Conference Presentations 

Recent Conference Presentations 

• Qiang Huang, Yuto Aki, Daiko Takahashi, Motoaki Sugiura, & Hyeonjeong Jeong, Neural Correlates of Cross-Linguistic Syntactic Priming in Sentence Production: Evidence from Chinese-Japanese Bilinguals, The Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS), Matsuyama, Ehime University, Japan, July 12–13, 2025

• Jiaxin Yan, Victoria-Anne Flood, Motoaki Sugiura, & Hyeonjeong Jeong, How Gestures Facilitate Second Language Acquisition: A Neural Perspective, The Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS), Matsuyama, Ehime University, Japan, July 12–13, 2025

• Hyoungsun Kim, Motoaki Sugiura, & Hyeonjeong Jeong, Embodied Emotion and Language: the Neural Substrates of Visceral Expressions of Emotion, 2025 Korean Psycholinguistics Society Annual Conference, Konkuk University, Seoul: Korea, July 3–4, 2025

• Victoria-Anne Flood, Motoaki Sugiura, & Hyeonjeong Jeong,  Neural Processing of Attitudinal Prosody During Second Language Sentence Comprehension, 2025 Korean Psycholinguistics Society Annual Conference, Konkuk University, Seoul: Korea, July 3–4, 2025

• Yuto Aki, Satsuki Kurokawa, Takumi Uchihara, Motoaki Sugiura, & Hyeonjeong Jeong. Why is it challenging to express emotions in a second language? Insights from fMRI. Paper presented at the 34th European Second Language Association Conference (EuroSLA 34), UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway. June 25–28, 2025.

• Jiaxin Yan, Victoria-Anne Flood, Motoaki Sugiura, & Hyeonjeong Jeong, Beyond Words: How Gestures Shape Speech Comprehension and Retention in the Bilingual Brain, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, June 24-28, 2025 

• Yuto Aki, Takumi Uchihara, Motoaki Sugiura, & Hyeonjeong Jeong, How Language Shapes Emotion in First and Second Language Contexts: Behavioral and fMRI Approaches, American Association for Applied Linguistics, Denver, USA, March 22-25, 2025

• Yuyong Liu, Heyonjeong Jeong, Ayumi Takemoto, Motoaki Sugiura, The impact of conversational eyebrow movements on intention recognition: An fMRI Study, Society for the Neurobiology of Language,16th Annual Meeting, Brisbane, Australia, October 24-26, 2024, https://www.neurolang.org/2024/

• Hyeonjeong Jeong, Carlos Makoto Miyauchi, Wataru Suzuki, Ryuta Kawashima, & Motoaki Sugiura, Neural Correlates of Deep Comprehension of Second Language Reading: Focus on Retrieval Practice, Society for the Neurobiology of Language, 16th Annual Meeting, Brisbane, Australia,  October 24-26, 2024 https://www.neurolang.org/2024/

• Qiang Huang, Yuto Aki, Daiko Takahashi, Motoaki Sugiura, & Hyeonjeong Jeong, Cross-linguistic syntactic priming in Chinese-Japanese bilinguals during sentence production: an fMRI study, Society for the Neurobiology of Language 16th Annual Meeting, Brisbane, Australia,   October 24-26, 2024, https://www.neurolang.org/2024/

• Yuto Aki, Takumi Uchihara, Motoaki Sugiura, & Hyeonjeong Jeong, How Language Shapes Emotion: An fMRI Study of Emotion Verbalization in First and Second Languages, Society for the Neurobiology of Language, 16th Annual Meeting, Brisbane, Australia, October 24-26, 2024, https://www.neurolang.org/2024/

• Mayumi Kajiura, Chunlin Liu, Diego Dardon, Motoaki Sugiura, & Hyeonjeong Jeong, Exploring Brain Activity and Multimodal Input: Effects on First and Second Language Learning and the Role of Working Memory, Society for the Neurobiology of Language, 16th Annual Meeting, Brisbane, Australia, October 24-26, 2024, https://www.neurolang.org/2024/

• Jiaxin Yan, Victoria-Anne Flood, Motoaki Sugiura, & Hyeonjeong Jeong, The Role of Gesture in Second Language Acquisition: an fMRI study, Society for the Neurobiology of Language, 16th Annual Meeting, Brisbane, Australia, October 24-26, 2024, https://www.neurolang.org/2024/

• Yushi Sugimoto, Ryo Yoshida, Hyeonjeong Jeong, Akitake Kanno, Masatoshi Koizumi, & Yohei Oseki, Investigating syntactic attention in the brain, Society for the Neurobiology of Language,16th Annual Meeting, Brisbane, Australia, October 24-26, 2024, https://www.neurolang.org/2024/

• Yin May Zin Han, Yichuan Huang, Sachihiro Shirahama, Ayumi Takemoto,  Hyeonjeong Jeong, & Motoaki Sugiura, Uncovering social motivations in daily dialogue modes: an fMRI study, Society for Neuroscience 53rd Annual Meeting, McCormick Place, Chicago, U.S. October 5-9, 2024, https://www.sfn.org/

• Yuyong Liu, Hyeonjeong Jeong, Ayumi Takemoto, &  Motoaki Sugiura, The Role of the Precedence of Conversational Facial Signals in Understanding Intentions: an fMRI study, Society for Neuroscience 53rd Annual Meeting, McCormick Place, Chicago, US, October 5-9, 2024, https://www.sfn.org/

• Hyeonjeong Jeong, Yuichi Suzuki, Chunlin Liu, & Motoaki Sugiura, Explicit learning and beyond : Neural evidence for automatization in L2 grammar acquisition, American Association for Applied Linguistics 2024, Houston, Texas, USA, March 16-19, 2024, https://www.aaal.org/about-us

• Chunlin Liu, Takumi Uchihara, Motoaki Sugiura, Ping Li, & Hyeonjeong Jeong, The effect of emotional cues on the learning of L2 emotional vocabulary: an fMRI study, Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Marseille, France, October 24-26, 2023,  https://www.neurolang.org/2023/

• Victoria-Anne Flood, Diego Elisandro Dardon, Motoaki Sugiura,&  Hyeonjeong Jeong, Neural mechanisms of attitudinal prosody perception in a second language: an fMRI study, Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Marseille, France, October 24-26, 2023, https://www.neurolang.org/2023/

• Diego Elisandro Dardon, Chunlin Liu, Motoaki Sugiura, & Hyeonjeong Jeong, The Learning of Phonological-Based Linguistic Categories: An fMRI Study, Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Marseille, France, October 24-26, 2023, https://www.neurolang.org/2023/

• Victoria-Anne Flood, & Hyeonjeong Jeong, How Do Second Language Learners Process Attitudinal Prosody? 2023 Joint Internatioal Conference on ELT in Korea, Konkuk University, Seoul, July 6-8, 2023, 

• Diego Elisandro Dardon, & Hyeonjeong Jeong, Motoaki Sugiura, Dissociating the Roles of Working Memory and Language Aptitude during L2 Learning: An fMRI Study, 2023 Joint Internatioal Conference on ELT in Korea, Konkuk University, Seoul, July 6-8, 2023, 

• Chunlin Liu, Hyeonjeong Jeong, Haining Cui, Jean-Marc Dewaele, Kiyo Okamoto, Yuichi Suzuki, & Motoaki Sugiura, Social interaction enhances second language emotionality in the brain: an fMRI study, American Association for Applied linguistics, 2023, Portland, USA, March 18-21, 2023, https://www.aaal.org/events/aaal-2023-conference---portland-oregon

• Hyeonjeong Jeong, Koji Kazai, Mayumi Kajiura, Yuko Nakano, & Shuhei Kadota, The effect of speaker’s face on brain mechanisms during second language shadowing: An fMRI study, American Association for Applied Linguistics 2023 Conference, Portland, Oregon, USA, March 18-21, 2023, https://www.aaal.org/events/aaal-2023-conference---portland-oregon