*Ku, L.-C., & Lai, V. T. (2025). Use of context in updating affective representations of words in older adults. Biological psychology, 195, 109003. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109003
*Ku, L.-C., Allen, J.J.B., & Lai, V. T. (2022). Attention and regulation during emotional word comprehension in older adults: Evidence from event-related potentials and brain oscillations. Brain and Language, 227, 105086. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2022.105086
*Ku, L.-C., *Chan, S., & Lai, V. T. (2020). Personality traits and emotional word recognition: An ERP study. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience. 20(2), 371-386. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-020-00774-9
Ku, L.-C., Chang, Y.-T., & *Chen, H.-C. (2020). How do extraverts process jokes? An event-related potential study on humor processing. Brain and Cognition, 141, 105553. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2020.105553
Chang, Y. T., Ku, L.-C., Wu, C. L., & *Chen, H. C. (2019). Event-related potential (ERP) evidence for the differential cognitive processing of semantic jokes and pun jokes. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2019.1583241
Chang, Y. T., Ku, L.-C., & *Chen, H. C. (2018). Sex differences in humor processing: An event-related potential study. Brain and cognition, 120, 34-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2017.11.002
Ku, L.-C., Feng, Y.-J., Chan, Y.-C., Wu, C.-L., & *Chen, H.-C. (2017). A re-visit of three-stage humor processing with readers’ surprise, comprehension, and funniness ratings: An ERP study. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 42, 49-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2016.11.008
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*de Zuazo, X., *Verbeni, V., *Ku, L.-C., *Arrieta, E., Barrena, A., Klimovich-Gray, A., ... & Molinaro, N. (2024). #neural2speech: Decoding Speech and Language from the Human Brain. Proceedings of IberSPEECH 2024, pp. 256-260. Read here.
*Ku, L.-C. (2011). Compositional operations of Mandarin Chinese verb “打da3”: a generative lexcicon lexicon approach. Proceedings of the 23th Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2011), pp. 323-332. Read here.
*Ku, L.-C., & Lai, V. T. (under review). Predicting affective features during ambiguous sentence comprehension in older adults.
Ku, L.-C., Souganidis, C., Bonfiglio, N., & Molinaro, N. (in prep.) Attention modulation in speech and music processing in noisy environments in musicians
Ku, L.-C., & Lai, V. T. (in prep.) Emotional processing in concrete and abstract words in older adults.
Lai, V. T, Ku, L.-C., & Lu. X. (in prep.) Writing about feelings metaphorically in English and Mandarin.