Xiaochen Zheng

Xiaochen Zheng is a Cognitive Neuroscientist at Leiden University's Social and Behavioural Sciences faculty, specifically within the Cognitive Psychology Unit. She holds a Researcher title and investigates intersections between language and broader cognitive systems using advanced neuroimaging techniques.

• Bachelor: Psychology, Beijing Normal University
• PhD: Cognitive Neuroscience, Radboud University

Her research spans cognitive control, working memory, and language processing, with a focus on how the brain manages information overload, facilitates multilingualism, and generalizes knowledge. Techniques include EEG, MEG, and fMRI across healthy and clinical populations.

Recent publications highlight her work on frontoparietal networks, theta oscillations in bilingual control, and hippocampal cognitive mapping. These articles reveal a trend toward understanding domain-general mechanisms in cognition and their applications to language processing.

• Veni Grant (NWO) - The age of information overload: how do we control what we say?
• Scholarship for Academic Excellence (Tilburg University)

As a co-promotor, she supervised PhD student Elena Mainetto and coordinated interdisciplinary teams across 10+ international institutes. Her work emphasizes team science and open science principles, with data sharing practices evident in multiple publications.