Assistant Professor, Department of Special Education and Counselling

Dr Cherry Yum’s research interests cover psycholinguistics, second language learning, and special education development in Hong Kong. She has been studying the lexical and sublexical processes underlying reading across languages or writing systems, and contextual effects in reading. Several of her projects used the ERP method to examine the neural correlates of visual word processing among multilingual populations. She obtained her undergraduate degree in psychology and linguistics at Haverford College, and her PhD degree in cognitive psychology at Tufts University. Before joining the Department of Special Education and Counselling at EdUHK in 2015, Cherry worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences at The University of Hong Kong.