Research Interests
Research Interests: Cognitive neuroscience of language; Psycholinguistics; Applications of AI language models in first and second reading; Technology-enhanced language learning
Courses Taught
EPSY590: Eye Tracking in Reading Research
EPSY590: Language, Brain, and Technology
EPSY590: Cognitive Psychology Research Method
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology
Assistant Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
External Links
Recent Publications
Wang, W., Chen, L., & Perfetti, C. (2026). The late frontal positivity reflects incremental mental model updating: Graded predictability effects during authentic text reading. Brain and Language, 272, 105667. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105667
Chen, L., Xu, Y., & Perfetti, C. (2025). Acquiring the structure of a writing system is important in learning to read: a test of the character-word dual-focus approach in learning Chinese as a second language. Bilingualism, 28(4), 1056 - 1067. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728924000920
Chen, L., Perfetti, C., & Xu, Y. (2025). Orthographic and Meaning Processes in Reading Chinese Compounds: Comparisons Between L1 and L2 Reading. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 54(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-024-10117-1
Chen, L., Oralova, G., Clark, S., Teodorescu, D., Fyshe, A., Epp, C. D., Helfrich, M., & Perfetti, C. (2025). Tracking the Dynamic Word-by-Word Incremental Reading Through Multimeasures. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 51(8), 1324-1346. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001438
Oralova, G., Chen, L., Clark, S., Teodorescu, D., Helfrich, M., Fyshe, A., Demmans Epp, C., & Perfetti, C. (2025). Surprisal in reading: language models predict the N400 for L2 readers. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 41(1), 136-155. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2025.2585303