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Wong, P. C. M., Lai, C.M., Chan, P.H.Y., Leung, T.F., Lam, H.S., Feng, G., Maggu, A.R., & Novitskiy, N. (2021). Neural Speech Encoding in Infancy Predicts Future Language and Communication Difficulties. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2021_AJSLP-21-00077
Wang, L., Xiao, S., Jiang, C., Hou, Q., Chan, A. H. D., Wong, P. C. M., & Liu, F. (in press). The Form and Function Processing of Lexical Tone and Intonation in Tone-language-speaking Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
Wong, P. C. M. (in press). Neural Basis of Second Language Speech Learning – Past and Future: A Commentary on “The Neurocognitive Underpinnings of Second Language Processing: Knowledge Gains from the Past and Future Outlook”. Language Learning.
Zhou, X., Wang, L., Hong, X., & Wong, P. C. M. (2023). Infant-directed Speech Facilitates Word Learning Through Attentional Mechanisms: An fNIRS Study of Toddlers. Developmental science, e13424. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13424.
Novitskiy, N., Chan, P. H., Chan, M., Lai, C. M., Leung, T. Y., Leung, T. F., Bornstein, M. H., Lam, H. S., Wong, P. C. M. (2023). Deficits in Neural Encoding of Speech in Preterm Infants. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 61, 101259. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101259.
Yuan, D., Ng, I. H. Y., Feng, G., Chang, W.T., Tong, M. C. F., Young, N., Wong, P. C. M. (2023). The Extent of Hearing Input Affects the Plasticity of the Auditory Cortex in Children with Hearing Loss: A Preliminary Study. American Journal of Audiology, 32(2), 379-390. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_AJA-22-00172.
Kang, X., Yip, V., Matthews, S., Wong, P.C.M. (2023). A Large-scale Repository of Spoken Narratives in French, German and Spanish from Cantonese-speaking Learners. Scientific Data, 10(1), 183. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02090-6.
Kalaivanan, K., Wong, P.C.M., Wong, F.C.K & Chan, A.H.D. (2023). Native Language Perceptual Sensitivity Predicts Nonnative Speech Perception Differently in Younger and Older Singaporean Bilinguals. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66(3), 987-1017. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00199.
Gong, X., Wong, P. C. M., Fung, H. H., Mok, V. C., Kwok, T. C., Woo, J., Wong, K. H., & Meng, H. (2022). The Hong Kong Grocery Shopping Dialog Task (HK-GSDT): A Quick Screening Test for Neurocognitive Disorders. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(20), 13302.
Wang, L. C., Kager, R., & Wong, P. C. M. (2022). The Effect of Tone Hyperarticulation in Cantonese Infant-Directed Speech on Toddlers’ Word Recognition in the Second Year of Life. First Language, 42(5), 670-692. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237221109342.
Pan, D.J., Yang, X., Ku, Y.Y.S., Dulay, K.M., Cheung, S.K., McBride, C., Wong, P.C.M. & Ho, C.S.H. (2022). Variability in Asian Parents’ English and Mathematics Skills: A Family-based Study. Frontier in Education, 7, 898201.
Feng, Y., Kager, R, Lai, R. & Wong, P. C. M. (2022). The Ability to Use Contextual Cues to Achieve Phonological Constancy Emerges by 14 Months. Developmental Psychology, 58(11), 2064-2080. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001418.
Meng, D., Wang, S., Wong, P.C.M., Feng, G. (2022). Generalizable Predictive Modeling of Semantic Processing Ability from Functional Brain Connectivity. Human Brain Mapping, 43(14), 4274-7292. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25953.
Lau, J., Patel, S., Kang, X., Nayar, K., Martin, G.E., Choy, J., Wong, P.C.M., & Losh, M. (2022). Cross-linguistic Patterns of Speech Prosodic Differences in Autism: A Machine Learning Study. PloS one, 17(6), e0269637. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269637.
Liu, L., Lai, R., Singh, L., Kalashnikova, M., Wong, P.C.M., Kasisopa, B., Chen., A., Onsuwan, C., and Burnham, D. (2022). The Tone Atlas of Perceptual Discriminability and Perceptual Distance: Four Tone Languages and Five Language Groups. Brain and Language, 229, 105106. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2022.105106.
Novitskiy N., Maggu A.R., Lai C.M., Chan P.H.Y, Wong K.H.Y., Lam H.S., Leung T.Y., Leung T.F, Wong P.C.M. (2022). Early Development of Neural Speech Encoding Depends on Age but not Native Language Status: Evidence from Lexical Tone. Neurobiology of Language, 3(1), 67-86. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_00049.
Margulis, E.H., Wong, P.C.M., Turnbull, C., Kubit, B.M., and McAuley, J.D. (2022). Narratives Imagined in Response to Instrumental Music Reveal Culture-Bounded Intersubjectivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119 (4), e2110406119. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2110406119.
Wong, P.C.M., Kang, X., So, H.C., and Choy, K.W. (2022). Contributions of Common Genetic Variants to Specific Languages and to When a Language is Learned. Scientific Reports, 12, 580. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-04163-1.
Wong, P. C. M., Kang, X., Wong, K. H. Y., So., H-C., Choy, K. W., Geng., X. (2020). ASPM-Lexical tone association in speakers of a tone language: Direct evidence for the genetic-biasing hypothesis of language evolution. Science Advances, 6 (22), eaba5090
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Maggu, A. R., Kager, R. W. J., Xu, S., & Wong, P. C. M. (2019). Complexity drives speech sound development: Evidence from artificial language training. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 45, 628-644. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000633. PMID: 30945908.
Deng, Z., Chandrasekaran, B., Wang, S., & Wong, P. C. M. (2018). Training-induced Brain Activation and Functional Connectivity Differentiate Multi-talker and Single-talker Speech Training. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 151, 1-9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2018.03.009. PMID: 29535043.
Feng, G., Ingvalson, E. M., Grieco-Calub, T. M., Roberts, M. Y., Ryan, M. E., Birmingham, P., Burrowes, D., Young, N., & Wong, P. C. M. (2018). Neural Preservation Underlies Speech Improvement from Auditory Deprivation in Young Cochlear Implant Recipients. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,115(5), E1022-E1031. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1717603115. PMCID: PMC5798370.
Wong, P. C. M., Vuong, L. C., & Liu, K. (2017). Personalized Learning: From Neurogenetics of Behaviors to Designing Optimal Language Training. Neuropsychologia, 98, 192-200. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.10.002. PMCID: PMC5380587.
Maggu, A. R., Liu, F., Antoniou, M. & Wong, P. C. M. (2016). Neural Correlates of Indicators of Sound Change in Cantonese: Evidence from Cortical and Subcortical Processes. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10, 652. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00652. PMCID: PMC5179532.
Antoniou, M., Ettlinger, M., & Wong, P. C. M. (2016). Complexity, Training Paradigm Design, and the Contribution of Memory Subsystems to Grammar Learning. PloS ONE, 11(7), e0158812. DOI: . PMCID: PMC4938220.
Liu, F., Chan, A. H. D., Ciocca, V., Roquet, C., Peretz, I. & Wong, P. C. M. (2016). Pitch Perception and Production in Congenital Amusia: Evidence from Cantonese Speakers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 140(1), 563-575. DOI: . PMCID: PMC4958102.
Ettlinger, M., Morgan‐Short, K., Faretta‐Stutenberg, M., & Wong, P. C. M. (2016). The Relationship between Artificial and Second Language Learning. Cognitive Science, 40(4), 822-847.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12257. PCMID: PMC4723295.
Deng, Z., Chandrasekaran, B., Wang, S., & Wong, P. C. M. (2016). Resting-state Low-frequency Fluctuations Reflect Individual Differences in Spoken Language Learning. Cortex, 76, 63-78. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2015.11.020. PMCID: PMC4777637.
Antoniou, M., To, C. K. S., & Wong, P. C. M. (2015). Auditory Cues That Drive Language Development Are Language Specific: Evidence from Cantonese. Applied Psycholinguistics, 36(06), 1493-1507. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0142716414000514.
Antoniou M., Liang, E., Ettlinger, M., & Wong, P. C. M. (2015). The Bilingual Advantage in Phonetic Learning. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 18(04), 683-695. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1366728914000777.
Antoniou, M. & Wong, P. C. M. (2015). Poor Phonetic Perceivers Are Affected by Cognitive Load When Resolving Talker Variability. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 138(2), 571-74. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4923362. PMCID: PMC4529436.
Ingvalson, E. M., Young, N., Wong, P. C. M. (2014). Auditory-Cognitive Training Improves Language Performance in Prelingually Deafened Cochlear Implant Recipients. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, 78(10), 1624-31. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijporl.2014.07.009. PMCID: PMC4162809.
Ingvalson, E.M., Ettlinger, M., & Wong, P. C. M. (2014). Bilingual Speech Perception and Learning: A Review of Recent Trends. International Journal of Bilingualism, 18(1), 35-47. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367006912456586.
Morgan-Short, K., Faretta-Stutenberg, M., Brill-Schuetz, K. A., Carpenter, H., & Wong, P. C. M. (2014). Declarative and Procedural Memory as Individual Differences in Second Language Acquisition. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 17(1), 56-72. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728912000715.
Liu, F., Jiang, C., Francart, T., Chan, A. H., & Wong, P. C. M. (2013). Training Mandarin-speaking Amusics to Recognize Pitch Direction: Pathway to Treat Musical Disorders in Congenital Amusia?. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134(5), 4064-4064. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4830834.
Antoniou, M., Gunasekera, G., & Wong, P. C. M. (2013). Foreign Language Training as Cognitive Therapy for Age-Related Cognitive Decline: A Hypothesis for Future Research. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 37(10 Pt 2), 2689-98. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.09.004. PMCID: PMC3890428.
Ingvalson, E. M., Barr, A. M., & Wong, P. C. M. (2013). Poorer Phonetic Perceivers Show Greater Benefit in Phonetic-phonological Speech Learning. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 56, 1045-50. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/1092-4388(2012/12-0024). PMID: 23275405.
Wong, P. C. M., Ettlinger, M., & Zheng, J. (2013). Linguistic Grammar Learning and DRD2-TAQ-IA Polymorphism. PLoS ONE, 8(5), e64983. PMCID: PMC3669058. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0064983. PMCID: PMC3669058.
Ingvalson, E. M. & Wong, P. C. M. (2013). Training to Improve Language Outcomes in Cochlear Implant Recipients. Frontiers in Psychology, 4(263). DOI: http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00263. PMCID: PMC3653161.
Ingvalson, E. M., Lee, B., Fiebig, P. & Wong, P. C. M. (2013). The Effects of Short-Term Computerized Speech-In-Noise Training on Post-Lingually Deafened Adult Cochlear Implant Recipients. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 56, 81-88. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1044/1092-4388(2012/11-0291). PMID: 22744139.
Wong, P. C. M., Morgan-Short, K., Ettlinger, M., & Zheng, J. (2012). Linking Neurogenetics and Individual Differences in Language Learning: The Dopamine Hypothesis. Cortex, 48(9), 1091-102. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2012.03.017. PMCID: PMC3965203.
Wong, P. C. M., Chandrasekaran, B., & Zheng, J. (2012). The Derived Allele of ASPM Is Associated with Lexical Tone Perception. PLoS ONE, 7(4), e34243. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034243. PMCID: PMC3328485.
Sheppard, J. P., Wang, J. P., & Wong, P. C. M. (2012). Large-Scale Cortical Network Properties Predict Future Sound-To-Word Learning Success. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(5), 1087-1103. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00210. PMCID: PMC3736731.
Chandrasekaran, B., Kraus, N., & Wong, P. C. M. (2012). Human Inferior Colliculus Activity Relates To Individual Differences in Spoken Language Learning. Journal of Neurophysiology, 107(5), 1325-1336. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.00923.2011. PMCID: PMC3311681.
Wong, P. C. M., & Ettlinger, M. (2011). Predictors of Spoken Language Learning. Journal of Communication Disorders, 44(5), 564-567. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2011.04.003. PMCID: PMC3162122.
Perrachione, T., Lee, J., Ha, L., & Wong, P. C. M. (2011). Learning a Novel Phonological Contrast Depends on Interactions Between Individual Differences and Training Paradigm Design. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130(1), 461-472. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.3593366. PMCID: PMC3155595.
Wong, F. C. K., Chandrasekaran, B., Garibaldi, K., & Wong, P. C. M. (2011). White Matter Anisotropy in the Ventral Language Pathway Predicts Sound-to-word Learning Success. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(24), 8780-8785. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0999-11.2011. PMCID: PMC3142920.
Sheppard, J. P., Wang, J. P., & Wong, P. C. M. (2011). Large-Scale Cortical Functional Organization and Speech Perception across the Lifespan. PLoS ONE, 6(1), e16510. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0016510. PMCID: PMC3031590.
Chandrasekaran, B., Sampath, P., & Wong, P. C. M. (2010). Individual Variability in Cue-Weighting and Lexical Tone Learning. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 128(1), 456-465. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.3445785. PMCID: PMC2921440.
Wong, P. C. M., Ettlinger, M., Sheppard, J., Gunasekera, G., & Dhar, S. (2010). Neuroanatomical Characteristics and Speech Perception in Noise in Older Adults. Ear and Hearing, 31(4), 471-479. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1097/AUD.0b013e3181d709c2. PMCID: PMC2919052.
Wong, P. C. M., Perrachione, T. K., Gunasekera, G., & Chandrasekaran, B. (2009). Communication Disorders in Speakers of Tone Languages: Etiological Bases and Clinical Considerations. Seminars in Speech and Language, 30(3), 162-173. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0029-1225953. PMCID: PMC2805066.
Wong, P. C. M., Warrier, C. M., Penhune, V. B., Roy, A. K., Sadehh, A., Parrish, T. B., & Zatorre, R. J. (2008). Volume of Left Heschl’s Gyrus and Linguistic Pitch Learning. Cerebral Cortex, 18, 828-836. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhm115. PMCID: PMC2805072.
Wong, P. C. M., Uppunda, A. K., Parrish, T. B., & Dhar, S. (2008). Cortical Mechanisms of Speech Perception in Noise. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 51, 1026-1041. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1044/1092-4388(2008/075). PMID: 18658069.
Wong, P. C. M., Skoe, E., Russo, N. M., Dees, T., & Kraus, N. (2007). Musical Experience Shapes Human Brainstem Encoding of Linguistic Pitch Patterns. Nature Neuroscience, 10, 420-422. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1872. PMCID: PMC4508274.
Wong, P. C. M., & Perrachione, T. K. (2007). Learning Pitch Patterns in Lexical Identification by Native English-Speaking Adults. Applied Psycholinguistics, 28, 565-585. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716407070312.
Wong, P. C. M. (2007). Changes in Speech Production in an Early Deafened Adult with a Cochlear Implant. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 42, 387-405. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13682820600988868. PMID: 17613096.
Wong, P. C. M., Parsons, L. M., Martinez, M., & Diehl, R. L. (2004). The Role of the Insular Cortex in Pitch Pattern Perception: The Effect of Linguistic Contexts. Journal of Neuroscience, 24, 9153-9160. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2225-04.2004. PMID: 15483134.
Wong, P. C. M. (2002). Hemispheric Specialization of Linguistic Pitch Patterns. Brain Research Bulletin, 59, 83-95. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0361-9230(02)00860-2. PMID: 12379438.
Wong, P. C. M., & Diehl, R. L. (2002). How Can The Lyrics of a Song in a Tone Language Be Understood?. Psychology of Music, 30, 202-209. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735602302006.