FangLiu_2015


Fang Liu
School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences
University of Reading
Earley Gate, Reading RG6 6AL

Associate Professor
Office: Room 158, Harry Pitt Building
Phone: +44 (0)118 378 8122
E-mail: f.liu@reading.ac.uk




Refereed Journal Articles

  1. Ge, H., Liu, F., Yuen, H. K., Chen, A., & Yip, V. (in press). Comprehension of prosodically- and syntactically-marked focus in Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

  2. Ong, J., & Liu, F. (in press). Frequent experience with face coverings for 10 months improves emotion perception among individuals with high autistic traits: A repeated cross-sectional study. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

  3. Loutrari, A., Ansell, K., Beaman, P., Jiang, C., & Liu, F. (2022). Auditory imagery in congenital amusia. Musicae Scientiae. https://doi.org/10.1177/10298649221122870.

  4. Xiao, J., Zhao, J., Luo, Z., Liu, F., & Greenwood, D. (2022). The impact of built environment design on mental health: A COVID-19 lockdown perspective. Health and Place, 77:102889. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102889.

  5. Ong, J., & Liu, F. (2022). Probabilistic learning of cue-outcome associations is not influenced by autistic traits. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05690-0.

  6. Wang, L., Ong, J., Ponsot, E., Hou, Q., Jiang, C., & Liu, F. (2022). Mental representations of speech and musical pitch contours reveal a diversity of profiles in autism spectrum disorder. Autism. https://doi.org/10.1177/13623613221111207.

  7. Loutrari, A., Jiang, C., & Liu, F. (2022). Song imitation in congenital amusia: Performance partially facilitated by melody familiarity but not by lyrics. Music Perception, 39, 341-360. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2022.39.4.341.

  8. Leung, F., Sin, J., Dawson, C., Ong, J., Zhao, C., Veic, A., & Liu, F. (2022). Emotion recognition across visual and auditory modalities in autism spectrum disorder (ASD): A systematic review and meta-analysis. Developmental Review, 63, 101000. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2021.101000.

  9. Xu, J., Zhou, L., Liu, F., Xue, C., Jiang, J., & Jiang, C. (2021). The autistic brain can process local but not global emotion regularities in facial and musical sequences. Autism Research. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2635.

  10. Williams, T., Loucas, T., Sin, J., Jeremic, M., Aslett, G., Knight, M., Fincham-Majumdar, S., & Liu, F. (2021). A randomised controlled feasibility trial of music-assisted language telehealth intervention for minimally verbal autistic children - the MAP study protocol. Pilot and Feasibility Studies. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-021-00918-9.

  11. Wang, L., Beaman, P., Jiang, C., & Liu, F. (2021). Perception and production of statement-question intonation in autism spectrum disorder: A developmental investigation. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-05220-4.

  12. Wang, L., Pfordresher, P. Q., Jiang, C., & Liu, F. (2021). Individuals with autism spectrum disorder are impaired in absolute but not relative pitch and duration matching in speech and song imitation. Autism Research, 14, 2355-2372. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2569.

  13. Liu, F., Yin, Y., Chan, A. H. D., Yip, V., & Wong, P. C. M. (2021). Individuals with congenital amusia do not show context-dependent perception of tonal categories. Brain and Language, 215, 104908. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2021.104908.

  14. Ong, J., Wong, P. C. M., & Liu, F. (2020). Musicians show enhanced perception, but not production, of native lexical tones. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 148(6), 3443-3454. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0002776.

  15. Sun, L., Thompson, W. F., Liu, F., Zhou, L., & Jiang, C. (2020). The human brain processes hierarchical structures of rhythm and harmony differently: Evidence from musicians and nonmusicians. Psychophysiology, 57, e13598. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13598.

  16. Bacon, A., Beaman, P., & Liu, F. (2020). An exploratory study of imagining sounds and "hearing" music in autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 50, 1123-1132. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-04346-w.

  17. Zhang, W., Liu, F., Zhou, L., Wang, W., Jiang, H., & Jiang, C. (2019). The effects of timbre on neural responses to musical emotion. Music Perception, 37, 134-146. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2019.37.2.134.

  18. Zhou, L., Liu, F., Jiang, J., & Jiang, C. (2019). Impaired emotional processing of chords in congenital amusia: Electrophysiological and behavioral evidence. Brain and Cognition, 135, 103577. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2019.06.001.

  19. Zhou, L., Liu, F., Jiang, J., Jiang, H., & Jiang, C. (2019). Abnormal neural responses to harmonic syntactic structures in congenital amusia. Psychophysiology, e13394. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13394.

  20. Jiang, J., Liu, F., Zhou, L., & Jiang, C. (2019). The neural basis for understanding imitation-induced musical meaning: The role of the human mirror system. Behavioural Brain Research, 359, 362-369. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2018.11.020.

  21. Sun, L., Liu, F., Zhou, L., & Jiang, C. (2018). Musical training modulates the early but not the late stage of rhythmic syntactic processing. Psychophysiology, 55(2), e12983. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12983.

  22. Jiang, C., Liu, F., & Wong, P. C. M. (2017). Sensitivity to musical emotion is influenced by tonal structure in congenital amusia. Scientific Reports, 7:7624. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08005-x.

  23. Zhou, L., Liu, F., Jing, X., & Jiang, C. (2017). Neural differences between the processing of musical meaning conveyed by direction of pitch change and natural music in congenital amusia. Neuropsychologia, 96, 29-38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.12.024.

  24. Liu, F., Jiang, C., Francart, T., Chan, A. H. D., & Wong, P. C. M. (2017). Perceptual learning of pitch direction in congenital amusia: Evidence from Chinese speakers. Music Perception, 34, 335-351. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2017.34.3.335.

  25. Maggu, A. R., Liu, F., Antoniou, M., & Wong, P. C. M. (2016). Neural correlates of indicators of sound change in Cantonese: Evidence from cortical and subcortical processes. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10:652. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00652.

  26. Liu, F., Chan, A. H. D., Ciocca, V., Roquet, C., Peretz, I., & Wong, P. C. M. (2016). Pitch perception and production in congenital amusia: Evidence from Cantonese speakers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 140, 563-575. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4955182.

  27. Jiang, C., Liu, F., & Thompson, W. F. (2016). Impaired explicit processing of musical syntax and tonality in a group of Mandarin-speaking congenital amusics. Music Perception, 33, 401-413. doi: 10.1525/MP.2016.33.4.401.

  28. Xu, Y., Lee, A., Prom-on, S., & Liu, F. (2015). Explaining the PENTA model: A reply to Arvaniti & Ladd (2009). Phonology, 32, 505-535. doi:10.1017/ S0952675715000299.

  29. Jiang, J., Liu, F., Wan, X., & Jiang, C. (2015). Perception of melodic contour and intonation in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Evidence from Mandarin speakers. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 45, 2067-2075. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-015-2370-4.

  30. Lu, X., Ho, H.-T., Liu, F., Wu, D., & Thompson, W. F. (2015). Intonation processing deficits of emotional words among Mandarin Chinese speakers with congenital amusia: An ERP study. Frontiers in Psychology. 6:385. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00385.

  31. Liu, F., Maggu, A. R., Lau, J. C. Y., & Wong, P. C. M. (2015). Brainstem encoding of speech and musical stimuli in congenital amusia: Evidence from Cantonese speakers. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8:1029. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.01029

  32. Liu, F., Jiang, C., Wang, B., Xu, Y., & Patel, A. D. (2015). A music perception disorder (congenital amusia) influences speech comprehension. Neuropsychologia, 66, 111-118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.11.001.

  33. Liu, F., Jiang, C., Pfordresher, P. Q., Mantell, J. T., Xu, Y., Yang, Y., & Stewart, L. (2013). Individuals with congenital amusia imitate pitches more accurately in singing than in speaking: Implications for music and language processing. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 75, 1783-1798. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-013-0506-1.

  34. Liu, F., Xu, Y., Prom-on, S., & Yu, A. C. L. (2013). Morpheme-like prosodic functions: Evidence from acoustic analysis and computational modeling. Journal of Speech Sciences, 3, 85-140.

  35. Prom-on, S., Liu, F., & Xu, Y. (2012). Post-low bouncing in Mandarin Chinese: Acoustic analysis and computational modeling. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 132, 421-432. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4725762.

  36. Liu, F., Xu, Y., Patel, A. D., Francart, T., & Jiang, C. (2012). Differential recognition of pitch patterns in discrete and gliding stimuli in congenital amusia: Evidence from Mandarin speakers. Brain and Cognition, 79, 209-215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2012.03.008.

  37. Liu, F., Jiang, C., Thompson, W. F., Xu, Y., Yang, Y., & Stewart, L. (2012). The mechanism of speech processing in congenital amusia: Evidence from Mandarin speakers. PLoS ONE, 7(2): e30374. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0030374.

  38. Williamson, V. J., Liu, F., Peryer, G., Grierson, M., & Stewart, L. (2012). Perception and action de-coupling in congenital amusia: Sensitivity to task demands. Neuropsychologia, 50, 172-180. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.11.015.

  39. Liu, F., Patel, A. D., Fourcin, A., & Stewart, L. (2010). Intonation processing in congenital amusia: Discrimination, identification, and imitation. Brain, 133, 1682-1693. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093 /brain/awq089.

  40. Xu, Y., & Liu, F. (2007). Determining the temporal interval of segments with the help of F0 contours. Journal of Phonetics, 35, 398-420.

  41. Xu, Y., & Liu, F. (2006). Tonal alignment, syllable structure and coarticulation: Toward an integrated model. Italian Journal of Linguistics, 18, 125-159.

  42. Liu, F., & Xu, Y. (2005). Parallel encoding of focus and interrogative meaning in Mandarin intonation. Phonetica, 62, 70-87.

  43. Fulop, S., Ladefoged, P., Liu, F., & Vossen, R. (2003). Yeyi clicks: Acoustic description and analysis. Phonetica, 60, 231-260.

  44. Liu, F. (2002). Sociophonetic variation of 'Shenme' ('what') in Beijing Mandarin. Yuyanxue Luncong [Essays on Linguistics], 25, 116-151.

Book Chapters

  1. Xu, Y., Prom-on, S., & Liu, F. (2022). The PENTA model: Concepts, use and implications. In: S. Shattuck-Hufnagel, & J. Barnes (Eds.), Prosodic Theory and Practice. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

  2. Xu, Y., Prom-on, S., & Liu, F. (2022). Response to commentary by Pierrehumbert. In: S. Shattuck-Hufnagel, & J. Barnes (Eds.), Prosodic Theory and Practice. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

  3. Thompson, W. F., & Liu, F. (2014). Musical disorders. In: W. F. Thompson (Ed.), Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Encyclopedia. New York: Sage Publications.

  4. Xu, Y., & Liu, F. (2013). Yunlv yanjiu de zuixin fazhan yiji yu qita lingyu de guanxi [Advances in prosody research and how they are related to other areas]. In: J. Wang, & D. Chen (Eds.), Yuyanxue [Linguistics]. Beijing: China Renmin University Press.

  5. Xu, Y., & Liu, F. (2012). Intrinsic coherence of prosodic and segmental aspects of speech. In: O. Niebuhr (Ed.), Understanding Prosody: The Role of Context, Function and Communication (pp. 1-26). Berlin/New York: de Gruyter.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

  1. Ozaki, Y., Kuroyanagi, J., Chiba, G., McBride, J., Proutskova, P., Tierney, A. T., Pfordresher, P. Q., Benetos, E., Liu, F., & Savage, P. E. (2022). Similarities and differences in a cross-linguistic sample of song and speech recordings. Proceedings of the 2022 Joint Conference on Language Evolution (pp. 569-572). Kanazawa, Japan & Online.

  2. Liu, F., Xu, Y., Prom-on, S., & Whalen, D. H. (2015). Computational modelling of double focus in American English. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, UK.

  3. Prom-on, S., Xu, Y., & Liu, F. (2011). Simulating post-L F0 bouncing by modeling articulatory dynamics. Proceedings of Interspeech 2011 (pp. 289-292). Florence, Italy.

  4. Prom-on, S., Liu, F., & Xu, Y. (2011). Functional modeling of tone, focus and sentence type in Mandarin Chinese. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1638-1641). Hong Kong, China.

  5. Liu, F. (2010). Single vs. double focus in English statements and yes/no questions. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2010. Chicago, USA.

  6. Liu, F., & Xu, Y. (2007). The neutral tone in question intonation in Mandarin. Proceedings of Interspeech 2007 (pp. 630-633). Antwerp, Belgium.

  7. Liu, F., & Xu, Y. (2007). Question intonation as affected by word stress and focus in English. Proceedings of The 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1189-1192). Saarbrucken, Germany.

  8. Liu, F., Surendran, D., & Xu, Y. (2006). Classification of statement and question intonations in Mandarin. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2006. Dresden, Germany.

  9. Liu, F., & Xu, Y. (2003). Underlying targets of initial glides -- Evidence from focus-related F0 alignments in English. Proceedings of The 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1887-1890). Barcelona, Spain.

  10. Xu, Y., & Liu, F. (2002). Segmentation of glides with tonal alignment as reference. Proceedings of The 7th Internatonal Conference on Spoken Language Processing (pp. 1093-1096). Denver, USA.

Other Publications

  1. Zhou, L., Liu, F., Hai, T., Jiang, J., Man, D., & Jiang, C. (preprint). Absolute pitch ability is not associated with advantage in musical tension processing. PsyArXiv Preprints. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/r6vm8.

  2. Liu, F. (2019). Can music-assisted language interventions improve communication skills in children with autism spectrum disorder? ISRCTN, 2019, ISRCTN12536062. https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN12536062.

  3. Leung, F., Sin, J., Dawson, C., Ong, J., Zhao, C., Veic, A., & Liu, F. (2018). Emotion recognition across visual and auditory modalities in autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis. PROSPERO, 2018, CRD42018091703. https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?ID=CRD42018091703.

Datasets

  1. Ong, J., Leung, F., & Liu, F. (2021). The Reading Everyday Emotion Database (REED). University of Reading. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.000336.

  2. Liu, F., & Ong, J. (2021). Autism, pitch perception and cognition. University of Reading. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.316.
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