Research

Normal and impaired language processing

  • What word properties are critical for visual word recognition?
  • How do multiple reading pathways contribute to reading aloud and reading comprehension?
  • How does the brain support normal language processing, and how does it change after damage (e.g., stroke)?
  • What are the mechanisms underlying language recovery?

Language development and literacy acquisition

  • What are the influences of oral language skills and learning experience on literacy acquisition?
  • The effectiveness of early reading instruction

Psycholinguistic database and corpus analysis

  • The development of psycholinguistic database for traditional Chinese word processing
  • Corpus-derived semantic variables (e.g., semantic variability)

Cross-linguistic comparison and bilingualism

  • The reading effects in English versus Chinese
  • The influences of phonetic distance on L2 vocabulary learning

Publications

Contact

  • MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, UK