Conference Presentation

Full Papers

• Pan, J., Chen, X., & Zhang, C. (2025). Computational Modeling of Tonal Encoding in Disyllabic Mandarin Word Production. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2025), 47, 287-294. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3p59p1kt [PDF]
• Wu, R., Ge, H., Chen, X., & Zhang, C. (2025). Language Control during Bilingual Word Production in Cantonese–English Speaking Autistic and Typically Developing Children. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2025), 47, 2200-2207. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/05c0d54n [PDF]

Conference Papers

• Fong, M. C-M., Liu, J. C. H., Ma, M. K-H., Ng, X. S-W., Hui, C. L. L., Waye, M. M. Y., Chien, W. T. & Wang, W. S. Y. (2025). Predicting intelligence profile and brain age with single- and dual-channel CNNs: a study based on Human Connectome Projects. In ISBI 2025 - 2025 IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Proceedings (Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISBI60581.2025.10981090
• Fong, M. C-M., Ma, M. K-H., Ng, X. S-W., Liu, J. C. H., Waye, M. M. Y., Chien, W. T., & Wang, W. S. Y. (2025). Regional Brain Age Measures Based on Convolutional Neural Networks  (CNNs)—Symmetry Properties and Associations with Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence.  Proceedings of 2025 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Article 11252950 IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC58623.2025.11252950
• Geng, L., & Sheng, L. (2025). Disfluency Patterns and Speech Rate in Mandarin-Speaking Children with Developmental Language Disorder. Paper presented at The 45th Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, Wisconsin, United States.
• Ma, M. K-H., Fong, M. C-M., & Wang, W. S. Y. (2025). A reliability study in resting-state EEG network characteristics: frequency of interest, number of oscillatory cycles and thresholding. In Proceedings of 2025 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 11251614 IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC58623.2025.11251614
• Ma, M. K-H., Xie, C. W., Wang, W. B., & Wang, W. S. Y. (2025). Exploring Layer-wise Representations of English and Chinese Homonymy in Pre-trained Language Models. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025, 19705–19724. Jul 2025. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.findings-acl.1011 [PDF]
• Ng, X. S-W., Fong, M. C-M. & Wang, W. S. Y. (2025). The influence of handedness on white matter microstructure: Investigation of quantitative anisotropy based on the Human Connectome Project. SBI 2025 - 2025 IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Proceedings (Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging). https://doi.org/10.1109/ISBI60581.2025.10980763
• Wu, H., Du, Y., Li, Z., Gu, Y., Jayaprakash, D. T., & Sheng, L. (2025). Evaluating automatic speech recognition pipelines for mandarin-english bilingual child language assessment in telehealth. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, 2025, 3075-3079. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2025-2430
• Xie, C. W., Ma, M. K-H., Wang, W. B., & Wang, W. S. Y. (2025). Context and POS in Action: A Comparative Study of Chinese Homonym Disambiguation in Human and Language Models. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 27608-27625. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.1404 [PDF]

Oral Presentation

• Chan, A., Westby, C., *Srivastava, V., *Zhu, W.L., *Li, S. & Westerveld, M. (2025). Advancing personal narrative assessment and intervention in Asian cultures. The 12th Asia Pacific International Conference on Speech, Language, and Hearing (2025 APSSLH Conference), Bangkok, Thailand. Dec 12-14, 2025.
• Ge, H., Wu, R., & Zhang, C. (2025). Bilingualism effects on Executive Function of Cantonese-English bilingual children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Oral presented at The 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB15), Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain. Jun 9-13, 2025. [Oral]
• Hu, L. Y., Fong, M. C-M., Ma, M. K-H. & Wang, W. S. Y. (2025). Morphological Activation in L1 and L2 Derived Word recognition. Joint Postgraduate Student Symposium on Language, Culture and Cognition (JPSS2025), Faculty of Humanities, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, May 13-14, 2025. [PDF]
• *Lee, F., Chan, A., Petersen, D. & Spencer, T. (2025).  A new language screening and progress monitoring tool for Cantonese-speaking school-aged children: Initial reliability and validity evidence for the Cantonese Narrative Language Measures – Listening (NLM-Listening) Subtest. The Speech Pathology Australia (SPA) 2025 National Conference. Adelaide Convention Centre. Jun 13-15, 2025.
• Ma, M. K-H., Fong, M. C-M., & Wang, W. S. Y. (2025). Subjective cognitive decline modulates cortical strength in speech and music perception. 北京大学语言学实验室与香港理工大学语言、认知与神经科学研究中心首届青年学者论坛. May 29, 2025. [Oral]
• *Srivastava, V., Chan, A., & Westerveld, M. F. (2025). Emotion Expression in Chinese Culture: Coherence in Personal Narratives of Mandarin-speaking Children with and without Autism. Global TALES Network Symposium: Advancing Global Knowledge in Personal Narratives to Bridge the Research-to-Practice Gap in Speech-Language Pathology. University of Alberta. Edmonton, Canada. Sep 11, 2025.
• Wang, B. X., Sun, Y., Song, Z., Wang, S., Ng, H. Y., Lam, H. C., Zheng, Y. P., & Wong, M. N. (2025). An ultrasound and acoustic study estimating the vowel space of Cantonese-speaking healthy adults. The 20th biennial conference of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association (ICPLA), Greece. Jun 24-27, 2025.
• Wang, W. B., Ma, M. K-H., Xie, C. W. & Wang, W. S. Y. (2025). Contextual Influence on Chinese Homonym Disambiguation in Large Language Models: Evidence from Angular Distance Analysis. Joint Postgraduate Student Symposium on Language, Culture and Cognition (JPSS2025), Faculty of Humanities, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, May 13-14, 2025. [PDF]
• Wang, W. B., Xie, C. W., Ma, M. K-H., & Wang, W. S. Y. (2025). The potential application of multiple biological platforms in Yamanaka factors and AD related language impairment genes. The 16th Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics (CIEL 16), Yanbian University, Yanji, China, Jul 4-6, 2025. [Oral]
• Wong, M. N., Wong, E. C. H., Wang, B. X., Cheng, O. T. K., Ng, J. H. Y., & Ng, C. W. Y. (2025). Efficacy of an online self-pace Cantonese phonetic transcript training module for speech therapy students. The 20th biennial conference of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association (ICPLA), Greece. Jun 24-27, 2025. [Oral]
• Wong, E. C. H., Wong, M. N., Chan, W. S. A., & Velleman, S. L. (2025). Screening Cantonese-speaking preschool children for language disorder using a caregiver-reported questionnaire. Community Rehabilitation Network 30th Anniversary cum The Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation 65th Anniversary Conference. Jan 17-18, 2025. [PDF]
• Wong, E. C. H., Wong, M. N., & Velleman, S. L. (2025). Implementation science: Training community speech therapists to conduct evidence-based treatment for children with childhood apraxia of speech. Community Rehabilitation Network 30th Anniversary cum The Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation 65th Anniversary Conference. Jan 17-18, 2025. [PDF]
• Xie, C. W., Ma, M. K-H., Wang, W. B., & Wang, W. S. Y. (2025). Probing Neurodegeneration and Aging Through iPSC-Derived Models. The 16th Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics (CIEL 16), Yanbian University, Yanji, China, Jul 4-6, 2025. [Oral]
• Xie, C. W., Ma, M. K-H., Wang, W. B., & Wang, W. S. Y. (2025). Human vs. LLM Chinese Homonym Disambiguation: Contextual, Syntactic and Developmental Influences Across the Lifespan. 北京大学语言学实验室与香港理工大学语言、认知与神经科学研究中心首届青年学者论坛. May 29, 2025. [PDF]
• Zhu, W.L., & Chan, A. (2025). Emotion Expression in Chinese Culture: Coherence in Personal Narratives of Mandarin-speaking Children with and without Autism. Global TALES Network Symposium: Advancing Global Knowledge in Personal Narratives to Bridge the Research-to-Practice Gap in Speech-Language Pathology. University of Alberta. Edmonton, Canada. Sep 11, 2025.

Poster Presentation

• Chen, X., Yuan, T., Chen, Y., Huang, F., & Zhang, C. (2025). An fNIRS investigation of Mandarin third-tone sandhi word production. Poster presented at The 3rd International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI 2025), Herrisching near Munich, Germany. May 16-18, 2025.
• Hu, L., Fong, M. C-M., Ma, M. K-H., & Wang , W. S. Y. (2025). The impact of L2 proficiency on the time course of morphological activation: an incremental primed lexical decision study. Poster Session at The 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB15), Donostia-San Sebastián in Spain, 10 June 2025. [PDF]
• Huang, F., Che, X., Lu, J., & Zhang, C. (2025). An EEG Investigation of the Processing Mechanisms of Phonologically-conditioned and Semantically-conditioned Tonal Variations in Mandarin Word Production. Poster presented at The 3rd International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI 2025), Herrisching near Munich, Germany. May 16-18, 2025.
• Jiang, H., Chen, X., Pickering, M., Ma, J., & Zhang, C. (2025). How the listener’s own pitch production influences their tone perception: The influence of motor system in speech perception. Poster presented at The 3rd International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI 2025), Herrisching near Munich, Germany. May 16-18, 2025.
• Khan, M. A., Lin, J., Lu, J., & Zhang, C. (2025). Neurocognitive Signatures of Reinforcement Learning Proficiency: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Insights. Poster presented at Society for the Neurobiology of Language 17th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, United States.Sep 12-14, 2025.
• Liu, Z., Fong, M. C-M., Ma, M. K. H., & Wang, W. S. Y. (2025). Cerebellar Contribution in Learning-Related and Error-Related Activity during Artificial Grammar Learning. Society for the Neurobiology of Language 17th Annual Meeting, Gallaudet University, Washington DC, Sep 12-14, 2025. [Poster]
• Liu, Z., Fong, M. C-M., Ma, M. K. H., & Wang, W. S. Y. (2025). Distinguishing Cerebellum Violation and Automatic Processing in Artificial Language Learning. UBSN Conference 2025, PolyU HK. June 7, 2025. [Poster]
• Ma, M. K-H., Fong, M. C-M., & Wang, W. S. Y. (2025). Cortical tracking of speech in different expressive styles differs in subjective cognitive decline. UBSN Neuroscience Conference and Workshops 2025, Hong Kong, Jun 6-7, 2025. [Poster]
• Ma, M. K-H., Xie, C. W., Wang, W. B., & Wang, W. S. Y. (2025). Exploring Layer-wise Representations of English and Chinese Homonymy in Pre-trained Language Models. The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025), Vienna, Austria, Jul 2025. [PDF]
• Pan, J., Chen, X., & Zhang, C. (2025). Two-stage tonal encoding in Mandarin word production: Evidence from computational simulations. Poster presented at The 3rd International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI 2025), Herrisching near Munich, Germany. May 16-18, 2025.
• Shi, H., Wang, D., Geng, L., Yu, J., & Sheng, L. (2025). Developing and validating the Narrative Assessment Protocol in Mandarin (NAPiM) to assess narrative microstructure. Poster session presented at The 45th Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, Wisconsin, United States.
• Sun, M. R., Sheng, L., Wang, D., & Su, P. L. (2025). Narrative tell and retell in Mandarin-English bilingual children. Poster session presented at The 45th Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, Wisconsin, United States.
• Weng, Y., Emara, Y., Peng, G., & Zhang, Y. (2025). Enhancing ASD Detection with Machine Learning and Deep Learning: Insights from Eye-Tracking Data during Audiovisual Speech Perception. Poster session presented at International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) 2025, Seattle, Washington. Apr 30 - May 5, 2025.
• Wong, E. C. H., Wong, M. N., & Velleman, S. L. (2025). Dynamic temporal and tactile cueing in Cantonese-English bilingual children with childhood apraxia of speech. Poster presentation at The 2025 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention, Washington, D.C.. Nov 19-22, 2025.
• Xie, C. W., Ma, M. K-H., Wang, W. B., & Wang, W. S. Y. (2025). Context and POS in Action: A Comparative Study of Chinese Homonym Disambiguation in Human and Machine. UBSN Neuroscience Conference and Workshops 2025, Hong Kong, Jun 6-7, 2025. [PDF]
• Xie, C. W., Ma, M. K-H., Wang, W. B., & Wang, W. S. Y. (2025). Context and POS in action: A comparative study of Chinese homonym disambiguation in human and language models. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025). Association for Computational Linguistics, Suzhou, China, Nov 4-9, 2025. [Poster]
• Yang, J., Luo, H., Wang, R., & Sheng, L. (2025). Identifying Developmental Language Disorder in Mandarin-Speaking Children: A Community-Based Multi-phase and Multi-method Study. Poster session presented at The 45th Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, Wisconsin, United States.
• Zhang, K., & Peng, G. (2025). The Role of Alpha- and Delta-Band Oscillations in Speech Perception Under Visual Interference. Poster session presented at Organization for human brain mapping Annual meeting, Brisbane, Australia. Jun 24-28, 2025.
• Zhu, Y., Choi, W., Ma, J., & Zhang, C. (2025). Phonological awareness and reading impairment in tonal-language speakers with congenital amusia. Poster presented at The 3rd International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI 2025), Herrisching near Munich, Germany. May 16-18, 2025.