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Date Venue Presenter Topic
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2008

Date Presenter Title Type Ref
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 JanFrancis 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  
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