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谭力海，深圳市神经科学研究院研究员，国家特聘专家，暨南大学粤港澳中枢神经再生研究院（深圳校区）教授，国家脑计划专家组成员。深圳市科研项目“脑疾病与语言功能保护”负责人（2016-2020），科技部国家重点基础研究计划（973计划）项目首席科学家（2012-2016）。1995年获得香港大学博士学位。曾任香港大学神经语言科学助理教授、副教授、教授和终身教授（1999-2014）。2005年，谭力海创建了香港大学脑与认知科学国家重点实验室，并担任实验室主任至2014年8月, 这是国家科技部首次批准在内地以外所建立的两个国家重点实验室之一。长期从事神经影像研究并应用到语言研究，其主要研究领域及方向包括：结构和功能MRI数据的处理和建模；应用神经影像技术对人脑处理语言的区域进行精准定位，在国际神经科学界创立了大脑语言功能区“文化特异性理论”(Culture-specific Theory)；应用人脑语言功能区的发现到颅脑手术，指导临床上对脑疾病患者进行个体化手术入路设计，在最大程度上保护我国国民大脑的语言功能；在基因、脑、行为三个层面对中文失读症和汉语口吃患者进行系统研究，探寻我国国民语言障碍的特定脑功能异常模式和基因表达，为早期干预设计科学方案；正常成年人大脑的高度可塑性问题。

代表性论文：

1. Tan LH, Perfetti CA, Ziegler JC, McCandliss B. (2023). Editorial: Neural bases of reading acquisition and reading disability. Front Neurosci. 2023 Jun 16;17:1147156. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1147156.
2. Zhu, Y, Xu, M., Lu, J., Hu, J., Kwok, V., Zhou, Y., Yuan, D., Wu, B., Zhang, J., Wu, J.*, & Tan, L.H.* (2022). Distinct spatiotemporal patterns of syntactic and semantic processing in human inferior frontal gyrus. Nature Human Behaviour; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01334-6, 1-8.
3. Yuan, D., Luo, D., Kwok, V.P.Y., Zhou, Y., Tian, H., Yu, Q., An, J., Gao, J.H., Qiu, S., Tan, L.H.* (2021). Myeloarchitectonic asymmetries of language regions in the human brain. Cerebral Cortex, doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhab076.
4. Siok, W.T.*, Jia, F., Liu, C.Y., Perfetti, C.A., & Tan, L.H.* (2020). A lifespan fMRI study of neurodevelopment associated with reading Chinese. Cerebral Cortex, 30: 4140–4157. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhaa038.
5. Zhou, W., Kwok, V., Su, M., Luo, L.*, & Tan, L.H.* (2020). Children’s neurodevelopment of reading is affected by China’s language input system in the information era. Nature partner Journal npj Science of Learning 5:3; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-020-0062-0.
6. Xu, M.*, Liang, X., Ou, J., Li, H., Luo, Y., & Tan, L.H.* (2020). Sex differences in functional brain networks for language. Cerebral Cortex 30: 1528–1537. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhz184.
7. Luo, D., Kwok, V. P. Y., Liu, Q., Li, W., Yang, Y., Zhou, K., Xu., M., Gao, J.H., & Tan, L.H.* (2019). Microstructural plasticity in the bilingual brain. Brain and Language, 196, 104654.
8. Xu, M., Baldauf, D., Chang, C.Q., Desimone, R.*, & Tan, L.H.* (2017). Distinct distributed patterns of neural activity are associated with two languages in the bilingual brain. Science Advances, 3, e1603309. (This research was highlighted by Science, in its This week in Science, July 14, Vol. 357, Issue 6347, pp. 159-161).
9. Yang, Y., Jia, F., Siok, W.T., & Tan, L.H. (2017). The role of anxiety in stuttering: evidence from functional connectivity. Neuroscience, 346, 216-225.
10. Chen, H., Gu, X.H., Zhou, Y., Ge, Z., Wang, B., Siok, W.T., Wang, G., Huen, M., Jiang, Y., Tan, L.H., & Sun, Y. (2017). A Genome-Wide Association with Mathematics Ability. Scientific Reports, 7.
11. Lyu, B., Ge, J., Niu, Z., Tan, L.H., & Gao, J.H. (2016). Predictive brain mechanisms in sound-to-meaning mapping during speech processing. Journal of Neuroscience 36(42), 10813-10822.
12. Ge, J., Peng, G., Lyu, B., Wang, Y., Zhuo, Y., Niu, Z., Tan, L. H., Leff, A.P., & Gao, J. H. (2015). Cross-language differences in the brain network subserving intelligible speech. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 112(10), 2972-2977.
13. Xu, M., Wang, T., Chen, S., Fox, P. T., & Tan, L. H. (2015). Effective connectivity of brain regions related to visual word recognition: An fMRI study of Chinese reading. Human Brain Mapping, 36(7), 2580-2591.
14. Tan, L. H., & Li, P. (2015). Towards an integrative understanding of the neuroanatomical and genetic bases of language: The Chinese context. Journal of Neurolinguistics, (33), 1-2.
15. Kwok, V.P., Wang, T., Chen, S., Yakpo, K., Zhu, L., Fox, P.T., & Tan, L.H. (2015). Neural signatures of lexical tone reading. Human Brain Mapping, 36(1), 304-312.
16. Sun, Y., Gao, Y., Zhou, Y., Chen, H., Wang, G., Xu, J., Xia, J., Huen, M.S.Y., Siok, W.T., Jiang, Y., & Tan, L.H. (2014). Association study of developmental dyslexia candidate genes DCDC2 and KIAA0319 in Chinese population. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, 165(8), 627-634.
17. Tan, L.H., Xu, M., Chang, C.Q., and Siok, W.T. (2013). China’s language input system in the digital age affects children’s reading development. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA., 110, 1119-1123.
18. Perfetti, C.A., & Tan, L.H. (2013). Write to read: the brain's universal reading and writing network. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 17(2), 56-57.
19. Kwok, V., Niu, Z., Kay, P., Zhou, K., Mo, L., Jin, Z., So, K.F., and Tan, L.H. (2011). Learning new color names produces rapid increase in gray matter in the intact adult human cortex. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA., 108, 6686-6688.
20. Tan, L.H., Chen, L., Yip, V., Chan, A., Yang, J., Gao, J.H., & Siok, W.T. (2011). Activity levels in the left hemisphere caudate-fusiform circuit predict how well a second language will be learned. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA., 108, 2540-2544.
21. Mo, L., Xu, G., Kay, P., & Tan, L.H. (2011). Electrophysiological evidence for the left-lateralized effect of language on preattentive categorical perception of color. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA., 108, 14026-14030.
22. Qiu, D., Tan, L.H., Siok, W.T., Zhou, K., & Khong, P.L. (2011). Lateralization of the arcuate fasciculus and its differential correlation with reading ability between young learners and experienced readers: A diffusion tensor tractography study in a Chinese cohort. Human Brain Mapping, 32(12), 2054-2063.
23. Zhou, K., Mo, L., Kay, P., Kwok, V., Ip, T., & Tan, L.H. (2010). Newly trained lexical categories produce lateralized categorical perception of color. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA., 107, 9974-9978.
24. Siok, W.T., Spinks, J.A., Jin, Z., and Tan, L.H. (2009). Developmental dyslexia is characterized by the co-existence of visuospatial and phonological disorders in Chinese children. Current Biology, 19, 890-892.
25. Siok, W.T., Kay, P., Wang, W.S.Y., Chan, A.H.D., Chen, L., Luke, K.K., & Tan, L.H. (2009). Language regions of brain are operative in color perception. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 106, 8140-8145.
26. Siok, W.T., Niu, Z., Jin, Z., Perfetti, C.A., & Tan, L.H. (2008). A structural-functional basis for dyslexia in the cortex of Chinese readers. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 105, 5561-5566.
27. Chan, A.H., Luke, K.K., Li, P., Yip, V., Li, G., Weekes, B., & Tan, L.H. (2008). Neural correlates of nouns and verbs in early biliinguals. Annals of the NYAS, 1145(1), 30-40.
28. Tan, L.H., Chan, A.H.D., Kay, P., Khong, P.K., Yip, L., & Luke, K.K. (2008). Language affects patterns of brain activation associated with perception. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 105, 4004-4009.
29. Tan, L.H., Laird, A., Li, K., & Fox, P.T. (2005). Neuroanatomical correlates of phonological processing of Chinese characters and alphabetic words: A meta-analysis. Human Brain Mapping, 25, 83-91.
30. Tan, L.H., Spinks, J.A., Eden, G., Perfetti, C.A., & Siok, W.T. (2005). Reading depends on writing, in Chinese. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 102, 8781-8785.
31. Siok, W.T., Perfetti, C.A., Jin, Z., & Tan, L.H. (2004). Biological abnormality of impaired reading is constrained by culture. Nature, 431, 71-76.
32. Spinks, J.A., Zhang, J.X., Fox, P.T., Gao, J.H., Tan, L.H. (2004). More workload on the central executive of working memory, less attention capture by novel visual distractors: Evidence from an fMRI Study. NeuroImage, 23, 517-524.
33. Chan, A.H.D., Liu, H.L., Yip, V., Fox, P.T., Gao, J.H., & Tan, L.H. (2004). Neural systems for word meaning modulated by semantic ambiguity. NeuroImage, 22, 1128-1133.
34. Li, P., Jin, Z., & Tan, L.H. (2004). Neural representations of nouns and verbs in Chinese: An fMRI study. NeuroImage, 21, 1533-1541.
35. Tan, L.H., Spinks J., Feng, C.M., Siok, W., Perfetti, C.A., Xiong, J., Fox, P.T., & Gao, J.H. (2003). Neural systems of second language reading are shaped by native language. Human Brain Mapping, 18, 158-166.
36. Tan, L.H., Liu, H.L., Perfetti, C.A., Spinks, J.A., Fox, P.T., Gao, J.H. (2001). The neural system underlying Chinese logograph reading. NeuroImage, 13, 826-846.
37. Tan, L.H., Spinks, J.A., Gao, J.H., Liu, H.L., Perfetti, C.A., Xiong, J., Stofer, K.A., Pu, Y., Liu, Y., & Fox, P.T. (2000). Brain Activation in the Processing of Chinese Characters and Words: A Functional MRI Study. Human Brain Mapping, 10, 16-27.

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