Journal Articles

1. Lai C.-Y., Ng, P. S., Chan, A. H. D., & Wong, F. C. K. (2023). Effects of auditory training in older adults. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1-13.

2. Toh, X. R., Tan, S. H., Wong, G., Lau, F. & Wong, F. C. K. (2023). Enduring musician advantage among former musicians in prosodic pitch processing. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 2657.

3. Kalaivanan, K, Wong, P. C. M., Wong, F. C. K., Chan, A. H. D. (2023). Native language perceptual sensitivity predicts nonnative speech perception differently in younger and older Singaporean bilinguals. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66, 987-1017.

4. Toh, X. R., Lau, F. & Wong, F. C. K. (2022). Individual differences in nonnative lexical tone perception: Effects of tone language repertoire and musical experience. Frontiers in Psychology, 13:940363.

5. Cavallaro, F., Tay, Y. X. E., Wong, F. C. K. & Ng, B. C. (2021). “Enculturalling” multilingualism: Family language ecology and its impact on multilingualism. International Multilingual Research Journal, 15(2), 126–157.

6. Maggu, A. R., Wong, P. C. M., Antoniou, M., Bones, O., Liu, H., & Wong, F. C. K. (2018). Effects of combination of linguistic and musical pitch experience on subcortical pitch encoding. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 47, 145–155.

7. Chen, Z., Wong, F. C. K., Jones, J. A., Li, W., Liu, P., Chen, X., & Liu, H. (2015). Transfer Effect of Speech-sound Learning on Auditory-motor Processing of Perceived Vocal Pitch Errors. Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group), 5, 13134. 

8. Morgan-Short, K., Deng, Z., Brill-Schuetz, K. A., Faretta-Stutenberg, M., Wong, P. C. M., & Wong, F. C. K. (2015). A view of the neural representation of second language syntax through artificial language learning under implicit contexts of exposure. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 37, 1-37. 

9. Wong, F. C. K., Chandrasekaran, B., Garibaldi, K., & Wong, P. C. M. (2011). White matter anisotropy in the ventral language pathway predicts sound-to-word learning success. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(24), 8780-8785. 

10. Wong, F. C. K., & Wang, W. S-Y. (2007). Combinatorial productivity through the emergence of categories in connectionist networks. Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems (Series A): Advances in Neural Networks, 14(SI), 650-657.

Book Chapters

1. Wong, F. C. K., Antoniou, M., & Wong, P. C. M. (2021). Neurological Aspects of Audition and Perception. In R.-A. Knight & J. Setter (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Phonetics. Cambridge University Press.

2. Ong, J. H., Tan, S. H., Chan, A. H. D., & Wong, F. C. K. (2020). The effect of musical experience and congenital amusia on lexical tone perception, production, and learning: A review. In C.-C. Cheng, K.-E. Chang, Y.-T. Sung, P. Li, (Eds.), Speech Learning, Perception, and Production: Multidisciplinary Approaches in Chinese Language Research. The Springer series on Chinese Language Learning Sciences.

Published Proceedings

1. Maggu, A., Wong, P. C. M., Liu, H., & Wong, F. C. K. (2018). Experience-dependent influence of music and language on lexical pitch learning is not additive. In, Proceedings of The 19th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech). 

2. Wong, F. C. K., Chandrasekaran, B., Garibaldi, K., & Wong, P. C. M. (2011). Acquisition of foreign phonetic contrasts mediated by white matter connectivity. In W.-S. Lee & E. Zee (Eds.), Proceedings of the ICPhS XVII (17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences) (pp. 2149-2152).

3. Wong, F. C. K., & Wang, W. S.-Y. (2007). Generalisation towards combinatorial productivity in language acquisition by Simple Recurrent Networks. In, 2007 International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems (pp. 139-144). 

4. Wong, F. C. K., Minett, J. W., & Wang, W. S.-Y. (2006). Reassessing combinatorial productivity exhibited by Simple Recurrent Networks in language acquisition. In, The 2006 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Network Proceedings (pp. 1596-1603). 

5. Wong, F. C. K. & Tsang, P. W. M. (2002). Extracting frame based semantics from recursive distributed representation: A connectionist approach to NLP. In, 2002 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (pp. 429-433).

Conference Oral Presentations

1. Lau, F., Luke, K.K., Chan, A.H.D., & Wong, F. C. K. (2017). The influence of lexical label on a bilingual’s perceptual decision while operating in different languages. The 11th International Symposium on Bilingualism, 2017, Ireland.

2. Kalaivanan, K., Chen, A., Chan, A. H. D., & Wong, F. C. K. (2017). The influence of native language phonological competence on novel lexical tone perception in bilinguals. The 11th International Symposium on Bilingualism, 2017, Ireland.

3. Chan, A. H. D., Ching, A., Wong, G., Yi, H.-G., Wong, P. C. M. & Wong, F. C. K. (2017). Cognitive precursors for learning and reading performance in two different languages: A study with artificial language scripts. The 11th International Symposium on Bilingualism, 2017, Ireland.

4. Wong, F. C. K., Chandrasekaran, B., Garibaldi, K., & Wong, P. C. M. (2011). Acquisition of foreign phonetic contrasts mediated by white matter connectivity in the ventral language pathway. The 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, August 2011, Hong Kong. 

5. Wong, F. C. K., & Wang, W. S-Y. (2007). Generalisation towards combinatorial productivity in language acquisition by Simple Recurrent Networks. 2007 International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems, April, 2007 Boston, MA, USA. 

6. Wong, F. C. K., Minett, J. W., & Wang, W. S.-Y. (2006). Reassessing combinatorial productivity exhibited by Simple Recurrent Networks in language acquisition. The 2006 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Network, July 2006, Vancouver, BC, Canada. 

7. Wong, F. C. K. & Tsang, P. W. M. (2002). Extracting frame based semantics from recursive distributed representation: A connectionist approach to NLP. 2002 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Las Vegas, NV, USA.

Conference Posters

1. Lau, F., Toh, W. & Wong, F. C. K. (2023). Effects of Pinyin on Chinese Character Learning is Modulated by Radical Awareness. The 7th Annual Conference for the Association for Reading and Writing in Asia (ARWA 2023), Hong Kong.

2. Kalaivanan, K., Chen, A., Chan, A. H. D., & Wong, F. C. K. (2019). First language phonological competence predicts non-native speech perception differently in young and old adulthood. International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (ISMBS 2019), Greece.

3. Ho, G., & Wong, F. C. K. (2019). Morphological Processing on Sentence Comprehension in Chinese: An EEG Study. International Symposium on Cognition and Neuroscience 2019, Singapore.

4. Lau, F., Chan, A. H. D., & Wong, F. C. K. (2019). Early Print Tuning Effects in Visual Word Processing: Evidence from ERP. International Symposium on Cognition and Neuroscience 2019, Singapore.

5. Kalaivanan, K., Chen, A., Chan, A. H. D., & Wong, F. C. K. (2019). The influence of native language phonological competence on non-native lexical tone perception in young and old Tamil-English bilinguals. International Symposium on Cognition and Neuroscience 2019, Singapore.

6. Lai, Y., Chan, A. H. D., & Wong, F. C. K. (2019). Effects of auditory training (LACE) in healthy older people. International Symposium on Cognition and Neuroscience 2019, Singapore.

7. Lau, F., Wong, F. C. K., Luke, K. K., & Chan, A. H. D., (2019). Cognitive Correlates of N1 Print Tuning Effects. Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Rome, Italy.

8. Lau, F., Wong, F. C. K., Luke, K. K., & Chan, A. H. D., (2018). Lateralization of N170 to Visual Words is Shaped by Spatial Configuration. Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Singapore.

9. Zhang, F. Q., Wang, J., Kim, J., Wong, F. C. K., & Wong, P. C. M. (2012). Decoding multiple sound categories in the human temporal cortex using high resolution fMRI. Organization for Human Brain Mapping Conference, Beijing, China.

10. Karpouzian, T., Faretta, M., Wong, F. C. K., Wong, P. C. M., Morgan-Short, K. (2011). The role of working memory in second language development. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association.

11. Karpouzian, T., Faretta, M., Wong, F. C. K., Wong, P. C. M., Morgan-Short, K. (2011). The role of working memory in second language development. Poster presented at the University of Illinois at Chicago Student Research Forum.

12. McCarthy, B., Faretta, M., Wong, F. C. K., Wong, P. C. M., & Morgan-Short, K. (2010). Individual differences in successful second language learning: The roles of working memory and intelligence. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Portland, Oregon.

13. Brill, K. A., Faretta, M., Wong, F. C. K., Wong, P. C. M., Morgan-Short, K. (2010). Declarative and procedural memory abilities as predictors of successful adult language learning. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Portland, Oregon.

14. Brill, K. A., Faretta, M., Wong, F. C. K., Wong, P. C. M., Morgan-Short, K. (2010). Declarative and procedural memory abilities and successful adult language learning. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association.

Invited Symposium Presentations

Wong, F. C. K. (2016). Representations and Processes in Speech Perception. International Symposium on Cognition and Neuroscience.

Wong, F. C. K. (2012). Speech comprehension as mediated by the ventral language pathway: A DTI Study. Images of the Mind: Celebrating 20 years of fMRI Research. Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore.

Wong, F. C. K. (2008). Finding early brain signature to semantic processing: An ERP study on Chinese reading for comprehension. Seminar on Language, Cognition, and the Brain, organised by the International Institute of Advanced Studies (IIAS), Kyoto, Japan.

Wong, F. C. K. (2005). Ontogenetic emergence of language: Case studies of connectionist modelling on the acquisition of syntactic categories. Institute of Cognitive Science, Hunan University, Changsha, China.

Invited Seminars

Wong, F. C. K. (2017). TGIF: The NTU Linguistics Chatroom. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Wong, F. C. K. (2012). From sound to meaning: Neuroanatomical and functional studies of the hearing brain. HASS Postdoctoral Fellows’ Research Seminars. College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Wong, F. C. K. (2011). Speech comprehension as mediated by the ventral language pathway. Language Engineering Laboratory, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Wong, F. C. K. (2011). Speech comprehension as mediated by the ventral language pathway. Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Wong, F. C. K. (2010). Structural connectivity predicts speech-learning success. Communication Sciences and Disorders Research Forum, Northwestern University, USA.

Wong, F. C. K. (2009). Connectionism. Summer retreat, Communication Neural Systems Research Group, Northwestern University, USA.

Wong, F. C. K. (2008). Early brain signature to semantic processing in sentence comprehension: An ERP study. The State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, The University of Hong Kong.

Wong, F. C. K. (2006). Connectionist modelling of language acquisition. The State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, The University of Hong Kong.