Honghua Chen (陈泓桦) 🍵
Honghua Chen (陈泓桦) xuŋ　xuɑ　tʂʻən tʂʻənxuŋxuɑ

Phd Student

Zhejiang University

About Me

I am a Phd student at Zhejiang University under the guidance of Prof. Nai Ding. I interested in Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational Linguistics, Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence.

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Interests
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Psychology
  • Artificial Intelligence
📚 My Research
I apply a range of brain imaging and machine learning techniques to study the neural mechanisms underlying language, speech, music, and others kinds of advanced or creative cognition.
📄 Featured Publications
Low-frequency cortical activity reflects context-dependent parsing of word sequences
Probing the “Creativity” of Large Language Models: Can models produce divergent semantic association?
🗄️ Recent Publications
Jing Wang, Honghua Chen, Nai Ding (2026). Speech and music exploit distinct intrinsic timescales of the sensorimotor system. iScience.
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Honghua Chen, Jing Wang, Jiaxin Gao, Hang Zhang, Nai Ding (2026). Efficient neural encoding of time intervals in speech and complex sound sequences.
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Honghua Chen, Minhui Zhang, Tianyi Ye, Wolpert Max, Nai Ding (2025). Low-frequency cortical activity reflects context-dependent parsing of word sequences.
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Jiaxin Gao, Honghua Chen, Mingxuan Fang, Nai Ding (2024). Original speech and its echo are segregated and separately processed in the human brain. PLoS Biology.
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Honghua Chen, Nai Ding (2023). Probing the “Creativity” of Large Language Models: Can models produce divergent semantic association?. EMNLP.
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✍️ Recent Blogs
Normalization and Adaptation in Neuroscience
Creativity of Large Language Models
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