CV

General information

Name Kayla Keyue Chen | 陈珂月
Summary Third-year PhD student with an interest in psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics, particularly in the predictive mechanisms in real-time language comprehension, and the interaction between language processing and (domain-general) cognitive processes (e.g., cognitive control, memory, attention).

Education

  • 2021-
    PhD in Linguistics
    University College London
    • Supervisor: Dr. Wing-Yee Chow, Dr. Andrea Santi
  • 2019 - 2020
    Master of Research in Speech, Language and Cognition
    University College London
    • Supervisor: Dr. Andrea Santi
  • 2015 - 2019
    Bachelor of Arts in Chinese Language and Culture (TCSOL)
    Nankai University
    • Supervisor: Dr. Quansheng Xia

Research experience

  • 02-06, 2021
    Research Assistant
    State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University
    • Primary investigator: Dr. Taomei Guo

Scholarships & Awards

  • 2023
    • Society for Human Sentence Processing Travel Award
  • 2022
    • Yuen Ren Chao Language Experiment Star, Nankai University
  • 2021-2024
    • UCL Graduate & Overseas Research Scholarship
    • Oxford-Kaifeng Graduate Scholarship (declined)
  • 2020
    • Dean's List of top performing students, Faculty of Brain Sciences, UCL
  • 2019
    • Nomination Award of the 12th Zhou Enlai Scholarship, Nankai University
  • 2016-2019
    • China National Scholarship, Nankai University

Skills

  • Analytical skills
    • R, MatLab (EEGLAB, ERPLAB, SPM)
  • Research software
    • Python (Psychopy), Experiment Builder, E-prime, Ibex Farm, PCIbex, Gorilla, Praat