Dr Sara Li

李芷君博士

PhD (HKU), MSc (Edinburgh), BSSc (CUHK), CPsychol, DipABRSM, LmusTCL

Biography

Dr Sara Li is currently a Lecturer of the School of Arts and Social Sciences at the Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK). She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Hong Kong (HKU), specializing in music cognition, psycholinguistics, and cognitive psychology. Her research examined how music-reading expertise influences word and text reading.

Before joining as a lecturer, Dr Li worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Psychology, HKU, and a part-time instructor at the Li Ka Shing Institute of Professional and Continuing Education (LiPACE), OUHK. She wishes to share the excitement of learning psychology to all students.

Teaching Areas & Research Interests

Teaching areas:

Learning and motivation, Introduction to psychology, Cognitive psychology, Developmental psychology, Personality, Music psychology, Psycholinguistics

Research interests:

Music cognition, Psycholinguistics, Cognitive psychology

Other areas of interest:

Positive psychology, Gifted education

Academic & Professional Experience

Selected academic experience:

Part-time Instructor
Li Ka Shing Institute of Professional and Continuing Education (LiPACE), The Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK)

Ph.D. Candidate and Post-doctoral Fellow

Department of Psychology, HKU

Lab Manager of the Attention Brain Cognition Laboratory and Eye-tracker Laboratory

Department of Psychology, HKU

Certificate of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, HKU

Selected professional membership:

Associate Fellow of the Hong Kong Psychological Society (HKPS)

Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) of the British Psychological Society (BPS)

Member of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Member of the Cognitive Science Society

Mental Health First Aider (MHFA)

Selected Publications

Li, S. T. K., Chung, S.T.L. & Hsiao, J. (2019). Music-Reading Expertise Modulates the Visual Span for English Letters but not Chinese Characters. Journal of Vision, 19(4):10, 1-16.

Li, S. T. K., & Hsiao, J. (2018). Music reading expertise modulates hemispheric lateralization in English word processing but not in Chinese character processing. Cognition, 176, 159-173.

Thorup, B., Crookes, K., Chang, P. P., Burton, N., Pond, S., Li, T. K., Hsiao J., & Rhodes, G. (2018). Perceptual experience shapes our ability to categorize faces by national origin: A new other‐race effect. British Journal of Psychology, 109, 583-603.

Selected Professional & Community Services

Selected professional services:

Reviewer of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

Selected community services:

Advisory Coach of students with Special Educational Needs, HKU (2015-2017)

Chairperson/ Founder of SESAME – Southeast Asian Supportive, Assimilating and Merging Education (a social inclusion project for ethnic minorities and local students; collaborated with HKU and NGOs) (2014-2016)

Dr Sara Li

Dr Sara Li

李芷君博士

Biography

Before joining as a lecturer, Dr Li worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Psychology, HKU, and a part-time instructor at the Li Ka Shing Institute of Professional and Continuing Education (LiPACE), OUHK. She wishes to share the excitement of learning psychology to all students.

Teaching Areas & Research Interests

Academic & Professional Experience

Selected academic experience:

Part-time InstructorLi Ka Shing Institute of Professional and Continuing Education (LiPACE), The Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK)

Ph.D. Candidate and Post-doctoral Fellow

Department of Psychology, HKU

Lab Manager of the Attention Brain Cognition Laboratory and Eye-tracker Laboratory

Department of Psychology, HKU

Certificate of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, HKU

Selected professional membership:

Associate Fellow of the Hong Kong Psychological Society (HKPS)

Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) of the British Psychological Society (BPS)

Member of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Member of the Cognitive Science Society

Mental Health First Aider (MHFA)

Selected Publications

Li, S. T. K., Chung, S.T.L. & Hsiao, J. (2019). Music-Reading Expertise Modulates the Visual Span for English Letters but not Chinese Characters. Journal of Vision, 19(4):10, 1-16.

Li, S. T. K., & Hsiao, J. (2018). Music reading expertise modulates hemispheric lateralization in English word processing but not in Chinese character processing. Cognition, 176, 159-173.

Thorup, B., Crookes, K., Chang, P. P., Burton, N., Pond, S., Li, T. K., Hsiao J., & Rhodes, G. (2018). Perceptual experience shapes our ability to categorize faces by national origin: A new other‐race effect. British Journal of Psychology, 109, 583-603.

Selected Professional & Community Services

Selected professional services:

Reviewer of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

Selected community services:

Advisory Coach of students with Special Educational Needs, HKU (2015-2017)

Chairperson/ Founder of SESAME – Southeast Asian Supportive, Assimilating and Merging Education (a social inclusion project for ethnic minorities and local students; collaborated with HKU and NGOs) (2014-2016)

Part-time Instructor
Li Ka Shing Institute of Professional and Continuing Education (LiPACE), The Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK)