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Lab Director
Lab Director
Tomohiro Inoue, Ph.D.
Associate 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 | Researchmap (in Japanese)
Postgraduate Students
Postgraduate Students
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 and its subtypes, computational modeling of cognitive-linguistic skills, language acquisition, Chinese sublexical processing, Chinese handwriting
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: bilingualism, cognitive processes in reading, genetic and environmental influences on literacy
Publication: Yang, Y., McBride, C., Maurer, U., & Inoue, T. (2026, March). Examining the active view of reading in Chinese-English bilingual reading comprehension. Paper presented at the 10th annual conference of the Association for Reading and Writing in Asia (ARWA 2026), Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Selina Yueting Pan (Ph.D.)
Research interests: cross-cultural literacy development, cross-linguistic influence, parent-child interaction
Publication: Lai, K. H., Shi, H., Pan, Y., & Tamis-LeMonda, C. S. (2026). Development of a vocabulary inventory for English-Mandarin dual-language-learning infants and toddlers. Behavioral Sciences, 16(7), 1143. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs16071143
Adler Zheyan Cao (MPhil)
Research interests: psychological and neural mechanisms underlying language development, and learning disorders
Research Assistants
Research Assistants
Xiaodan Deng (Full-time RA)
Research interests: educational psychology, especially related to children’s learning motivation
Alumni
Alumni
Anna Jia-jun Zhang (Ph.D.)
Current Position: Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Hangzhou Normal University, China
Research Profile: Google Scholar | ResearchGate
Shawn Hemelstrand (Ph.D.)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, KIMEP University, Kazakhstan
Research Profile: Google Scholar | Personal Website | ResearchGate
Gairan Pamei (Ph.D.)
Current Position: Teaching and Learning Manager, Centre for Holistic Teaching and Learning, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR
Research Profile: Google Scholar
Zebedee Cheah Rui En (Ph.D.)
Current Position: Research Fellow, Department of Paediatrics at the National University of Singapore, Singapore
Research Profile: Google Scholar | ResearchGate
Mengge Yan (Ph.D.)
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Institute of Education, Singapore
Research Profile: ResearchGate
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