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Wei-Hung, Jing-Yi, and I-Ling spent months working on this article with Charlene. Please check it out here (open access until May 16): Reading emotions from language: A hypothesis on their reciprocal relationship

The work is titled ‘Reading emotions from language: exploring age-related changes during sentence comprehension using brain potentials’. Congratulations!

Yun Chuang (Ingrid) has taken an offer for the admission to the PhD program for Psychology at Penn State University with full scholarship!

Yi-Chun worked on the underlying neural mechanisms of the Nref effect (an ERP component elicited by referentially ambiguous expressions) and passed the defense!

Wei-hung, Bobby & Charlene’s work, entitled ’Context-Induced Emotion Responses To Neutral Words Alter Subsequent Brain Responses To These Words: Evidence From Brain Potentials,’ was presented at SPR! Good job, Wei-hung!

Bobby Chen, Kara Federmeier and Charlene Lee’s work, entitled ‘Reprioritizing the Weaker Meaning Enhances the Post-N400 Anterior Positivity’, was presented at ESCoP!

Yi-Chun won the TA Award with Introduction to ERP!

Yi-Chun presented the poster ‘Age-related differences in statistical learning of non-adjacent dependencies-evidence from ERPs’ at CNS!

Bobby Chen, Kara Federmeier and Charlene Lee’s work, entitled ‘Reprioritizing the Weaker Meaning Enhances the Post-N400 Frontal Positivity’, was presented at EPS meeting!

Yun Chuang (Ingrid) completed her MA thesis, Individual Variation in the Late Positive Complex to Syntactic, Semantic, and Thematic Anomalies, and successfully passed the defense! We are looking forward to Ingrid’s new research in the future!

Bobby will work with Prof. Rodd, Charlene, and Dr. Hulme on a new project about the impact of healthy aging on lexical ambiguity resolution. We wish Bobby a fruitful year!

Chih got selected out of over 500 applicants and will be working with outstanding and world - renowned researchers from diverse scientific backgrounds.We are so happy for you! Congrats!!

Bobby and Yi - Chun presented our MEG project with Kevin Chun - Hsien Hsu from National Central University and our stistical learning project with Hsinjen Julie Hsu from National Tsing Hua University at the CNS conference this year! Yi - Chun's poster was chosen as one of the Data Blitz presentations!

Ingrid and Nai-wen's work is presented at the SNL this year titled 'Influences of Familial Sinistrality on the “Semantic P600” — Evidence from Brain Potentials'. Interesting insight from individual differences on the similarity between semanitc P600 and LPC.

Way to go, Lucia! Congratulations! I also want to take this opportunity to thank members in the lab for warmly assisting and guiding our summer interns, especially Bobby and Ingrid!

Congratulations, Crystal!! Chou, L.-C., Pan, Y.-L., and Lee, C. L. (accepted). Emotion anticipation induces emotion effects in neutral words during sentence reading: Evidence from event-related potentials. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience.

You can find a 5-min video on what we do in our lab here~! Enjoy. :) https://shorturl.at/cqJV9

A concept paper written with Prof. Hsu-Wen Huang from the City University of Hong Kong and Dr. Jung-Tai King from the National Yang-Ming University in Taiwan is officially accepted by Educational Technology & Society!

Congratulations to Yi-Lun and Charelene, whose paper just got accepted by Brain Research!

Congratulations to Chia-ho, who has been admitted to the Psychology department at the New York University! He will be working with Liina Pylkkanen starting from 2020 fall!

Congratulations to Bobby Po-Heng Chen, who has been awarded the PHD Research Abroad Fellowship by the Ministry of Science and Techanology in Taiwan! He will be working with Jennifer Rodd at the UCL for a year starting from 2020 fall!

Congratulations to Yi Chun, who got the best presentation award for the Summer Intern Results Presentation hof the Neurobiology and Cognitive Science Program at NTU!

Congratulations to Nai-wen, who successfully defended her MA thesis!

Congratulations to Jenny Tzu-Hung Lu! Jenny has taken an offer for the admission to the Ph.D program for Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Delaware with full scholarship! She will start in the fall of 2019!

Congratulations to Ingrid Yun Chuang, who got the admission to the master program at the University of University of Edinburgh, but chose to stay on with us! <3

Thesis title: The Influence of Verb Bias on On-line Mandarin Relative Clause Processing: an ERP study

Advisers: Chia-Ying Lee, Ph.D.; Chia-Lin Lee, Ph.D.

A new paper on the collaborative work with other language researchers at NTU, first and second authored by Po-Heng and Yeh Chih, is accpeted by Journal of Chinese Language Teaching, a THCI Core journal. Congratulations!

Chen, P-H., Yeh, C., Lu, C., Hsieh, S.-K., Chou, T.-L., Su, L. I.-W., Lee, C. L. (accepted). Multiple scaffolding mechanisms for L2 syntactic processing--An Event-Related Potential study. Journal of Chinese Language Teaching.

Po-Heng and Charlene were invited to University of Tokyo, Komaba, to attend the Linguistics Festa workshop. Po-Heng presented his new research idea and led an ERP tutorial at this workshop!

Congratulations to Rachel Yi-Lun Weng! Rachel has taken an offer for the admission to the Ph.D program for Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Delaware with full scholarship!

An article about our recent findings will be published in the Science Development journal (2017, April, Vol. 544)(http://ap0922.most.gov.tw/sd/). The electronic article will be available here. https://scitechvista.nat.gov.tw/list/sQ8/reset.htm

Lee, C. L., Huang, H. W., Federmeier, K. D., and Buxbaum, L. J. (2018). Sensory and semantic activations evoked by action attributes of manipulable objects: Evidence from ERPs. NeuroImage. 167, 331-341.

Shiuan-Huey, "Lateralization brain responses for structural analysis are critical for better language learning outcome".

Yan-Lin, "A cooler head with a second language?--Emotion expectation in L2 sentence processing".

Charlene is officially promoted to Associate Professor beginning in August, 2017.

Po-Heng Chen and Yi-Ting Tsai presented their posters at Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2016 Annual Meeting (CNS2016) on 2016/04/02-04/05 in New York, USA. Po-Heng Chen: Poster E88 (Hemispheric differences in processing syntactic category information in second language).Yi-Ting Tsai: Poster F69 (Age-related differences in comprehending unfamiliar metaphors)
Prof. Chia-Lin Charlene Lee won the 2015 NTU Outstanding Academic Achievement Award: Journal Articles.
Ling-Chen Chou finished her thesis defense on 2016/01/25 as a partial requirement for the Graduate Institute of Linguistics at NTU.Thesis title:An Event-Related Potential Study for the Effect of Emotional Expectation in Sentence Processing.Committee members: Prof. Keng-Chen Liang, Prof. Shu-Kai Hsieh, Dr. Chia-Ying Lee, Prof. Chia-Lin Lee.
Yi-Ting Tsai finished her thesis defense on 2016/01/25 as a partial requirement for the Graduate Institute of Linguistics at NTU.Thesis title: Age-related differences in comprehending unfamiliar metaphors.Committee members: Dr. Chia-Ying Lee, Prof. Joshua Goh, Prof. Chia-Lin Lee
Tzu-Hung Lu, Min-Shin Chen and Zih-Yu Shen presented thier posters at Society fot the Neurobiology of Language 2015 Annual Meeting (SNL2015) on 2015/10/15-10/17 in Chicago, USA.
Tzu-Hung Lu finished her thesis defense on 2015/08/12 as a partial requirement for the Graduate Institute of Linguistics at NTU.
Prof. Chia-Lin Charlene Lee won the 2014 National Taiwan University Good Teaching Award (up to top 9%).
Chia-Ho Lai finished his thesis defense on 11/25 as a partial requirement for the Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Science at NTU.Thesis title: "Aging and individual differences in Chinese pronoun comprehension: An ERP study"
Speaker:Elizabeth Stine-Morrow, Ph.D. (Professor, Beckman Institute & Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Title:Engagement as a Paradigm for Successful Aging
Date:103/11/05 9:30-10:30
Location: Department of Psychology, North Hall,A room
Zihyu Shen's master thesis is accepted by Language and Linguistics!
Shen, Z.Y., Tsai, Y.T. and Lee, C.L.(accepted) Joint influence of metaphor familiarity and mental imagery ability on action metaphor comprehension: An ERP study. Language and Linguistic (Monograph Series) 16.4
Location: Department of Psychology, North Hall, N216 room
Location: Department of Psychology, South Hall, S217 room
Location: Department of Linguistics, 304 room
Zih-Yu Shen finished her thesis defense on 07/30 as a partial requirement for the Graduate Institute of Linguistics at the NTU. Thesis title:"Joint influences of metaphor familiarity and individual’s mental imagery ability on the processing styles of action metaphor comprehension: An ERP study"