Journal Articles

● Wong, B. W. L., Samuel, A. G., & Kapnoula, E. C. (in press). Weak links between speech perception and production at the subphonemic level. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. Preprint | OSF Preregistration

● Wong, B. W. L., Samuel, A. G., Kapnoula, E. C., & McLaughlin, D. J. (in press). The role of perceptual rhythmic ability in the perception of accented second language speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. Preprint | OSF Preregistration

● Wong, B. W. L., Samuel, A. G., & Kapnoula, E. C. (2026). Speech perception consistency facilitates initial lexical activation, but not speech perception flexibility. Scientific Reports, 16, 16189. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-47943-3 PDF

● Wong, B. W. L., Samuel, A. G., & Kapnoula, E. C. (2026). The role of speech perception gradiency in L1 versus L2 spoken-word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 52(5), 553–572. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001399 Preprint

● Wong, B. W. L., Chan, L. Y. H., Huo, S., & Maurer, U. (2026). Minimal evidence of adaptation deficits in children with dyslexia: An EEG study with controlled expectations. Neuropsychologia, 227, 109445. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2026.109445 PDF

● Ma, J., Wong, B. W. L., Lui, K. F. H., Lo, J. C. M., Huo, S., McBride, C., & Maurer, U. (2026). Comparing developmental neural incongruency effects in reading and arithmetic among children: An ERP study. Cortex, 194, 239–252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2025.12.001 

● Huang, X., Wong, B. W. L., Sommer, W., Dimigen, O., & Maurer, U. (2025). No unique magnocellular facilitation in parafoveal processing: A combined EEG and eye-tracking study. Neurobiology of Language, 7, NOL.a.223. https://doi.org/10.1162/NOL.a.223 PDF

● Yang, Y., Liu, Z., Wong, B. W. L., Huo, S., Wang, J., Lee, T., Hoeft, F., & Maurer, U. (2025). Deviant functional connectivity patterns in the EEG related to developmental dyslexia and their potential use for screening. Biological Psychology, 201, 109130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109130  

● Wong, B. W. L., Hemelstrand, S., & Inoue, T. (2025). Revisiting the influence of phonological similarity on cognate processing: Evidence from Cantonese-Japanese bilinguals. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 78(3), 619–637. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241242631 PDF

● Huang, X., Wong, B. W. L., Ng, H. T. Y., Sommer, W., Dimigen, O., & Maurer, U. (2025). Neural mechanism underlying preview effects and masked priming effects in visual word processing. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 87(1), 5–24. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-024-02904-8

● Wong, B. W. L., Huo, S., & Maurer, U. (2024). Adaptation patterns and their associations with mismatch negativity (MMN): An Electroencephalography (EEG) study with controlled expectations. European Journal of Neuroscience, 60(9), 6312–6329. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.16546 PDF

● Huo, S., Wang, J., Wong, B. W. L., Wu, K. C., Mo, J., & Maurer, U. (2024). Development of EEG alpha and theta oscillations in the maintenance stage of working memory. Biological Psychology, 191, 108824. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108824 

● Hemelstrand, S., Wong, B. W. L., McBride, C., Maurer, U., & Inoue, T. (2024). The impact of character complexity on Chinese literacy: A generalized additive modeling approach. Scientific Studies of Reading, 28(1), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2023.2217967 PDF

● Wong, B. W. L., Lam, H. C., Lo, W. K. J., Maurer, U., & Huo, S. (2024). How do Hong Kong bilingual children with Chinese dyslexia perceive dyslexia and academic learning? An interview study of metaphor analysis. Reading and Writing, 37(7), 1753–1777. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-023-10434-2 PDF

● Wang, J., Huo, S., Wu, K. C., Mo, J., Wong, W. L., & Maurer, U. (2022). Behavioral and neurophysiological aspects of working memory impairment in children with dyslexia. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 12571. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-16729-8 PDF

● Huang, X., Wong, W. L., Tse, C. Y., Sommer, W., Dimigen, O., & Maurer, U. (2022). Is there magnocellular facilitation of early neural processes underlying visual word recognition? Evidence from masked repetition priming with ERPs. Neuropsychologia, 170, 108230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108230

● Wong, W. L., & Maurer, U. (2021). The effects of input and output modalities on language switching between Chinese and English. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 24(4), 719–729.  https://doi.org/10.1017/S136672892100002X PDF

● 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. (2020). Remediation of a phonological representation deficit in Chinese children with dyslexia: A comparison between metalinguistic training and working memory training. Developmental Science, 24(3), e13065. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13065 

● So, W. C., Wong, M. K. Y., Lam, W. Y., Cheng, C. H., Ku, S. Y., Lam, K. Y., Huang, Y., & Wong, W. L. (2019). Who is a better teacher for children with autism? Comparison of learning outcomes between robot-based and human-based interventions in gestural production and recognition. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 86, 62–75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2019.01.002

● So, W. C., Wong, M. K. Y., Lam, W. Y., Cheng, C. H., Yang, J. H., Huang, Y., Ng, P., Wong, W. L., Ho, C. L., Yeung, K. L., & Lee, C. C. (2018). Robot-based intervention may reduce delay in the production of intransitive gestures in Chinese-speaking preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder. Molecular Autism, 9(1), 34. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13229-018-0217-5

Book Chapters

● Hemelstrand, S., Wong, B. W. L., & Inoue, T. (2026). The orthographic orthodoxy: How Japanese flies in the face of typical literacy development. In H. Winskel & H. Pae (Eds.), Handbook of nonlinear writing systems: Complex processes and learning challenges (pp. 335–349). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-01973-8_17 PDF

PhD Dissertation

● Wong, W. L. (2026). Individual differences in speech perception: The malleability of gradiency and the functions of gradiency and consistency (Doctoral dissertation, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)). Dissertation Defense Slides