Biography:
I’m is a first year graduate student from Taiwan, studying Cognitive Psychology and Langauge Science. I received my BA in Philosophy and MA in Linguistics from National Taiwan University. My research interests include bilingualism, language processing and comprehemsion, and ERP methodologies.
Fernandez, Litcofsky, and van Hell (2019) found that bilingual Spanish-English speakers showed N400 and LPC effects when listening to sentences that switched from their dominant to the weaker language. However, when encountering a switch from the weaker to the dominant language, participants demonstrated only an N400 effect. My PIRE research takes a step further by looking at how individual differences – including cognitive control, lexical knowledge, language proficiency, and familial sinistrality – influence the ERP results observed by Fernandez et al. during auditory code-switching comprehension. By exploring these individual differences, we hope to get a clearer picture of how our brains handle the challenge of switching between languages.