Talks and Presentations

Invited Talks

• Making sense from the parts: What Chinese compounds tell us about reading (October 2025). A talk hosted by Prof Marco Marelli, Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. [recording][slides]
• Making sense from the parts: What Chinese compounds tell us about reading (October 2025). An online talk hosted by the Society of German Word Nerd Network.
• What Chinese lexical processing reveals about language and cognition: Developmental, neurocognitive, computational, and psychometric perspectives (July 2025). Department of Psychology, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan.
• Making sense from the parts: What Chinese compounds tell us about reading (April 2025). Joint Lab Meeting hosted by Prof Kate Nation and Prof Elizabeth Wonnacott, University of Oxford, UK.
• Learning from distributional semantic models (DSMs): Insights into Chinese compound words (December 2024). Language Neuroscience Lab, Prof Tai-Li Chou, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.
• Making sense of Chinese compound words (August 2024). The Word Lab, Prof Jennifer Rodd, University College London, UK.
• The meaningful information in Chinese characters – and how readers tune into it (October 2023). Rank Symposium on the Visual Processing of Faces and Words, Grasmere, UK.

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Conference Presentations

Oral presentations

• Hsieh, C.-Y., Marelli, M., & Rastle, K. (September 2025). How readers resolve ambiguity in unfamiliar compound words: Computational and behavioural studies in Chinese. Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Sheffield, UK.
• Hsieh, C.-Y. (September 2024). When characters misbehave: Making sense of Chinese compound words. Departmental meeting, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
• Hsieh, C.-Y. (September 2024). When characters misbehave: Making sense of Chinese compound words. Postgraduate Research Convention, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
• Hsieh, C.-Y., Marelli, M., & Rastle, K. (July 2024). Making sense of Chinese compound words. Experimental Psychology Society Meeting, York, UK.
• Hsieh, C.-Y., Marelli, M., & Rastle, K. (May 2024). Stacking Chinese characters: Insights from computational modelling. Psycholinguistics in Flanders (PiF) Conference, Brussels, Belgium.
• Hsieh, C.-Y.. (March 2024). The meaningful information in Chinese characters – and how readers tune into it. Forum for Research in Language and Literacy (FRiLL), London, UK.
• Hsieh, C.-Y., Marelli, M., & Rastle, K. (September 2023). Beyond quantity of experience: Exploring the role of semantic consistency in Chinese character knowledge. The Contextual Diversity Workshop, Experimental Psychology Society Meeting, London, UK.
• Hsieh, C.-Y. (October 2022). Learning and generalisation of Chinese character knowledge. Postgraduate Research Convention, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
• Hsieh, C.-Y., Gau, S. S. F., & Chou, T. L. (2019). Longitudinal change of inhibitory control from childhood to adolescence in individuals with ADHD: A counting Stroop task fMRI study. 21st Taiwan Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Annual Meeting, Taipei, Taiwan.
• Hsieh, C.-Y., Li, M. F., Lin, W. C., & Wu, J. T. (2019). Reflection and beyond in research on phonetic consistency effect in Chinese. Joint Conference: 2nd Seminar on Indigenous Social Science & 3rd Seminar on Indigenous Counseling Psychology, Changhua, Taiwan.
• Lin, W. C., Hsieh, C.-Y., Li, M. F., & Wu, J. T. (2019). Revisiting consistency effect in character recognition. Joint Conference: 2nd Seminar on Indigenous Social Science & 3rd Seminar on Indigenous Counseling Psychology, Changhua, Taiwan.
• Wu, J. T., Li, M. F., & Hsieh, C.-Y. (2019). Research on the cognitive process of Chinese character recognition: Review and prospect. Same Joint Conference, Changhua, Taiwan.
• Gau, S. S. F., Hsieh, C.-Y., & Chou, T. L. (2019). Therapeutic effects of the 8-week ORADUR on drug-naïve children with ADHD: A Counting Stroop fMRI study. Annual Meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ANCP), Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

Poster presentations

• Hsieh, C.-Y. (June 2025). Resolving linguistic ambiguity in the Chinese writing system. MEDAL Summer School in Computational Modelling, University of Birmingham, UK. [poster]
• Hsieh, C.-Y., Marelli, M., & Rastle, K. (January 2023). Learning and generalisation of Chinese characters. Experimental Psychology Society Meeting, London, UK.
• Hsieh, C.-Y., Gau, S. S. F., & Chou, T. L. (March 2020). Developmental changes in neural substrates of inhibitory control among youths with and without ADHD. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, USA (online due to COVID-19).
• Hsieh, C.-Y., Wu, J. T., & Chou, T. L. (October 2018). Developmental effects on transparency and consistency in semantic processing of Chinese characters. Joint Conference of the 17th Conference on the Processing of East Asian Languages & 9th Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition, Taipei, Taiwan.

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Others

• Featured on “The Other Kind of Doctor” podcast, Episode 13 — The PhD as an international student - with Cheng-Yu Hsieh (2024, in English)
• Featured on “nine_o_seven” podcast, Episode 32 — Are psychology majors all familiar with Freud? What’s the difference between clinical psychologists and counselling psychologists? (2021, in Taiwanese Mandarin)