北京師範大學教授、博士生導師，中國心理學會認定的首批心理學家。現任中國心理學會常務理事，《Reading Research Quarterly》、《Journal of Cognitive Science》編委和《心理學報》副主編。曾任北京師範大學心理學系主任、套用實驗心理北京市重點實驗室主任。主要綜合橫斷和追蹤研究途徑，運用行為、腦電、腦成像、基因技術，探討言語知覺加工的腦機制、兒童語言和閱讀發展軌跡及遺傳和環境的影響、以及閱讀障礙的認知神經機制和早期預測指標。
Song,S., Su,M., Kang,C., Liu,H., Zhang,Y., McBride-Chang,C., Tardif,T., Li,H., Liang,W., Zhang,Z., & Shu,H. *, Tracing children’s vocabulary development from preschool to school-age years: An 8-year longitudinal study, Developmental Science, (in press) Zhang,Y., Tardif, T., Shu, H. *, Li, H., Liu, H., McBride-Chang, C., Liang, W., Zhang, Zh., Phonological skills and vocabulary knowledge mediate socioeconomic status effects in predicting reading outcomes for Chinese children, Developmental Psychology, 2013, 49(4): 665-671. Zhang, Y., Zhang, L., Shu, H. *, Xi, J., Wu, H., Zhang, Y. *& Li, P., Universality of categorical perception deficit in developmental dyslexia: An investigation of Mandarin Chinese tones, Journal of Child Psychology and psychiatry, 2012, 53(8):874-882. Zhang,Y., Li, J., Tardif, T., Burmeister, M., Villafuerte, S., McBride-Chang, C., Hong, L., Shi, B., Liang, W., Zhang, Zh., Shu, H.*, Association of the DYX1C1 dyslexia susceptibility gene with orthography in the Chinese population. PLoS ONE, 2012, 7(10):e43192. Yang,J., Wang,X., Shu,H. *& Zevin, J. * Task by stimulus interactions in brain responses during Chinese character processing, Neuroimage,2012. 60(2):979-990. Lei,L., Pan,J., Liu,H., McBride-Chang, C., Li,H., Zhang,Y., Chen,L., Tardif,T., Liang,W., Zhang,Z., & Shu,H. * Developmental trajectories of reading development and impairment from ages 3 to 8 years in Chinese children, Journal of Child Psychology and psychiatry, 2011, 52(2), 212-220. Zhang,L., Shu, H. *, Zhou, F., Wang,X., & Li,P. * Common and Distinct Neural Substrates for the Perception of Speech Rhythm and Intonation. Human Brain Mapping, 2010, 31:1106-1116. Shu, H., Peng, H. & McBride-Chang, C. Phonological Awareness in Young Chinese Children. Developmental Science, 2008, 11(1): 171-181. Shu, H., McBride-Chang, C., Wu. S., & Liu, H. Understanding Chinese Developmental Dyslexia: Morphological Awareness as a Core Cognitive Construct.Journal of Educational Psychology，2006, 98 (1):122-133. Shu,H., Chen,X., Anderson,R., Wu,N. & Xuan,Y. Properties of school Chinese. Child Development, 2003, 74(1), 27-47.
2002年，論文《A Self-Organizing Connectionist Model of Character Acquisition in Chinese》在第24屆認知科學大會(The Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society) 獲得Marr Prize提名獎。
