Prof. Sam Po Law

The University of Hong Kong, China

Email: splaw@hkucc.hku.hk

Qualifications

1990 Ph.D., Boston University, Applied Linguistics

1986 M.A., Boston University

1984 B.A., Boston College, Psychology

Publications (Selected)

1. Wong, W. W. S., & Law, S. P. (2023). Can non-linguistic cognitive stimulation enhance the cognitive and linguistic functions of people with aphasia receiving conversation therapy? Preliminary findings. Aphasiology, 37(9), 1456-1483.
2. Wong, W. S. W., & Law, S. P. (2022). Relationship between cognitive functions and multilevel language processing: Data from Chinese speakers with aphasia and implications. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 65(3), 1128-1144.
3. Wong, W. W. S., & Law, S. P. (2021, September). Relation of Executive Functions and Performance in Conversation Among People with Aphasia. In Abstracts of the Academy of Aphasia 59th Annual Meeting (p. 6578).
4. Zhang, C., Ho, O. Y., Shao, J., Ou, J., & Law, S. P. (2021). Dissociation of tone merger and congenital amusia in Hong Kong Cantonese. Plos one, 16(7), e0253982.
5. Li, S. P. D., Law, S. P., Lau, K. Y. D., & Rapp, B. (2021). Functional orthographic units in Chinese character reading: Are there abstract radical identities?. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28, 610-623.
6. Yum, Y. N., & Law, S. P. (2021). N170 reflects visual familiarity and automatic sublexical phonological access in L2 written word processing. Bilingualism: Language and cognition, 24(4), 670-680.
7. Ou, J., & Law, S. P. (2019). Top-down and bottom-up mechanisms as reflected by beta and gamma oscillations in speech perception: An individual-difference approach. Brain and Language, 199, 104700.
8. Yum, Y. N., & Law, S. P. (2019). Interactions of age of acquisition and lexical frequency effects with phonological regularity: An ERP study. Psychophysiology, 56(10), e13433.
9. Kong, A. P. H., & Law, S. P. (2019). Cantonese AphasiaBank: An annotated database of spoken discourse and co-verbal gestures by healthy and language-impaired native Cantonese speakers. Behavior research methods, 51, 1131-1144.
10. Yum, Y. N., & Law, S. P. (2019). Impact of characteristics of L1 literacy experience on picture processing: ERP data from trilingual non-native Chinese and English readers. Cognition, 183, 213-225.
11. Ou, J., & Law, S. P. (2018). Induced gamma oscillations index individual differences in speech sound perception and production. Neuropsychologia, 121, 28-36.
12. Kong, A. P. H., Linnik, A., Law, S. P., & Shum, W. W. M. (2018). Measuring discourse coherence in anomic aphasia using Rhetorical Structure Theory. International journal of speech-language pathology, 20(4), 406-421.
13. Kong, A. P. H., Law, S. P., & Cheung, C. K. Y. (2019). Use of co-verbal gestures during word-finding difficulty among Cantonese speakers with fluent aphasia and unimpaired controls. Aphasiology, 33(2), 216-233.
14. Law, S. P., Kong, A. P. H., & Lai, C. (2018). An analysis of topics and vocabulary in Chinese oral narratives by normal speakers and speakers with fluent aphasia. Clinical linguistics & phonetics, 32(1), 88-99.
15. Law, S. P., Yum, Y. N., & Cheung, G. W. L. (2017). Neural correlates of concreteness effect in semantic processing of single Chinese characters using mixed-effects modeling. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 44, 223-238.
16. Kong, A. P. H., Law, S. P., & Chak, G. W. C. (2017). A comparison of coverbal gesture use in oral discourse among speakers with fluent and nonfluent aphasia. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60(7), 2031-2046.
17. Ou, J., & Law, S. P. (2017). Cognitive basis of individual differences in speech perception, production and representations: The role of domain general attentional switching. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 79, 945-963.

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