Brian W. L. Wong

Ph.D. student



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Brian W. L. Wong

Ph.D. student


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Spoken Language Group

BCBL - Basque Center On Cognition, Brain and Language




Brian W. L. Wong

Ph.D. student



Spoken Language Group

BCBL - Basque Center On Cognition, Brain and Language



Presentations


●  Wong, B. W. L., Samuel, A. G., & Kapnoula, E. C. (2026, January 7–9). Weak links between speech perception and production at the subphonemic level. [Poster presentation]. Experimental Psychology Meeting, London, U.K. https://eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/ Poster
●  Wong, B. W. L., Samuel, A. G., & Kapnoula, E. C. (2025, November 20–23). Tracking two distributions at once? Evidence from Spanish–Basque bilingual speech perception. [Poster presentation]. Psychonomic Society 66th Annual Meeting, Denver, U.S.A. https://www.psychonomic.org/page/2025annualmeeting Poster
*Recipient of the Psychonomic Society Graduate Travel Award

●  Wong, B. W. L., Samuel, A. G., & Kapnoula, E. C. (2025, October 1). Speech perception gradiency and L2 proficiency: How listeners deal with ambiguity in L1 versus L2. [Poster presentation]. BCBL Scientific day, San Sebastián, Spain. Poster
Wong, B. W. L., Hemelstrand, S, & Inoue, T. (2025, September 3–5). Revisiting the influence of phonological similarity on cognate processing: Evidence from Cantonese-Japanese bilinguals. 24th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP), Sheffield, UK. https://www.escop2025.com/ Slides
*Recipient of the ESCoP Travel Funding
●  Wong, B. W. L., Samuel, A. G., & Kapnoula, E. C. (2025, June 9–13). Use of probabilistic speech cues in a bilingual context. [Oral presentation]. The 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB15), San Sebastián, Spain. https://www.bcbl.eu/events/isb15/en/  Slides
●  Wong, B. W. L., Samuel, A. G., & Kapnoula, E. C. (2025, April 23–25). The roles of gradiency and language proficiency in L2 speech perception flexibility: Evidence from Spanish-English bilinguals. [Oral presentation]. The 11th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech (New Sounds 2025), Toronto, Canada. https://newsounds2025.artsci.utoronto.ca/ Slides

●  Wong, B. W. L., Samuel, A. G., & Kapnoula, E. C. (2025, April 16). Speech perception gradiency and L2 proficiency: How listeners deal with ambiguity in L1 versus L2. [Data blitz and poster presentation]. Language Festival 2025, University of Connecticut, U.S.A. https://languagefest.uconn.edu/ Poster
Wong, B. W. L., Samuel, A. G., Kapnoula, E. C., & McLaughlin, D. J. (2024, November 21–24). Effects of accent familiarity and rhythmic abilities on cognitive load in L2 listening: An individual difference approach [Poster presentation]. Psychonomic Society 65th Annual Meeting, New York, U.S.A. https://www.psychonomic.org/page/2024annualmeeting Poster
Wong, B. W. L., Samuel, A. G., & Kapnoula, E. C. (2024, August 2). Consistency and gradiency in speech perception: Differential impacts on initial lexical activation and speech perception flexibility in L1 (Spanish) and L2 (English). Speech and Music Perception Laboratory, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Slides
Wong, B. W. L., Samuel, A. G., Kapnoula, E. C., & McLaughlin, D. J. (2024, May 29–31). Effects of accent familiarity and rhythmic abilities on cognitive load in L2 listening: An individual difference approach [Oral presentation]. BCBL Pupillometry Workshop 2024, San Sebastián, Spain.  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0IH6W6wl0Tk7KHEaSZLlqEnF6c6XMzvA Slides

 ● Yang, Y., Liu, Z., Wong, B. W. L., Huo, S., Wang, J., Lee, T., Hoeft, F., & Maurer, U. (2024, October 24–26). Screening for developmental dyslexia in Hong Kong Chinese children using resting- and task-State EEG with convolutional neural networks[Poster presentation]. Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) 16th Annual Meeting, Brisbane, Australia. https://www.neurolang.org/2024/ Abstract
● Ma, J., Wong, B. W. L., Lui, F. H., Huo, S., McBride, C., & Maurer, U. (2024, October 24–26). Developmental neural incongruency patterns between sentence reading and arithmetic: An ERP study [Poster presentation]. Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) 16th Annual Meeting, Brisbane, Australia. https://www.neurolang.org/2024/ Abstract
● Maurer, U., Wong, B. W. L., Wu, K. C., Wang, J., & Wang, F. (2024, July 10–13). Fast, neural tuning for print in Chinese: ERP data from skilled adults and children with and without dyslexia [Oral presentation]. Society for the Science Study of Reading (SSSR) Conference 2024, Copenhagen, Denmark. https://www.triplesr.org/sssr-thirty-first-annual-conference Abstract

● Yang, Y., Liu, Z., Wong, B. W. L., Huo, S., Hoeft, F., & Maurer, U. (2024, February 29–March 1). Screening for developmental dyslexia in Hong Kong Chinese children using resting- and task-State EEG with convolutional neural networks [Poster presentation]. The 8th Annual Conference of the Association for Reading and Writing in Asia (ARWA) 2024, Jeju island, Korea. https://www.arwasia.org/ Abstract
 ● Ma, J., Wong, B. W. L., Lui, F. H., Huo, S., McBride, C., & Maurer, U. (2024, February 29–March 1). Commonalities and differences between neural incongruency effects in reading and mathematics: An ERP study [Poster presentation]. The 8th Annual Conference of the Association for Reading and Writing in Asia (ARWA) 2024, Jeju island, Korea. https://www.arwasia.org/ Abstract
Wong, B. W. L., Samuel, A., & Kapnoula, E. (2023, November 16–19).Individual differences in speech perception gradiency and listeners’ recovery from lexical garden paths in L1 and L2 [Poster presentation]. Psychonomic Society 64th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, U.S.A. https://www.psychonomic.org/page/2023annualmeeting Poster
Wong, B. W. L., Chan, L. Y. H., Huo, S., & Maurer, U. (2023, October 24–26).Adaptation and mismatch negativity (MMN) in dyslexia: Comparing first vs. subsequent repetitions in a roving EEG paradigm with minimized expectations [Poster presentation]. Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) 15th Annual Meeting, Marseille, France. https://www.neurolang.org/2023/  Poster
 ● Hemelstrand, S., Wong, W. L., McBride, C., Maurer, U., & Inoue, T. (2023, February 23–24). The impact of character complexity on Chinese literacy [Oral presentation (online)]. The 7th Annual Conference of the Association for Reading and Writing in Asia (ARWA) 2023, Hong Kong, China. https://www.arwasia.org/ Abstract
 ● Ma, J., Wong, W. L., Lui, F. H., Huo, S., McBride, C., & Maurer, U. (2023, February 23–24). Commonalities and differences between neural incongruency effects in reading and mathematics: An ERP study [Poster presentation (online)]. The 7th Annual Conference of the Association for Reading and Writing in Asia (ARWA) 2023, Hong Kong, China. https://www.arwasia.org/ Abstract

● Huang, X., Wong, W. L., Ng, T. Y., Sommer, W., Dimigen, O., & Maurer, U. (2022, June 7–8). Neural mechanisms underlying parafoveal preview effects and masked priming effects in visual word processing [Poster presentation (online)]. Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) 2022 Annual Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland. https://www.humanbrainmapping.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=4118 Abstract

Wong, W. L., Maurer, U., & Inoue, T. (2022, February 24–25). The influence of phonological similarity on cognate recognition in Cantonese-Japanese bilinguals [Poster presentation (online)]. The 6th Annual Conference of the Association for Reading and Writing in Asia (ARWA) 2022, Hong Kong, China. https://www.arwasia.org/ Poster
 ● Wong, W. L., Lam, H. C., Lo, J. W. K., Maurer, U., & Huo, S. (2022, February 24–25). How Hong Kong bilingual children with Chinese dyslexia perceive academic learning? An interview with metaphor analysis [Oral presentation (online)]. The 6th Annual Conference of the Association for Reading and Writing in Asia (ARWA) 2022, Hong Kong, China. https://www.arwasia.org/ Slides
 ● Huang, X., Ng, H., Wong, W. L., Tse, C. Y., Sommer, W., Dimigen, O., & Maurer, U. (2022, February 24–25). Acceleration of visual-orthographic processing in reading Chinese after masked repetition priming and parafoveal preview: Evidence from ERPs [Oral presentation (online)]. The 6th Annual Conference of the Association for Reading and Writing in Asia (ARWA) 2022, Hong Kong, China. https://www.arwasia.org/ Slides
 ● Huo, S., Wu, K. C., Mo, J. H., Wong, W. L., Wang, J., & Maurer, U. (2022, February 24–25). English sub-lexical orthographic knowledge in children with Chinese dyslexia: Latent profile analysis [Oral presentation (online)]. The 6th Annual Conference of the Association for Reading and Writing in Asia (ARWA) 2022, Hong Kong, China. https://www.arwasia.org/  Abstract
 ● Maurer, U., Wong, W. L., Song, B., Wu, K. C., Mo, J., Ng, T. Y., Huo, S., Wang, J., & Wang, F. (2021, October 5–8). Fast, neural tuning for print in Chinese: ERP data from skilled adults and children with and without dyslexia [Poster presentation (online)]. Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) 13th Annual Meeting, Novato, U.S.A. https://www.neurolang.org/ Abstract
 ● Huang, X., Dimigen, O., Sommer, W., Wong, C.-N., Wong, W. L., Tse, C.-Y., & Maurer, U. (2021, October 5–8). Is there magnocellular facilitation in early visual word recognition? Evidence from ERPs [Poster presentation (online)]. Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) 13th Annual Meeting, Novato, U.S.A. https://www.neurolang.org/ Abstract
 ● Wong, W. L., & Maurer, U. (2021, March 5–6). The effects of input and output modalities on language switching between Chinese and English [Poster presentation (online)]. The 5th Annual Conference of the Association for Reading and Writing in Asia (ARWA) 2021, Taipei, Taiwan. https://www.arwasia.org/ Poster
 ● Wang, J., Wu, K. C., Wong, W. L., & Maurer, U. (2020, September 24–25). Phonological Stroop effects in Chinese and English: A comparison of children with dyslexia, typically developing children, and adults [Poster presentation (online)]. The 4th Annual Conference of the Association for Reading and Writing in Asia (ARWA) 2020, Hong Kong, China. https://www.arwasia.org/ Poster
 
 
● Wang, J., Wong, A. W. K., Maurer, U., Wong, W. L., & Chen, H.-C. (2018, October 19–21). Phonological interference in a primed picture naming task [Oral presentation]. The 17th International Conference on the Processing of East Asian Languages and the 9th Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition (ICPEAL 17 – CLDC 9), Taipei, Taiwan. http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~gilntu/icpeal2018cldc/ Abstract
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