Dr. Xin Wang

Biography

Xin Wang is a prominent researcher in the field of psycholinguistics, focusing on language processing and bilingualism. He completed his PhD at the University of Arizona, where he conducted research under the mentorship of Professor Ken Forster. Since joining Macquarie University, Wang has held various academic positions in Singapore and the UK, contributing significantly to the understanding of how language is processed and represented in the bilingual mind. His research employs advanced methodologies such as masked priming, eye-tracking, and EEG/MEG to capture the intricacies of cross-language processing with millisecond precision. Wang's work has explored bilingual lexical access, highlighting the automatic and interactive aspects of language processing across multiple levels, including phonology, morphology, and semantics. He leads the Psycholinguistic Neurolinguistic Lab, which emphasizes interdisciplinary research and the development of rigorous experimental designs. Wang actively supervises research students and has collaborated with international scholars, enhancing global research partnerships in the study of bilingualism. His current research interests involve the role of lexical tone in language activation and the neural mechanisms that support bilingual language comprehension and production.

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