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Trained in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, my research focuses on the neurobiology of language, reading, and mathematical processing. I employ multimodal methods combining behavioural assessment and neuroimaging techniques (MRI, fNIRS) to investigate typical and atypical development of literacy and numeracy skills.
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February 2017 - September 2020
November 2013 - December 2016
September 2012 - August 2013
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August 2009 - February 2014
September 2003 - June 2007
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A growing body of neuroimaging evidence has shown that Chinese character processing recruits differential activation from alphabetic languages due to its unique linguistic features. As more investigations on Chinese character processing have recently become available, we applied a meta-analytic approach to summarize previous findings and examined t...
Japanese and Chinese both share the same ideographic/logographic character system. How these characters are processed, however, is inherently different for each language. We harnessed the unique property of homophone judgment in Japanese kanji to provide an analogous Chinese condition using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)...
Reading is a culturally acquired skill that is foundational to academic and personal growth. Unlike oral language skills, reading must be acquired through education. It is generally regarded that multiple cognitive, perceptual, and linguistic skills contribute to the process of reading, and this process, therefore, draws on multiple neurobiological...
Cognitive tele-assessment (CTA) adoption has increased considerably recently, in parallel with the maturation of the digital technologies that enable it, and the push to move assessment to the online format during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019. This mode of assessment stems from remote assessment applications that originated in general tele-medicin...
The posterior-to-anterior shift in aging (PASA) effect is seen as a compensatory model that enables older adults to meet increased cognitive demands to perform comparably as their young counterparts. However, empirical support for the PASA effect investigating age-related changes in the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), hippocampus, and parahippocampus...
The diverse language profiles of learners have posed a critical challenge for education in many multilingual societies. Here we proposed a systematic research framework to address this issue. Within this framework, we reviewed and summarized the findings from several of our studies that examined the impact of bilingualism on teaching and learning i...
The basic steps in building up language involve binding words of different categories into a hierarchical structure. To what extent these steps are universal or differ across languages is an open issue. Here we examine the neural dynamics of phrase structure building in Chinese—a language that in contrast to other languages heavily depends on conte...
Language learning and assessment researchers have widely used quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate behavioral data of language learners and test takers. Although these research methods have extended our knowledge of language learning and assessment, there is a dearth of research on the neurocognitive mechanisms that correlate with su...
Language learning and assessment researchers have widely used quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate behavioral data of language learners and test takers. Although these research methods have extended our knowledge of language learning and assessment, there is a dearth of research on the neurocognitive mechanisms that correlate with su...
Neuroimaging literature has documented age-related hemispheric asymmetry reduction in frontal regions during task performances. As most studies employed working memory paradigms, it is therefore less clear if this pattern of neural reorganization is constrained by working memory processes or it would also emerge in other cognitive domains which are...
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The organization of the language network undergoes continuous changes during development as children learn to understand sentences. In the present study, functional magnetic resonance imaging and behavioral measures were utilized to investigate functional activation and functional connectivity (FC) in three-year-old (3yo) and six-year-old (6yo) chi...
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Sentence comprehension requires the integration of both syntactic and semantic information, the acquisition of which seems to have different trajectories in the developing brain. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we examined the neural correlates underlying syntactic and semantic processing during auditory sentence comprehension as well...
Resting-State Networks (RSNs) shown in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have been consistently and reliably identified. Amongst these, the Default Mode Network (DMN) has been most well researched and shown to have age-related decrease in functional connectivity and negative consequences for cognition. There are two other distinct RSNs,...
Resting-State Networks (RSNs) shown in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have been consistently and reliably identified. Amongst these, the Default Mode Network (DMN) has been most well researched and shown to have age-related decrease in functional connectivity and negative consequences for cognition. There are two other distinct RSNs,...
We investigated whether extensive repetition can diminish age-related differences between younger and older adults in functional magnetic resonance adaptation (fMR-A). Datasets were obtained from 26 younger and 24 older healthy adults presented with two scenes that repeated 20 times amongst other novel scenes during fMRI scanning. The average corti...
