Dr YUM Yen Na, Cherry

	Associate Head of Department, Associate Professor Department of Special Education and Counselling, The Education University of Hong Kong	Phone: (852) 29488225 Email: yyum@eduhk.hk ORCID: 0000-0002-2165-6813 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yen_Na_Yum
Education	Ph.D., Psychology, Tufts University
Biography	Cherry obtained her PhD degree in cognitive psychology at Tufts University and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences at The University of Hong Kong before joining EdUHK. She received her Bachelor degree in psychology and linguistics at Haverford College. Her research covers cognitive and reading-related processes in typical and atypical populations. She has used the ERP method to examine the neural correlates of bilingual visual word processing and second language learning. She is interested in identifying and addressing diverse needs in learning.
Research Interests	Second language learning Visual word processing Chinese character reading Multimodal processing and learning Special and inclusive education Diverse learning needs
5 Representative Publications	Wang, J., & Yum, Y.N.* (2025). Effects of word length, contextual support, and prior second language proficiency on the learning of technical words in a second language. PLOS-One, 20(10): e0334038. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0334038   Su, I.-F., Yum, Y.N.*, & Lau, K.-Y.D. (2023). Hong Kong Chinese Character Psycholinguistic Norms: Ratings of 4,376 characters on semantic transparency, age-of-acquisition (AoA), familiarity, imageability, and concreteness. Behavior Research Methods, 55, 2989-3008. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-01928-y   Yum, Y. N., So, S.K.W., & Chan, R.Y.-Y.* (2021). Sensitivity to communication partners during naturalistic AAC conversations in Cantonese Chinese. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:686657. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.686657   Yum, Y.N.* & Law, S.-P. (2021). N170 reflects visual familiarity and automatic sublexical phonological access in L2 written word processing. Bilingualism: Language & Cognition, 24(4), 670-680. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728920000759   Yum, Y.N.*, Cohn, N., & Lau, W.K.W. (2021). Effects of picture-word integration on reading visual narratives in L1 and L2. Learning and Instruction, 71, 101397. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2020.101397