Zhengwu Ma in linguistics

Publications

Li, J., Wang, Q., Wang, Y., Wang, C., Ma, Z., Xu, R., Feng, S., Jiang, X. & Meng, Z. (in revision). BABA: fMRI and MEG recordings during viewing of a multi-speaker TV show. [OpenNeuro] [bioRxiv]

Gao, C., Ma Z., Chen J., Li, P., Huang, S. & Li, J. (in revision). Scaling, but not instruction tuning, increases large language models’ alignment with language processing in the human brain. [bioRxiv]

Wang, Q., Zhou, Q., Ma, Z., Wang, N., Zhang, T., Fu, Y. & Li, J. (2025). Le Petit Prince (LPP) Multi-talker: Naturalistic 7T fMRI and EEG dataset. Scientific Data. 12, 1. [OpenNeuro] [DOI]

Momenian, M., Ma, Z., Wu, S., Wang, C., Vaghefi, M., Hale, J., Brennan, J., Meyer, L, & Li, J. (2024). Le Petit Prince Hong Kong (LPPHK): Naturalistic fMRI and EEG dataset from older Cantonese. Scientific Data. 11, 992. [OpenNeuro] [DOI]

Conference Presentations

Ma, Z., Wang, N., & Li J. (2025). Le Petit Prince (LPP) Multi-talker: Naturalistic 7T fMRI and EEG Dataset. Poster at the International Workshop on Cross-linguistic Databases and Norms, Shanghai, China, May 31-June 1, 2025.

Ma Z. & Li J. (2024). Modeling the trajectory of language processing in neural state space. Poster at the 16th Annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference (SNL), Brisbane, Australia, October 24-26, 2024.

Ma Z., Wang C. & Li J. (2023). Syntactic information drives language models’ alignment with human comprehension processes. Oral presented at the Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP Asia), Hong Kong, December 1-3, 2023.

Ma Z. & Huang Y. (2023). Do language models follow dependency distances in text reading like humans? Oral presented at the 2nd Conference on Data Science & L2 Studies, Shanghai, China, November 3-5, 2023.

Ma Z. (2023). Testing the relationship of lexical complexity to the rated quality of TEM-4 oral narratives. Oral presented at the Pacific Second Language Research Forum (PacSLRF), Bangkok, Thailand, July 26-27, 2023.

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