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Law, Sam Po , BA (Boston College); MA & Ph.D (Boston University)

Associate Professor

Sam-Po Law was trained in psychology and linguistics. Upon completion of her dissertation, she received a post-doctoral fellowship in neurolinguistics. She then worked as a Research Assistant Professor in Taiwan. She returned to Hong Kong in 1993, and taught in other local universities before joining this Division in 1998.

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A test battery for Chinese aphasia(click for download)

 

Research/Clinical Interests

Her research interests in Chinese language disorders include acquired dyslexia and dysgraphia, lexical and sentence processing deficits, and language rehabilitation of individuals with aphasia.

 

Recent Publications

Law, S.-P., & Wong, R. (2005). A model-driven treatment of a Cantonese-speaking dyslexic patient with impairment to the semantic and non-semantic pathways. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 22(1), 95-110.

Law, S.-P., Wong, W., & Chiu, K. M.-Y. (2005). Preserved reading aloud with semantic deficits: Evidence for a lexical non-semantic route for reading Chinese. Neurocase, 11(3), 167-175.

Law, S.-P., Yeung, O., Wong, W., & Chiu, K. M.-Y. (2005). Processing of semantic radicals in writing Chinese characters: Data from a Chinese dysgraphic patient. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 22(7), 885-903.

Law, S.-P., Wong, W., & Chiu, K. M.-Y. (2005). Whole-word phonological representations of disyllabic words in the Chinese lexicon: Data from acquired dyslexia. Behavioural Neurology, 16, 169-177.

Law, S.-P., Wong, W., Sung, F., & Hon, J. (2006). A study of semantic treatment of three Chinese anomic patients. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 16, 601-609.

Law, S.-P., Wong, W., Kong, A. (2006). Direct access from meaning to orthography in Chinese: A case study of superior written to oral naming. Aphasiology, 20, 565-578.

Law, S.-P., Yeung, O., & Chiu, K. (2008). Treatment for anomia in Chinese using an ortho-phonological cueing method. Aphasiology, 22, 139-163.

Wong, W., & Law, S.-P. (2008). The role of semantic short-term memory in verbal recall: Cross-linguistic evidence from two Chinese aphasic individuals. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 34, 900-917.

Law, S.-P., Wong, W., Yeung, O., & Weekes, B. S. (2008). The effect of age-of-acquisition on reading aloud in Chinese dyslexia. Neurocase, 14, 276-289.

Law, S.-P., Weekes, B. S., Yeung, O., & Chiu, K. (2009). Age of acquisition effects on picture naming in Chinese anomia. In S.-P. Law, B. S. Weekes, & A. Wong (Eds.), Language disorders in speakers of Chinese (pp. 222-239). Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.

Law, S.-P., Wong, W., & Wong, E. (2009). A semantic treatment for Cantonese anomic speakers: Implications for the relationship between impairment and therapy. In S.-P. Law, B. S. Weekes, & A. Wong (Eds.), Language disorders in speakers of Chinese(pp. 273-292). Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.

Kong, A. P.-K., & Law, S.-P. (2009). Cantonese Linguistic Communication Measure (CLCM): A clinical tool for assessing aphasic narrative production. In S.-P. Law, B. S. Weekes, & A. Wong (Eds.), Language disorders in speakers of Chinese (pp. 255-272). Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.

Wong, W., & Law, S.-P. (2009). The effect of semantic integrity of words with preserved lexico-phonological representation on verbal recall. In S.-P. Law, B. S. Weekes, & A. Wong (Eds.), Language disorders in speakers of Chinese (pp. 240-254). Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.

Law, S.-P., Weekes, B. S., & Wong, A. (2009). Language disorders in speakers of Chinese. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.

Kong, A. P.-H., & Law, S.-P. (2009). A linguistic communication measure for monitoring changes in Chinese aphasic narrative production. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 23, 255-269.

Law, S.-P., Weekes, B. S., Wong, W., & Chiu, K. (2009). Reading aloud pseudo-characters by individuals with acquired dyslexia: Evidence for lexically-mediated processes in reading Chinese. Language and Cognitive Processes, 24, 983-1008.

Yeung, O., Law, S.-P., & Yau, M. (2009).Treatment generalization and executive control processes: Preliminary data from Chinese anomic individuals. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 44, 784-794.

Lui, H.-M., Leung, M.-T., Law, S.-P., & Fung, R. S.-Y. (2010). A database for investigating the logographeme as a basic unit of writing Chinese. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 12, 8-18.

Law, S.-P., & Yeung, O. (2010). Effects of age-of-acquisition and semantic variables on reading characters in Chinese dyslexia. Applied Psycholinguistics, 31, 711-733.

Yeung, O., & Law, S.-P. (2010). Executive functions and aphasia treatment outcomes? Data from an ortho-phonological cueing therapy for anomia in Chinese. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology,12, 529-544.

Leung, M.-T., Lui, H.-M., Law, S.-P., Fung, R. S.-Y., & Lau, K.-Y. (2011). Feedback consistency effect on writing-to-dictation task in Chinese. Asia Pacific Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing, 14, 61-71.

Su, I.-F., Lau, D. K.-Y., Zhang, Z., Nan, Y., & Law, S.-P. (2011). Deficits in processing characters in Chinese developmental dyslexia: Preliminary results from event-related potentials and time frequency analyses. International Journal of Linguistics, 3, E11. (doi:10.5296/ijl.v3i1.722)

Su, I.-F., Lau, D. K.-Y., Nan, Y., Zhang, Z., & Law, S.-P. (2011). Awareness of form-sound correspondence in Chinese children with dyslexia: Preliminary results from event-related potentials and time frequency analyses. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI'11), Shanghai, China. (Indexed by EI Compendex/ISTP, and the IEEE Xplore).

Yu, X., Law, S.-P., Han, Z., Zhu, C., & Bi, Y. (in press). Dissociative neural correlates of noun and verb processing in Chinese -- A language with minimal inflectional morphology. NeuroImage.


Conference papers

Lee, A., Kong, A., & Law, S.-P. (2009, September). Acoustic analysis of Prosody for normal and aphasic discourse. Poster presentation at the British Aphasia Society Biennial International Conference, Sheffield, UK.

Law, S.-P., & Yeung, O. (2009, October). Inhibitory control and aphasia treatment outcomes: Data from Cantonese anomic speakers. Poster presentation at the 13th International Conferences on the Processing of East Asian Languages, Beijing, China.

Lee, A., Kong, A., & Law, S.-P. (2009, October). Acoustic analysis of prosody for normal and aphasic discourse. Poster presentation at the 13th International Conferences on the Processing of East Asian Languages, Beijing, China.

Yu, X., Bi, Y., Han, Z., & Law, S. (2010, April). Revisiting neural representations of nouns and verbs in Chinese using fMRI. Poster presentation at the 17th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, Montréal, Canada.

Yu, X., Law, S.-P., Han, Z., Zhu, C., & Bi, Y. (2010, June). Different neural correlates of conceptual processing of Chinese nouns and verbs. Poster presentation at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Barcelona, Spain.

Su, I. F., Lau, D. K-Y., & Law, S.-P. (2010, November) An event-related potential study of awareness of form-sound correspondence in Chinese children with reading disorders: preliminary data. Poster presentation at the Neurobiology of Language Conference, San Diego, USA.

Kong, A. P.-H., Law, S.-P., & Lee, A. S.-Y. (2010, November). Employment of non-verbal behaviors in Cantonese-speakers with aphasia: Preliminary data. Poster presentation at the Annual Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Philadelphia, USA.

Su, I-F., Lau, D. K.-Y., Zhang, Z.-G., & Law, S.-P. (2011, January). Character processing in Chinese children with reading difficulties: Preliminary results from event-related potentials and time frequency analyses. Poster presentation at the 35th Annual International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities (IARLD) Conference, Taipei, Taiwan.

Law, S.-P., Kong, A. P.-H., Fung, R., & Lee, A. S.-Y. (2011, June). Production of nominal and verbal compounds in Chinese fluent and non-fluent aphasic speakers. Poster presentation at the 7th International Morphological Processing Conference, San Sabestian, Spain.

Law, S.-P. , Su, I.-F., & Mak, C. S.-C. (2011, November). Position specification of Chinese radicals based on relative frequency of distribution from RT and ERPs. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, USA.

Su, I.-F., Lee, R.H.-M., Law, S.-P. (2011, November). Spatial specification in Chinese character recognition: The role of structural configuration and radical similarity. Poster presentation at the Neurobiology of Language Conference, Annapolis, USA.

Yu, X. , Law, S.-P., Han, Z., & Bi, Y. (2011, November). Neural mechanisms underlying noun-verb distinction – fMRI Evidence from semantic processing of Chinese words. Poster presentation at the Neurobiology of Language Conference, Annapolis, USA.


Supervised theses

Kong, A. P.-K. A Cantonese linguistic communication measure for evaluating aphasic narrative production. PhD Dissertation at the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, the University of Hong Kong. Completed in September 2006.

Wong, W.-S. Semantic short-term memory and immediate serial verbal recall as a function of semantic integrity and lexicality. MPhil Thesis at the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, the University of Hong Kong. Completed in September 2007.

Yeung, O. The influence of cognitive abilities in outcomes of an ortho-phonological cueing treatment for anomia in Chinese. MPhil Thesis at the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, the University of Hong Kong. Completed in December 2008.


Funded Research Projects
 

Completed projects


Principal Investigator of a grant from Small Project Funding Programme entitled “Executive inhibitory control across the adult life-span” (January – December 2009)

Principal Investigator of a grant from Small Project Funding Programme entitled “Development of a multi-faceted quantitative analysis of aphasic connected speech: A pilot study” (February 2010 – January 2011)

Principal Investigator of a CRCG Seed Funding for Basic Research entitled “Development of verbal and nonverbal inhibitory control tasks for Chinese adult speakers” (March 2008 – February 2009)

Key member of a grant from Quality Education Fund entitled “The writing development of primary school students and an improved way of marking writing-to-dictation exercises" (EMB/QEF/2005/0309, 2006-2008)

Principal Investigator of a RGC grant entitled “An ortho-phonological cuing treatment for Cantonese brain-damaged individuals with word-finding difficulties” (HKU7664/05H, 2005-2008)

 
Current projects


Principal Investigator of a GRF grant entitled “Processing Chinese nouns and verbs: A behavioral and fMRI study” (HKU 746608H, 2009-2011; CoIs: Drs. Y. Bi, Z. Han, C. Zhu, Beijing Normal University)

Principal Investigator of subcontract agreement and co-investigator of a grant funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) entitled “Toward a multi-modal and multi-level analysis of Chinese aphasic discourse” (PI: Dr. A. Kong, University of Central Florida; CoI: Dr. A. Lee, University College Cork; Agency contract number: 1 RO1 RDC010398)

Principal Investigator of a Small Project Fund entitled “Dissociation between tone perception and production in Cantonese – Behavioral and event-related potential measures” (CoIs: Drs. R. Fung and C. Wong, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University; May 2011- August 2012)

Principal Investigator of a GRF grant entitled “An investigation of neural representations of distinctive linguistic features of Chinese using voxel-based lesion-symptom” (HKU 770611M, 2012-2013; CoIs: Dr. D. Copland, University of Queensland; Dr. A. Kong, University of Central Florida; Dr. A. Lee, University College Cork; Dr. C.S. Wong, University of Hong Kong)

Co-investigator of a Small Project Fund entitled “Spatial specification of components in orthographic representation of characters: Behavioural and electrophysiological measures” (PI: Dr. I-F. Su, 2011-2013)

Co-investigator of a Faculty Research Fund, Faculty of Education, entitled “The role of attentional shift in language processing and reading disorders in Chinese (PI: Dr. I-F. Su, Co-I: D. Lau, 2011-2012)

 

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