Dr. CHAN Yuen Lai, Heidi

Assistant Lecturer

BSocSci (HKSYU), MPhil (CUHK), PhD (CUHK)

Office: WYL303, Dorothy Y L Wong Building
Department of Psychology
Lingnan University, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong

TEL: (852) 2616 7150

Heidi receives her MPhil from the Department of Psychiatry and PhD from the Department of Educational Psychology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests are in emotion, cognition, and word recognition with a primary focus on emotional word processing.

Research

Emotion and cognition
Visual word recognition
Valence effect

Publications

Chan, Y.L. & Tse, C.S. (in press). Decoding the essence of two-character Chinese words: Unveiling valence, arousal, concreteness, familiarity, and imageability through word norming. Behavior Research Methods.

Tse, C.S., Yap, M.J., & Chan, Y.L. (in press). Neighborhood in Chinese lexicon: A megastudy analysis of lexical decision and naming of two-character Chinese words. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Sulpizio, S., Günther, F., Badan, L., Basclain, B., Brysbaert, M., Chan, Y.L., Ciaccio, L. A., Dudschig, C., Duñabeitia, J. A., Fasoli, F., Ferrand, L., Filipović Đurđević, D., Guerra, E., Hollis, G., Job, R., Jornkokgoud, K., Kahraman, H., Kgolo-Lotshwao, N., Kinoshita, S., Kos, J., Lee, L., Lee, N. H., Mackenzie, I. G., Manojlović, M., Manouilidou, C., Martinic, M., del Carmen Méndez, M., Mišić, K., Na Chiangmair, N., Nikolaev, A., Oganyan, M., Rusconi, P., Samo, G., Tse, C.S., Westbury, C., Wongupparajr, P., Yap, M. J. & Marelli, M. (2024). Taboo language across the globe: A multi-lab study. Behavior Research Methods, 6, 3794–3813.

Tse, C.S., Huang, Y., Zeng, T., Zhou, Y., & Chan, Y.L. (2021). The influence of congruency proportion, target eccentricity, and valence strength on the spatial-valence metaphoric congruency effect in a word valence judgment task. Psychological Research, 85, 2610–2635.
Tse, C.S., Gu, X., Zeng, T., & Chan, Y.L. (2020). Construal-level priming does not modulate memory performance in Deese-Roediger/McDermott paradigm. Memory (Hove, England), 28(9), 1136–1156.

Cho, K.W., Tse, C.S., & Chan, Y.L. (2020). Normative data for Chinese-English paired associates. Behavior Research Methods, 52, 440–445.
Liang, Y., Chan, Y.L., Deng, M., Chen, Y. K., Mok V., Wang, D.F., . . . Tang, W.K. (2018). Enlarged perivascular spaces in the centrum semiovale are associated with poststroke depression: A 3-month prospective study. Journal of Affective Disorders, 228, 166-172.

Tse, C.S., Yap, M.J., Chan, Y.L., Sze, W.P., Shaoul, C., & Lin, D. (2017) The Chinese Lexicon Project: A megastudy of lexical decision performance for 25,000+ traditional Chinese two-character compound words. Behavior Research Method, 49, 1503-1519.

Chan, Y.L., Gu, X., Ng, J.C.K., & Tse, C.S. (2016). Effects of dilemma type, language, and emotion arousal on utilitarian vs. deontological choice to moral dilemmas in Chinese-English bilinguals. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 19, 55-65.