Xuefei Gao Postdoc (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics); Postdoc (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research); Ph.D. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); M.S. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); B.S. (Beijing Normal University)

Dr. Xuefei Gao is a Lecturer at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, QLD, Australia, with research interests spanning memory, language processing, literacy, multilingualism, and dementia across the lifespan. Her work focuses on cognitive development and compensation for age-related cognitive declines, including working memory, attentional control, and executive/inhibitory functions in young and older populations. Dr. Gao's research encompasses language processing, eye-movement in reading, and the neural basis of cognitive aging, with efforts to bridge disciplinary boundaries among cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and education. She holds a PhD and MS and has trained at institutions including the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Beijing Normal University. Her most-cited publication, "Pay now or pay later: Aging and the role of boundary salience in self-regulation of conceptual integration in sentence processing" (2010), has received 42 citations.