Our first joint lab meeting with the NeuroLML lab was held at The Polytechnic University of Hong Kong. [17 January, 2025]
Prof. William Choi presented at the Psychonomic Society’s 65th Annual Meeting in New York City, USA. [23 November, 2024]
PhD student Zu Jiaqing presented at the Psychonomic Society’s 65th Annual Meeting in New York City, USA. [22 November, 2024]
Our study entitled “Do Cantonese listeners have a non-native advantage in English stress-related lexical decision?” has been accepted for publication in Second Language Research! [14 November, 2024]
Professor Choi will give a research seminar on “The Role of Musical Instruments in Music-to-language Transfer” at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University on 8 November. [31 October, 2023]
Our manuscript entitled “Examining the cognitive and perceptual perspectives of music-to-language transfer: A study of Cantonese-English bilingual children” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Experimental Child Psychology! [20 August, 2024]
Our undergraduate researcher, Chan Lok Yan Stephanie, won the Best Oral Presentation Award in the Final Year Project Mini Conference! [24 May, 2024]
Professor Choi gave a thematic talk on “Nurturing future speech-language pathologists” at the University of Hong Kong JUPAS Information session 2024. [17 May, 2024]
Dr. Yu-fu Chien, our visiting scholar from Fudan University, gave a research seminar on “The Processing and Representation of Mandarin Tone Sandhi Words in Isolation and in Context: Evidence from Behavioral and ERP experiments”. [17 May, 2024]
Professor Choi is elected as a Fellow of the Psychonomic Society for his outstanding scholarship in experimental psychology. [26 April, 2024]
Professor Choi gave a research seminar on “Cantonese Tone Perception in Punjabi Speakers: Implications for the Perceptual Assimilation Model for Suprasegmentals” at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. [23 April, 2024]
Our study entitled “Musical advantage in lexical tone perception hinges on musical instrument: A comparison between pitched musicians, unpitched musicians, and non-musicians” is accepted for publication in Music Perception [30 Janurary, 2024]
Nicole Chau, our intern, is recognised as one of the Top 10 Outstanding Tertiary Students of Hong Kong 2023 by the Hong Kong Youth & Tertiary Students Association [29 January, 2024]
Our lab presented three studies at the International Conference on the Processing of East Asian Languages (ICPEAL) [8 December, 2023]
Runqing presenting at the Psychonomic Society!
PhD student Runqing Cheng presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society in San Francisco, USA! [17 November , 2023]
Professor Choi gave a research seminar on “The Choice of Musical Instrument Matters: Musical Advantage in Tone Perception and Word Learning” at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. [31 October, 2023]
Professor Choi gave an informative talk on Speech-language Pathology during HKU Information Day 2023. [28 October, 2023]
Doris presenting at ICPhS!
PhD student Doris Yu presented at the 20th International Congress of the Phonetics Sciences! [9 August, 2023]
Our lab has published a journal article titled “Does musicianship influence the perceptual integrality of tones and segmental information?” by Choi, W., & Lai, V. K. W. in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0020579 [11 August, 2023]
Our lab has published a journal article titled “The choice of musical instrument matters: Effect of pitched but not unpitched musicianship on tone identification and word learning” by Choi, W., To, C. Y., & Cheng, R. in Applied Psycholinguistics. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716423000358 [4 August, 2023]
Wu Chun Him Jason, our UG student researcher, has won the Best BSc Final Year Project Award! [19 July, 2023]