Our aim is to understand how the brain processes visual words and written text. We want to make use of this knowledge to improve early identification of dyslexia and to develop and evaluate dyslexia intervention programs.

Person-in-charge:

Prof. Urs Maurer

Members:

Shuting Huo (postdoc)

Hezul Ng (PhD student)

Xin Huang (PhD student)

Bingbing Song (PhD student)

Brian Wai Leung Wong (Mphil student)

Anita Lam (research assistant)

• Meta-Linguistic vs. Working-Memory Training in Chinese Dyslexic Children: Behavioural and Neural Evaluation
• Neural facilitation through fast magnocellular visual projections in reading Chinese
• Influence of cultural experience on neural mechanisms underlying visual processing of faces, objects, and characters
• Long-term evaluation of two types of dyslexia interventions at behavioural and neural levels

Wang, J., Wu, K. C., Mo, J., Wong, W. L., Siu, T. S. C., McBride, C., Chung, K. K. H., Wong, P. C. M., Maurer, U. (in press). Remediation of a Phonological Representation Deficit in Chinese Dyslexic Children: A Comparison between Metalinguistic Training and Working Memory Training. Developmental Science.

Wang, F., Maurer, U. (2020). Interaction of top-down category-level expectation and bottom-up sensory input in early stages of visual-orthographic processing. Neuropsychologia, 137, 107299.

Lo, J. C. M., McBride, C., Ho, C. S. H., & Maurer, U. (2019). Event-related potentials during Chinese single-character and two-character word reading in children. Brain and Cognition, 136, 103589.

Siu, T.-S., McBride, C., Tse, C.-S., Tong X., Maurer, U. (2018). Evaluating the effects of metalinguistic and working memory training on reading fluency in Chinese and English: A randomized controlled trial. Frontiers in Psychology 9, 2510.

Wang, F., Maurer, U. (2017). Top-down modulation of early print-tuned neural activity in reading. Neuropsychologia, 102, 29-38.