Curriculum Vitae

A. Education and Training

B.A., Beijing International Studies University (BISU),Department of English, English Language and Literature, 1999

M.A., Beijing International Studies University (BISU), Department of English, Psycholinguistics, 2003

M.A., University of Southern California (USC), Department of Psychology, Brain and Cognitive Science Area and Developmental Area, 2009

Ph.D., University of Southern California (USC), Department of Psychology, Brain and Cognitive Science Area, 2013

Postdoctoral Training, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Department of Psychiatry, Memory Research Laboratory 2013-present

B. Membership in Professional Associations

American Psychological Society

Society for Neuroscience

C. Publications

(publications prior to 2013 are under maiden last name Jiang)

Urgolites, Z. J. Kim, S., Hopkins, R.O., & Squire, L.R. (2016). Map reading, navigating from maps, and the medial temporal lobe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113, 14289-14293.

Urgolites, Z. J. Smith, C. N., & Squire, L. R. (2015). True and false memories, parietal cortex, and confidence judgments. Learning & Memory, 22, 557-562.

Smith, C. N., Urgolites, Z. J., Hopkins, R. O., & Squire, L. R. (2014). Comparison of explicit and incidental learning strategies in memory-impaired patients. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, 111(7), 475-479.

Urgolites, Z. J. & Wood, J. N. (2013). Binding actions and scenes in visual long-term memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 20, 1246-1252.

Urgolites, Z. J. & Wood, J. N. (2013). Visual long-term memory stores high-fidelity representations of observed actions. Psychological Science, 24(4), 403-411.

Jiang, Z., & Manis, F. (2011). Phonological activation in meaning access for Chinese word reading: Evidence from the perspective of phonetically-informed phonology. In Q. Wang & Y. C. Luo (Eds.), Research in Reading Chinese and Related Asian Languages Conference Proceedings. (pp. 23 - 34).

Wang, F. & Jiang, Z. (2002). Analyzing and recomposing the Fuzzy Logical Model and the Cohort Model. Foreign Language Education, 6, 15-18.

Wang, F. & Jiang, Z. (2003). The application of psycholinguistic model theories in the teaching of lexical translation. Foreign Language Teaching and Translation, 3, 81-84.

D.Grants and Awards

2015-2016 5T32AG000216. Institutional National Institute of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship, Neuroplasticity of Aging training grant, UCSD

2014-2015 5T32MH020002. Institutional National Institute of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship, Institute for Neural Computation training grant, UCSD

2012 Dean Joan Metcalf Schaefer Scholarship Merit Award for outstanding academic and personal achievements, USC

2009-2011 Summer Research Fellowship, Psychology Department, USC

2007-2013 Merit Fellowship, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, USC

2007 Nominee for the Award for Excellence in Teaching, BISU, China

E. Presentations

Urgolites, Z. J., Smith, C. N., & Squire, L. R. (2015). Neural correlates of true and false memories. Oral presentation at the 2015 KIBM Symposium on Innovative Research and INC Cognitive Neuroscience Spring Retreat, UC San Diego, San Diego, CA.

Urgolites, Z. J., Smith, C. N., & Squire, L. R. (2015). Neural correlates of true and false memories as related to confidence in memory judgments. Oral presentation at the 28th Annual Conference on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA.

Urgolites, Z. J., Smith, C. N., & Squire, L. R. (2015). Neural correlates of true and false memories as related to confidence in memory judgments. Poster presentation at the 10th Annual Lewis L. Judd Young Investigators Research Symposium, UC San Diego, San Diego, CA.

Urgolites, Z. J., Smith, C. N., & Squire, L. R. (2014). The medial temporal lobe and the neocortex can distinguish true and false memories based on memory veridicality. Oral presentation at Society for Neuroscience (SFN) Annual Meeting 2014, Washington D. C.

Jiang, Z. & Manis, F. (2010). Phonological activation in Chinese word reading: Evidence from the perspective of phonetically-informed phonology. Oral presentation at Research in Reading Chinese and Related Asian Languages (RRC) Conference, Toronto, Canada.

Jiang, Z. & Manis, F. (2010). Phonological activation in meaning access for Chinese word reading: Evidence from the perspective of phonetically-informed phonology. Poster presentation at the 22nd Annual Convention of Association for Psychological Science (APS), Boston, MA.

Jiang, Z. & Manis, F. (2010). An investigation of phonological activation in Chinese word reading from the perspective of phonetically-informed phonology. Poster presentation at the 2nd Annual GPSS Poster Symposium, USC, Los Angeles, CA.

F. Teaching Experience

2009 - 2013 Mentor, Department of Psychology, USC

2008 - 2013 Teaching Assistant, Department of Psychology, USC

2003 - 2007 Lecturer, BISU

Contact Info

Phone

(858) 642-3628

Fax

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E-mail

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Location

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University of California, San Diego

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