Gary Feng, Assistant Professor

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Office Phone:	(919) 660-5646
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Web Page:	http://www.pbs.duke.edu/~garyfeng

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

Specialties:

Developmental Psychology

Research Interests: Reading Development; Cognition and Language, Eye movements

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.

Curriculum Vitae

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.