Nicole is a DPhil student at the Department of Education. Her research interests lie in statistical learning, orthographic learning and the artificial orthography learning paradigm.
In her doctoral research, she investigates how people learn semantic and graphotactic regularities using the artificial orthography learning paradigm. Before starting her DPhil at Oxford, Nicole completed her MSc in Developmental Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. She then returned to Hong Kong to work as a lab manager and research assistant at the University of Hong Kong on a project that examines the relationship between theory of mind, executive functions and literacy in school-aged children with autism.
Nicole is currently a Researcher for a research project (PI: Dr Ariel Lindorff) that investigates the protective effects of Education Endowment Foundation interventions against learning loss due to COVID-19 disruption. She was also a Doctoral Teaching Fellow for the MSc Child Development and Education programme in 2022-2023.
Publications
- Lee, S. M. K., Law, N. S. H., & Tong, S. X. (2024). Unraveling Temporal Dynamics of Multidimensional Statistical Learning in Implicit and Explicit Systems: An X-Way Hypothesis. Cognitive Science, 48(4), e13437–e13437. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13437
- Tong, S. X., Tsui, R. K. Y., Law, N. S. H., Fung, L. S. C., Chiu, M. M., & Cain, K. (2024). The roles of prosody in Chinese-English reading comprehension. Learning and Instruction, 89, 101846-. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2023.101846
