Kuan-Jung Huang | Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Graduate Student

BA, 2016, National Cheng Kung University

MS, 2021, UMass Amherst

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he/him

kuanjunghuan@umass.edu

Advisor:

Adrian Staub PhD

Laboratory Website:

UMass Eyetracking Lab

Research Area(s):

Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience

Masters Thesis:

Visual, Lexical, and Syntactic Effects on Failure to Notice Word Transpositions: Evidence from Behavioral and Eye Movement Data

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Research

As of Fall 2022, I am a fifth-year PhD student.

I am generally interested in sentence processing. My current work focuses on the interplay between word recognition and syntactic integration processes, primarily using eye-tracking techniques. This includes both English and Chinese reading. I am also earning a graduate-level certificate in Statistical and Computational Data Science.

My first year was supported by College of Natural Sciences (CNS) Graduate Fellowship. I have worked with Dr. Adrian Staub as a research assistant and currently as a teaching assistant in Psych 240 Undergraduate Statistics.

I was a teaching assistant for Dr. Andrew Cohen in Psych 640/641 Graduate Statistics.

I was awarded the 7th Keith Rayner Memorial Graduate Student Award from PBS for my upcoming experiments on syntactic and frequency effects on written Chinese compound processing.

Currently I work as a research assistant with Dr. Brian Dillon and Dr. Tal Linzen on constructing a large-scale eye-tracking database on syntactic ambiguity processing and testing quantitative predictions for psycholinguistic theories.

I am a ad-hoc reviewer for the following journals mainly on the topics of (1) character-word segmentation/recognition/prediction in Chinese sentence reading and (2) misreading and rational inference over noisy-channel

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Journal of Memory and Language

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Glossa Psycholinguistics

Cognition

Teaching

TA for Fall 2019 PSYCH640 Statistical Inference in Psychology I (Instructor: Dr. Andrew Cohen)

TA for Spring 2020 PSYCH641 Statistical Inference in Psychology II (Instructor: Dr. Andrew Cohen; Co-TA with Jon Burnsky)

TA for Fall 2022, Spring 2023 PSYCH240 Statistics in Psychology (Instructor: Dr. Adrian Staub)

Lecturer for Summer 2022, 2023 PSYCH 315 Cognitive Psychology (University Without Walls)

Publications

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