Research Interests
Research Interests: Cognitive neuroscience of language; Psycholinguistics; Applications of AI language models in first and second reading; Technology-enhanced language learning
Courses Taught
EPSY590: Eye Tracking in Reading Research
EPSY590: Language, Brain, and Technology
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology
Assistant Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
External Links
Recent Publications
Chen, L., Perfetti, C., & Xu, Y. (2025). Orthographic and Meaning Processes in Reading Chinese Compounds: Comparisons Between L1 and L2 Reading. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 54(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-024-10117-1
Xu, Y., & Chen, L. (2025). Effect of Morpheme Meaning Dominance in Compound Word Recognition: Evidence from L2 Readers of Chinese. Languages, 10(1), Article 9. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages10010009
Chen, L., Xu, Y., & Perfetti, C. (2024). A character-word dual function model of reading Chinese: evidence from reading Chinese compounds. Reading and Writing, 37(9), 2429-2455. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-023-10478-4
Chen, L., Xu, Y., & Perfetti, C. (Accepted/In press). Acquiring the structure of a writing system is important in learning to read: a test of the character-word dual-focus approach in learning Chinese as a second language. Bilingualism. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728924000920
Chen, L., & Perfetti, C. (2024). Learning Chinese as a Second Language: Implications of the Character-Word Dual Function Model. Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 44, 115-128. https://doi.org/10.32038/ltrq.2024.44.11