Gary Feng, Assistant Professor

Gary Feng

Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001 edit
mailing address:
Duke University
417 Chapel Drive
Box 90086
Durham, NC 27708
email:
phone: (919) 660-5646

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Research Summary:
 Psychology of reading, development of reading skills, and cross-cultural issues in education. his current research focuses on (a) modeling eye-movement programming during reading and using eye movements to detect reading difficulties; (b) how children learn spelling-sound correspondences; and (c) learning to read in different writing systems, such as English and Chinese.

Specialties:

Developmental Psychology

Representative Publications:   (More Publications)   (search)

  1. Feng, G. (2006). Reading Eye Movements as Time-series Random Variables: A Stochastic Model. Cognitive Systems Research, 7(1), 70-95.
  2. Feng, G. (2003). From Eye Movement to Cognition: Toward a General Framework of Inference. Psychometrika, 68, 551-556.
  3. Feng, G. "Eye movements in Chinese reading." Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics, Vol. 1: Chinese Psycholinguistics. Ed. P. Li, et al. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University, 2006
  4. Feng, G., Miller, K., Shu, H., & Zhang, H. (2001). Rowed to recovery: The use of phonological and orthographic information in reading Chinese and English. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 27, 1079-1100.