Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

1. Cho, F. T.-H., Tan, C. Y., & Wong, Y. K. (in press). Role of line junctions in expert object recognition: The case of musical notation. Psychophysiology.

2. Ngan, V. S. H., Cheung, L. Y. T., Ng, H. T. Y., Yip, H. M. K., Wong, Y. K., & Wong, A. C.-N. (in press). An early perceptual locus of absolute pitch. Psychophysiology.

3. Fan, P., Wong, A. C.-N., Wong, Y. K. (2022). Visual and visual association abilities predict skilled reading performance: The case of music sight-reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001217

4. Lui, K. F. H., Fan, P., Yip, K. H. M., Wong, Y. K., & Wong, A. C.-N. (2022). Are there associations between daily multitasking experience and multitasking performance? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. https://doi:10.1177/17470218221087959

5. Yip, H. M. K., Cheung, L. Y. T., Ngan, V. S. H., Wong, Y. K., & Wong, A. C.-N. (2022). The effect of task on object processing revealed by EEG decoding. European Journal of Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15598

6. Wong, Y. K., Tong, C. K.-Y., Lui, M., & Wong, A. C.-N. (2021). Perceptual expertise with Chinese characters predicts Chinese reading performance among Hong Kong Chinese children with developmental dyslexia. PLOS One, 16(1), e0243440. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243440

7. Wong, Y. K., Lui, K. F. H., & Wong, A. C.-N. (2021). A reliable and valid tool for measuring visual recognition ability with musical notation. Behavioral Research Methods, 53(2), 836-845. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-020-01461-w

8. Wong, Y. K., Ngan, V. S. H., Cheung, L. Y. T., & Wong, A. C.-N. (2020). Absolute pitch learning in adults speaking non-tonal languages. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820935776

9. Wong, Y.K., Lui, K.F.H., Yip, K.H.M., & Wong, A.C.-N. (2020). Is it impossible to acquire absolute pitch in adulthood? Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82, 1407-1430.  https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-019-01869-3 [Featured in the Psychonomic Society's Featured Content Blog]

10. Hui, C.-M., Lui, K.F.H., Lai, W.Y., Wong, Y.K., & Wong, A.C.-N. (2019). Beauty and the beast: promotion concerns and the pursuit of physically attractive mates. Journal of Personality, 2019;00:1-16. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12535

11. Wong, A.C.-N., Ng, T.Y.K., Lui, K.F.H., Yip, K.H.M., & Wong, Y.K. (2019). Visual training with musical notes changes late but not early electrophysiological responses in the visual cortex. Journal of Vision, 19(7):8. https://doi.org/10.1167/19.7.8.

12. Wong, A.C.-N., Wong, Y.K., Lui, K.F.H., Ng, T.Y.K., & Ngan, V.S.H. (2019). Sensitivity to configural information in words predicts word recognition fluency. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 45(1), 82-99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000590

13. Wong, Y. K., & Wong, A. C.-N. (2018). The role of line junctions in object recognition: The case of reading musical notation. Pyschonomic Bulletin & Review. DOI: 10.3758/s13423-018-1483-0. PDF

14. Wong, Y. K., Wong, W. W., Lui, K. F. H., Wong, A. C.-N. (2018). Revisiting facial resemblance in couples. PLoS ONE 13(1): e0191456. https://doi. org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191456 PDF

15. Wong, Y. K., & A. C.-N. Wong (2016). Music-reading training alleviates crowding with musical notation. Journal of Vision, 16(8):15, 1-9.     PDF

16. Wong, Y. K., Peng, C., Fratus, K. N., Woodman, G. F., & Gauthier, I. (2014). Perceptual expertise and top-down expectation of musical notation engages the primary visual cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26(8), 1629-1643.    PDF

17. Wong, A. C.-N. & Wong, Y. K. (2014). Interaction between perceptual and cognitive processing well acknowledged in perceptual expertise research. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8. 308.    PDF

18. Wong, Y. K. & Wong, A. C.-N. (2014). Absolute pitch: Its prevalence among musicians and dependence on the testing context. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 21(2), 534-542.    PDF

19. Wong, Y. K., Folstein, J. R., & Gauthier, I. (2012). The nature of experience determines object representations in the visual system. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141(4), 682-698, doi: 10.1037/a0027822.    PDF

20. Wong, Y. K. & Gauthier, I. (2012). Music-reading expertise alters visual spatial resolution for musical notation. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 19(4), 594-600.    PDF

21. Wong, Y. K., & Hsiao, J. H. (2012). Reading direction is sufficient to account for the optimal viewing position in reading: The case of music reading. Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.    PDF

22. Wong, Y. K., Folstein, J. R., & Gauthier, I. (2011). Task-irrelevant perceptual expertise. Journal of Vision, 11(14):3, 1-15.    PDF

23. Richler, J. J., Wong, Y. K., & Gauthier, I. (2011). Perceptual expertise as a shift from strategic interference to automatic holistic processing. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 20(2), 129-134.    PDF

24. Wong Y. K., & Gauthier, I. (2010). Holistic processing of musical notation: Dissociating failures of selective attention in experts and novices. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 10(4), 541-551.    PDF

25. Wong, Y. K., Twedt, E., Sheinberg, D., & Gauthier, I. (2010). Is Thompson’s Thatcher effect unique to faces? Perception, 39(8), 1125-1141.    PDF

26. Wong, Y. K., & Gauthier, I. (2010). A multimodal neural network recruited by expertise with musical notation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(4), 695-713.    PDF

Books

Wong, A. C.-N., Lee, N. Y. L., Tse, C.-S., Ng, F. F., Wong, Y. K., & Wang, Q. (2012). Raising children: The wisdom from psychology. Hong Kong: Commercial Press.

黃振能、李雅言、謝志成、伍斐然、黃桂玲、王茜 (2012). 學心理識教子 ﹣有根有據培育良方。香港： 商務印書館。