Dr. Xiaoqian Chai
Areas of expertise:
Xiaoqian Chai, a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, is an Assistant Professor at McGill University and a core member of the McConnell Brain Imaging Center at the Montréal Neurological Institute. She uses multimodal brain imaging methods as well as publicly available datasets to investigate the interplay between cognitive development, brain maturation, plasticity, and second language learning. Dr. Chai’s laboratory is currently expanding its research program to include pediatric populations and is launching a longitudinal, multimodal imaging study designed to profile the developmental trajectory of brain networks in bilingual school-aged children.
