Cognition & Hemispheric
Asymmetry Lab
Our lab studies the relationship between brain structure and cognitive processes, using a variety of approaches including computational modeling and cognitive neuroscience (with behavioral, eye movement, and EEG/ERP measures).
Research Topics
Our current research topics include (but not limited to) visual perception and cognition and psycholinguistics, as listed below:
- Connectionist modeling of hemispheric asymmetry in perception and cognition
- Asymmetries in visual perception
- Face and visual word recognition
- Hemispheric asymmetry in speech processing
- Learning changes in perceptual expertise acquisition
- Music notation reading expertise
- Bilingualism
- Hemispheric asymmetry in color perception
Equipment
The department of Psychology currently has an Eyelink 1000 eye tracker, a Tobii eye tracker, and a 64-channel ANT EEG system. In addition, our lab has a Doppler system for functional Transcranial Doppler Sonography (fTCD) recording, which allows us to noninvasively assess hemispheric dominance by measuring the difference in blood flow velocity toward the left and right hemispheres while participants are performing a cognitive task.
[April 24, 2012]
Postdoctoral position available. Please see here
for more information.
[April 1, 2012]
Conference paper on "The perception of simplified and traditional Chinese characters in
the eye of simplified and traditional Chinese readers", by Tianyin Liu & Janet
Hsiao, accepted to CogSci2012 as a talk.
[April 1, 2012]
Conference paper on "Writing facilitates learning to read in Chinese through reduction
of holistic processing: A developmental study", by Ricky Tso, Terry Au, & & Janet
Hsiao, accepted to CogSci2012 as a poster.
[April 1, 2012]
Conference paper on "Reading direction is sufficient to account for the optimal viewing
position in reading: The case of music reading", by Yetta Wong & Janet
Hsiao, accepted to CogSci2012 as a poster.
[Feb 11, 2012]
Ricky Tso has been awarded with the 2012 Elsevier/Vision Research Travel Award (VSS
Student Travel Award) for the 2012 Annual VSS Meeting, to present his research on "
Reduction of holistic processing in Chinese character recognition: A developmental trend in Chinese
children". Click here.
[Jan 1, 2012]
Journal paper on "The optimal viewing position in face recognition",
by Janet Hsiao and Tina Liu, accepted to Journal of Vision.
Cognition & Hemispheric Asymmetry Lab
Department of Psychology
University of Hong Kong
Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong.
