Lab Introduction & Major Research Interests
Speech Perception, Acoustic Phonetics, Communication Development in Infants, Child Language Disorders
成人語音知覺的腦部活動組型：利用「功能性磁造影(functional Magnetic Resonance Imagining, fMRI)」技術，本人與美國西雅圖華盛頓大學的研究者合作，探索在不同的母語經驗下，成人語音敏感度的個別差異是否也反應在大腦活動組型的差異上。研究發現，英語及日語說話者右腦主要聽覺皮質區的活動組型差異越大，行為上的語音敏感度越高。出版於神經科學的期刊 Cerebral Cortex。另外，在進行fMRI資料分析時，我們的研究顯示不需要選擇Region of Interest (ROI)，而是用whole brain的資料進行分析，也能發現「行為-大腦活動型態」的關係。結果出版於Neuroimage。近年的研究計畫，利用fMRI探索高功能自閉症兒童處理情緒語調的大腦活動型態，及其與一般語音知覺和社會認知發展的關係。
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Recent Representative Publication ( * corresponding author)
1. Laurianne Cabrera, Huei-Mei Liu,Lionel Granjon,Chieh Kao, Feng-Ming Tsao＊ (2019). Discrimination and identification of lexical tones and consonants in Mandarin-speaking children using cochlear implants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146(4), 2291–2302.
2. 呂信慧、曹峰銘＊（2020）。遲語兒語言發展趨勢和詞彙學習歷程：幼兒期至學齡前期縱貫研究。特殊教育研究學刊，45(1), pp35-64。
3. Fengming Tsao, Hueimei Liu. Lexical-Tonal Perception Development in Infancy. Speech Perception, Production and Acquisition. Chinese Language Learning Sciences (ISBN: 978-981-15-7606-5). Singapore: Springer. Sep, 2020. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7606-5_10 .
4. Tsao, F. M. (2017). Perceptual improvement of lexical tones in infants: Effects of tone language experience. Frontiers in Psychology, 8:558. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00558
5. Chen, Y.C., Tsao, F. M., & Liu, H. M. (2016). Developmental changes in brain response to speech perception in late-talking children: A longitudinal MMR study. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 190-199.
6. Cabrera, L., Tsao, F.-M., Liu, H.-M., Li, L.Y., Hu, Y.-H., Lorenzi, C. & Bertoncini, J. (2015). The perception of speech modulation cues in lexical tones is guided by early language-specific experience. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:1290.
7. Wang, J. E., and Tsao*, F. M. (2015). Emotional prosody perception and its association with pragmatic language in school-aged children with high-function autism. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 37, 162-170.
8. Cabrera, L., Tsao, F. M., Gnansia, D., Bertoncini, J., Lorenzi , C. (2014). The role of spectro-temporal fine structure cues in lexical-tone discrimination for French and Mandarin listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 136(2),877-882.
9. Lu, H. H. & Tsao*, F. M. (2014). Lexical-tone perception and word learning abilities in two-year-old late-talking children. Chinese Journal of Psychology, 56(4), 415-435. *Corresponding author
10. Liu, H. -M., Chen, Y., Tsao, F. M. (2014). Developmental changes in mismatch responses to Mandarin consonants and lexical tones from early to middle childhood. PLoS ONE, 9(4): e95587.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0095587.
11. Li, Y. Y, & Tsao*, F. M. (2014). Assessing consonant perception ability and its association with reading development in school-aged children with reading difficulty. Chinese Journal of Psychology, 56(1), 97-116.*Corresponding author