Curriculum Vitae
Gary Feng
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238 Soc Psych Bldg
Psychology: Social and Health Science
Duke University, Box 90086
Durham, NC 27708(919) 660-5646 (office) 
(email)
- Education
PhD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2001 MS University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1999 A.M. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1998 B.Edu Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China 1990
- Areas of Research
Reading Development; Cognition and Language, Eye movements
- Professional Experience / Employment History
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Assistant Research Professor Psychology, 2002 - 2005
- Duke University
- Core Faculty, Asian/ Pacific Studies Institute, 2002 - present
- Assistant Professor Psychology: Social and Health Sciences, 2001 - present
- Carolina Consortium on Human Development, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Faculty, Center for Developmental Science, 2001 - present
- Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
Honorary Guest Professorship, Tianjing Normal Unviersity, June, 2006
Scholar of the Young Faculty Leaders Forum, Harvard University, 2002 - 2005
Faculty of the Spencer Foundation Education Policy Research Training Program, Duke University, 2001-2002
Beckman Institute Graduate Fellow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999-2000
Cognitive Science/AI Summer Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Recent Grant Support
- Comprehension Monitoring in Young Readers: An Eye-Movement Study, National Institutes of Health, 1 R03-HD051909-01, 2006/03-2008/02.
- Professional Service
- University Committee
- Faculty Advisor, Duke Office for Research In Schools, 2007 - present
- NSF Reviews And Panels
- Grant Reviewer, National Science Foundation, April, 2003
- Dept Services
- Chair, Computing Committee, 2002 - 2006
- Chair, Developmental Graduate Admissions Committee, 2002
- Editorial Activities
- Ad-Hoc Reviewer, 11 July 2003
- Professional Activities
- Chair, Section 20, the 10th International Conference on Cognitive Processing of Chinese and Related Asian Languages (ICCPCORAL2002), Taipei, China, December, 2002
- Grant Review, National Science Foundation, April, 2003
- Grant Review, APA, Division 7, February, 2003
- Membership in professional organization, June 2005
- Grant Review Panel, Institute of Educational Science, Penal on Cognition and Student Learning, May, 2003; March 2004
- Professional Activities
- Reviewer, Institute of Educational Science Grant Review: Panel on Basic Processes, 2006 - present
- Selected Recent Invited Talks
- Learning to read in Chinese and English., Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, Duke University., November, 2004
- Reading, Orthography, and Eye Movements, Young Faculty Leaders Forum, Harvard University., January, 2004
- A stochastic model of eye movements: Implications for reading development, Dept. of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, September, 2003
- Eye movements and reading development, Dept. of Psychology, North Carolina State University, September, 2003
- Orthography, Eye Movements, and Reading Development, AGORA Center/Department of Psychology, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, June 2003
- Learning to read Chinese and English – Results from eye movements, Dept. of Psychology, Peking University, China, June 2002
- Reading Chinese and English – Results from eye movement studies, College of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, China, June 2002
- Learning to read English and Chinese - symbols, sounds, and eye movements, Cognitive Science Lectures, Bennett College, NC, March 2002
- Modeling Distributions of Reading Fixation Duration, Dept. of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Duke University, Jan 2002
- Reading, Orthography, and Eye Movements, Young Faculty Leaders Forum, Harvard University., January, 2004
Publications
Journal Articles
- Feng, G., Reading Eye Movements as Time-series Random Variables: A Stochastic Model, Cognitive Systems Research, vol. 7 no. 1 (2006), pp. 70-95
- Feng, G., From Eye Movement to Cognition: Toward a General Framework of Inference, Psychometrika, vol. 68 (2003), pp. 551-556
- Feng, G., Throwing the baby out with the bath water: Problems in modeling aggregated eye-movement data, Brain and Behavioral Sciences, vol. 26 (2003), pp. 482
- Feng, G., Miller, K., Shu, H., & Zhang, H., Rowed to recovery: The use of phonological and orthographic information in reading Chinese and English, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, vol. 27 (2001), pp. 1079-1100
- Kelly, M., Miller, K., Fang, G. & Feng, G, When Days Are Numbered: Calendar Structure and the Development of Calendar Processing in English and Chinese, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, vol. 73 (1999), pp. 289-314
- Fang, G., Fang, F. & Feng, G, A comparative study of elementary school students' mathematics achievement and motivations, Chinese University of Hong Kong Elementary Education, vol. 2 (1995), pp. 51-56
- Fang, G., Feng, G.,Fang, F. & Jiang, T, Preschoolers' estimation of time duration and their cognitive strategies, Psychological Science (China), vol. 17 (1994), pp. 3-9
- Fang, G., Feng, G., Jiang, T. & Fang, F., Time duration estimated by preschoolers and their strategies, Acta Psychologica Sinica, vol. 25 (1993), pp. 346-352
Chapters in Books
- G. Feng, Orthography and Eye Movements: The Paraorthographic Linkage Hypothesis, in Cognitive and Cultural Influences on Eye Movements, edited by K. Rayner, D. Shen, X. Bai, & G. Yan (in press), Psychology Press
- G. Feng, Theory of Mind, in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition (2008)
- Feng, G., Eye movements in Chinese reading, in Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics, Vol. 1: Chinese Psycholinguistics, edited by P. Li, et al. (2006), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University
Articles Submitted
- Feng, G., Miller, K.F. Shu, H & Zhang, H-C, Orthography and the Development of Reading Processes: An Eye Movement Study of Chinese and English, Child Development (2007)
- Kaefer, T. & G. Feng, From Symbols to Symbol Systems: Pre-reading Children's Emergent Understanding of Print., Child Development (2007)
Other
- Moreton, E., Feng, G., and Smith, L., Syllabification, sonority, and perception: new evidence from a language game, Rutgers Optimality Archive, vol. 829-0506 (2006)
Last modified: 2008/02/20