Conference 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., 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., & 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

Invited Talks

● Wong, B. W. L. (2026, April 6). Malleability and functions of gradiency and consistency in speech perception in Spanish–Basque–English trilinguals. The Bilingual and Multilingual Development Lab, University of Toronto, Canada. Slides 

● 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. (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, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Slides