Dr. Chuanji Gao is a professor and principal investigator at the School of Psychology in Nanjing Normal University (NJNU). Prior to coming to NJNU, Dr. Gao completed his postdoctoral training (2020-2022) at Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, following a five-year PhD training at the Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina (2015-2020).

 

Contact

chuanji.gao@outlook.com

 

Research projects

National Natural Science Foundation of China (2024-2026, PI)

National Overseas Postdoctoral Talent Program (2024-2026, PI)

 

Journal Articles (selected, * indicates the corresponding author)

Gao, C. ^*, Ajith, S., & Peelen, M. V. ^* (2025). Object representations drive emotion schemas across a large and diverse set of daily-life scenes. Communications Biology, 8(1), 697.

Gao, C. ^*, Oh, S., Yang, X., Stanley, J. M., & Shinkareva, S. V. ^* (2024). Neural representations of emotions in visual, auditory, and modality‐independent regions reflect idiosyncratic conceptual knowledge. Human Brain Mapping, 45(14), e70040.

Gao, C., Ren, J., Sakaki, M., & Jia, X. ^* (2024). Memory enhancement for emotional words is attributed to both valence and arousal. Acta Psychologica, 246, 104249.

Gao, C., Hayes, W. M., LaPierre, M., & Shinkareva, S. V. ^* (2023). The effect of auditory valence on subsequent visual semantic processing. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1-11.

Gao, C. ^*, Green, J. J., Yang, X., Oh, S., Kim, J., & Shinkareva, S. V. ^* (2023). Audiovisual integration in the human brain: a coordinate-based meta-analysis. Cerebral Cortex, 33(9), 5574-5584.

Gao, C., Shinkareva, S. V. ^*, & Desai, R. H. ^* (2023). SCOPE: The South Carolina Psycholinguistic Metabase. Behavior Research Methods, 55(6), 2853-2884.

Gao, C. ^*, Shinkareva, S. V., & Peelen, M. V. (2022). Affective valence of words differentially affects visual and auditory word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(9), 2144–2159.

Gao, C., Wedell, D. H., & Shinkareva, S. V. ^* (2022). Crossmodal negativity bias in semantic processing. Emotion, 22(6), 1270.

Gao, C., Wedell, D. H., & Shinkareva, S. V. ^* (2021). Evaluating non-affective cross-modal congruence effects on emotion perception. Cognition and Emotion, 35(8), 1634-1651.

Gao, C., & Shinkareva, S. V. ^* (2021). Modality-general and modality-specific audiovisual valence processing. Cortex, 138, 127-137.

Gao, C., Xie, W., Green, J. J., Wedell, D. H., Jia, X., Guo, C. ^*, & Shinkareva, S. V. ^* (2021). Evoked and induced power oscillations linked to audiovisual integration of affect. Biological Psychology, 158, 108006.

Gao, C., Weber, C. E., Wedell, D. H., & Shinkareva, S. V. ^* (2020). An fMRI study of affective congruence across visual and auditory modalities. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32(7), 1251-1262.

Gao, C. ^*, Shi, D., & Maydeu-Olivares, A. (2020). Estimating the maximum likelihood root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA) with non-normal data: A Monte-Carlo study. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 27(2), 192-201.

Gao, C., Weber, C. E., & Shinkareva, S. V. ^* (2019). The brain basis of audiovisual affective processing: Evidence from a coordinate-based activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis. Cortex, 120, 66-77.

Gao, C., Baucom, L. B., Kim, J., Wang, J., Wedell, D. H., & Shinkareva, S. V. ^* (2019). Distinguishing abstract from concrete concepts in supramodal brain regions. Neuropsychologia, 131, 102-110.

Gao, C., Conte, S., Richards, J. E. ^*, Xie, W., & Hanayik, T. (2019). The neural sources of N170: Understanding timing of activation in face‐selective areas. Psychophysiology, 56(6), e13336.

Gao, C., Wedell, D. H., Green, J. J., Jia, X., Mao, X., Guo, C., & Shinkareva, S. V. ^* (2018). Temporal dynamics of audiovisual affective processing. Biological Psychology, 139, 59-72.

Gao, C., Wedell, D. H., Kim, J., Weber, C. E., & Shinkareva, S. V. ^* (2018). Modeling audiovisual integration of affect from videos and music. Cognition and Emotion, 32(3), 516-529.