Yinan Xu
UW Honors Graduates
Yinan Xu
Psychology
Japanese
Designation: Departmental Honors
Honors Grads 2018/2019
Proudest Moment: I participated in the UW Research Symposium, and shared great ideas and novel insights there.
Thesis: Bilingual Code-Switching and Semantic Ambiguity Resolution
The capacity and uniqueness of the human brain have always been the field that intrigues me. Four years in UW I've developed great interest and passion in human executive function, especially language and other cognitive processing. I've brought my passion in psycholinguistics into my language learning, and done research in combining cognitive psychology with human linguistic behavior. After graduation I'll continue to pursue my research interests.