People

Dr Jia Hoong (Joey) Ong

Joey Ong is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Reading. He received his PhD in Psychology from Western Sydney University in Australia, and then did a postdoc in the Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His research interests include learning, language & music, and individual differences. In 2019-20, he worked on the ‘CAASD’ project, exploring category learning, emotion processing, and mental representation of speech and music in amusia and autism. He is currently working on his “LearningEmotions” project, 887283, supported by an MSCA Individual Fellowship.

 

Associate Professor Fang Liu

Fang Liu is the supervisor on the LearningEmotions project. She is the Principal Investigator on the CAASD & MAP projects as well as the head of the CAASD Lab at the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences at the University of Reading. She received her PhD in Linguistics and MS in Statistics from the University of Chicago. Her research aims to understand how the human brain processes pitch information for linguistic and musical purposes during production and perception. Her current areas of research include speech prosody in tone versus non-tonal languages, pitch processing in typical and atypical populations, speech/music production and perception, and cognitive and neural bases of pitch processing.

 

Professor Anastasia Christakou

Anastasia Christakou is the mentor on the project. She is an expert in the multimodal study of corticostriatal circuits, including their development and implication in psychopathological and neuropsychiatric disorders. She has been awarded millions of pounds in research funding including from the UK Research Councils and the international Human Frontier Science Programme. In 2018 she was appointed Director of the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics (CINN) at the University of Reading.