applying Pattern-based Classification to Sequences of Gestures
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsSynchronization of Speech and Gesture: Evidence for Interaction in Action
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol. 143, no. 4, pp. 1726-1741Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIndividual Differences in Frequency and Saliency of Speech-Accompanying Gestures: The Role of Cognitive Abilities and Empathy
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol. 143, no. 2, pp. 694-709Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe role of beat gesture and pitch accent in semantic processing: An ERP study
Neuropsychologia, vol. 51, no. 13, pp. 2847-2855Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPointing as an Instrumental Gesture: Gaze Representation Through Indication
Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, vol. 24, pp. 125-150Contributions to Journals: ArticlesGetting to the point: The influence of communicative intent on the kinematics of pointing gestures
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsThe nature of gestures’ beneficial role in spatial problem solving
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol. 140, no. 1, pp. 102-116Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMicrogenesis of gestures during mental rotation tasks recapitulates ontogenesis
Integrating Gestures: The Interdisciplinary Nature of Gesture. John Benjamins Pub., pp. 267-276, 10 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersCo-speech gestures do not originate from speech production processes: evidence from the relationship between co-thought and co-speech gestures
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsSpontaneous gestures during mental rotation tasks: insights into the microdevelopment of the motor strategy
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol. 137, no. 4, pp. 706-723Contributions to Journals: Articles