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Overview

Patrick C. M. Wong is affiliated with the Chinese University of Hong Kong in China. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with notable contributions in Cognitive Neuroscience and Developmental and Educational Psychology. The scientist has also worked extensively in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, as well as Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health.

Their main research topics include Language Development and Disorders, Neuroscience and Music Perception, Reading and Literacy Development, Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, Phonetics and Phonology Research, Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, and Infant Development and Preterm Care.

Frequent publication venues for their work include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Scientific Reports, PLoS ONE, and Brain and Language.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Narratives imagined in response to instrumental music reveal culture-bounded intersubjectivity, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Commonality and variation in mental representations of music revealed by a cross-cultural comparison of rhythm priors in 15 countries, 2024, Nature Human Behaviour
  • What Drives Narrative Engagement With Music?, 2021, Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal
  • ASPM -lexical tone association in speakers of a tone language: Direct evidence for the genetic-biasing hypothesis of language evolution, 2020, Science Advances
  • Do you hear what I hear? Perceived narrative constitutes a semantic dimension for music, 2021, Cognition

Patrick C. M. Wong has collaborated frequently with co-authors including Hugh Simon Lam, Xin Kang, Peggy Hiu Ying Chan, Gangyi Feng, and Xiujuan Geng. The counts of collaborations with these co-authors range from eight to twelve joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Musical experience shapes human brainstem encoding of linguistic pitch patterns

    Patrick C M Wong;Erika Skoe;Nicole M Russo;Tasha Dees

  • Sensitivity to musical emotion is influenced by tonal structure in congenital amusia

    Cunmei Jiang;Fang Liu;Patrick C. M. Wong

  • Learning pitch patterns in lexical identification by native English-speaking adults

    Patrick C. M. Wong;Tyler K. Perrachione

  • Aging and cortical mechanisms of speech perception in noise

    Patrick C.M. Wong;James Xumin Jin;Geshri M. Gunasekera;Rebekah Abel

  • Plasticity in the adult human auditory brainstem following short-term linguistic training

    Judy H. Song;Erika Skoe;Patrick C. M. Wong;Nina Kraus

  • Learning a novel phonological contrast depends on interactions between individual differences and training paradigm design

    Tyler K. Perrachione;Jiyeon Lee;Louisa Y. Y. Ha;Patrick C. M. Wong

  • Neural characteristics of successful and less successful speech and word learning in adults

    Patrick C.M. Wong;Tyler K. Perrachione;Todd B. Parrish

  • Relating Structure to Function: Heschl's Gyrus and Acoustic Processing

    Catherine Warrier;Patrick Wong;Virginia Penhune;Robert Zatorre

  • Volume of Left Heschl's Gyrus and Linguistic Pitch Learning

    Patrick C.M. Wong;Catherine M. Warrier;Virginia B. Penhune;Virginia B. Penhune;Anil K. Roy

  • Neuroanatomical Characteristics and Speech Perception in Noise in Older Adults

    Patrick C. M. Wong;Marc Ettlinger;John P. Sheppard;Geshri M. Gunasekera

  • Senescent cell antigen is immunologically related to band 3

    Marguerite M. B. Kay;Steven R. Goodman;Keld Sorensen;Carol F. Whitfield

  • Individual variability in cue-weighting and lexical tone learning

    Bharath Chandrasekaran;Padma D. Sampath;Patrick C.M. Wong

  • The Role of the Insular Cortex in Pitch Pattern Perception: The Effect of Linguistic Contexts

    Patrick C. M. Wong;Lawrence M. Parsons;Lawrence M. Parsons;Michael Martinez;Michael Martinez;Randy L. Diehl

  • Lexical tone perception in musicians and non-musicians

    Jennifer A. Alexander;Patrick C. M. Wong;Ann R. Bradlow

  • Perceptual normalization for inter- and intratalker variation in Cantonese level tones.

    Patrick C. M. Wong;Randy L. Diehl

  • Foreign language training as cognitive therapy for age-related cognitive decline: a hypothesis for future research.

    Mark Antoniou;Geshri M. Gunasekera;Patrick C.M. Wong

  • Selective neurophysiologic responses to music in instrumentalists with different listening biographies

    Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis;Lauren M. Mlsna;Ajith K. Uppunda;Todd B. Parrish

  • Cortical mechanisms of speech perception in noise.

    Patrick C. M. Wong;Ajith K. Uppunda;Todd B. Parrish;Sumitrajit Dhar

  • Declarative and procedural memory as individual differences in second language acquisition

    Kara Morgan-Short;Mandy Faretta-Stutenberg;Katherine A. Brill-Schuetz;Helen Carpenter

  • The bilingual advantage in phonetic learning

    Mark Antoniou;Eric Liang;Marc Ettlinger;Patrick C. M. Wong

  • A CRITICAL COMPARISON OF NEURAL NETWORKS AND DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS IN LITHOFACIES, POROSITY AND PERMEABILITY PREDICTIONS

    P. M. Wong;F. X. Jian;I. J. Taggart

Frequent Co-Authors

Bharath Chandrasekaran
Bharath Chandrasekaran University of Pittsburgh
Todd B. Parrish
Todd B. Parrish Northwestern University
Nina Kraus
Nina Kraus Northwestern University
Erika Skoe
Erika Skoe University of Connecticut
Robert J. Zatorre
Robert J. Zatorre McGill University
Virginia B. Penhune
Virginia B. Penhune Concordia University
Niels O. Schiller
Niels O. Schiller Leiden University
J. Devin McAuley
J. Devin McAuley Michigan State University
Joan Y. Chiao
Joan Y. Chiao Northwestern University
Kwong Wai Choy
Kwong Wai Choy Chinese University of Hong Kong

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