Yu Wenbo, (1989-)，born in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, Ph.D. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Lecturer in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. My research focuses on cognitive processing of language, primarily the mechanisms about dialogue and statistical learning. I encourage students to engage in research which is interesting, scientific, and valuable.
Courses: General Psychology, Psycholinguistics, Experimental design of Psycholinguistics, Data Science and Data Aesthetics Based on R.
Professional Affiliations: Reviewer of International Journal of Applied Linguistics and Translation, Acta Psychologica Sinica, Advances in Psychological Science
E-mail：yuwenbo0803@163.com
1. Education and Working Experience：
2008.09-2012.06，Harbin Normal University, B.Sc. in Psychology
2012.09-2015.06，Nanjing Normal University, M.Ed. in Psychology
2015.07-2016.09，Beijing Beisen Cloud Computing Co., Ltd., Research and Development Specialist for Talent Assessment Products
2017.09-2020.09，Nanjing Normal University, Ph.D in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
2021.03-， Nanjing Normal University, Lecturer in School of Chinese Language and Culture
2. Research focus: dialogue
The use of language is the most typical cooperative phenomenon among humans. In conversation, how do individuals sustain this cooperative behavior? What are the differences in conversational mechanisms among people with different personalities? What are the specific conversational characteristics of special populations, such as autistic children? We aim to explore related issues with various psycholinguistics methods, such as eye-tracking and fNIRS.
2.1 Projects on dialogue
(1) Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education Youth Project: Developmental perspective on the behavioral and neural correlates of conversational synchrony of Mandarin-speaking children with high-functioning autism, Host, 2023.09—2025.12
(2) Jiangsu Province Social Science Fund Youth Project: Neural mechanisms underlying turn-taking processing of Mandarin-speaking children with high-functioning autism, Host, 2023.09—2025.12
(3) National Social Science Fund Key Project: Pragmatic reasoning research on high-functioning autistic children in Chinese, Participation, The project has been completed, and the completion level is: Good.
2.2 Selected Publications on dialogue
(1) Yu Wenbo, Liang Dandan, (2025), The cognitive mechanism of turn-taking，Contemporary Linguistics.
(2) Yu Wenbo, Fan Rong, Pan Wanke, He Yi, Liang Dandan. (2024). Silent but Audible — The Timing Effect of Turn-Taking in Interlocutors’ Attitude Judgment, ChinaXivID: T202408.00308.
(3) Yu, Wenbo, Cheng, Min, & Liang, Dandan. (2023). The link between the factuality of verb and the theory of mind ability of Mandarin-speaking children with high-functioning autism. International journal of language & communication disorders, 58: 1927-1938.
(4) Yu Wenbo, Wang Han, Liang Dandan, (2019), The Influence of Verbs’ Implicit Causality on Pronouns Processing of 5~7 Years Old Mandarin-Speaking Children with High Functioning Autism, Journal of Psychological Science, 42(3): 577-583.
3. Research focus: statistical learning
Extracting probabilistic relationships among linguistic symbols is a fundamental ability of the human brain, and it directly affects various aspects of language acquisition. What kind of approach should be adopted to measure statistical learning ability? How statistical learning are related to second language acquisition? We attempt to explore the differences in measuring statistical learning ability with different paradigms, as well as conduct research on natural language.
3.1 Projects on statistical learning
(1) General Projects of Philosophy and Social Science Research in Colleges and Universities in Jiangsu Province: The predictive effect of statistical knowledge modification on reading skills in statistical learning, Host, 2022.07—2025.06
(2) Nanjing Normal University Research Initiation Project: A Cognitive Mechanism Study of Statistical Learning in Speech, Host, 2021.06—2024.06
(3) Jiangsu Province Graduate Research and Practice Innovation Program: The Role of Probabilistic Information as a Cue in Spoken Word Segmentation, Host, 2019—2020
3.2 Selected Publications on statistical learning
(1) Yu Wenbo, Wang Lu, Cheng Xingyue, Wang Tianlin, Zhang Jingjing, Liang Dandan. (2021).The influence of linguistic experience on statistical word segmentation，Advances in Psychological Science, 29(05):787-795.
(2) Yu Wenbo, Wang Lu, Qu Xingfang, Wang Tianlin, Zhang Jingjing, Liang Dandan. (2021). Transitional probabilities and expectation for word length impact verbal statistical learning, Acta Psychologica Sinica, 53(06):565-574, Yu Wenbo and Wang Lu are co-first authors.【This article has been fully reproduced in the REN DA FU YIN ZI LIAO】
(3) Yu Wenbo, Fan Ping, Yu Jiayu, Liang Dandan. (2019). The Study of the Rhythmic Grouping Perception on Chinese Mandarin, Journal of Psychological Science, 42(2)：293-298.
(4) Wang, Lu, Yu, Wenbo, Peng, Yiran, & Liang, Dandan. (2024). Examining the role of distributional information and structural types in multiword sequence processing by Chinese preschool children. International Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 11(1), 56-93.
(5) Tang Mingyue, Yu Wenbo, Liang Dandan. (2024). A Study of the Development of phonological awareness and orthographic awareness in children of early school age--A 6-month follow-up study of Grade 1 children in a Nanjing primary school, Experimental Linguistics, 2024(2).
(6) Yu Wenbo, Qi Hetong, Wang Tianlin, Liang Dandan. (2025). Reliability Study of Statistical Learning Ability Measurement: Evidence from Modality, Material and Task, Studies of Psychology and Behavior.
4. Other Projects
(1) National Social Science Fund Youth Project: Cognitive and Computational Neurological Mechanism Research on Chinese Prosodic Prediction, Participation; 2023.09—2026.12
(2) National Social Science Fund key project: Research on Language Development of Chinese Preschool Children in Clinical Linguistics; Participation 2022.09—2025.12
(3) Jiangsu Province Social Science Fund Youth Project: Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms of Musical Learning Enhancing Language Prosodic Processing, Participation, 2019.09—2022.12
(4) National Natural Science Foundation of China General Program: Research on Interpretable Automatic Evaluation Method of Narrative Ability for Children’s Language Ability Assessment, Participation, 2022.09—2026.12