My name is Jinghua Ou (pronouns she/her/hers). I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Chicago in the Department of Linguistics. My research focuses on a fundamental mechanism in human behavior: How do we perceive the speech signal in order to map it to meaning? This basic mechanism is essential in understanding language processing across multiple timescales – how language in processed in realtime, how language is learned over time, and more broadly, how language changes and varies across lifespan. Through the use of a variety of methodologies, including electroencephalography (EEG), eye-tracking, psycholinguistic and acoustic measurements, I characterize the range of individual variations in speech processing as a means to enhancing our mechanistic understanding of the computations we perform during speech processing, and the neurocognitive factors that can affect these processes. Please visit my research for more information!

I received my PhD in Speech and Hearing Sciences from the University of Hong Kong. Prior to joining UChicago, I was a Postdoc Fellow in the Brain & Mind Institute at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.