I received a B.S. in 1991 from the National Taiwan University, Taiwan, and a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000. I was then a post-doctoral fellow at the Brain and Language Laboratory at Rice University. The central goal of my research program is to understand how the different aspects of language (lexical, semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic) contribute to the mental representation of language processing. Specifically, I am interested in studying how language-specific properties modulate the interaction between syntactic and sequential constraints of language, and the semantic/pragmatic interpretation of linguistic input to achieve comprehension. I address these issues using cross-linguistic, neuro-cognitive, and corpus-linguistic methods. My recent research investigates two issues: first, the neuro-cognitive mechanisms of sentence processing and the comprehension of co-reference in discourse; second, the neuro-cognitive mechanisms of language learning across different writing-systems.