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
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology
Assistant Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Assistant Professor, Linguistics
External Links
Recent Publications
Chen, L., Xu, Y., & Perfetti, C. (2024). A character-word dual function model of reading Chinese: evidence from reading Chinese compounds. Reading and Writing, 37(9), 2429-2455. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-023-10478-4
Getty, D. J., Wei, X., & Chen, L. (2024). Independent Semantic and Syntactic Representations in L2 Mandarin Learners: Evidence from Structural Priming. Education Sciences, 14(2), Article 204. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14020204
Frank, S. L., Hinaut, X., Kaan, E., Khoe, Y. H., Chen, L., Winther, I., & Matusevych, Y. (2022). Bilingual Sentence Processing: When Models Meet Experiments. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 44, 18-19. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9t48p3x5
Xu, Y., & Chen, L. (2022). Morphological Property and Polysemy in Character Recognition in Chinese as a Foreign Language. In F. Yuan, B. He, & W. Hu (Eds.), Pedagogical Grammar and Grammar Pedagogy in Chinese as a Second Language (pp. 134-151). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003161646-11
Chen, L., Perfetti, C. A., Fang, X., & Chang, L. Y. (2021). Activation of L1 orthography in L2 word reading: Constraints from language and writing system. Second Language Research, 37(2), 323-348. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267658320927761