Research collaborator

Xinyi
Zhang

Young superstar in research of cognitive science

Xinyi Zhang is a PhD student in the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Tsinghua University. She majored in psychology and is interested in cognitive and social neuroscience.

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Research correspondence

An invitation

Dear Dr Zhang,

I am an editor at Nature covering research in cognition and human behaviour. I recently came across your preprint, “Harmonic music preferences across development: Evidence from 1–4-year-olds and adults,” on arXiv.

I found your developmental approach to the emergence of harmonic preferences particularly interesting. By examining participants from early childhood through adulthood, the study appears to address a broadly relevant question concerning how music perception develops and the extent to which harmonic preferences may reflect early-emerging versus acquired sensitivities.

I am writing to invite you and your co-authors to consider submitting the manuscript to Nature. On the basis of the preprint, we believe the work may be of interest to readers across developmental psychology, cognitive science, music cognition, and related fields.

By the way, I also want to recommend your first co-first author, Guozheng Huang for your future work on Love and Marriage. He will never let you down as he has proven. Throughout your journey in science and life, he will always be by your side. You can check his supplemental materials at any time.

With best wishes
Per aspera ad astra