BRENDAN S. WEEKES Chair Professor, Director of the Laboratory for Communication Science weekes@hku.hk HKU | ResearchGate | Google Scholar
PostdocsMOHAMMAD MOMENIAN momenian@hku.hk HKU | ResearchGate | Google Scholar Mohammad’s research at LCS is concerned with the interface between morpho-syntactic and semantic factors during language comprehension. More particularly, he studies multi-word expressions and constructions such as light verb constructions and a variety of other compounds from a cross-linguistic perspective. He investigates the representation and spatio-temporal dynamics of such constructions using fMRI and EEG.
Graduate students (alphabetical)DAVID EDMONDS (CUHK) david.edmonds91@gmail.com ResearchGate | David is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests are in science and technology studies (STS), ethnomethodology and conversation analysis and the sociology of psychology. His doctoral research seeks to investigate experimenter–subject interaction in cognitive neuroscience experiments, with a particular focus on opening up the interaction usually partitioned off by psychology as a confounding variable to empirical analysis.
GABRIEL ONG (Melbourne) ghong@student.unimelb.edu.au ResearchGate | Gabriel is a PhD candidate at the Department of Psychology at the University of Melbourne. His research focuses on analyzing task response times with psychological models in order to make conclusions about language processing. Currently, he is investigating the organization of the bilingual lexical system, as well as the processes involved in language selection.
KEERTHI RAMANUJAN (HKU) keerthi.ramanujan@gmail.com Frontiers |
MARIA SHENDYAPINA (HKU) mshend@connect.hku.hk Frontiers | Maria is a PhD Candidate in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences at The University of Hong Kong. She worked 8 years in clinical practice as a neuropsychologist and 7 years in education as a lecturer. Her main practical interest lies in the area of brain fitness, neurohacking, and other ways to reach optimal brain performance. Currently, Maria works in the field of cognitive assessment in stroke. She translated and validated the Oxford Cognitive Screen into the Russian language. In the upcoming projects, Maria seeks to determine cognitive difficulties on different stages of the cerebrovascular disease and its connections with the brain structure.
PHILIP THIERFELDER (Melbourne) dthierfelder@student.unimelb.edu.au ResearchGate | Phil is interested in the cognitive processes involved in reading Chinese, particularly among deaf signers from Hong Kong. His current research investigates how the phonological systems of Cantonese and Hong Kong Sign Language influence comprehension during sentence reading.
Undergrad students and RAs (alphabetical) Lee Lok Yiu (Yoyo) Cheung Chun Pui (Tommy) Cheung Suet Lin (Shirley) Wu Ka Ming (Kyle) Cham Shuk Ka (Cindy) Chan Yu Kei (Kelly)
Visiting Students (alphabetical) Kinsey Bice (PhD, Funded by PIRE, Penn State) Edith Fung (Edinburgh) Christina Lutz (ETH Zurich) Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares (Zurich)
Recently graduated students (alphabetical) 2018, Inna Brodsky (PhD Neuropsychology, University of Melbourne, self funded) 2018, Christina Lutz (MSc ETH Zurich, self funded) 2018, Sergio Pereira-Soares (MSc Zurich, self funded) 2018, Eilien Wagemakers (PhD Linguistics, HKU, HKPF funded)