Biography

I am a research assistant at the National Taiwan University, working under the mentorship of Prof. Chia-Lin Charlene Lee in the Brain and Language Processing Lab. My current projects include:

  1. Employing a statistical learning paradigm to examine the role of right-hemispheric responses in syntactic processing among younger and older adults.
  2. Manipulating referential load to investigate the mechanisms underlying the Nref effect, an ERP component elicited by referentially ambiguous expressions.

I am broadly interested in psycholinguistics and neuroscience, with a focus on referential processing, ambiguity, and the role of working memory in language processing. During my master’s training, I gained extensive experience conducting EEG/ERP experiments and assisting in neurolinguistics research. Furthermore, I served as a teaching assistant for four semesters, mentoring more than 20 students in experimental design and data analysis.

I received an M.A. in Linguistics and a B.A. in Economics from National Taiwan University, with additional training in the Neurobiology and Cognitive Science Program . My master’s thesis, Processing of Ambiguity with Multiple Referents, supervised by Professor Chia-Lin Charlene Lee, investigated the Nref effect’s sensitivity to increasing referential load and explored the possibility that domain-general resources support working memory operations across modalities.

Interests
  • Language and Memory
  • Referential Processing
Education
  • M.A. in Linguistics, 2023

    National Taiwan University

  • B.A. in Economics, 2019

    National Taiwan University

  • Exchange Student, 2017

    Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Publications

(2023). Referential ambiguity processing for multiple referents: Evidence from event-related potentials. preregistration.

(2022). Age-related differences in statistical learning of non-adjacent dependencies: Evidence from ERPs. Poster presented at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. (April 23-26, San Francisco, CA, USA).

(2022). Referential ambiguity resolution for multiple referents: Evidence from event-related potentials. Poster presented at NTU-UT Linguistics Festa 2022, National Taiwan University. (March 12, Taipei, Taiwan).

(2021). Vowel lowering effect of pharyngeal and uvular consonants in Squliq Atayal. Poster presented at the 22nd National Conference on Linguistics. (October 23, Taipei, Taiwan).

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(2021). Right hemisphere syntactic processing in demanding conditions: An event-related potential study. Poster presented at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. (March 13-16, Virtual conference).