Campus Address: Department of Psychology and Social Behavior

Chuansheng Chen

CURRICULUM VITAE / Last update:
Feb. 4, 2015

Campus address: Department of Psychology and Social Behavior

4566 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

University of California

Irvine, California 92697-7085

Tel. 949-824-4184 Fax. 949-824-3002

E-mail:

Education

University of Michigan, Ph.D., 1992 (Developmental Psychology)

University of Michigan, M.A., 1987 (Developmental Psychology)

Beijing Normal University, 1982-1984 (Graduate Program in Psychology)

Hangzhou University (now Zhejiang University), B.S., 1982 (Psychology)

Employment

Chancellor’s Professor, Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California, Irvine, 2014-present

Professor, Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California, Irvine, 2005-present

Professor (without-salary appointment), Department of Education, University of California, Irvine, 2005-present

Adjunct Professor, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Dec. 2004-present

Member, John S. and Marilyn Long U.S.-China Institute for Business and Law, University of California, Irvine, 2013-present

Member, Center for Language Science, University of California, Irvine, 2011-present

Member, Center for Asian Studies, University of California, Irvine, 1998-present

Member, Center of Cognitive Neuroscience and Engineering, University of California, Irvine, 2006-present

Member, Center for Learning Through the Arts (formerly Da Vinci Center for Learning Through the Arts and Center for Arts Research in Education), University of California, Irvine, 2001-2007

Affiliated Member, Social Dynamics and Complexity (formerly Social Dynamics and Evolution), 2004-2007

Chair, Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California, Irvine, July, 2001-June, 2004

Associate Professor, Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California, Irvine, 1996-2005

Assistant Professor, Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California, Irvine, 1992-1996

Affiliated Faculty, Asian American Studies Program, University of California, Irvine, 1994-1999

Research Assistant and Research Associate, Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan, 1985 - 1992

Publications

Google Scholar Indices (Feb. 4, 2015):

Total citations: 8456 (3924 since 2010)

h-index = 44 (35 since 2010)

i-10 index = 98 (90 since 2010)

2015 and In press

Lu, Y., Wang, C., Chen, C., & Xue, G. (in press). Spatiotemporal neural pattern similarity supports episodic memory. Current Biology.

Mei, L., Xue, G., Lu, Z., Chen, C., Wei, M., He, Q., & Dong, Q. (in press).Long-term experience with Chinese language shapes the fusiform asymmetry of English reading. NeuroImage.

Hou, J., Chen, C., & Dong, Q. (in press). Resting-state functional connectivity and pitch identification ability in non-musicians. Frontiers in Neuroscience.

Chen, Chuansheng, Moyzis, R.K., Lei, X., Chen, Chunhui, & Dong,Q. (in press). The “encultured” genome: Molecular evidence for recent divergent evolution in human neurotransmitter genes. In J. Chiao, Li, S., Seligman, R., & Turner, R. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Neuroscience. New York: Oxford University Press.

Li, M., Luo, X., Landen, M., Bergen, S., Hultman, C., Li, X., Zhang, W., Yao, Y., Zhang, C., Liu, J., Mattheisen, M., Cichon, S., Muhleisen, T., Degenhardt, F., Nothen, M., Schulze, T., Grigoroiu-Serbanescu, M., Li, H., Fuller, C., Chen, C., Dong, Q., Chen, C., Jamain, S., Leboyer, M., Bellivier, F., Etain, B., Kahn, J-P., Henry C., Preisig, M., Kutalik, Z., Castelao, E., Wright, A., Mitchell, P., Fullerton, J., Schofield, P., Montgomery, G., Medland, S., Gordon, S., Martin, N., Rietschel, M., Liu, C., Kleinman, J., Hyde, T., Weinberger, D., & Su, B. (in press). Impact of a cis-associated gene expression SNP in 20q11.22 on bipolar disorder susceptibility, hippocampal structure and cognitive performance. British Journal of Psychiatry.

Zhang, Z., Chen, X, Yu, P., Zhang, Q., Sun, X., Gu, H., Zhang, H., Zhai, J., Chen, M., Du, B., Deng, X., Ji, F., Wang, C., Xiang, Y., Li, D., Wu, H., Li, J., Dong, Q., & Chen, C. (in press). Evidence for the contribution of NOS1 gene polymorphism (rs3782206) to prefrontal function in schizophrenia patients and healthy controls. Neuropsychopharmacology.

Chen, Chunhui, Liu, C., Chen, Chuansheng, Moyzis, R.K., Chen, W., & Dong,Q. (2015). Genetic variations in the serotoninergic system and environmental factors contribute to aggressive behavior in Chinese adolescents. Physiology & Behavior, 138, 62-68.

He, Q., Chen, Chuansheng, Dong, Q., Xue, G., Chen, Chunhui, Lu, Z., Bechara, A. (2015). Gray and white matter structures in the midcingulate cortex region contribute to body mass index in Chinese young adults. Brain Structure and Function, 220, 319-329. DOI 10.1007/s00429-013-0657-9

Kang, H., Chang, K., Greenberger, E., & Chen, C. (2015). Locus of control and peer relationships among Caucasian, Hispanic, Asian, and African American adolescents. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 44, 184-194. DOI:10.1007/s10964-013-0083-6

Zhu, B., Chen, C., Moyzis, R. K., Dong, Q., & Lin, C. (2015). Educational attainment-related loci identified by GWAS are associated with select personality traits and mathematics and language abilities. Personality and Individual Differences, 72, 96-100.

2014

Mei, L., Xue, G., Lu, Z., Chen, C., Zhang, M., He, Q., Wei, M., & Dong, Q. (2014). Learning to read words in a new language shapes the neural organization of the prior languages. Neuropsychologia, 65, 156-168.

Li, H., Lv, C., Zhang, T., Chen, K., Chen, C., Gai, G., Hu, L., Wang, Y., Zhang, Z. (2014). Trajectories of age-related cognitive decline and potential associated factors of cognitive function in senior citizens of Beijing. Current Alzheimer Research, 11, 806-816.

Li, J., Camras, L., Tan, T., & Moyzis, R. (2014). MAOA and behavioral adjustment in internationally adopted Chinese girls. Psychiatric Genetics. 24, 211-217.

Li, M., Ohi, K., Chen, Chunhui, He, Q., Liu, J., Chen, Chuansheng, Luo, X., Dong, Q., Hashimoto, R., Su, B. (2014). Failure of replicating the association between hippocampal volume and 3 single-nucleotide polymorphisms identified from the European genome-wide association study in Asian populations. Neurobiology of aging. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2014.07.015

Wu, K., Chen, C., & Greenberger, E. (2014). The sweetness of forbidden fruit: interracial daters are more attractive than intraracial daters. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, doi: 10.1177/0265407514541074.

Ying, L., Lin, C., Chen, C., Greenberger, E., Wu, X., & Jiang, L. (2014). The relationship between posttraumatic stress symptoms and suicidal ideation among child survivors following the Wenchuan earthquake. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior.

Zhang, M., Chen, Chuansheng, Xue, G., Lu, Z., Mei, L., Xue, H., Wei, M., He, Q., Li, J., & Dong, Q. (2014). Language-general and –specific white matter microstructural bases for reading. NeuroImage. 98, 435-441. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.04.080

Zhu, B., Chen, C., Xue, G., Lei, X., Li, J., Moyzis, R. K., Dong, Q., & Lin, C. (2014). The GABRB1 gene is associated with thalamus volume and modulates the association between thalamus volume and intelligence. NeuroImage, 102, 756-763.

Mei, L., Xue, G., Lu, Z.-L., He, Q., Zhang, M., Wei, M., Xue, F., Chen, C., & Dong, Q. (2014). Artificial language training reveals the neural substrates underlying addressed and assembled phonologies. PLoS ONE, 9(3): e93548. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0093548

Liu C., Lai, W., Yu, G., &, Chen, C. (2014). The individual and collective facets of pride in Chinese college students. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 36, 176-189. Doi: 10.1080/01973533.2014.883516

Kang, H., Haddad, E., Chen, C., & Greenberger, E. (2014). Limited English proficiency and socioemotional well-being among Asian and Hispanic children from immigrant families. Early Education and Development, 25, 915-931. DOI: 10.1080/10409289.2014.883664

Hou, J. Chen, C., Wang, Y., Liu, Y., He, Q., Li, J., & Dong, Q. (2014). Superior pitch identification ability is associated with better executive functions. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind & Brain, 24, 136-146.

Luo, X., Li, M., Huang, L., Steinberg, S., Mattheisen, M., Donohoe, G., Shi, Y., Chen, Chuansheng, Yue, W., Alkelai, A., Lerer, B., Li, Z., Yi, Q., Rietschel, M., Cichon, S., Collier, D. A., Tosato, S., Suvisaari, J., Rujescu, D., Golimbet, V., Silagadze, T., Durmishi, N., Milovancevic, M. P., Stefansson, H., Schulze, T. G., Nöthen, M. M. Chen, Chunhui, Zhang, D., Dong, Q., Moyzis, R. K., Sigurdsson, E., Stefansson, K., Hu, F., MooDS SCZ Consortium, Gan, L. (2014). Convergent lines of evidence support CAMKK2 as a schizophrenia susceptibility gene. Molecular Psychiatry, 19, 774–783. doi:10.1038/mp.2013.103

He, Q., Xue, G., Chen, Chunhui, Dong, Qi., & Chen, Chuansheng. (2014). The role of genes in risky decision making. Advances in Psychological Science (in Chinese), 22, 1-14. DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1042.2014.00001.

Reprinted in Psychology, 2014, 2, Information Center for Social Sciences, Renmin University.

Liu, Q., Dong, Chen, C., & Xue, G. (2014). Neural processes during encoding support durable memory. NeuroImage, 88, 1-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.11.031

Zhu, B., Chen, Chuansheng, Xue, G., Moyzis, R. K., Dong, Q., Chen, Chunhui, Li, J., He, Q., Lei, X., Wang, Y., & Lin, C. (2014). The SEMA5A gene is associated with hippocampal volume, and their interaction is associated with performance on Raven's Progressive Matrices. NeuroImage, 88, 181-187. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.11.035

Zhang, M., Li, J., Chen, Chuansheng, Xue, G., Lu, Z., Mei, L., Xue, H., Xue, F., He, Q., Chen, Chunhui, Wei, M., & Dong, Q. (2014). Resting-state functional connectivity and reading abilities in first and second languages. NeuroImage, 84, 546-553. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.09.006

Yang, T., Chen, Chuansheng., Zhou, X., Xu, J., Dong, Q., & Chen, Chunhui (2014). Developmental of spatial representation of numbers: A study of the SNARC effect in Chinese children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 117, 1-11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2013.08.011

Lei, X., Chen, Chuansheng, Xue, F., He, Q., Chen, Chunhui, Liu, Q., Moyzis, R. K., Xue, G., Li, J., Li, H., Zhu, B., Cao, Z., Liu, Y., Hsu, A. S., Li, J., & Dong, Q. (2014). Fiber connectivity between the striatum and cortical and subcortical regions is associated with temperaments in Chinese males. NeuroImage, 89, 226-234. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.04.043

Ying, L., Lin, C., Wu, X., Chen, C., Greenberger, E., & An, Y. (2014). Trauma severity and control beliefs as predictors of posttraumatic growth among adolescent survivors of the Wenchuan earthquake. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 6, 192-198. doi:10.1037/a0031964

Wei, W., Chen, C., & Zhou, X. (2014). Dissociated neural correlates of quantity processing of quantifiers, numbers, and numerosities. Human Brain Mapping, 35, 444-454. DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22190

2013

Cheng, D., Zhou, A., Yu, X., Chen, C., Jia, J., & Zhou, X. (2013). Quantifier processing can be dissociated from numerical processing: Evidence from semantic dementia patients. Neuropsychologia, 51, 2172-2183.

Xue G, Chen C, Mei L, Lu Z, Dong Q. (2013). The Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning to Read. In Yuejia Luo & Zhonglin Lu (Eds). Progress in Cognitive Sciences (pp. 231-271). Peking University Press: Beijing.

Cui, J., Yu, X., Yang, H., Chen, C., Liang, P., & Zhou, X. (2013). Neural correlates of quantity processing of numerical classifiers. Neuropsychology, 27, 583-594. 10.1037/a0033630

Zhu, B., Chen, C., Loftus, E. F., Moyzis, R. K., Dong, Q., & Lin, C. (2013). True but not false memories are associated with the HTR2A gene. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 106, 204-209.

He, Q., Xue, G., Chen, Chunhui, Chen, Chuansheng, Lu, Z., & Dong, Q. (2013). Decoding the neuroanatomical basis of reading ability: A multivoxel morphametric study. Journal of Neuroscience, 33, 12835-12843.

Xu, X., Chen, C., Pan, M., & Li, N. (2013). Development of numerical estimation in Chinese preschool children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 116, 351-366.

Zhu, B., Chen, C., Loftus, E., Lin, C., & Dong, Q. (2013). The relationship between DRM and misinformation false memories. Memory and Cognition, 41, 832-838. Doi: 10.3758/s13421-013-0300-2.

Zhu, B., Chen, Chuansheng, Moyzis, R., K., Lin, C., Dong, Q., He, Q., Chen, Chunhui, & Li, J. (2013). Interaction effects of 5-HTTLPR, gender, and family socioeconomic status on facial expression recognition in Chinese college students. Psychological Development and Education (in Chinese), 2, 131-138.

Wang, Y., Li, J., Chen, Chuansheng, Chen, Chunhui, Zhu, B., Moyzis, R., Lei, X., Li, H., Liu, Q., Xiu, D., Liu, B., Chen, W., Xue, G., & Dong, Q. (2013). COMT rs4680 Met is not always the “smart allele”: Val allele is associated with better working memory and larger hippocampal volume in healthy Chinese. Genes, Brain and Behavior, 12, 323-329. doi: 10.1111/gbb.12022

Ying, L., Wu, X., Lin, C., & Chen, C. (2013). Prevalence and predictors of posttraumatic stress disorder and depressive symptoms among child survivors 1 year following the Wenchuan earthquake in China. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 22, 567-575. Doi: 10.1007/s00787-013-0400-3.

Gu, H., Liu, Cui., Liu, Chuanxin, Chen, M., Zhang, Q., Zhai, J., Wang, K., Ji, F., Xu, Z., Sheng, Q., Bao, X., Chen, X., Li, J., Dong, Q., & Chen, C. (2013). The combined effects of the 5-HTTLPR and HTR1A rs6295 polymorphisms modulate decision making in schizophrenia patients. Genes, Brain and Behavior, 12, 133-139. doi: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2012.00866.x

Chen, Chuansheng, Chen, Chunhui, Moyzis, R., He, Q., Lei, X., Li, J., Zhu, B., Xue, G., & Dong, Q. (2013). Genotypes over-represented among college students are linked to better cognitive abilities and socioemotional adjustment. Culture and Brain, 1, 47-63. DOI 10.1007/s40167-013-0003-3

Mei, L., Xue, G., Lu, Z., He, Q., Zhang, M., Xue, F., Chen, C., & Dong, Q. (2013). Orthographic transparency modulates the functional asymmetry in the fusiform cortex: An artificial language training study. Brain and Language, 125, 165-172. DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.01.006

Chen, Chunhui, Chen, W., Chen, Chuansheng, Moyzis, R., He, Q., Lei, X., Li, J., Wang, Y., Liu, B., Xiu, D., Zhu, B., & Dong, Q. (2013). Genetic variations in the serotonergic system contribute to body-mass index in Chinese adolescents. PloS ONE, 8, e58717. Doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0058717.

Zhu, B., Chen, Chuansheng, Moyzis, R., K., Dong, Q., Chen, Chunhui, He, Q., Li, Ji, Li, Jun, Lei, X., & Lin, C. (2013). The DOPA decarboxylase (DDC) gene is associated with alerting attention. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 43, 140-145. Doi: id.1076/j.mpbp2012.12.020.

Zhang, M., Li, J., Chen, Chuansheng, Mei, L., Xue, G., Lu, Z., Chen, Chunhui, He, Q., Wei, M., & Dong, Q. (2013). The contribution of the left mid-fusiform cortical thickness to Chinese and English reading in a large Chinese sample. NeuroImage, 65, 250-256. Doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.09.045

Grady, D., Thanos, P., Corrada, M., Barnett, J., Ciobanu, V., Shustarovich, D., Napoli, A., Grandy, D., Moyzis, A., Rubinstein, M., Wang, G.-J., Kawas, C., Chen, C., Dong, Q., Wang, E., Volkow, N., & Moyzis, R. (2013). DRD4 genotype predicts longevity in mouse and human. Journal of Neuroscience, 33, 286-291. DOI:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3515-12.2013

Li, J., Chen, Chuansheng, Lei, X., Wang, Y., Chen, Chunhui, He, Q., Moyzis, R.K., Xue, G., Zhu, B. Cao, Z., & Dong, Q. (2013). The NTSR1 gene modulates the association between hippocampal structure and working memory performance. NeuroImage, 75, 79-86.

Xue, G., Dong, Q., Chen, C., Lu, Z., Mumford, J., & Poldrack, R. (2013). Complementary role of frontoparietal activity and cortical pattern similarity in successful episodic memory encoding. Cerebral Cortex, 23, 1562-1571. DOI:10.1093/cercor/bhs143