Jin Wang (王琎)
Assistant Professor
Jin Wang joins the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies as an assistant professor of education. Her research employs a combination of behavioral assessments and neuroimaging techniques (fMRI, MRI, and DTI), using both cross-sectional and longitudinal designs, to examine individual differences in the development of the linguistic brain and its influence on academic achievement. Her research goal is to construct a neurocognitive model that interprets the underlying mechanisms of language (i.e., phonological, semantic, and syntactic) development during children’s first ten years of life and how these various linguistic processes are associated with reading and math skills.
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Areas of Expertise and Advising Interests
Titles and Positions
- Assistant Professor, Department of Education
Education
- Ph.D. Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 2022
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Select Publications
- Jin Wang, James R. Booth, Development and disorders of phonological processing in the brain, Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology, Elsevier, 2024, , ISBN 9780128093245.
- Wang, J., Joanisse, M. F., & Booth, J. R. (2023). Learning to Read Strengthens Functional Connectivity Between the Ventral Occipitotemporal Cortex and the Superior Temporal Gyrus During an Auditory Phonological Awareness Task. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66(11), 4532-4546.
- Wang, J., Tong, F., Joanisse, M. F., & Booth, J. R. (2023). A sculpting effect of reading on later representational quality of phonology revealed by multi-voxel pattern analysis in young children. Brain and language, 239, 105252.
- Wang, J., Pines, J., Joanisse, M., & Booth, J. R. (2021). Reciprocal relations between reading skill and the neural basis of phonological awareness in 7-to 9-year-old children. NeuroImage, 236, 118083.
- Wang, J., Joanisse, M. F., & Booth, J. R. (2020). Neural representations of phonology in temporal cortex scaffold longitudinal reading gains in 5-to 7-year-old children. NeuroImage, 207, 116359.
- Wang, J., Deng, Y., & Booth, J. R. (2019). Automatic semantic influence on early visual word recognition in the ventral occipito-temporal cortex. Neuropsychologia, 133, 107188.
- Wang, J., Yamasaki, B. L., & Booth, J. R. (2023). Phonological and semantic specialization in 9-to 10-year-old children during auditory word processing. Neurobiology of Language, 4(2), 297-317.
- Wang, J., Yamasaki, B. L., Weiss, Y., & Booth, J. R. (2021). Both frontal and temporal cortex exhibit phonological and semantic specialization during spoken language processing in 7‐to 8‐year‐old children. Human Brain Mapping, 42(11), 3534-3546.
- Wang, J., Wagley, N., Rice, M. L., & Booth, J. R. (2021). Semantic and syntactic specialization during auditory sentence processing in 7-8-year-old children. Cortex, 145, 169-186.
- Wang, J., Rice, M. L., & Booth, J. R. (2020). Syntactic and semantic specialization and integration in 5-to 6-year-old children during auditory sentence processing. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 32(1), 36-49.