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Vicky Tzuyin Lai

Associate Professor, Psychology | Associate Professor, Cognitive Science | Associate Professor, Cognitive Science - GIDP | Associate Professor, Second Language Acquisition / Teaching - GIDP | Member of the Graduate Faculty

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Grants(10)

Learning Science Concepts Through Metaphor Comprehension, Production, and Conversation: Behavioral, Neural and Artificial Intelligence Measures
Active·2022·$545.9K / $594K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
science education, cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, language processing
Learning Science Concepts Through Metaphor Comprehension, Production, and Conversation: Behavioral, Neural and Artificial Intelligence Measures
Active·2022·$18.4K / $19.3K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
science education, cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, language processing
Doctoral Dissertation Research: Effects of Context on Emotional Word Processing in Healthy younger and older adults
Active·2022·$7.5K / $17.1K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
emotional word processing, age-related effects, cognitive aging, context effects, neurocognitive function
Participant Support
Active·2022·$1K / $2.1K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
emotional word processing, age-related effects, cognitive aging, context effects, neurocognitive function
Emotional Words in Contexts and Healthy Aging - Phase II
2021·$460 / $461·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
emotional words, healthy aging, contexts, research

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Publications(28)

Recent

Predictability and decomposability separately contribute to compositional processing of idiomatic language

2023

language processing, compositionality, predictability, idiomatic language, decomposability

Cursed Concepts: New insights on combinatorial processing from ERP correlates of swearing in context

2022

cognitive processing, language processing, emotional processing, combinatorial processing, neuroscience

Negative affect increases reanalysis of conflicts between discourse context and world knowledge

2022

emotion, conflict resolution, discourse processing, cognition, psychology

Attention and regulation during emotional word comprehension in older adults: Evidence from event-related potentials and brain oscillations

2022

cognitive aging, emotional processing, brain activity, language comprehension, attentional control

Minding the manner: Attention to motion events in Turkish–Dutch early bilinguals. Language and Cognition

2022

bilingualism, language acquisition, cognitive development, attention, cross-cultural studies

Do all facial emojis communicate emotion? The impact of facial emojis on perceived sender emotion and text processing.

2022

emotion recognition, text processing, communication, facial emojis, perception

The Comprehension of Irony in High and Low Emotional Contexts

2021

irony comprehension, emotional contexts, communication, language processing, psycholinguistics

Social acquisition context matters: Increased neural responses for native but not non-native taboo words

2021

neuroscience, language acquisition, cultural influence, social cognition, linguistics

The mental representation and social aspect of expressives

2020

mental representation, social interaction, expressive communication, cognitive science, social perception

The Phishing Email Suspicion Test PEST) a lab-based task for evaluating the cognitive mechanisms of phishing detection

2020

phishing detection, cognitive mechanisms, email security, lab-based evaluation, task performance

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Steven Bethard

Matthias Mehl

Elliott Cheu

Matthew Grilli

Thomas Bever

Grants(10)

Learning Science Concepts Through Metaphor Comprehension, Production, and Conversation: Behavioral, Neural and Artificial Intelligence Measures

Learning Science Concepts Through Metaphor Comprehension, Production, and Conversation: Behavioral, Neural and Artificial Intelligence Measures

Doctoral Dissertation Research: Effects of Context on Emotional Word Processing in Healthy younger and older adults

Participant Support

Emotional Words in Contexts and Healthy Aging - Phase II

Publications(28)

Predictability and decomposability separately contribute to compositional processing of idiomatic language

Cursed Concepts: New insights on combinatorial processing from ERP correlates of swearing in context

Negative affect increases reanalysis of conflicts between discourse context and world knowledge

Attention and regulation during emotional word comprehension in older adults: Evidence from event-related potentials and brain oscillations

Minding the manner: Attention to motion events in Turkish–Dutch early bilinguals. Language and Cognition

Do all facial emojis communicate emotion? The impact of facial emojis on perceived sender emotion and text processing.

The Comprehension of Irony in High and Low Emotional Contexts

Social acquisition context matters: Increased neural responses for native but not non-native taboo words

The mental representation and social aspect of expressives

The Phishing Email Suspicion Test PEST) a lab-based task for evaluating the cognitive mechanisms of phishing detection