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Tomohiro Inoue, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Professorial Fellow, J. P. Das Canter on Developmental and Learning Disabilities, University of Alberta

Email: tinoue (at) cuhk.edu.hk

Research Profile: Google Scholar | ResearchGate | ORCiD | OSF | Researchmap (in Japanese)

Anna Jia jun Zhang (Ph.D.)

Research interests: Children's cognitive development (especially language development & conceptual development), parent-child relationship

Publication: Zhang, A. J.-J., Maurer, U., McBride, C., & Inoue, T. (2025). Direct and indirect associations between parents’ and children’s literacy and numeracy skills: A longitudinal study in Hong Kong Chinese families. Cognitive Development, 75, 101605. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2025.101605

Su-Zhen Zhang (Ph.D.)

Research interests: Chinese reading development, Psycholinguistics, Second language acquisition

Publication: Zhang, S., Inoue, T., Cao, G., Li, L., & Georgiou, G. K. (2023). Unpacking the effects of parents on their children’s emergent literacy skills and word reading: Evidence from urban and rural settings in China. Scientific Studies of Reading, 27(4), 355–374. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2023.2169147

Yucan Chen (Ph.D.)

Research interests: Developmental dyslexia (especially for subtypes and brain-based Intervention), Language Acquisition, Chineses sub-lexical processing

Publication:  Chen, Y., Wei, Z., Gou, H., Liu, H., Gao, L., He, X., & Zhang, X. (2022). How far is brain-inspired artificial intelligence away from brain? Frontiers in Neuroscience, 16, Article 1096737. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.1096737

Yihong Yang (Ph.D.)

Research interests: children’s language and reading development, the role of family relationships (parents/carers, siblings), home literacy environment

Selina Yueting Pan (Ph.D.)

Research interests: Cross-cultural literacy development, cross-linguistic influence, parent-child interaction

Mengge Yan (Ph.D.)

Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Institute of Education, Singapore

Research Profile: ResearchGate

Shawn Hemelstrand (Ph.D.)

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, KIMEP University, Kazakhstan

Research Profile: Personal Website | ResearchGate

Gairan Pamei (Ph.D.)

Current Position: Teaching Fellow, City University of Hong Kong

Research Profile: Google Scholar

Zebedee Cheah Rui En (Ph.D.)

Current Position: Post-doctoral Fellow, The Education University of Hong Kong

Research Profile: Google Scholar | ResearchGate