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Ellen Lau

Associate Professor

University of Maryland, College Park

Affiliations

College of Arts and Humanities

Linguistics

Ellen Lau is currently serving as a College Of Arts And Humanities Associate Professor at University of Maryland, College Park.

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University of Maryland, College Park

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neuroscience cognitive science linguistics natural language processing cognitive neuroscience neurolinguistics psychology psycholinguistics cognition neuropsychology cognitive linguistics computational neuroscience semantics language comprehension systems neuroscience second language learning reading research second language acquisition language learning neural science brain imaging agreement attraction psychological science brain science human cognition cognitive psychology semantic processing brain function working memory applied psychology applied cognitive psychology educational psychology animal cognition brain organization predictability metacognition foreign language acquisition mammalian biology bilingual education narrative speech processing second language research speech communication neuroinformatics association rules structured prediction lexicon brain mapping psychophysics comparative analysis parallel processing cognitive communication brain structure theoretical linguistics language adaptation foreign language learning cognitive electrophysiology personality psychology neuropsychiatry spatial cognition interactional linguistics cortical network single-word contexts structural prediction rapid syntactic analysis syntactic prediction hierarchical structure parametric study syntactic constraints backwards anaphora lexical basis initial verb predictions automatic semantic facilitation anterior temporal cortex multimodal neuroimaging sentence comprehension

Notable Scholarly Works

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Neural Recordings of Continuous Speech Reveal Robust Signatures of Prediction in Second Language Learners of English. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2025)

second language acquisitionlinguisticslanguage acquisitionspeech perceptionspeech sciencecognitive sciencepsycholinguisticslanguage

Non-Visually-Derived Mental Objects Tax “Visual” Pointers. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2025)

visual perceptionneurolinguisticsinformation visualizationvisual languageneurosciencecognitive sciencevisual reasoningcognition

Unleashing the Potential of Opm-Meg to Study Event-Related Fields Against Low-Frequency Artifacts: The Case of Sentence Processing. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2025)

language networklanguage processing in the brainneurolinguisticsneuroscience

A Finite Set of Content-Free Pointers in Visual Working Memory: Meg Evidence. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2024)

Xinchi YuEllen Lau

content-free pointersmemoryvisual perceptionvisual working memorycognitive neuroscienceneurosciencevisual systemmeg evidencecognitive scienceworking memoryfinite set

Electrophysiological Hallmarks for Event Relations and Event Roles in Working Memory. Frontiers in Neuroscience (2024)

Xinchi YuJialu LiHao ZhuXing TianEllen Lau

event relationselectrophysiologyneuroscienceevent rolesworking memory

Exploring the Effectiveness of Reward-Based Learning Strategies for Second-Language Speech Sounds. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (2024)

Craig A. ThorburnEllen LauNaomi H. Feldman

second language acquisitionreward-based learning strategieslanguage acquisitionspeech productionsecond-language speech soundssecond language learningspeech communicationbehavioral scienceslanguage learning

Same Set of Visual Pointers/Indexicals for Biological and Non-Biological Objects in Working Memory. (2024)

Xinchi YuEllen Lau

computer visionanimal cognitioncognitive neuroscienceneurosciencevision researchsame setcognitive scienceworking memorynon-biological objects

Shared Neural Computations for Syntactic and Morphological Structures: Evidence From Mandarin Chinese. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2024)

Xinchi YuXing TianEllen Lau

morphologyelectrophysiologymandarin chinesebiologyreading researchsyntaxsyntactic structure

Shared Pointers for Biological and Non-Biological Objects in Visual Working Memory. Journal of Vision (2024)

Xinchi YuEllen Lau

visual perceptionvisual working memoryvision researchvisual systemcognitive sciencevisual sciencenon-biological objects

Erp Sensitivity to Subcategorization Violations in L2 Learners. Second language Research (2023)

Chia-Hsuan LiaoEllen Lau

linguisticssecond language researchneurosciencesecond language learningsubcategorization violationserp sensitivitymachine learning

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Ellen Lau

Associate Professor

University of Maryland, College Park

Affiliations

College of Arts and Humanities

Linguistics

Ellen Lau is currently serving as a College Of Arts And Humanities Associate Professor at University of Maryland, College Park.

Honors

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Experiences

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Education

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Ellen Lau

University of Maryland, College Park

Associate Professor

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Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

Neural Recordings of Continuous Speech Reveal Robust Signatures of Prediction in Second Language Learners of English. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2025)

second language acquisitionlinguisticslanguage acquisitionspeech perceptionspeech sciencecognitive sciencepsycholinguisticslanguage

Non-Visually-Derived Mental Objects Tax “Visual” Pointers. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2025)

visual perceptionneurolinguisticsinformation visualizationvisual languageneurosciencecognitive sciencevisual reasoningcognition

Unleashing the Potential of Opm-Meg to Study Event-Related Fields Against Low-Frequency Artifacts: The Case of Sentence Processing. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2025)

language networklanguage processing in the brainneurolinguisticsneuroscience

A Finite Set of Content-Free Pointers in Visual Working Memory: Meg Evidence. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2024)

Xinchi YuEllen Lau

content-free pointersmemoryvisual perceptionvisual working memorycognitive neuroscienceneurosciencevisual systemmeg evidencecognitive scienceworking memoryfinite set

Electrophysiological Hallmarks for Event Relations and Event Roles in Working Memory. Frontiers in Neuroscience (2024)

Xinchi YuJialu LiHao ZhuXing TianEllen Lau

event relationselectrophysiologyneuroscienceevent rolesworking memory

Exploring the Effectiveness of Reward-Based Learning Strategies for Second-Language Speech Sounds. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (2024)

Craig A. ThorburnEllen LauNaomi H. Feldman

Same Set of Visual Pointers/Indexicals for Biological and Non-Biological Objects in Working Memory. (2024)

Xinchi YuEllen Lau

computer visionanimal cognitioncognitive neuroscienceneurosciencevision researchsame setcognitive scienceworking memorynon-biological objects

Shared Neural Computations for Syntactic and Morphological Structures: Evidence From Mandarin Chinese. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2024)

Xinchi YuXing TianEllen Lau

morphologyelectrophysiologymandarin chinesebiologyreading researchsyntaxsyntactic structure

Shared Pointers for Biological and Non-Biological Objects in Visual Working Memory. Journal of Vision (2024)

Xinchi YuEllen Lau

visual perceptionvisual working memoryvision researchvisual systemcognitive sciencevisual sciencenon-biological objects

Erp Sensitivity to Subcategorization Violations in L2 Learners. Second language Research (2023)

Chia-Hsuan LiaoEllen Lau

linguisticssecond language researchneurosciencesecond language learningsubcategorization violationserp sensitivitymachine learning

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