Attention Brain
& Cognition Lab
Perceptual expertise
Face recognition
Visual word recognition
Hemispheric asymmetry
Tracking
Our lab studies the relationship between human behaviour and its underlying cognitive processes/neural mechanisms, 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:
- Eye Movement analysis with Hidden Markov Models, EMHMM toolbox available! (In collaboration with Dr. Antoni Chan at City University of Hong Kong)
- 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 and consciousness
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 portable SMI Red-n eye tracker.
[Oct. 25, 2018]
Journal paper on "Using emotion regulation strategies after sleep deprivation: ERP and behavioral findings"
by Tep Zhang, Esther Lau, and Janet Hsiao, accepted to Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience..
[Oct. 23, 2018]
Journal paper on "Individuals with insomnia misrecognize angry faces as fearful faces while missing the eyes:
An eye-tracking study"
by Tep Zhang, Antoni Chan, Esther Lau, and Janet Hsiao, accepted to Sleep.
[April 16, 2018]
Journal paper on "When is the right hemisphere holistic and when is it not?
The case of Chinese character recognition"
by Harry Chung, Jacklyn Leung, Vienne Wong, and Janet Hsiao, accepted to Cognition.
[March 7, 2018]
Journal paper on "Music Reading Expertise Modulates Hemispheric Lateralization in English Word Processing but not in Chinese Character Processing"
by Sara Li and Janet Hsiao, accepted to Cognition.
Attention Brain & Cognition Lab
Department of Psychology
University of Hong Kong
Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong.
