Ku, L.-C., Souganidis, C., Bonfiglio, N., & Molinaro, N. (2025, September). The Influence of Musicianship on Selective Attention to Acoustic Features of Speech and Music in Noisy Environments. Poster to be presented at the International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON 2025), Porto, Portugal.
de Zuazo, X., Verbeni, V., Ku, L.-C., Arrieta, E., Barrena, A., Klimovich-Gray, A., Saratxaga, I., Navas, E., Agirre, E., & Molinaro, N. (2024, November). #neural2speech: Decoding Speech and Language from the Human Brain. Poster presented at the special session of IberSpeech 2024, Aveiro, Portugal.
Ku, L.-C., & Lai, V. T. (2023, March). A reduced negativity bias in older adults: Predicting affective features of a word in emotionally ambiguous sentences. Poster presented at the 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Pittsburgh, PA.
Ku, L.-C., & Lai, V. T. (2022, October). Predicting negative features of words in context: The role of negative bias in younger adults. Poster presented at the 14th Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Philadelphia, PA.
Ku, L.-C., & Lai, V. T. (2022, September). Negativity bias in younger adults: Pre-activating negative features of a word in emotionally ambiguous contexts. Poster presented at the virtual 28th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference, York, UK.
Ku, L.-C., & Lai, V. T. (2022, May). Context matters: Changes in the affective representation of a word in younger and older adults. Poster presented at the 2nd Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) conference.
Ku, L.-C., & Lai, V. T. (2022, March). Context matters: Changes in the affective representation of a word in younger and older adults. Poster presented at the 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Virtual meeting.
Ku, L.-C., & Lai, V. T. (2021, October). Changes in the affective representation of words in emotional contexts. Poster presented at the 13th Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Virtual meeting.
*Diaz, M. E., Hernandez, L. A., Maytorena, S. R., Ku, L.-C., & Lai, V. T. (2021, March). Emotional Words in Contexts and Health Aging: Introduction. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Western Alliance to Expand Student Opportunities (WAESO) student conference, Virtual meeting. *Best Poster Award, 2nd place.
*Hernandez, L. A., Diaz, M. E., Maytorena, S. R., Ku, L.-C., & Lai, V. T. (2021, March). Emotional Words in Contexts and Health Aging: EEG experiment. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Western Alliance to Expand Student Opportunities (WAESO) student conference, Virtual meeting. *Honorable Mention
*Maytorena, S. R., Diaz, M. E., Hernandez, L. A., Ku, L.-C., & Lai, V. T. (2021, March). Emotional Words in Contexts and Health Aging: Introduction. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Western Alliance to Expand Student Opportunities (WAESO) student conference, Virtual meeting. *Honorable Mention
Ku, L.-C., Allen, J.J.B. & Lai, V. T. (2020, October). Positivity bias in low-arousing language in healthy older adults. Poster presented at the Twelfth Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Virtual meeting.
Ku, L.-C., & Lai, V. T. (2019, March). Emotion language in healthy aging. Poster presented at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
Chang, Y. T., Ku, L. C., Wu, C. L., & Chen, H. C. (2017, January). Differential ERP evidences between semantic jokes and pun jokes. Poster presented at the 2017 Taiwan Society of Cognitive Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Ku, L.-C., & Chan, S.-H. (2016, April). The modulation of personality on Chinese emotion word processing with different lexical categories: an ERP study. Poster presented at 23rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY.
Chan, S.-H., Ku, L.-C., Liu, C., & Liao, C. (2013). A cow needs a head but a horse does not: an MEG study on Mandarin classifiers. Research abstract presented at the 7th East Asia Symposium on Superconductive Electronics (EASSE), National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Chan, S.-H., Liao, C.-H., & Ku, L.-C. (2013). Headless cows are hard to process: an ERP study of Mandarin classifiers. Poster presented at 20th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
Ku, L.-C. (2011, September). Compositional operations of Mandarin Chinese verb “da3”: a generative lexicon approach. Poster presented at the 23rd Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2011), National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan.
*Ku, L.-C., Allen, J.J.B. & Lai, V. T. (2021, April). Attention and regulation during emotional word comprehension in older adults: Evidence from event-related potentials and brain oscillations. Talk presented at the Cognitive Science Colloquium Student Showcase, Tucson, AZ.
*Lai, V. T., Mehl, M., Bulkes, N., Kumar, A., & Ku, L.-C. (2019, November). The expressive and regulatory roles of metaphor for emotion. Talk presented at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Montreal, Canada.
*Ku, L.-C., Lai, V. T., & Chan, S.-H. (2018, August). The personality trait differences on Chinese emotion word processing: An ERP study. Talk presented at the University of Arizona 4th Annual Psychology Student Data Blitz, Tucson, AZ.
*Chang, Y. T., Ku, L. C. & Chen, H. C. (2016, June). Sex differences in humor process: An ERP study. Talk presented at the 28th International Society of Humor Studies Conference, Dublin, Ireland.
*Ku, L.-C., & Chen, H.-C. (2016, June). How do extraverts process nonsense jokes? An ERP study on humor processing. Talk presented at the 28th Annual Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies Conference, Dublin, Ireland.
*Ku, L.-C. (2012, May). Hyperbolic expressions of emotion in Taiwan Southern Min discourse. Talk presented at the 6th Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition (CLDC2012), National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
*Zhang, Q.-R., Chen, M.-Y., Ku, L.-C., Hong, J., Lo, J., & Hsieh, S.-K. (2011, January). Detecting sub-events in environmental disaster using Plurks. Talk presented at the 2nd KYOTO Workshop: Advanced Information Systems for sharing information and Knowledge about the Environment, Gifu, Japan.