Zirui Huang
Zirui Huang is a postdoctoral researcher at the Linguistic Research Infrastructure at the University of Zurich. She currently works for the SNSF Sinergia project Prototypes and Parts-of-Speech (ProPoS): A cross-linguistic, multi-methods approach to categorization with a focus on Adjectives, focusing on the cross-linguistic neural basis of prototype adjectives, combining neurolinguistic methods such as MEG with computational modelling. Through this work, she aims to identify distinct mental representations of adjectives and to investigate whether part-of-speech information can serve as a predictive variable in modelling brain responses during language processing.
Prior to her current position, her doctoral research examined phrase-level language comprehension, with a particular focus on classifier phrases, as well as sentence-level comprehension, especially long-distance dependency formation. Her work draws on behavioural methods such as self-paced reading and eye-tracking, alongside neurophysiological techniques including M/EEG and MRI.