Siew, Shu Qin Cynthia
Assistant Professor
Acting Deputy Director of Graduate Studies (Non-Clinical)
Ph.D. (KU), M.A. (KU), B.Soc.Sci. (Hons.) (NUS)
I’m a psycholinguist and cognitive scientist who uses network analysis to study cognitive structures, such as the mental lexicon and semantic memory. My research uses a combination of experimental methods from cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics, computational modeling and mathematical methods from network science, and large-scale analysis of databases and linguistic corpora to address the following questions:
Theme 1: How does the structure of the lexicon influence processing?
- How does the similarity structure of the mental lexicon (the part of long-term memory that stores phonological and orthographic representations) influence spoken and visual word recognition?
- How does the structure of the semantic network affect semantic processing?
Theme 2: How does the structure of the lexicon change over time?
- How does the structure of phonological and semantic language networks affect word learning and language acquisition among monolinguals, bilinguals, and second language learners?
- How can we quantify and study structural changes of the lexicon over the lifespan?
| TEL: | (65) 6516 3156 |
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| EMAIL: | psyssqc@nus.edu.sg |
| ROOM: | AS4-02-23 |
| WEBPAGE: | Siew, Shu Qin Cynthia https://csqsiew.netlify.com/ |
Research Interests:
- Lexical retrieval
- Development of the mental lexicon
- Network analysis
Recent/Representative Publications:
Siew, C. S. Q., & Vitevitch, M. S. (2019). The phonographic language network: Using network science to investigate the phonological and orthographic similarity structure of language. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148(3), 475–500. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000575
Siew, C. S. Q. (2019). spreadr: A R package to simulate spreading activation in a network. Behavior Research Methods, 51(2), 910–929. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-018-1186-5
Siew, C. S. Q., & Vitevitch, M.S. (2016). Spoken word recognition and serial recall of words from components in the phonological network. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42(3), 394-410. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000139