51cg

The School of Psychology

Dr Mingyuan Chu

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Dr Mingyuan Chu
Dr Mingyuan Chu
Dr Mingyuan Chu

Lecturer

51cg
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 Psychology 
    2008 - University of Birmingham 
  • MSc in Neuropsychology 
    2005 - University of Bristol 
  • BSc in Applied Psychology 
    2004 - Nankai University 

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships

Senior personal tutor

International exchange officer

External Memberships

Editorial Board member for GESTURE

Member of Experimental Psychology Society

Member of International Society for Gesture Studies

Research

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, 51cg (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

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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  • Gesture-Speech Interaction Beyond Planning: Evidence from Perturbations During Iconic Gesture and Speech Execution

    Chu, M., Pang, H. T., Zhang, R., Hagoort, P.
    Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
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  • Conceptual trait associations predict impressions of highly variable faces

    Illithova, B., Young, A. W., Chu, M., Sutherland, C.
    British Journal of Psychology, vol. 117, no. 1, pp. 337-355
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  • Exploring the malleability of self-bias in social contexts: Effects of interpersonal relationship, group membership, and social presence

    Chu, M., He, X., Sui, J.
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol. 154, no. 12, pp. 3372–3391
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  • Individual differences in representational gesture production are associated with cognitive and empathy skills

    Canarslan, F., Chu, M.
    Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 78, no. 1, pp. 85 - 100
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  • Cross-cultural Differences in Using Nonverbal Behaviors to Identify Indirect Replies

    Pang, H. T., Zhou, X., Chu, M.
    Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 323-344
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  • Subliminal perception of others’ physical pain induces personal distress rather than empathic concern

    Song, J., Zhao, Z., Jiao, Z., Peng, Y., Chu, M.
    BMC Psychology, vol. 11, no. 1, 276
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  • Encoding and decoding hidden meanings in face-to-face communication: Understanding the role of verbal and nonverbal behaviors in indirect replies.

    Chu, M., Tobin, P., Ioannidou, F., Basnakova, J.
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
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  • Individual Differences in Conversational Self-Touch Frequency Correlate with State Anxiety

    Pang, H. T., Canarslan, F., Chu, M.
    Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 299-319
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  • Functional organization of the ventral occipitotemporal regions for Chinese orthographic processing

    Tian, M., Li, H., Chu, M., Ding, G.
    Journal of Neurolinguistics, vol. 55, 100909
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  • Intrinsic Cerebro-Cerebellar Functional Connectivity Reveals the Function of Cerebellum VI in Reading-Related Skills

    Ang, C., Zhang, J., Chu, M., Li, H., Tian, M., Feng, X., Zhang, M., Liu, L., Meng, X., Ding, G.
    Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 11, 420
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  • Graph theoretical analysis of functional network for comprehension of sign language

    Liu, L., Yan, X., Liu, J., Xia, M., Lu, C., Emmorey, K., Chu, M., Ding, G.
    Brain Research, vol. 1671, pp. 55-66
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  • How Do Gestures Influence Thinking and Speaking? The Gesture-for-Conceptualization Hypothesis.

    Kita, S., Alibali, M. W., Chu, M.
    Psychological Review, vol. 124, no. 3, pp. 245-266
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  • Beat that Word: How Listeners Integrate Beat Gesture and Focus in Multimodal Speech Discourse

    Dimitrova, D., Chu, M., Wang, L., Özyürek, A., Hagoort, P.
    Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 28, no. 9, pp. 1255-1269
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  • Co-thought and Co-speech Gestures Are Generated by the Same Action Generation Process

    Chu, M., Kita, S.
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 257-270
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  • Electrophysiological and kinematic correlates of communicative intent in the planning and production of pointing gestures and speech

    Peeters, D., Chu, M., Holler, J., Hagoort, P., Özyürek, A.
    Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 27, no. 12, pp. 2352-2368
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  • Applying Pattern-based Classification to Sequences of Gestures

    Aussems, S., Chu, M., Kita, S., van Zaanen, M.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • Synchronization of Speech and Gesture: Evidence for Interaction in Action

    Chu, M., Hagoort, P.
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol. 143, no. 4, pp. 1726-1741
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  • Individual Differences in Frequency and Saliency of Speech-Accompanying Gestures: The Role of Cognitive Abilities and Empathy

    Chu, M., Meyer, A., Foulkes, L., Kita, S.
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol. 143, no. 2, pp. 694-709
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  • The role of beat gesture and pitch accent in semantic processing: An ERP study

    Wang, L., Chu, M.
    Neuropsychologia, vol. 51, no. 13, pp. 2847-2855
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  • Pointing as an Instrumental Gesture: Gaze Representation Through Indication

    Cappuccio, M. L., Chu, M., Kita, S.
    Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, vol. 24, pp. 125-150
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  • Getting to the point: The influence of communicative intent on the kinematics of pointing gestures

    Peeters, D., Chu, M., Holler, J., Özyürek, A., Hagoort, P.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • The nature of gestures’ beneficial role in spatial problem solving

    Chu, M., Kita, S.
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol. 140, no. 1, pp. 102-116
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  • Microgenesis of gestures during mental rotation tasks recapitulates ontogenesis

    Chu, M., Kita, S.
    Integrating Gestures: The Interdisciplinary Nature of Gesture. John Benjamins Pub., pp. 267-276, 10 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Co-speech gestures do not originate from speech production processes: evidence from the relationship between co-thought and co-speech gestures

    Chu, M., Kita, S.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Spontaneous gestures during mental rotation tasks: insights into the microdevelopment of the motor strategy

    Chu, M., Kita, S.
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol. 137, no. 4, pp. 706-723
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