Dr. Cai obtained her B.S. in Biotechnology from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and her Ph.D. in Cognitive Sciences from Lyon University, France. She worked in the Laboratory of Language, Brain and Cognition, CNRS, France during her doctoral work, as well as at Ghent University, Belgium and the INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, France as a postdoctoral fellow before she joined ECNU. Her research interests focus on neural basis of speech and language, hemispheric lateralization of language and other cognitive functions, reading acquisition and cognitive development, as well as corpus-based language research.