Following my doctoral thesis denfense (January 2025), I have been proactively developing my research career. I’m always open to brainstorming new research ideas and establishing collaborations, especially within (but not limited to) my current research interests in cognitive psycho- and neurolinguistics with cross-linguistic comparison, focusing on:

  • sensorimotor representations in language processing
  • speech processing of articulatory features
  • prosodic encoding of emotions
  • structure and access of the mental lexicon
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In the next phase of my journey, I aim to explore language processing in neurodivergent populations across developmental stages, with the goal of contributing to clinical and educational applications. At the same time, I seek to refine my neuroimaging skillset (e.g., 7T MRI, MEEG) to deepen investigations into the temporal and spatial dynamics of language.

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Ongoing collaborations

  • Speech perception and hearing loss. Preparing postdoctoral fellowship applications for Tzuyi Tseng to investigate how hearing loss influences foreign-accented speech comprehension, in collaboration with Christiane Thiel (Universität Oldenburg) and Esther Ruigendijk (Universität Oldenburg), Oldenburg, Germany.
  • Decoding inner speech. Conducting a research project on uncovering the neural dynamics of inner speech from EEG signals, led by Ladislas Nalborczyk (CNRS), Aix-en-Provence, France.
  • Emotion in verbal speech and non-verbal vocalizations. Conducting a study on cross-linguistic emotion recognition in French and Mandarin verbal phrases and non-verbal vocalizations, in collaboration with Aitana Garcia Arasco (DDL & ENES), Saint-Etienne, France.
  • Cross-linguistic speech emotion recognition. Serving as an external collaborator on the Inidex EFL project: the grammatical encoding of expressivity and emotions, in collaboration with Lisa Brunetti (Université Paris Cité), with an ongoing funding application through Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, Paris, France.
  • Articulatory imagery in language learning. Developing a new research project co-led by Tzuyi Tseng on articulatory imagery in foreign language learning, in collaboration with Ladislas Nalborczyk (CNRS), Aix-en-Provence, France.


Past participation

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2021 - 2025. Ph.D. student. PI: Véronique Boulenger. ANR AchorFL (ANR-19-CE28-0015) - Anchoring foreign language learning in the motor system, exploited embodied sensorimotor encodings of phonemes and benefits of manual gestures to enrich phonological representations in a foreign language.
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2020 - 2021. Assistant. PI: Haohsiang Liao. Online MITx MOOCs courses - MITx: Chinese Language in Culture: Level 1 & Level 2, aimed to help the learners without prior background in Mandarin Chinese to communicate and to develop an understanding of Chinese interpersonal behavioral culture and related thought patterns.
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2020 - 2021. Assistant. PI: Hsun-Huei Chang. Higher Education Sprout Project (MOE 109H122-02; MOE 110H122-02), aimed to enhance sustained progress and rise of universities in Taiwan.
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2020 - 2021. Assistant. PI: Hsun-Huei Chang. Higher Education Sprout E Project (MOE 109H124E-11), provided an international course with both online and in-class learning and both campus and overseas professionals.
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2018 - 2021. Assistant & Analyst. PI: I-Ping Wan. Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST, current National Science and Technology Council) Project (MOST 107-2410-H-004-127; MOST 108-2410-H-004-098-MY2), investigated the error analysis of Thai students learning Taiwan Mandarin: a corpus-driven and cross-sectional study.
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2018 - 2019. Assistant & Analyst. PI: I-Ping Wan. MOST Project (MOST 107-2420-H-002-007-MY3-W10806), established an academic research website for AI and machine learning in sentiment analysis: Corpora studies in natural language processing.
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2017 - 2018. Assistant. PI: I-Ping Wan. MOST Project (MOE 107F107016), studied Thai students learning Mandarin lexical tones.