People: Faculty

Dr. Yue Wang

778-782-6924, 778-782-6957 (Lab)
yuew@sfu.ca
Office: RCB 9224

personal website
Language and Brain Lab website

Research Areas

Phonetics, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Cognitive Science

Associate professor, received her Ph.D. from Cornell University, and was a postdoctoral Research Associate in the Center for Mind, Brain and Learning at the University of Washington. Her main areas of research are phonetics, neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, and cognitive science. Using behavioral and neuro-imaging techniques, she has been studying the processing and acquisition of second-language speech sounds by both children and adults with the goal of learning more about brain plasticity as well as how multisensory brain systems cooperate functionally in cognitive processing. She directs the Language and Brain Lab (www.sfu.ca/labla).

Selected publications include:

• Wang, Y., Behne, D., and Jiang, H. (2009). Influence of native language phonetic system on audio-visual speech perception. Journal of Phonetics, 37, 344-356.

• Wang, Y., Behne, D., and Jiang, H. (2008). Linguistic experience and audio-visual perception of nonnative fricatives. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 124 (3), 1716-1726.

• Wang, Y., Lin, L., Kuhl, P., and Hirsch, J. (2007). Mathematical and linguistic processing differs between native and second languages: an fMRI study, Brain Imaging and Behavior 1.3, 68-82.

• Wang, Y. and Behne, D. (2007). Temporal remnants from Mandarin in nonnative English speech. In O. Bohn and M. Munro (eds.), Language Experience in Second Language Speech Learning, in Honor of James E. Flege, John Benjamins, pp. 167-184.

• Wang, Y., Jongman, A, and Sereno, J.A. (2006). L2 acquisition and processing of Mandarin Chinese tones. in P. Li, E. Bates, L.H. Tan, and O. Tseng (eds.), The Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics, Cambridge University Press, pp.250-256.

• Wang, Y., Behne, D., Jongman, A., and Sereno, J.A. (2004). The role of linguistic experience in the hemispheric processing of lexical tone. Journal of Applied Psycholinguistics 25, 449-466.

• Wang, Sereno, Jongman, and Hirsch (2003). "fMRI evidence for cortical modification during learning of Mandarin lexical tone", Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15,7,1-9.