The State Key Laboratory
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Wai Ting Siok, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Office: 3A, 2 University Drive
Phone: (852) 2241 5873
Fax: (852) 2549 6253
Email: siok at hku dot hk
 
Dr. Siok received her Ph.D. in Psychology and Education from the University of Hong Kong. After a two-year postdoctoral training at Stanford University Psychology Department and the Stanford Institute of Reading and Learning, she started to work in the Department of Linguistics of HKU in 2004. Her research focuses on bilingualism, language development and language neuroscience. Her ongoing research is aimed at determining the neural mechanisms that underlie reading in normal and dyslexic children.
 

Selected Publications

Siok, W.T., Niu, Z.D., Jin, Z., Perfetti, C.A., & Tan, L.H.(2008). A structural-functional basis for dyslexia in the cortex of Chinese readers. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 105, 5561-5566. (pdf)  Media Coverage

Hoeft, F., Meyler, A., Hernandez, A., Juel, C., Taylor-Hill H., Martindale, J.L., McMillon, G., Kolchugina, G., Black, J.M., Faizi, A., Deutsch, G.K., Siok, W.T., Reiss, A.L., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2007). Functional and morphometric brain dissociation between dyslexia and reading ability. PNAS, 104, 4234-4239. (pdf)

Hoeft, F., Hernandez, A., McMillon,G., Taylor-Hill, H., Martindale, J. L., Meyler, A., Keller, T. A., Siok, W. T., Deutsch, G. K., Just, M. A., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2006). Neural basis of dyslexia: A comparison between dyslexic and nondyslexic children equated for reading ability. Journal of Neuroscience, 26, 10700 -10708. (pdf)

Perfetti, C. A., Tan, L. H., & Siok, W. T. (2006). Brain-behavior relations in reading and dyslexia: Implications of Chinese results. Brain and Language, 98, 344-346. (pdf)

Tan, L.H. & Siok, W.T. (2006). The reading center of Chinese users' brain. In P. Li, L.H. Tan, E. Bates, & O. Tzeng (eds.), The Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics, Volume 1: Chinese (pp. 358-371). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.

Tan, L.H., Spinks, J.A., Eden, G., Perfetti, C.A., & Siok, W.T. (2005). Reading depends on writing, in Chinese. PNAS, 102, 8781-8785. (pdf)

Siok, W.T., Perfetti, C.A., Jin, Z., & Tan, L.H. (2004). Biological abnormality of impaired reading is constrained by culture. Nature, 431: 71-76. (pdf)

Deutsch, G. K., Dougherty, R. F., Bammer, R., Siok, W. T., Gabrieli, J. D. E., & Wandell, B. (2005). Children’s reading performance is correlated with white matter structure measured by diffusion tensor imaging. Cortex, 41, 354-363. (pdf)

Siok, W. T., Jin, Z., Fletcher, P., & Tan, L. H. (2003). Distinct brain regions associated with syllable and phoneme. Human Brain Mapping, 18, 201-207. (pdf)

Tan, L. H., Spinks, J. A., Feng, C. M., Siok, W. T., Perfetti, C. A., Xiong, J., Fox, P. T., & Gao, J. H. (2003). Neural Systems of Second Language Reading are Shaped by Native Language. Human Brain Mapping, 18, 158-166. (pdf)

Siok, W. T., & Fletcher, P. (2001). The role of phonological awareness and visual-orthographic skills in Chinese reading acquisition. Developmental Psychology, 37, 886-899.

 
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