Professor Ovid Jyh-Lang Tzeng

Senior Fellow of Institute for Advanced Study, City University of Hong Kong

Academician of Academia Sinica in Taiwan

Member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Fellow of World Academy of Sciences

Professor Ovid Jyh-Lang Tzeng

Contact Information

Phone: 02-26525033
Email: ovid@gate.sinica.edu.tw
Web: Personal Homepage

Education

  • Pennsylvania State University Ph.D. June, 1973(Experimental Psychology)
  • National Chengchi University (Taipei) M.A. June, 1969(Educational Psychology)
  • National Chengchi University (Taipei) B.A. June, 1966(Education)
Professor Ovid J. L. Tzeng is Chancellor of the University System of Taiwan (UST) and a distinguished research Fellow and an Academician of Academia Sinica. He was the Minister of Education, the Minister without Portfolio of the Executive Yuan, and the Minister of Council for Cultural Affairs. He is an outstanding researcher in cognitive neuroscience and neurolinguistics and an experienced administrator in academic institutions. He has established UST to oversee and integrate the research and teaching developments of Taiwan's four top research universities, namely, Central-, Chiao Tung-, Tsing Hua- and Yang-Ming Universities and has been the Chancellor of the System since 2012. Prior to the Chancellorship, Professor Tzeng was Vice President of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan, in charge of International Scholarly Exchange Program as well the developments of Taiwan's International Graduate Program (TIGP), which especially has well served the students from developing countries. Professor Tzeng was named a Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences in 2010. He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Pennsylvania State University in the US and the First-class Professional Education-Culture Medal from the Ministry of Education in 2011 and 2012, respectively.

Experience

  • Adjunct Research Fellow (2014/10/01 - 2016/07/31)
  • Minister of Council for Cultural Affairs, Executive Yuan(2011/11 - 2012/05)
  • Minister Without Portfolio, Executive Yuan(2008/05 - 2012/05)
  • Vice President (2/1/2002 - 10/19/2006)
  • Minister of Education, Ministry of Education, TAIWAN/ROC(5/20/2000 - 1/31/2002)
  • President, National Yang-Ming University(07/1999 - 05/2000)
  • Vice President, National Yang-Ming University(08/1997 - 06/1999)
  • Dean of the College of Social Sciences,Director of the Institute of Psychology,
  • Director, the Center for Cognitive Science, National Chung Cheng University
  • Honorary Professor,University of California, Riverside
  • Visiting Scientist, The Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, La Jolla(1983 - Present)
  • Visiting Associate Professor, The Haskins Laboratories, Yale University(9/1/1980 - 6/30/1981)
  • Visiting Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley
  • Department of Linguistics(7/1/1978 - 6/30/1979)

Professional Activities

  • External Examiner for the Institute of Education, University of Singapore.
  • Member of the Advisory Committee on Language, Cultural Reconstruction Council(Wen Chien Hui).
  • Advisory Council, International Association for the Studies of Attention and Performance.
  • Advisory Council, National Science Council, Executive Yuan, R.O.C.
  • National Representative, International Council for Science.

Honors & Awards

  • The Academy Gold Medal of Honor, Academy of Transdisciplinary Learning and Advanced Studies(ATLAS), May 2012.
  • 1st Class Professional Education-Culture Medal, The Ministry of Education, March 2012.
  • Distinguished Alumnus Award, The Pennsylvania State University, U. S. A., 2011.
  • Fellow, The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), 2011.
  • Committee member of the ICSU Committee on Freedom and Responsibility in the conduct of Science (CFRS), 2009-2011.
  • Honorary Ph. D. Degree in Science, National Chengchi University in Taiwan, June 2009.
  • Golden Language Award, 2009 International Conference on Applied Linguistics & Language Teaching (ALLT), April 2009.
  • Honorary Ph. D. Degree in Science, National Central University in Taiwan, September 2006
  • Fellow, Association for Psychological Science, 2003.
  • Distinguished Service Award, The Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society of The Republic of China, 2003.
  • Distinguished Service Award, Chinese Institute of Engineers, USA, 2002.
  • Fellow Academician, Academia Sinica, July, 1994 –.
  • Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, California Science and Engineering Society, 1993.

Publications - Journal Papers

  • Tsai, P.-S., Tzeng, O. J.-L., Hung, D. L. & Wu, D. H. 2013. Using magnetoencephalography to investigate processing of negative polarity items in Mandarin Chinese. JOURNAL OF NEUROLINGUISTICS 26(2): 258-270.
  • Chun-Hao Wang,.Che-Chien Chang, Yen-Ming Liang, Chun-Ming Shih, Wen-Sheng Chiu, Philip Tseng, Daisy L. Hung, Ovid J. L. Tzeng, Neil G. Muggleton, Chi-Hung Juan. 2013. Open vs. Closed Skill Sports and the Modulation of Inhibitory Control. PLoSONE 8(2), e55773. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055773. Epub 2013 Feb 13..
  • Tseng, P., Hsu, TY, Chang, CF, Tzeng, OJL, Hung, DL, Muggleton, NG, Walsh, V, Liang, WK, Cheng, SK & Juan, CH. 2012. Unleashing potential: tDCS over the right posterior parietal cortex improves change detection in low-performing individuals. JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE 32(31): 10554 –10561.
  • Kimihiro Nakamura, Wen-Jui Kuo, Felipe Pegado, Laurent Cohen, Ovid J. L. Tzeng, Stanislas Dehaene. 2012. Universal brain systems for recognizing word shapes and handwriting gestures during reading. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 109(50): 20762-20767.
  • Liu, C.-H., Tzeng, O.J.L., Hung, D.L., Tseng, P., Juan, C.-H. 2012. Investigation of bistable perception with the “silhouette spinner”: Sit still, spin the dancer with your will. Vision Research 60(1): 34-39.
  • Yen, M.-H., Radach, R., Tzeng, O. J. L., & Tsai, J.-L. 2012. Usage of statistical cues for word boundary in reading Chinese sentences. Reading & Writing 25(5): 1007-1029.
  • Chiou, R., Wu, D. H., Hung, D. L., Tzeng, O. J. L., & Chang, E. C. 2012. Relative Size of Numerical Magnitude Induces a Size-Contrast Effect on the Grip Scaling of Reach-to-Grasp Movements. Cortex 48(8): 1043-1051.
  • Cheng, S.-K., Liu, I.-C., Lee, J. R., Hung, D. L., & Tzeng, O. J. L. 2012. Intentional forgetting might be more effortful than remembering: An ERP study. Biological Psychology 89(2): 283-292.
  • Kung, S. J., Hung, D. L., Tzeng, O. J. L., & Wu, D. H. 2011. Dynamic allocation of attention to metrical and grouping accents in rhythmic sequences. Experimental Brain Research 210(2): 269-282.
  • McCardle P., Lee, J.R., Tzeng, O. J. L., & Miller B. 2011. Future Directions in Research on Dyslexia Across Languages and Orthographies. Dyslexia across Languages: orthography and the Brain-Gene-Behavior Link 329-335. Baltimore: Brookes Publishing..
  • Chang, A. Y.-C., Tzeng, O. J. L., Hung, D. L., & Wu, D. H. 2011. Big time is not always long: Numerical magnitude automatically affects time reproduction. Psychological Science 22(12): 1567-1573.
  • Chao, C.-M., Tseng, P., Hsu, T.-Y., Su, J.-H., Tzeng, O. J. L., Hung, D. L., Muggleton, N. G. & Juan, C.-H. 2011. Predictability of saccadic behaviors and the human posterior parietal cortex. Human Brain Mapping 32(11): 1961-1972.
  • Tseng, P., Hsu, T.-Y., Tzeng, O. J. L., Hung, D. L. & Juan, C.-H. 2011. Probabilities in Implicit Learning. Perception 40(7): 822-829.
  • Hsu, T.-Y., Tseng, L.-Y., Yu, J.-X., Kuo, W.-J., Hung, D. L., Tzeng, O. J. L.,Walsh, V., Muggleton, N. G. & Juan, C.-H. 2011. Modulating inhibitory control with direct current stimulation of the superior medial frontal cortex. Neuroimage 56(4): 2249-2257.
  • Liu, C.-L., Tseng, P., Chiau, H.-Y., Liang, W.-K., Hung, D. L., Tzeng, O. J. L., Muggleton, N. G., & Juan, C.-H. 2011. The location probability effects of saccade reaction times are modulated in the Frontal Eye Fields but not in the Supplementary Eye Field. Cerebral Cortex 21(6): 1416-1425.
  • Huang, H.-W., Lee, C.-Y., Tsai, J.-L., & Tzeng, O. J. L. 2011. The sublexical semantic ambiguity effects for reading Chinese disyllabic compounds. Brain and Language 17(2):77-87.
  • Chiau, H.-Y., Tseng, P., Hsu, W.-Y., Su, J.-H., Tzeng, O. J. L., Hung, D. L., Muggleton N. G., & Juan, C.-H. 2011. Trial type probability modulates the cost of antisaccades. Journal of Neurophysiology 106(2): 515-526.
  • Kung, S. J., Hung, D. L., Tzeng, O. J. L, & Wu, D. H. 2011. Dynamic allocation of attention to metrical and grouping accents in rhythmic sequences. Experimental Brain Research 210(2): 269-282.
  • Lin Y.-C., Li, K.-H., Sung, W.S., Ko, H.-W., Tzeng, O. J. L., Hung, D. L.,& Juan, C.-H. 2011. The relationship between development of attention and learning in children A cognitive neuroscience approach. Bulletin of Educational Psychology 42(3): 517-542. (in Chinese).
  • Muggleton, N. G., Chen, C-Y., Tzeng, O. J. L., Hung, D. L., & Juan, C.-H. 2010. Inhibitory control and the frontal eye fields. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 22(12): 2804-2812.
  • Hsu, T.-Y., Cheng, S.-K., Tseng, P., Tzeng, O. J. L., Hung, D. L., & Juan, C.-H. 2010. The perseverance of numerical distance effect in attentional blink. Perception 39(11): 1526-1540.
  • Tseng, P., Hsu, TY., Muggleton, N. G., Tzeng, O. J. L., Hung, D. L., & Juan, C.-H. 2010. Posterior Parietal Cortex Mediates Encoding and Maintenance Processes in Change Blindness. Neuropsychologia 48(4): 1063-70.
  • Liu, C.-L., Chiau, H.-Y., Tseng, P., Hung, D. L., Tzeng, O. J. L., Muggleton, N. G.,. 2010. The antisaccade cost is modulated by contextual experience of location probability. Journal of Neurophysiology 103(3): 1438-1447.
  • Shih, L.-Y., Yeh, T.-C., Kuo, W.-J., Tzeng, O. J. L., & Hsieh, J.-C. 2010. Effect of temporal difficulty on cerebrocerebellar interaction during visual duration discrimination. Behavioural Brain Research 207(1): 55-160.
  • Lee, C.-Y., Huang, H.-W., Kuo, W.-J., Tsai, J.-L., & Tzeng, O. J. L. 2010. Cognitive and neural basis of the consistency and lexicality effects in reading Chinese. Journal of Neurolinguistics 23, 10-27.
  • Yen M.H. , Radach R, Tzeng OJ-L., Hung D. L., Tsai J. L. 2009. Early parafoveal processing in reading Chinese sentences. Acta psychological 131(1): 24-33.
  • Hsu, C.-H., Tsai, J.-L., Lee, C.-Y., Tzeng, O. J. L. 2009. Orthographic combinability and phonological consistency effects in reading Chinese Phonograms: An event-related potential study. Brain and Language 108: 55-56.
  • Hsieh, L.-T., Hung, D. L., Tzeng, O. J. L., Lee, J. R., and Cheng, S.-K. 2009. An event-related potential investigation of the processing of Remember/Forget cues and item encoding in item-method directed forgetting. Brain Research 1250, 190-201.
  • Chen, C-Y. Muggleton, NG. Tzeng, OJL. Hung, DL. Juan, C-H. 2009. Control of prepotent responses by the superior medial frontal cortex. Neuroimage 44(2): 537-545.
  • Cheng, Y.-W., Chou, K.-H., Decety, J., Chen, I-Y., Hung, D., Tzeng, O. J. L., Lin, C.-P. 2009. Sex Differences in the Neuroanatomy of Human Mirror-Neuron System: a Voxel-Based Morphometric Investigation. Neuroscience 158(2): 713-720.
  • Tsai, P.-S., Yu, B. H.-Y., Lee, C.-Y., Tzeng, O. J. L., Hung, D. L., & Wu, D. H. 2009. An event-related potential study of the concreteness effect between Chinese nouns and verbs. Brain Research 1253(9): 149-160.
  • Chiou, R. Y. –C., Chang, E. C., Tzeng, O. J. L., & Wu, D. H. 2009. The common magnitude code underlying numerical and size processing for action but not for perception. Experimental Brain Research 194(4): 553-562.
  • Wang, C.-A., Tsai, J.-L., Inhoff A.W., & Tzeng, O.J.-L. 2009. Acquisition of linguistic information to the left of fixation during the reading of Chinese text. Language and Cognitive Processes 24: 1097-1123.
  • Hung, Y. H., Hung, D. L., Tzeng, O. J. L., & Wu, D. H. 2008. Flexible spatial mapping of different notations of numbers in Chinese readers. Cognition 106(3): 1441-1450.
  • Tsai, C. C., Kuo, W. J., Hung, D. L., & Tzeng, O. J. L. 2008. Action co - representation is tuned to other humans. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 20(11): 2015-2024.
  • Yen, M.-H., Tsai, J.-L., Tzeng, O. J-.L., & Hung, D. L. 2008. Eye movements and parafoveal word processing in reading Chinese. Memory and Cognition 36(5): 1033-1045.
  • Chen, J. C. W., Li, W., Westerberg, C. E., & Tzeng, O. J. L. 2008. Test-item sequence affects false memory formation: An event-related potential study. Neuroscience Letters 431(1): 51-56.
  • Juan, C-H., Muggleton, N., Hung, D., Tzeng, O., Cowey, A., & Walsh, V. 2008. Segregation of visual selection and saccades in human frontal eye fields. Cerebral Cortex 18(10): 2410-2415.
  • Chen, C-Y. Muggleton, N.G., Juan, C-H., Tzeng, OJL., & Hung, DL. 2008. Time pressure leads to inhibitory control deficits in impulsive violent offenders. Behavioral Brain Research 187(2): 483-488.
  • Huang, H.-W., Lee, C. Y., Tsai, J. L., Lee, C. L., Hung, D. L., & Tzeng, O. J. L. 2006. Orthographic neighborhood effects in reading Chinese two-character words: reaction time and ERP measurements. NeuroReport 17:1061-1065.
  • Tsai, J. L., Lee, C. Y., Lin, Y. C., Tzeng, O. J. L., Hung, D. L. 2006. Neighborhood size effects of Chinese words in lexical decision and reading. Language and Linguistics 7(3):659-675.
  • Lee, C.-Y., Tsai, J.-L., Chiu, Y.-C., Tzeng, O. J.-L., & Hung, D. L. 2006. The early extraction of sublexical phonology in reading Chinese pseudocharacters. Language and Linguistics 7(3):619-636.
  • Cheng, Y.-W., Ovid J.L. Tzeng, Jean Decety, Toshiaki Imada, Jen-Chuen Hsieh. 2006. Gender Differences in the Human Mirror System: a MEG Study. NeuroReport 17:1115-1119.
  • Lee, C.-L., Hung, D. L., Tsed, J. K.-P., Lee, C.-Y., Tsai, J.-L., & Tzeng, O. J.-L. 2005. Processing of disyllabic compound words in Chinese aphasia: Evidence for processing limitation hypothesis. Brain and Language 92(2):168-184.
  • Lee, C.-Y., Tsai, J.-L., Su, E. C.-I., Tzeng, O. J. L., & Hung, D. L. 2005. Consistency, regularity and frequency effects in naming Chinese characters. Language and Linguistics 6.1:75-107.
  • Chen C.-Y., Tien, Y.-M., Juan, C.-H., Tzeng, O. J.-L. & Hung, D. L. 2005. Neural correlates of impulsive-violent behavior: an event-related potential study. Neuroreport 16,11,1213-1215.
  • Cheng, Y.-W., Tzeng, O. J.-L., Hung, D., Decety, J. & Hsieh, J.C. 2005. Modulation of spinal excitability during observation of bipedal Iocomotion. Neuroreport 16,15,1711-1714.
  • 曾志朗。2004。〈跑馬溜溜的秘密〉。《科學人》2004年3月號。
  • 曾志朗。2004。〈你如何畫一個咖啡杯?〉。《科學人》2004年2月號。
  • 曾志朗。2004。〈社會生活基因:A、T、G、C〉。《科學人》2004年1月號。
  • Szekely, Anna,, Thomas Jacobsen, Simona D’Amico, Antonella Devescovi, Elena Andonova, Daniel Herron, Ching Ching Lu, Thomas Pechmann, Csaba Pléh,Nicole Wicha, Kara Federmeier, Irina Gerdjikova, Gabriel Gutierrez, Daisy Hung, Jeanne Hsu, Gowri Iyer, G., Kathryn Kohnert, Teodora Mehotcheva, Araceli Orozco-Figueroa, Angela Tzeng, Ovid Tzeng, Analía L. Arévalo, Andras Vargha, Andrew C. Butler, Robert Buffington, and Elizabeth Bates. 2004. A New On-Line Resource for Psycholinguistic Studies. Journal of Memory and Language 51:247-250..
  • Tsai, Jie-Li, Lee, Chia-Ying, Tzeng, Ovid J.-L., Hung, Daisy L., and Yen, Nai-Shing. 2004. Use of Phonological Codes for Chinese Characters: Evidence from Processing of Parafoveal Preview When Reading Sentences. Brain and Language 91(2):235-244.
  • Y. H. Chiu, J.-C. Hsieh, W.-J. Kuo, Daisy L. Hung, and Ovid J.-L. Tzeng. 2004. A Study of the Vision-and Manipulation-based signs in Taiwanese Sign Language. Language and Linguistics.
  • Lee, C.-Y., Tsai, J.-L., Kuo. W.-J., Hung, D. L., Tzeng, O. J.-L., Yeh, T.-C., Ho, L.-T., Hsieh, J.-J. 2004. Neuronal correlates of consistency and frequency effects on Chinese character naming: an event-related fMRI study. Neuroimage 23(4):1235-1245..
  • 曾志朗。2003。〈記憶與我〉。《科學人》。
  • 曾志朗。2003。〈人人都可成為科學人〉。《科學人》。
  • 曾志朗。2003。〈鎖來鎖去,鎖為何來?!〉。《科學人》。
  • 曾志朗。2003。〈Good bye,Dolly我們應該哀悼你的英年早逝,還是追思你的壽終正寢〉。《科學人》。
  • Kuo,W.J., Yeh, T.C., Lee, C.Y., Wu, Y.T., Chou, C.C., Ho, L.T., Hung, D.L., Tzeng, O.J.L., & Hsieh, J.C. 2003. Frequency effects of Chinese character processing in the brain: an event-related fMRI study. Neuroimage 18(3): 720-730.
  • 曾志朗。2003。〈巧合,還是巧合〉。《科學人》。
  • 曾志朗。2003。〈沖太歲、安太歲〉。《科學人》。
  • Bates, Elizabeth, Simona S’Amico, Thomas Jacbsen, Anna Szekely, Elena Andonova, Antonella Devescovi, Dan Herron, Ching Ching Lu, Thomas Pechman, Csaba Pleh, Nicole Wicha, Kara Federmeier, Irini Gerdjikva, Gabriel Gutierrez, Daisy Hung, Jeanne Hsu, Gowri Iyer, Katherine Kohnert, Teodora Mehotcheva, Araceli Orozco-Figueroa, Angela Tzeng, and Ovid Tzeng. 2003. Running head: timed picture naming in seven languages. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review10(2) 344-380.
  • 曾志朗。2002。〈紐約,紐約!〉。《科學人》。
  • 曾志朗。2002。〈多樣化的豐饒之美〉。《科學人》。
  • 曾志朗。2002。〈大目仔,你先唱!〉。《科學人》。
  • 曾志朗。2002。〈建造一個虛擬的腦〉。《科學人》。
  • 曾志朗。2002。〈自然界的吶喊〉。《科學人》。
  • 曾志朗。2002。〈可敬的下一代〉。《科學人》。
  • 曾志朗。2002。〈暴龍可以跑多快?〉。《科學人》。
  • 曾志朗。2002。〈人腦可突破認知極限?〉。《科學人》。
  • 曾志朗。2002。〈深藍的藍色憂鬱〉。《科學人》。
  • 曾志朗。2002。〈當局者迷〉。《科學人》創刊號。
  • 曾志朗。2002。〈科學人看科學人〉。《科學人》創刊紀念號。
  • 田意民, 曾志朗, 洪蘭。2002。〈漢語分類詞的語義與認知基礎:功能語法觀點〉。《語言暨語言學》 3.1:101-132。
  • 曾志朗。2002。〈建立可被檢驗的模型以增強創造力之研究〉。《應用心理研究》 16:1-4。
  • Tzeng, O.J.L., and D.L. Hung. 2002. A phantom of linguistic relativity: Script, speech and thought. Difficult Characters: Interdisciplinary Studies of Chinese and Japanese.
  • Chang, C.-F., Hsu, T.-Y., Tseng, P., Liang, W.-L., Tzeng, O. J. L., Hung, D. L., & Juan, C.-H. (in press). Right Temporo-parietal Junction and Attentional Reorienting.. Human Brain Mapping.

Publications - Conference Papers

  • Tzeng, O. J.-L. 2013. A Trusted Partner: Fostering Research Integrity in Taiwan. The 3rd World Conference on Research Integrity. Montreal, Canada.
  • Tzeng, O. J.-L. 2013. Spinning Lady, Temporal Relativity, Reading Brain, and Enhancing Visual Short- Term Memory: Establishing an Integrated Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory in Taiwan. 黃林秀蓮訪問學人計畫. 香港中文大學崇基學院, Hong Kong.
  • Tzeng, O. J.-L. 2013. Reading Brain--Visualizing Civilization by Mapping the Literate Eyes to the Educational Brain. 黃林秀蓮訪問學人計畫. 香港中文大學崇基學院, Hong Kong.
  • Tzeng, O. J.-L. 2013. One Brain for All Written Languages: General and Specific Neural Bases of Graphomotoric Codes. 黃林秀蓮訪問學人計畫. 香港中文大學崇基學院, Hong Kong.
  • Tzeng, O. J.-L. 2013. Neural basis of Chinese reading and writing. Third Oxford-Kobe International Symposium 2013. Oxford, England.
  • Tzeng, O. J.-L. 2012. One Brain for All Written Systems: The General and Specific Neural Bases of Graphomotoric Codes. The Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics 2012. Beijing University, Beijing, China.
  • Tzeng, O. J.-L. 2012. Cultural Diversity and Brain Plasticity: A Brain-Based Perspective of Learning. Workshop on Language Development in Typical and Atypical Populations. Beijing, China.
  • Tzeng, O. J. L. 2012. Establishing Two Additional Stories in Working Memory: Orthographic and Grapho-Motor Codes are Important for a skilled Chinese Reader. Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD) Annual Workshop & Advisory Board Meeting. ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD). Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
  • Tzeng, O. J. L., Wu, D. H., Lin, E. Y.-C., & Kuo, W. J. 2012. Establishing Two More Stores in Working Memory to Become a Skilled Chinese Reader. Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Chinese Language and Linguistics (IsCLL-13). National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.
  • Tzeng, O. J. L. 2012. Visualizing Civilization by Mapping the Literate Eyes to the Educated Brain Across Different Scripts. 2012 International Conference on Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching (ALLT).. National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.
  • Lee, C.-Y., Lee, J.-R., & Tzeng, O. J. L. 2011. Orthographic variation and brain processes: A non-alphabetic perspective. 17th Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP 2011). San Sebastian, Spain.
  • Kuo, W.-J., Lee, C.-Y., Lee, J.-R., & Tzeng, O. J. L. 2011. Homophone Effect in Chinese Reading and its Neural Representation. 17th Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP 2011). San Sebastian, Spain.
  • Chang, E. C., Lin, C. T., Huang, H., Huang, T. Y., Tzeng, O. J., & Hung, D. L. 2011. Social-evaluative stress differentially modulates brain activities for mixing and switching costs. 17th Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP 2011). San Sebastian, Spain.
  • Cheng, S.-K., Lin, W.-J., Liu, I.-C., Hung, D. L., & Tzeng, O.J.L. 2011. Forgetting could be more effortful than remembering: Behavioral and ERP studies of item-method directed forgetting. 17th Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP 2011). San Sebastian, Spain.
  • Tzeng, O. J. L. 2011. Mapping the Lirerate Eyes to the Educated Brain in an Non-Alphabetic Script: What Have We Learned over the last three Decades‘ Research on Reading Chinese. 17th Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP 2011). San Sebastian, Spain.
  • Cheng, S.-K., Lin, W.-J., Liu, I.-C., Hung, D. L., & Tzeng, O.J.L. 2011. Inhibition and item-method directed forgetting: Behavioral and ERP studies. The 5th International Conference on Memory. York, UK.
  • Cheng, S.-K., Chen, N.F., Juan, C. -H, Hung, D.- L., & Tzeng, O.J.L. 2011. Anodal Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) of the left posterior parietal cortex enhances verbal recognition memory performance. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2011 Annual Meeting. San Francisco. USA.
  • Liu, T.-L., Hung, D. L., Tzeng, O. J. L., & Cheng, S. -K. 2011. The modulation of emotional context on the item-method directed forgetting effect: An ERP study. The Eighteenth Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting. San Francisco, USA.
  • Chang, A. Y.-C., Liang, W.-K., LIN, C.-Y., Tzeng, O. J. L., & Wu, D. H. 2010. The brain activity associated with time perception: A comparison between MEG and EEG signals. 40th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. San Diego, USA.
  • Tseng, L.-Y., Hsu, T.-Y., Lo, Y.-H., Hung, D.L., Tzeng, O.J.L., Walsh, V, Muggleton, N. G., & Juan, CH. 2010. Reversing inhibitory control with direct current stimulation of the superior medial frontal cortex. 40th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. San Diego, USA.
  • Kung, S. J., Tzeng, O. J. L., Hung, D. L., & Wu, D. H. 2010. What do you listen to? Attention allocation to metrical and grouping accents in musicians and non-musicians. 49th Annual Meeting of Taiwanese Psychological Association. Chiayi, Taiwan.
  • Chang, A. Y.-C., Lin, W.-S., Tzeng, , Hung, D. L., & Wu, D. H. 2010. The Influence from Pitch Height to Subjective Perception of Duration. 49th Annual Meeting of Taiwanese Psychological Association. Chiayi, Taiwan.
  • Chang, A. Y.-C., Liang, W.-K., Tzeng, O. J. L., & Wu, D. H. 2010. A Comparison Between MEG and EEG Signals in a Time Discrimination Task. Frontiers in Neuroscience 2010: From Genes to Cognition. National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
  • Hung, Y. H., Chien, Y. N., Wu, D. H.,& Tzeng, O. J. L. 2010. The temporal dynamic of code-switching effect in Chinese-English bilinguals: An electrophysiological study. Frontiers in Neuroscience 2010: From Genes to Cognition. National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
  • Lin, E. Y.-C., Wu, D. H., Kuo, W.-J., Hung, D. L., & Tzeng1, O. J. L. 2010. Functional MRI studies of verbal short-term memory for Chinese characters. Frontiers in Neuroscience 2010: From Genes to Cognition. National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
  • Hsu, T-Y, Chang, C-F, Hung, D. L., Tzeng, O. J.L., & Juan, CH. 2010. Using transcranial magnetic stimulation to probe the functional roles of posterior parietal cortex and frontal eye fields in the attentional capture. The 15th Attention & Perception Conference. Chiayi, Taiwan.
  • Chao, C.-M., Tseng, P., Hsu T.-Y., Su, J.-H., Tzeng O. J. L., Hung D. L., Muggleton, N.G., & Juan, C.-H. 2010. Predictability of saccadic behaviors is modified by transcranial magnetic stimulation over human posterior parietal cortex. Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision. Taipei, Taiwan.
  • Wu, D. H., Chang, A. Y.-C., Cheng, S.-K., Tzeng, O. J. L., & Hung, D. L. 2010. Neurophysiological evidence of numerical influence on subjective perception of time. 16th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping. Barcelona, Spain.
  • Han, Y-J., Cheng, S.-K., Tzeng, O. J. L., & Hung, D. L. 2010. An ERP study of the modulation of encoding tasks on the mirror effect induced by the semantic transparency of Chinese two-character words. 17th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Montreal, Canada.
  • Kung, S. J., Chiou, R. Y. C., Tzeng, O. J. L., Hung, D. L., & Wu, D. H. 2010. Evaluating the role of awareness and recognition in synaesthesia: Evidence from a pitch- and grapheme-color synaesthete. 17th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Montreal, Canada.
  • Cheng, S.-K., Liu, I-C., Lee, J. R., Hung, D. L., & Tzeng, O. J. L. 2010. To intentionally forget an item is more effortful than to remember it: An ERP study of item-method directed forgetting. 17th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Montreal, Canada.
  • Tzeng, O. J. L. 2009. Brain Processes in Reading Chinese: Insight from Experiments on the Educated Eyes and the Educated Brain. Toward a Science of Consciousness Conference (TSC). The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.
  • Tzeng, O. J. L. 2009. Visual Processing of Chinese Characters: Perspectives from Educated Eyes to Educated Brain. 2009 International Conference on Applied Linguistics & Language Teaching (ALLT). Taipei, Taiwan.
  • Chiou, R. Y.-C., Chang, E. C., Hung, D. L., Tzeng, O. J. L., & Wu, D. H. 2008. The commonality and specificity of magnitude codes for number processing, prehension, and perceptual size judgment. 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision, Brisbane. QLD, Australia.
  • Chen, Y. C., Lee, J. R., Cheng, S. K., Hung, D. L.,& Tzeng, O. J. L. 2008. Investigation of the orthographic/phonological interaction and the L2 factor in the ERP rhyming effect. The 14th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (HBM). Melbourne, Australia.
  • Chen, C. Y., Juan, C.H., Tzeng O. J-L & Hung, D. L. 2008. Impulsive and instrumental violent offenders display different attentional disengagement from negative facial expressions: an event-related potential study. Division of Forensic Psychology Conference. Edinburgh UK.
  • Tzeng, O. J.-L. 2005. From Gene to Language: Linguistic Diversity and Brain Plasticity. LSA Institute, MIT, USA.
  • Tzeng, O. J.-L. 2005. Uplifting Higher Education in Taiwan: The Way to Excellence. Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) 2005 Conference.
  • Tzeng, O. J.-L. 2005. Visualizing Reading in the Brain: A Cross-Script Perspective. International and Interdisciplinary Conference of Hanzi Renzhi – How Western Learners Discover the World of Written Chinese. University of Mainz, Germany.

Publications - Book Chapters

  • Jean C.-F. Hsu, Ovid J. L. Tzeng and Daisy L. Hung. 2004. Syntactic Effect on Sublexical Components of Chiese Compounds. Maryland Working Paper.
  • C. W. Hue, T.W. Chan and Ovid J. L. Tzeng. 2004. Applications of Learning Theories in the Development of Learning Technologies, In S.G. Chung(ed.). e-Psychology. Taipei: National Cheng-Chih University.