Principal Investigator

Gangyi Feng (冯刚毅)
Associate Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience of Language

Postdoc in Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, UT-Austin, 2017
Postdoc in Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, CUHK, 2016
Ph.D. in Psychology, South China Normal University, 2015
B.A. in Applied Psychology, South China Normal University, 2009

g.feng[at]cuhk.edu.hk Google Scholar

Shaoyun Yu (于劭赟)
Research Assistant Professor
shaoyun.yu[at]cuhk.edu.hk

Postdoc

Chen Hong (洪辰)

Chen Hong received both his B.S. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Tsinghua University. He is interested in how the brain processes music, speech, and other auditory stimuli, specifically from acoustic to semantic information and even emotional feelings.

chenhong[at]cuhk.edu.hk

Weiyi Li (李维毅)

Weiyi Li earned her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, specializing in the psycholinguistics of bilingual and multilingual nonliteral language processing, particularly irony comprehension in second-language learners, and the individual differences in language acquisition. She holds an M.Sc. in Education from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in English/Translation from Central China Normal University.

weiyili[at]cuhk.edu.hk

Peilun Song (宋佩伦)

Peilun Song received both his B.E. and Ph.D. in Information and Communication Engineering from the Zhengzhou University. His research interests mainly focus on medical image processing and analysis, multimodal data analysis and learning, machine learning and their applications on brain disease classification and prediction.

peilunsong[at]cuhk.edu.hk

Rujun Duan (段如君)

Rujun Duan received her Ph.D. in Psychology from The Education University of Hong Kong. Her research interests mainly focus on how children learn and process language, specifically the underlying mechanisms and the developmental trajectory of statistical learning of language acquisition throughout childhood.

rujunduan[at]cuhk.edu.hk

Ximing Shao (邵曦明)

Ximing received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging from University of York. She is interested in how the brain processes semantic (and other) features during language comprehension and verbal communication.

ximingshao[at]cuhk.edu.hk

Hanlin Wu (吴翰林)

Hanlin Wu holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is interested in how speech is represented, processed, and learned by human brains (and artificial systems).

hanlinwu[at]cuhk.edu.hk

PhD Students

Xuancu Hong (洪瑄粗)

Xuancu Hong is a final-year Ph.D. student at CUHK under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Wong and Gangyi Feng. He received his B.A. in English Studies with a minor in Psychology from the University of Macau. His research mainly focuses on language learning, multimodal linguistics, and turn-taking & discourse.

hongxc[at]link.cuhk.edu.hk

Qiren Dong (董其任)

Qiren Dong obtained a BSc Computer Science from University College London with the minor in Biomedical Engineering. His principal research interests are in the fields of speech perception and second/third language acquisition, via using computational approaches.

qiren.dong[at]link.cuhk.edu.hk

Jiayin Huang (黄佳吟)

Jiayin Huang received her M.A. in Linguistics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on non-native grammar learning, particularly in instructor-learner interactive contexts. She is also interested in exploring individual differences that underlie second language grammar learning.

jiayinhuang[at]link.cuhk.edu.hk

Zhenjiang Cui (崔振江)

Mingchuan Yang (杨明川)

RAs

Yidu Wu (吳一都)

Yidu Wu obtained his BEng and Msc in Computer Science from Chongqing University and City University of Hong Kong, respectively. He currently serves as a laboratory technician.

yiduwu[at]cuhk.edu.hk

Manyee Li (李敏仪)

Manyee Li received her B.A. degrees in English from the Chongqing University in 2024. She is mainly responsible for preparing the materials needed for the experiments and collecting experimental data.

Zorali[at]cuhk.edu.hk

Nan Wang (王楠)

Nan Wang has received her B.A. in English Language and literature from Nanjing Normal University, and M.A. in Linguistics from CUHK. Her main research focus is on speech perception and learning process.

nanwang[at]cuhk.edu.hk

Visiting Students

Shuguang Yang South China Normal University
Yaji He Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Previous Lab Members

Wenjia ZHANG Postdoc, now Associate Professor at Xi'an International Studies University
Yu LI Postdoc, now Assistant Professor at BNBU
Naishi Feng Postdoc, now Lecturer at Shenyang University
Zhenzhong GAN Lab technician
Haimei Zhou Visiting Student
Ruyi Gan Lab manager