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2013

Date Presenter Title Type Ref Mar 20 Manson FONG Brain responses to consonants and tones Report   Mar 13 ZHANG Caicai Trip report Review     MAI Guang-Ting Proposal for formal experiments on the role brain rhythms in connected speech processing Report   Feb 27 Ivan ZOU Preferred parsing mechanism in West-Germanic Languages? Review     MAI Guang-Ting Coming soon Report   Feb 20 Dr. James MINETT Quantifying Working Memory Review     MAI Guang-Ting A brief paper review: Human cortical sensorimotor network underlying feedback control of vocal pitch Review     Manson FONG Progress report Report   Feb 06 YANG Ruo-Xiao Paper Review (Part 2) Review     Manson FONG Progress report: Using topographic information to illuminate the underlying structures in EEG Report     ZHOU Lin Progress Report Report   Jan 30 ZHOU Nannan Compound processing Report     YANG Ruo-Xiao Paper Review (Part 1) Review   Jan 23 MAI Guang-Ting Report on pilot tests: EEG responses indicating sub-word and word level processing during connected speech listening Report   Jan 16 Ivan ZOU A follow-up of the paper review (Francis et al, 2003) Review   Jan 09 Manson FONG Neural Correlates of Attentive Speech Processing: With Applications to Brain-Computer Interfacing (BCI) Rehearsal     YANG Ruo-Xiao Progress Report Report     ZHOU Lin Paper Review Review   Jan 02 Manson FONG Theis Proposal Rehearsal (see Jan 09) Rehearsal     SUN Weize Coming soon Report     Ivan ZOU Paper Review: Francis, A. L., Ciocca, V., & Ng, B. K. (2003). On the (non)categorical perception of lexical tones. Perception & Psychophysics, 65(7), 1029-1044. Review

2012

Date Presenter Title Type Ref Dec 19 SUN Weize Coming soon Review     Dr. XIA Quansheng An introduction on Positron Emission Tomography Review     ZHOU Lin Paper review:Universal brain systems for recognizing word shapes and handwriting gestures during reading. (2012). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(50),20762-20767. Review   Dec 12 Dr. XIA Quansheng A paper review on "Neural systems behind word and concept retrieval" Review     YANG Ruo-Xiao Progress Report Report     MAI Guang-Ting Quick report on theta-gamma analyses across different syllabic rates in speech listening Report   Dec 04 Ivan ZOU Mergers and near mergers in HK Cantonese Review     MAI Guang-Ting Coming soon Report     SUN Weize Coming soon Review   Nov 28 MAI Guang-Ting Coming soon Review     ZHOU Lin Paper review: Content-Specific Fronto-Parietal Synchronization During Visual Working Memory (2012). Science, 338,1097-1100.R.F. Salazar, N. M. Dotson, S. L. Bressler, C. M. Gray Review     Ivan ZOU Near merger along the social and lexical dimension Review     SUN Weize Coming soon Report   Nov 21 Manson Fong Research Proposal Overview Report     SUN Weize Review on: Review on "Newborn's brain activity signals the origin of word memories" Review     ZHOU Lin Paper review: A real-time fMRI-based spelling device immediately enabling robust motor-independent communication. (2012). Current Biology, 22,1333-1338. Review     MAI Guang-Ting Coming soon Report   Nov 14 ZHOU Lin Coming soon Report     SUN Weize fMRI Evidence for Cortical Evidence for Cortical Modification during Learning Modification during Learning of Mandarin Lexical Tone of Mandarin Lexical Tone Review     YANG Ruo-Xiao Progress Report Report   Oct 31 Prof. Katia CHIRKOVA Coming soon Report     Dr. XIA Quansheng Hemisphere lateralization in the semantic processing of noun, verb and verb-noun ambiguous words in Chinese: an ERP study Report     ZHOU Lin Coming soon Report     SUN Weize Coming soon Report   Oct 24 YANG Ruo-Xiao Progress Report Report     MAI Guang-Ting Coming soon Report     Ivan ZOU Towards a better understanding of near merger Report   Oct 17 ZHOU Lin Coming soon Rehearsal     YANG Ruo-Xiao Progress Report Report     Manson FONG Paper Review: Miller, K. J. et al. (2012). Human Motor Cortical Activity Is Selectively Phase-Entrained on Underlying Rhythms. PLOS Computational Biology. 8:9. e1002655. Review   Oct 10 Dr. GONG Tao Modelling the coevolution of joint attention and language Report     Manson FONG Coming soon Review     ZHOU Lin Coming soon Rehearsal   Oct 03 SUN Weize Basic terms in genomics Review       The Derived Allele of ASPM is Associated with Lexical Tone Perception Review     ZHOU Lin Coming soon Rehearsal     Ivan ZOU Towards a better understanding of suspended contrast Review   Sep 26 Ivan ZOU Coming soon Review     MAI Guang-Ting Review of selected papers in InterSpeech 2012 Review     Manson FONG Coming soon Report   Sep 12 YANG Ruo-Xiao Progress Report and Discussion Report     Ivan ZOU Tone merger in modern Dalian dialect Review   Sep 05 Manson FONG Conference Report: The 10 th Asia Pacific Conference on Computer Human Interaction (APCHI), Matsue, Japan Review     ZHOU Lin Coming soon Report     MAI Guang-Ting Progress of investigating the differences of theta & gamma EEG between intelligible and unintelligible speech Report   Aug 15 YANG Ruoxiao Perception of Sinograms: Traditional vs. Simplified Rehearsal     Manson FONG Coming soon Report     MAI Guang-Ting Coming soon Report     ZHOU Lin Coming soon Report   Aug 08 YANG Ruoxiao Progress Report Rehearsal     WANG Ruijing Coming soon Rehearsal   Aug 01 WANG Ruijing Coming soon Rehearsal   Jul 18 Manson FONG Progress Report Report     MAI Guang-Ting Coming soon Report     YANG Ruo-Xiao Progress Report Report   Jul 11 MAI Guang-Ting Progress Report Report   Jun 20 YANG Ruo-Xiao Progress Report Report     MAI Guang-Ting Coming soon Report     Ivan ZOU Coming soon Report   Jun 13 Dr PENG GANG ZHANG Caicai Coming soon Review     ZHOU Lin Coming soon Review   Jun 06 ZHANG Caicai Coming soon Review     Manson FONG Coming soon Report   Mar 21 Dr. GONG Tao Review Evolang IX (Mar. 13-16, 2012, Kyoto, Japan) Review     ZHANG Caicai On-line perception of Mandarin tones 2 and 3: Evidence from eye movements Review     Manson FONG Coming soon Report   Mar 14 MAI Guang-Ting On the relative importance of different envelope modulation rates and phase information in human speech recognition Report   Mar 07 Prof. Jackson GANDOUR Coming soon Report     Dr. Lin Jingxia Coming soon Report   Feb 29 Prof. John Xuexin ZHANG The centro-parietal N200: A key to understanding visual word recognition Report   Feb 22 Dr. James MINETT Review on “The newest electrical code from an ancient script” Review     MAI Guang-Ting Coming soon Report   Feb 08 MAI Guang-Ting Manson FONG A paper review: Reconstruction Speech from Human Auditory Cortex Review     Manson FONG Progress report: Four-choice BCI experiment Report     Ivan ZOU Tone Sandhi in Chaozhou Report   Feb 01 YANG Ruo-Xiao Progress Report Report     MAI Guang-Ting A review on the spectral and temporal acoustic cues for phoneme perception: differences between consonants and vowels Review   Jan. 18 ZHANG Caicai Context-target integration for normalizing talker variation in Cantonese tone perception: A pilot study Report     WANG Ruijing Progress Report: New Results for Classifier Effect Report   Jan. 11 ZHANG Caicai Report: Global Conference on Disorders in Auditory Processing, Literacy, Language and Related Sciences (4-7 Jan, 2012) Review     Prof. SHI Feng Coming soon Report     WANG Dazuo The effect of pitch range and duration on tone perception Report     LIU Ye Coming soon Report   Jan. 03 YANG Ruo-Xiao Progress Report Report

2011

Date Presenter Title Type Ref Dec. 14 Dr. PENG Gang Coming soon Report   Dec. 07 Ivan ZOU Sound Change in Chaozhou Dialect Review     Manson FONG EEG characterization of speech imagery for Brain–Computer Interface (BCI) applications Report     MAI Guang-Ting Relative importance of different temporal envelope components for the intelligibility of Mandarin spoken sentences in clean background Report   Nov. 30 Dr. James MINETT Visual Evoked Potentials and the Whorf Effect Report     YANG Ruo-Xiao Progress Report Report   Nov. 23 WANG Ruijing Investigating Linguistic Relativity Through Classifier Effect Rehersal     YANG Ruo-Xiao Progress Report Report     ZHOU Lin Paper review on perceiving the writing sequence of sinograms Review   Nov. 16 PENG Gang Coming soon Review     Manson FONG Progress Report Report   Nov. 09 ZHANG Caicai Individual variation in the production and perception of Mandarin T3 sandhi Report     WANG Ruijing Progress Report: Classifier Effect and Classifier Feature Effect Report   Nov. 02 Dr. James MINETT Signal Classification by Power Spectral Density: From Euclid to Riemann Review     Dr. GONG Tao Review: Daniela Perani et al. 2011. Neural language networks at birth. PNAS, 108(38): 16056-16061. Review     YANG Ruo-Xiao Progress Report Report   Oct 26 Dr. PENG Gang Coming soon Report     MAI Guang-Ting Coming soon Report   Oct 19 YANG Ruo-Xiao Progress Report Report     WANG Ruijing Progress Report: Problems in Rating Scale Task Report   Oct 12 ZHANG Caicai Mental representation of Mandarin T3 sandhi: Its psychological and electrophysiological reality Report     WANG Ruijing Review on Relevant Studies and Experimental Design Report   Oct 06 Dr. GONG Tao Coming soon Review     Ivan ZOU Language Change Review   Sep 28 Manson FONG Paper Review: Deng et al. 2010. EEG classification of imagined syllable rhythm using Hilbert spectrum methods. J Neural Eng. Review     Dr. James MINETT Chinese Orthography and N200 [please don't distribute the reference] Report ref Sep 21 YANG Ruo-Xiao Progress Report Report     WANG Ruijing Progress Report: Evidence from Classifier-effect for Linguistic Relativity Report     MAI Guang-Ting Brief selected reviews of Interspeech 2011, Florence Report   Sep 14 Dr. Patrick WONG Second Language Learning Report     ZHANG Caicai Coming soon Report   Sep 07 ZHANG Caicai Conference report: Interspeech 2011, Firenze, Italy Review     YANG Ruo-Xiao The learning experience of orthographic knowledge and its relationship with perceiving and reading Chinese characters Report     ZHOU Lin Paper review Review   Aug 31 Dr. ZHENG Hong-Ying Paper Review -Electrophysiological evidence for the left-lateralized effect of language on preattentive categorical perception of color Review     Manson FONG Report: Latest data analyses for the four-choice paradigm Report     ZHOU Lin Discussion on regularity effect in sinogram recognition Report   Aug 24 Prof. Bharath Chandrasekaran Coming soon Report     Dr. ZHENG Hong-Ying Conference report Report   Aug 17 Prof. XU Yi Cracking the emotion code in human speech Report     Dr. Christophe Coupé A cross-language perspective on speech information rate Report     Dr. Francis WONG Speech Comprehension as Mediated by the Ventral Language Pathway Report     Prof. SHI Feng Exploration on Acoustic Sound Pattern Report     Dr. PENG Gang Chinese character reading and tone perception--Recent research Progress at LEL Report   Aug 10 ZHANG Caicai Effect of language experience on the categorical perception of Cantonese vowel duration Rehearsal     MAI Guang-Ting Optimal Syllabic Rates and Processing Units in Perceiving Mandarin Spoken Sentences Report     Ivan ZOU Interaction between Language & Music Review   Aug 03 Dr. GONG Tao Chinese Numeral System Report     Manson FONG Report: Template-based target classification in a four-choice paradigm Report     ZHANG Caicai Inter-talker variation as a source of confusion in Cantonese tone perception Rehearsal     MAI Guang-Ting Association between Modulation Spectrum and Speech Intelligibility of Syllable-Timed Languages Rehearsal   Jul 27 Dr. PENG Gang A brief introduction to fMRI data analysis Report     ZHANG Caicai Trip report:the 2nd IMPRS NeuroCom Summer School & a short visit to Prof. Cathy Price’s lab Report     MAI Guang-Ting An Overview of Temporal Envelope and Fine Structure Cues for Speech Perception Report   Jul 20 Prof. Bernard Comrie Typology of Numeral Systems Report   Jul 13 Prof. Sam Mchombo An Introduction to African Linguistics Report     Manson FONG EEG source localization using “analytic sensing” Review     ZHOU Lin Progress report on a pilot study Report   Jul 06 Manson FONG Evaluation of Chinese Input Methods –– some implications for our BCI work Report     WANG Ruijing A trip report to Dr. Li Aijun's lab & Do Classifiers Classify Our Thought Report   Jun 29 Dr. James MINETT Mathematical Concepts Review     ZHANG Caicai Unequal effect of speech and nonspeech context on Cantonese tone normalization Report     ZHOU Lin Report on preliminary results of a pilot study Report   Jun 22 YANG Ruo-Xiao Progress Report Report   Jun 15 Dr. James MINETT EEG Hardware Configuration Report   Jun 01 YANG Ruo-Xiao Lateralization Effect in Reading Single Chinese Characters Rehearsal     Manson FONG Report: Encoding efficiency of Chinese Input Methods Report   May 20 Dr. Dimitri Van De Ville Brain dynamics and fractal behavior: a royal marriage between (fast) EEG microstates and (slow) fMRI resting-state networks [an externally arranged seminar by Prof. Thierry Blu] Note: Not for redistribution Report   May 16 YANG Ruo-Xiao Progress Report Report     ZHANG Caicai The psychological reality of T3 sandhi in Mandarin: Behavioral (and EEG) test Report     ZHOU Lin Experiment proposal on the time course of sub-lexical phonological and semantic activation Report   May 11 Dr ZHENG Hong-Ying The impact of language influence on categorical perception of lexical tones without focal attention Report     WONG Ying Wai Coming soon Rehearsal   May 04 WONG Ying Wai Coming soon Rehearsal     ZHANG Caicai Cantonese tone categorization in context: Progress report and follow-up exp. proposal Report   Apr 27 SHANG Chun-Feng Introduction to marmoset Report     MAI Guang-Ting Association between speech intelligibility and speech temporal envelope information Report   Apr 20 SHANG Chun-Feng Periodic Stimulation Induces Long-Range Modulation of Neuronal Response and Visual Perception Report     YANG Ruo-Xiao Lateralization Effect in Reading Single Chinese Characters Rehearsal   Apr 13 Dr. Eugene CHAN Numeral Systems of the World's Languages Report     Manson FONG A review on P3 – what is reflected by its amplitude? Review     Dr. ZHENG Hong-Ying How learning changes the visual skill -a review Review   Apr 06 Dr. James MINETT Information Content in the Lexicon Review     ZHANG Caicai Effect of Inter-Talker Variations on Cantonese Tone Categorization Rehearsal     MAI Guang-Ting Perceptual Discretization during Speech Identification: On the Intelligibility of Locally Time-Reversed Speech in Mandarin and Cantonese Rehearsal     WANG Ruijing The Functional Change of XIANG Rehearsal   Mar 31 YANG Ruo-Xiao AoA Effects in Reading Chinese Character Review     Manson FONG Report: Chinese Input Methods Report     Dr. ZHENG Hong-Ying Automatic (without focal attention) categorical perception of lexical tones -- preliminary results Review   Mar 16 ZHANG Caicai Cantonese tone categorization in context: Stimulus manipulation Report     Manson FONG Review: ERP “genesis” – connecting ERP to EEG oscillations Review   Mar 09 ZHOU Lin Paper review on face-word Stroop task and experiment proposal Review   Mar 02 Dr. ZHENG Hong-Ying Automatic (without focal attention) categorical perception of lexical tones -- preliminary results Report   Feb 23 Manson FONG Covert speech classification in a “P300-speller-like” paradigm Report     ZHANG Caicai Cantonese tone categorization in context: Experiment design Report   Feb 16 Dr. James MINETT A ‘Ring Speller’ for Chinese Text Input Report     ZHANG Caicai Context effect and Cantonese tone categorization: Experiment proposals Report   Jan 26 Dr ZHENG Hong-Ying Mismatch Negativity: a Review Review     WANG Ruijing Bilingual Minds Review   Jan 19 YANG Ruo-Xiao Progress Report: Semantic Context Effects When Naming Sinograms Report     Dr. PENG Gang Dr. ZHENG Hong-Ying ZHANG Caicai Review: Xi, et al. 2010. Neuroscience. Tsang, et al. 2010. Neuroscience letters. Review   Jan 12 Dr. WANG Feng Phonation types in the Jianchuan Bai Report     Dr. ZHENG Hong-Ying Automatic (without focal attention) categorical perception of lexical tones : a cross-linguistic comparison Report   Jan 05 Manson FONG Review – Dehaene et al. (2010). How Learning to Read Changes the Cortical Networks for Vision and Language. Science. Review     Dr. ZHENG Hong-Ying Review for two interesting paper Review     Dr. GONG Tao Complexity in Neural Networks -- A review beyond Zimmer Review

2010

Date Presenter Title Type Ref Dec 30 Prof. William WANG Language in the brain Report     ZHOU Lin Progress report on sub-lexical processing of semantic radicals: a prime naming study Report     MAI Guang-Ting Acoustic Analysis for the Segment‐Reversal Experiment: Modulation Spectrum Analysis Report   Dec 22 Dr. Joseph MAK Coming soon Report     Dr. James MINETT An Assistive Communication Brain–Computer Interface for Traditional Chinese Character Input: The P300 Chinese Speller Report     WONG Ying Wai Comparative formant analysis of the vowels in Cantonese and Mandarin continuous speech Report   Dec 15 Prof. SUN Chao Fen Coming soon Report     Prof. SHI Feng 边界调和焦点调 Report     Dr. PENG Gang Brain, Behavior, and the Chinese Language—Recent research Progress in LEL Report   Dec 08 Prof. WAYE, Miu Yee Mary Autism, Genes and Brain Review     ZHANG Caicai Trip report: Brain and Language Laboratory (Academia Sinica) & ISCSLP 2010 (National Cheng Kung University) Report     Manson Fong Progress report – Further evidence in favor of the existence of position-sensitive sub-lexical units in Chinese: A masked priming study Report   Dec 01 Prof. William WANG An Introduction to the Brain Review     MAI Guang-Ting A Paper Review on Neural Representation of Categorical Perception Review   Nov 24 XIA Quansheng An ERP study on the semantic processing of disyllable verb-noun ambiguous word in Mandarin Report     WANG Ruijing Structural priming: Investigating the mental representations of linguistic knowledge Report     Dr. SHUAI Lan Neurobiology of Language Conference – A Conference Report Report   Nov 03 YANG Ruo-Xiao Discussion on the Time Window of Interaction between Word Production and Perception/Identification/Recognition—a Progress Report Report     ZHANG Caicai Review: Duanmu, San. 1994. Against Contour Tone Units. Linguistic Inquiry, 25.4:555-608. Review   Oct 27 Dr. GONG Tao Review: Hickok, Gregory. 2009. Eight Problems for the Mirror Neuron Theory of Action Understanding in Monkeys and Humans. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(7): 1229-1243. Review   Oct 20 Dr. James MINETT P300 Chinese Speller: Experimental Results Report     Dr. PENG Gang Dr. ZHENG Hong-Ying ZHANG Caicai Acoustic-perceptual mapping in Cantonese and Mandarin tone system Report   Oct 13 ZHOU Lin Proposal on sub-lexical processing of semantic radicals Report     MAI Guang-Ting Coming soon Report   Oct 06 Mason Fong Coming soon Report     Dr. ZHENG Hong-ying Dyslexia across languages: linking electrophysiological and behavioral indices — Proposal for National Institutes of Health Report   Sep 29 Mason Fong Progress report – Orthographic neighborhood in Chinese: a masked priming study Report     WONG Ying-Wai Reading report – Quantitative Target Approximation Report     YANG Ruo-Xiao The additive effects of orthographic and phonological facilitation on spoken word production in Chinese -- an experiment proposal Report   Sep 22 Dr. Christophe Coupé BALI: a software to balance lists of items Report 1   Dr. ZHENG Hong-ying EEG spectrum for dyslexia -- a review Review   Sep 15 ZHANG Caicai The influence of inter-speaker variations on acoustic-perceptual mapping of Cantonese tones Report     ZHOU Lin Discussion on phonological activation of the semantic radicals Report   Sep 07 YANG Ruo-Xiao How Orthography Influence the Spoken Word Production: consider SOA factor in Chinese Stroop task Report   Aug 31 Ng Chau Ping, Sally Linguistic tone is related to the population frequency of the adaptive haplogroups of two brain size genes, ASPM and Microcephalin Review     ZHOU Lin Sub-lexical processing of semantic radicals Report     MAI Guangting Coming soon Report   Aug 25 Ng Chau Ping, Sally Behavioral tests to differentiate the subtypes of dyslexia Review     Dr. ZHENG Hong-ying Electrophysiological signals to differentiate dyslexics from control subjects Review   Aug 18 Joyce HO An ERP study on the effect of tone features on tone lateralization in Cantonese Reh.     Dr. ZHENG Hong-ying The neurobiological basis of developmental dyslexia: an overview Review   Aug 11 Dr. SU I-Fan The Locus of Orthographic Facilitation Effect in Spoken Word Production: Evidence from Cantonese Chinese Report     Dr.PENG Gang The influence of context information on acoustic-perceptual mappings of Cantonese tones Report   Aug 04 MAI GuangTing Progress Report on the Experiment of Segment-Reversed Speech Identification Report     Ng Chau Ping, Sally From genes to behavior in developmental dyslexia Review     Dr. SHUAI Lan A Discussion on the genes and behavior in developmental dyslexia Review   July 28 Zhang Caicai Coming soon Report     YANG Ruo-Xiao 2010 Summer Trip Report Report     Zhang Caicai Coming soon Report   July 14 Mason Fong Coming soon Report     Dr. James MINETT Motor Imagery BCI+SSVEP Report   July 07 Ng Chau Ping, Sally Adults with dyslexia are impaired in categorizing speech and non-speech sounds on the basis of temporal cues Review     ZHOU Lin Progress Report: on sub-lexical processing of semantic radicals Report   June 30 Dr. SHUAI Lan Progress report Report   June 23 Ng Chau Ping, Sally Reading ability is negatively related to Stroop interference Review     Dr.PENG Gang YANG Ruo-Xiao Lateralized Stroop Effect Report     MAI GuangTing Speech Stimuli in the Segment-Reversal Experiment Report   June 15 Ng Chau Ping, Sally ERP differences of pre-lexical processing between dyslexic and non-dyslexic children Review     MAI GuangTing Pilot Report and Proposal on Behavioral Experiment Using Segment-Reversed Speech Signals Report     YANG Ruo-Xiao Dr.PENG Gang Lateralized Stroop Effect and Sinogram Recognition: Progress Report Report   June 09 Dr. SHUAI Lan Coming soon Report     Manson Fong Coming soon Report     YANG Ruo-Xiao Dr.PENG Gang Lateralized Stroop Effect and Sinogram Recognition: A Research Proposal Report   June 02 Dr. ZHENG Hong-ying ERP data analysis: use EGI data as an example Report   May 26 YANG Ruo-Xiao Experiment Proposal: Stroop Effect in Recognition of Sinogram, English alphabet and Pinyin Report     JIAO L. Frank An ACO simulation of Vowel Change Report     MAI Guangting Coming soon Reh.     WONG Ying-Wai ???????????????:???????????? Reh.   May 19 Ng Chau Ping, Sally Prevalence, gender ration and gender differences in reading-related cognitive abilities among Chinese children with dyslexia in Hong Kong Review     ZHANG Caicai Coming soon Report   May 12 Ng Chau Ping, Sally Research into Developmental Dyslexia from Molecular and Physiological Approach Report     Dr. SHUAI Lan Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation as a Treatment for Aphasia Post-stroke Review   May 5 Manson Fong Progress report on sinogram recognition– Do the “access codes” of sinograms go from position-specific to position-general? Report     YANG Ruoxiao Progress Report Report   April 28 Dr. Djano Kandaswamy A New Approach to Source Imaging and Its Application to ElectroEncephaloGraphy (EEG) Report     ZHANG Caicai Effects of F0 Cues in Perceiving Mandarin Tones by Cantonese Speakers: A preliminary report Report     ZHOU Lin Report on the use of Brain Waves Group website Report   April 21 Dr. SHUAI Lan Experiment proposals Report     ZHOU Lin A brief report on pilot experiment for reading Chinese characters in foveal vision Report     Manson Fong Sinogram Recognition – Brief report of the first pilot session Report   April 7 MAI GuangTing Review and a Behavioral Design on Digitalization of Speech Perception Report     YANG Ruoxiao Progress Report: Stroop Effect on Sinogram Recognition Report   Mar 31 ZHENG Hong-ying Brain responses to orthographic code -- general review Review     WONG Ying-Wai Reading report – A coarticulatory path to sound change Review   Mar 23 Manson Fong Sinogram Recognition – review & experiment proposal Report     Dr. PENG Gang Coming soon Report   Mar 17 YANG Ruoxiao Seminar (JAIST-EELC2010) Report Report     ZHENG Hong-ying BCI2000 – a brief introduction Report     Joyce HO eConnectome--A preliminary evaluation report Report   Mar 12 Dr. GONG Tao Summary of the academic activities during the visiting fellowship Report   Mar 10 ZHENG Hong-ying On The Neurology and Treatment of Dyslexia – An Overview on the Seminar Given by Dr. Beverley Steffert Report 1   Prof. Lien Chinfa Diachronic change in Southern Min, a Sinitic language Report       A progressive report on Diachronic change in Southern Min Report     Chun Edison Chang Multifunctions of Ho2 ‘good’ in TSM: Lexical Properties, Constructions and Speakers’ Positive Subjective Attitudes Report     Dr. James MINETT Augmentative & Alternative Communication Report   Mar 03 Prof. Chia-Ying LEE The acquisition of statistical linguistic properties in learning to read Chinese Report   Feb 24 ZHANG Caicai An event-related-potential study of linguistics relevant temporal and spectral cues in Cantonese: A review and a research proposal Report     Dr. James MINETT BCI Project: Update Report   Feb 11 ZHENG Hong-ying Categorical Perception of Lexical Tones: Behavioral and Psychophysiological study Defense   Feb 10 ZHENG Hong-ying Categorical Perception of Lexical Tones: Behavioral and Psychophysiological study Reh     Manson Fong Progress report – Sinogram perception Report   Feb 03 MAI GuangTing Progress Report for Behavioral Experiments of Mandarin Speech Rhythms (Updated) Report     YANG Ruoxiao A brief review on Stroop effect and an ERP experiment proposal Report   Jan 27 Prof. Umberto ANSALDO Contact, evolution and diversity Report     ZHENG Hong-ying Categorical Perception of Lexical Tones: Behavioral and Psychophysiological study Report   Jan 20 ZHOU Lin Paper Review and an Experiment Proposal Report     Joyce HO An ERP study on tone perception Report     Dr. James MINETT The Origin of Speech: Charles F. Hockett (1960). Scientific Amercian 203: 88-96 Review   Jan 13 Prof. William WANG Visible Language: an East Asian Perspective Report     WONG Ying-Wai Intrinsic F0 of Vowels - An Overview Review     Dr. James MINETT LEL EEG Scheme Report   Jan 06 Dr. PENG Gang Review on XU Yi's report: A global typological divide-Prosodic focus with or without post-focus compression Review     Prof. SHI Feng Coming soon Report     LI Mingxing The Role of Speech Perception in Mandarin Phonology: Sibilants and Apical Vowels Report

2009

Date Presenter Title Type Ref Dec 30 Dr. PENG Gang Formant analysis of the vowels in Cantonese and Putonghua continuous speech Report   Dec 23 ZHANG Caicai A Brief Report of Studies Report     YANG Ruoxiao A Brief Review on Human FFR Review   Dec 16 Prof. Umberto ANSALDO Contact languages and evolution Report     Dr. James MINETT BioSemi ActiveTwo EEG System Report     Manson Fong Review: Changizi, Mark A. and Shimojo, Shinsuke (2005). Character complexity and redundancy in writing systems over human history. Review   Dec 09 Dr. James MINETT BCI Project: Accuracy & Communication Rate Report     MAI GuangTing Progress Report on the Behavioral Experiment of Mandarin Speech Rhythms Report   Nov 25 Joyce HO EPR Tone Perception Experiment Report     WONG Ying-Wai Reading Report-Signalling Signalhood Report   Nov 11 YANG Ruoxiao Introduction to Kuhl’s Native Language Magnet Theory expended (NLM-e) and some related works Review     Prof. WAYE, Miu Yee Mary Coming soon Report   Nov 4 Dr. SHUAI Lan Conference Review Report     Dr. SU I-Fan The Processing of Semantic Radicals in Chinese Character Identification: Evidence from ERP Studies Report   Oct 30 Dr. PENG Gang Seeking a support for lateralization of the Whorf effect: the case of Chinese characters Report     Dr. James MINETT BCI Project: Update Report     Manson Fong Report: Coding Chinese characters based on orthographic information Report   Oct 14 ZHENG Hong-ying A review on oddball and control MMN Review     Manson Fong Review: A neuroanatomical model of language proposed by Pulvermüller et al. Review     ZHOU Lin Paper review on stimulus types in BCI paradigms Review   Oct 7 Dr. James MINETT Dr. PENG Gang BCI Project: Decomposing the Lexicon Report     YANG Ruoxiao The Interaction of Phonation Quality and F0 in Perceiving Mandarin Tones Report   Sep 23 Dr. James MINETT Proposal Overview Report     Dr. SHUAI Lan ERP Studies of Tone Lateralization Report   Sep 16 Dr. James MINETT Experiments on Tonogenesis and Tone Change Report     Dr. SHUAI Lan Temporal relation between speech perception and production Report   Sep 9 ZHENG Hong-ying Comparison of some EEG systems Report   Sep 2 Dr. James MINETT P300 Chinese Speller: Another Quick Update Report     YANG Ruoxiao Paper Review on Pitch Shift Experiment Review   Aug 27 Dr. James MINETT P300 Chinese Speller: A Quick Update Report     ZHENG Hong-ying BESA read Netstation file Report   July 29 Joyce HO Tone lateralization with respect to tone and slope-Experiment design Report     MAI GuangTing Papers Review, Experimental Design on the Relation between Brain Rhythms & Speech Perception Review   July 8 Dr.SHUAI Lan A paper review and an experiment proposal Review     Mai GuangTing Temporal Envelope & Spectral Cues for Auditory Speech Perception (cont.) Review   June 24 Hong-Ying ZHENG Categorical perception of level vs. rising tones -cross linguistic comparison       SHUAI Lan Spectrogram of different sounds       MAI Guang-Ting Temporal Envelope & Spectral Cues for Auditory Speech Perception       LU Ai-Tao Grounding language in perception and (inter) action: A symposium of the Distributed Language Group Report     Dr. James MINETT Vision & Audition: Some Observations and Meanderings     June 22 Dr. James MINETT Review for Gandour Review   June 17 WONG Ying-Wai Tone Perception Review   June 10 Dr.PENG Gang Hong-Ying ZHENG The influences of language experience on categorical perception of pitch contours Report   June 3 WONG Ying-Wai Spoken Corpus Analysis Report   May 29 SHUAI Lan ERP study on tone lateralization Defense   May 27 Hong-Ying ZHENG A cross-language study on categorical perception of lexical tones: ERP and behavioral evidence Report   May 20 Joyce On word segmentation of Chinese words during reading Review   April 29 LU Ai-Tao Language--review for Kutus et al. Review     SHUAI Lan Biosignal Processing--review for Gratton Review     ZHENG Hong-Ying Trip Report for ICASSP 2009 Report   April 14 WONG Ying-Wai Report on Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics I Report     Dr.James MINETT Event-Related Brain Potentials: Methods, Theory, and application (Part III) Review 1 April 8 Dr.James MINETT Event-Related Brain Potentials: Methods, Theory, and application (Part II) Review 1   SHUAI Lan Conference Report Report     Gang PENG& Hong-Ying ZHENG Perception of Mandarin tones by different language speakers Report   April 1 Dr.James Minett Event-Related Brain Potentials: Methods, Theory, and application (Part I) Review 1   Hong-Ying ZHENG Theory of P300 - review Review   March 31 Francis WONG PhD Thesis defense: Language processing in real and artificial neural networks Defense   March 25 Dr.James MINETT Language Evolution: Adaptation or Exaptation? Review 1   Hong-Ying ZHENG A brief review for application of P300 and P300 speller Review     Francis WONG Thesis oral defense rehersal Reh   March 19 Dr. WANG Cong Deterministic Learning Theory Intr   March 18 Dr.James Minett Review and Potential Application of: Wang, C. & Hill, D. J. (2007) Deterministic learning and rapid dynamical pattern recognition. Review   March 11 WONG Yingwai Lexicon analysis Report     LU AiTao Representations of motion-related nouns and verbs Report   March 4 SHUAI Lan Poster:Tone Lateralization is affected by both linguistic roles and physical properties Reh.     Mai GuangTing A paper review: the relationship between arcuatefasciculusasymmetry functional lateralization of language       WONG YingWai Progress report on Questionnaire Survey Report   Feb 25 Dr.Chen Ying PolyU: Context-driven Emotion Detection and Classification Intr.     Dr.PENG Gang coming soon Intr.     Shoushan LI Chu-Ren Huang Petr Simon PolyU: Simple and Fast Adaptive Chinese Word Segmentation Intr     Dr.James MINETT Modeling Language Competition Intr   Feb 18 Prof.William Wang A very brief history of studies in brain and cognition Intr     Dr.PENG Gang Paper Review: Human EEG VHFOs reflect the number of matches with a template in auditory short-term memory Report     Dr. PENG Gang ZHENG Hong-Ying Tone perception by Hong Kong Cantonese speakers Report     Dr.James MINETT BCI Using Single-trial EEG Review   Feb 11 ZHENG Hong-Ying Categorical perception of lexical tones in different carrier syllables --Proposal and preliminary results Report     Dr.GONG Tao   Review     WONG Yingwai Progress Report Report   Feb 4 LU Ai-Tao Processing the metaphorical words report     Prof.GU Wen-Tao Comparison of ohman's and Fujisaki's Models for the Formulation of Fundamental Frequency Contours of Speech Based on the Larynx Control Mechanisms report     Dr.PENG Gang ZHENG Hong-Ying "P300-Based Speller" -- Achievements in BCI by Donchin's group Review   Feb 3 Francis WONG DSP Seminar- Brain signature to semantic processing in sentence comprehension report   Jan 21 WONG Ying-Wai Progress Report--Survey on tone merge report     MAI Guang-Ting Plan on Speech Perception in Noise (Modified) report   Jan 14 Dr. Peng Gang Dr. James Minett Reading Chinese Characters: Inter-language Differences and Symmetry report     MAI Guang-Ting Plan on Speech Perception in Noise report     SHUAI Lan Summary of the ERP experiments on tone lateralization report   Jan 07 Dr. Peng Gang Dr. James Minett Reading Chinese Characters: Spoken-language-specific differences in the ERP report     Zheng Hong-Ying Dissertation framework and categorical perception of lexical tones in dichotic listening report

2008

Date Presenter Title Type Ref 24 Dec WONG YingWai Progress Report Report 1   LU Aitao Brief Report Report   19 Dec James MINETT A Review of Papers on the Categorical Perception of Color: Nature or Nurture? (continued) Review     MAI GuangTing A Plan on Auditory & Audiovisual Speech Proposal     Peng Gang “Subliminal” effects of Chinese character vs. pseudo-character Report   15 Dec Prof. William Wang 聲調探索 Talk   10 Dec James MINETT A Review of Papers on the Categorical Perception of Color: Nature or Nurture? Review 1   Yao Yao Pronunciation variation: How do people speak differently and why do we care? Report     WONG Ying-Wai Reading summary-tonogenesis Report     MAI Guang-Ting Noise Types with Possible Investigation into Audiovisual Speech Report   5 Dec SHUAI Lan How brain functions Review     ZHENG Hong-Ying Discussion on language influence on preattentive stage and categorical perception Review   1 Dec Dr. PENG Gang Naming of real and pseudo-characters Review 1   LU Ai-Tao Processing segmental and prosodic information in Cantonese word production Review 1 26 Nov Dr.James MINETT A Review of: Lateralization of Categorical Perception of Color Changes with Color Term Acquisition Review     Francis WONG Review of:“(de)constructing the N400*” Review     Prof. George van Driem Languages and genes: Ethnolinguistic hot spots in Asian population prehistory Intro   19 Nov Dr.James MINETT A Review of: Ventral and Dorsal Pathways for Language (Saur et al. 2008, PNAS 105.46:18035–40) Review 1   Guang-Ting MAI A Review --Neural Connections involved with Language Processing in the Human Brain Review   12 Nov Paul Tembe Archaeology and Bantu Linguistics Review     Dr.James MINETT & Dr. Gang PENG Lateralized Whorf & Chinese Characters:preview of pilot study results Report     Shuai Lan Behavioral data—dichotic listening in noisy conditions Report   5 Nov Guang-Ting Mai A Review: Audiovisual Lip-reading Integration Review 1 22 Oct Professor T. BLU Analytic Sensing: Direct Recovery of Point Sources Intr 1 2   Hong-Ying ZHENG Time-frequency analysis--report for EGI summer school Report 1   David (M.D.) Temporal lobe lesions and semantic impairment Review 1 17 Oct Professor William WANG Warm welcome to Professor James Tai & Professor Jane Tsai       SHUAI Lan Mirror neuron systempaper review and comments Review 1   Professor James Tai Coming soon     15 Oct Dr.James MINETT Progress Report: Lexical Judgment and P200 Report     LU Ai-Tao Coming soon     8 Oct WONG Ying-Wai Reading Report Report     ZHENG Hong-Ying Focal and nonfocal colors have different lateralization of sensibility in brain hemispheres Report     SHUAI Lan Progress report- Tone lateralization in noise A discussion about P2a and P2b Report Review   1 Oct ZHENG Hong-Ying Report for conference trip Report     Pual TEMBE From slogans To Metaphors Intro   24 Sep Dr. James MINETT Syllable Networks in the Brain and P200 Report     SHUAI Lan A modified “local/global” experiment Proposal     WONG Ying-Wai Progress Report Report     Francis WONG Progress with “SR(N-ER)P” Report   17 Sep WONG Ying-Wai Progress Report Report   10 Sep SHUAI Lan Some thoughts on the RGC proposal Proposal     Francis WONG Proposal of a new project: code name “SRP” Proposal   03 Sep Dr. James MINETT Contingent Negative Variation Review     SHUAI Lan Progress report Report     Francis WONG Something about everything about ERP, again Report     WONG Ying-Wai Reading Report – 入聲演化三途 Report   29 Aug Dr. James MINETT Reading Acquisition & Dyslexia:The Fifth Annual Summer School in Cognitive Neuroscience, Taiwan Report     WONG Ying-Wai Progress Report Report     Dr. GONG Tao Review on “The applications of real-time fMRI” by R. C. deCharms in Nature Reviews: Neuroscience, 9: 720-729 Review 1 27 Aug Dr. James MINETT ERP Experiment: Syllable Networks in the Brain Proposal     SHUAI Lan Progress report --statistical test of Dichotic listening I Report   20 Aug Francis WONG Something about everything about ERP Report   30 July WONG Ying-Wai Progress Report Report     Francis WONG Finding early brain signaure to semantic processing Report   16 July SHUAI Lan Behavioral data of the two dichotic experiments Report   09 July Dr. James MINETT Candidate ERP Experiments (II) Proposal   25 June WONG Ying-Wai Progress Report Report   20 June Francis WONG Early brain-signature to semantic processing in sentence comprehension Report   18 June Dr. James MINETT Finding Meaning in the Brain Proposal 12   SHUAI Lan Statistical tests on the ERP data Report   11 June Dr. GONG Tao A simulation study on the stability of homonyms Report     Dr. James MINETT Candidate ERP Experiment Proposal     Dr. PENG Gang Initial proposal for speech perception experiments Proposal     WONG Ying-Wai Overview of Current Study Report   4 June Prof. SHI Feng 实验音系学与语音格局分析 Talk     ZHENG Hong-Ying SHUAI Lan Paper Review: detection of auditory temporal edge (1) (2) Review     Dr. James MINETT The Mismatch Negativity (MMN)in basic research of central auditory processing: a review Review 1 28 May SHUAI Lan Progress report -CSD & PCA Report     WONG Ying-Wai Reading Report Report     ZHENG Hong-Ying Highlights for a review paper (Pulvermüller& Shtyrov, 2006)& Source localization with eLORETA Report   23 May Prof. William Wang Ambiguity and its many sources Talk   21 May Dr. PENG Gang Rethink the nature of speech(1) Report     SHUAI Lan Right auditory cortex –fine pitch resolution Review     ZHENG Hong-Ying Paper review --Tracking speech comprehension in space and time Review     Francis WONG One brain two systems, at least Review   16 May Prof. Tony Hung Phonological features of Hong Kong English (IPA fonts needed) Invited Talk   14 May Dr. James W. Minett Précis of Small-World Brain Networks (continued) Review     SHUAI Lan Progress Report Report     WONG Ying Wai Progress Report Report   07 May Dr. James W. Minett Précis of Small-World Brain Networks Review     SHUAI Lan Progress report report     Francis WONG Who moved my P200? Report   28 April WONG Ying Wai Progress report Report   23 April ZHENG Hong-Ying A paper review and discussion on PCA Report     SHUAI Lan Progress report Report   16 April Dr. James W. Minett Cognitive Procesing of Language Disc.     WONG Ying-Wai Progress Report Report   10 April Prof.William S-Y. WANG SHIAE Report- Research on language and brain waves Report   09 April SHUAI Lan sLORETA source localization statistical comparison of dichotic listening experiment Report     ZHENG Hong-Ying Language affects perception of lexical tones Report   08 April ZHENG Hong-Ying SHUAI Lan ERP: a brief introduction and its application in investigating speech perception Report   02 April SHUAI Lan Progress Report - ERP experiments on tone lateralization Report     WONG Ying-Wai Progress Report - Study consonantal perturbation of second formant (F2) transition Report   26 Mar. ZHENG Hong-Ying Language affects early stage of perception Report     Francis WONG Research on language and brain waves in LEL Report   19 Mar. Francis WONG Statistical analysis of the early the ERP component Report     ZHENG Hong-Ying Progress report -- New thoughts about ERP data Report   15-16 Mar. Prof. William S-Y. WANG 5th PRFL-What is language? Intro     WONG Ying-Wai 5th PRFL- The role of carryover tonal variations in Cantonese tone perception Report     ZHENG Hong-Ying 5th PRFL-Categorical perception of lexical tones: Correlation between electric brain response and behavioral performance Report     SHUAI Lan 5th PRFL-An ERP experiment on tone and consonant dichotic listening Report   05 Mar. Francis WONG Progress with the P200-N400 Report     SHUAI Lan Referencing methods and ERP lateralization Intro   29 Feb Prof. Benjamin TSOU Regulated Verse and Chinese Imperial Examinations Intro   27 Feb SHUAI Lan Paper Review--ERP and fMRI convergent evidence of language lateralization Review   26 Feb Prof. William S-Y. WANG Dr. James MINETT Life and Death of Languages and Computer Models Intro   22 Feb Dr. GONG Tao Using Language Games to Study Conventionalization of Linguistic Knowledge Intro   20 Feb ZHENG Hong-Ying Application of PCA and ANOVA analysis for ERP data Intro     SHUAI Lan Progress Report Report   13 Feb Francis WONG Progress with the P200/N400 experiment Report   5 Feb Francis WONG Finalised settings for the P200/N400 experiment Report   30 Jan WONG Ying-Wai Evolutionary Phonology - Reading Report Review   25 Jan Raymond NG Using prosodic information in automatic spoken language identification Intro Ref 23 Jan Prof.YANG Chin-Lung The Integration of Text Reading for Chinese-English Bilingual Speakers Proposal   16 Jan Prof. James HUANG Invited talk Intro     ZHENG Hong-Ying Brain waves correlate with categorical perception Report     Prof. SHEN Zhong-Wei Invited talk: Exploring On-going Changes in the Historical Materials Intro   09 Jan Francis WONG ERPs elicited in semantic processing P200 or N400 Report   04 Jan Dr.GU Wen-Tao Phonological representation of tone systems of some tone languages: Based on the Command-Response Model for F0 contour generation Intro   02 Jan Francis WONG Report a session in GLOW VI Report     ZHENG Hong-Ying Trip Report-Visiting SouthWest University, Chong-Qing, China Report     SHUAI Lan Word Priming and Semantic Violation Proposal

2007

Date	Presenter	Title	Type	Ref
19 Dec	Francis WONG	Progress with the N400, finally	Report.
14 Dec	Prof. BenJamin K.TSOU	Rapid urbanization, multilingual shift and accelerated language change: Sanya, Hainan	Intro.
	WONG YingWai	Coarticulation in VCV Utterances: Spectrographic Measurements	Report
12 Dec	ZHENG Hongying	Categorical perception of lexical tones in MMN	Report
07 Dec	Prof. Paul Kay	Discussion in Whorf Hypothesis	Disc.
05 Dec	Francis WONG	EEG Electrode Coordinates	Intro
30 Nov	Prof. William WANG	Types of memory & Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis	Intro
	Dr. James MINETT	Summary of Last Friday's Meeting	Intro
	Zheng Hongying	BESA tutorial	Tutorial	1
	Shuai Lan	sLORETA tutorial	Tutorial	1
23 Nov	Prof.William WANG	Tidbits on the Brain	Intro
	Dr. James Minett	Reflecting on Last Friday's Meeting: from the minutes to the next few weeks	Summary
	Shuai Lan	Dichotic listening ERP experiment	Report
	Dr. Gu WenTao	Physiological and Physical Bases of the Command-Response Model for Generating Fundamental Frequency Contours in Tone Languages	Intro
21 Nov	Zheng Hongying	Factors correlated with linguistic pitch learning-- A review for Wong et al’s a series of papers	Review
16 Nov	Dr. James MINETT	Language: in the Brain, in Hong Kong	Intro
	Francis WONG	EEG projects in the Language Engineering Lab.	Report
	Zheng HongYing	Investigating the early stage of categorical perception of lexical tones	Report
	Shuai Lan	Tone lateralization	Proposal
	Wong YingWai	Segmental feature assimilation	Review
14 Nov	Francis WONG	Progress with the N400 experiment	Report
	Zheng HongYing	Ocular artifact removal	Intro
9 Nov	Dr. James MINETT	Brain and Chaos	Intro	1
	Zheng Hongying	Critical Review on Luo' et al 2006's paper	Review
	Dr. Gong Tao	Review of PhD study and future work	Review
7 Nov	Prof. Ron CHEN	Brain and Chaos	Intro	1
	Dr. James MINETT	Brain and Chaos	Discussion
2 Nov	Dr. Gu WenTao	Effects of tonal context and emphatic focus on Cantonese speech prosody	Report
	Francis WONG	Brain waves in reading for comprehension of Chinese sentences - a study of our own	Proposal
31 Oct	Zheng Hongying	An ERP study investigating the temporal course of categorical perception of lexical tones	Proposal
26 Oct	Prof. William S-Y. WANG	Lessons from Visual Perception	Report
	Zheng Hongying	Rehearsal on Thesis Proposal	Rehearsal
24 Oct	Shuai Lan	Tone lateralization under noise condition	Report
	Wong YingWai	A Reading report on mining Event-Related brain dynamics	Reviw	1
19 Oct	Zheng Hongying	Temporal course of Categorical Perception on lexical tones: An ERP Study	Report
	Raymond NG	Word and Sentence Intonation: A quantitative model	Review	1
17 Oct	Dr. James MINETT	Fourier, Hilbert and Wavelet Analysis	Review
12 Oct	Gong Tao	Review CEC 2007 and Singapore Trip	Report
	Margaret LEI	Report on “Language Acquisition and Brain Development”(Review on Sakai, 2005，Science)	Review	1
5 Oct	Francis WONG Shuai Lan Zheng Hongying	EEG tutorial	Tutorial
	Gong tao	Trip Report	Report
28 Sep	Professor Eric Zee	Hakka phonetics
	Wong YingWai	Review on EEG-fMRI study	Review	1
	Francis WONG	Review on sentence processing: a ERP study	Review	1
21 Sep	Prof. William S-Y. WANG	LEL ethos and research on language and brain waves(III)	Intro
	Shuai Lan	Paper review: ER-fMRI on sentence ambiguity and ERP proposal	Review	1 2
	Margaret LEI	Report on the research seminar--"Three Pillars of Speech Perception: Beyond Consonants and Vowels"	Review
	Zheng Hongying	Book Review	Review
	Francis WONG	Introduction of "Endnote" and "Copernic Desktop Search"	Intro
14 Sep	Prof. William S-Y. WANG	LEL ethos and research on language and brain waves(II)	Intro
	Raymond NG	Summary of work (June-Aug, 2007)	Report
	Peng Gang	Summary of work (June-Aug, 2007)	Report
	Chen Hui	Summary of work (June-Aug, 2007)	Report
	Gong Tao	Review on Sturt(2006) paper: Semantic re-interpretation and garden path recovery	Review
	Margaret LEI	Summary of work (June-Aug, 2007)	Report
7 Sep	Prof. William S-Y. WANG	LEL ethos and research on language and brain waves(I)
	James Minett	Summary of work (June -Aug, 2007)	Report
	Shuai Lan	Summary of work (June-Aug, 2007)	Report
	Francis Wang	Summary of work (June-Aug, 2007)	Report
	Zheng Hongying	Summary of work (June-Aug, 2007)	Report
	Wong Yingwai	Summary of work (June -Aug, 2007)	Report
24 Aug	Zheng Hongying	Cross-linguistic study for perception of Cantonese level tones	Rehearsal
	Zheng Hongying	A rough comparison of sLORETA and BESA	Review
	Wong Yingwai	A language game study	Proposal
17 Aug	Shuai Lan	ERP experiment on dichotic listening	Report
	Tony LO	ERP experiment on ambiguity sentence	Proposal
	Zheng Hongying	ERP experiment on categorical perception	Proposal
30 July	Gong Tao Christophe COUPÉ	Report on Erice2007 Summer Atelier	Proposal
13 July	Shuai Lan	Visual and Auditory P300	Report
	WONG Ying Wai	Review on 'The emergence of simple languages in an experimental coordination game'	Review	1
29 June	Shuai Lan	Materials in an fMRI experiment	Report
	Shuai Lan Zheng Hongying	EEG AV test and visual ERP experiment demonstration	Demo
22 June	Francis WONG	Review on 2 PNAS papers about color category	Review
	Susan SHUAI	EEG machine set up progress report	Report
15 June	Prof. William S-Y. WANG	Historical review on EOG	Intro
	Shuai Lan	EEG connection	Intro
	Zheng Hongying	Categorical perception in dichotic listening	Report
	Tony LO	Ambiguity: Data, Approaches and Questions	Proposal
	Wong Yingwai	Correlation between genetic structure and linguistic structure	Review	1
08 June	Prof. William S-Y. WANG	Tones	Intro
	Gong Tao	Review	Review
	Shuai Lan	EEG Relocation	Report
01 June	Raymond NG	Using CSP to adjust the penalty score in Cantonese paired di-tone recognition	Report
	Susan SHUAI Zheng Hongying, Gong Tao, Francis WONG	EEG relocation	Discussion
25 May	Prof. Chin-Chuan CHENG	語言口耳相傳的距離	Intro	1
	Francis WONG	Overview of thesis structure	Overview
	Susan SHUAI	Progress report	Report
18 May	Prof. Robert BAUER	coming soon	Intro
	Francis WONG	Boston conference report	Report
	Zheng Hongying	Multisensory integration: an introduction and some experimental proposals	Intro
11 May	James Minett	SLEB introduction	Intro
	Gong Tao	Review “Evolution of vocabulary in scale-free and random networks”	Review	1
	Shuai Lan	Progress report on experimental design	Report
4 May	Prof. Vittorio Loreto	Cultural route to the emergence of linguistic categories	Intro
	Dr. Ciro Cattuto	Emergent semantics in online communities	Intro
	Susan SHUAI	Progress report on experimental design	Report
20 Apr	Wong YingWai	Speech production and all that	Intro
	Marcos Niño Ruiz	A simulation to study the Evolution of Homophony III	Report
13 Apr	Raymond NG	On the issue of contradictory di-tone sequence	Report
	Gong Tao	Rehersal--Language contact from a simulation perspective (CityU invited talk)	Rehersal
	Marcos Niño Ruiz	A simulation to study the Evolution of Homophony II	Report
06 Apr	James Minett	Power laws, networks,and all that	Review
	Marcos Niño Ruiz	A simulation to study the Evolution of Homophony I	Report
	Susan SHUAI	An experiment review	Review
29 Mar	Zheng HongYong	Data analyses on three corpora	Report
	Francis WONG	Updates on SRN simulation	Report
22 Mar	Gong Tao	Some preliminary thoughts on future empirical studies	Proposal
	Susan SHUAI	Progress report on experimental design	Report
16 Mar	Prof. Ron CHEN	Naming Game with Finite Memories	Intro
	Wong Ying Wai	Learning phonetic categories by tracking movements	Review
9 Mar	Zheng Hongying	Formation of color categories	Review
	Susan SHUAI	Whorfian hypothesis and categorical perception and hemispheric lateralization	Review
	Gong Tao	Review of study on the simulation of vowel system	Review
	Francis WONG	Lexicon as EXemplars (LEX)- an unified model of word learning?	Review	1
2 Mar	Tong Xiuli	Understanding Chinese literacy acquisition: The role of homophone awareness and other cognitive skills in early reading and spelling	Intro
	Francis WONG	Non-poverty of arguments against the stimulus poverty arguments	Review	1
22 Feb	Peng Gang	The Chinese syllabic networks-from complex network point of view	Report
	Marcos Niño Ruiz	The mutualism of language emergence: an interdisciplinary approach to language evolution	Proposal
9 Feb	Wong Ying Wai	The role of contextual variations in tone perception	Progress
26 Jan	Susan SHUAI	Broca’s area and speech lateralization in semantic and phonological processing	Proposal
	Zheng Hongying	Language experience shapes the early stage of speech perception	Review	1
19 Jan	Francis WONG	On "Language models based on Hebbian cell assemblies"	Review
12 Jan	Susan SHUAI	Research proposal - in exploring Broca’s area	Proposal
	Margaret LEI	Coming soon	Review
05 Jan	James Minett	Syllable Networks In Chinese	Update
	Zheng Hongying	Dealing with pitch information in lexical access – Exploration attempts by categorical perception modeling	Proposal