Dr. Gui Xue is a 985 chief researcher and Changjiang Scholar chair professor in the National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University. He received his Ph. D. in cognitive neuroscience from Beijing Normal University in 2004. He then spent three years at UCLA as a postdoctoral trainee, with the support of a fellowship from FPR-UCLA Center for Cultural, Brain and Development. He was a research assistant professor at the University of Southern California before landing at Beijing Normal University in 2011. Dr. Xue studies the cognitive and neural mechanisms of learning and memory, language learning, executive control and decision making, mainly using functional neuroimage techniques. He has published more than 50 research papers on academic journals such as Science, PNAS, Journal of Neuroscience, and Cerebral Cortex. His research is support by Natural Science Foundation of China, the Thousand Young Scholar Program, and the New Century Excellent Talents Program.