Dr. Ashley Chung-Fat-Yim is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Northwestern University. Prior to Northwestern University, Ashley earned her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Psychology at York University under the supervision of Dr. Ellen Bialystok in Toronto, Canada.
Her research focuses on the cognitive consequences of learning and knowing more than one language. Specifically, she investigates the impact of multilingualism on cognitive control, emotion perception, creativity, and narrative transportation using a variety of methodologies, including EEG, eye-tracking, and mouse-tracking. She conducts experiments on individuals from linguistically and culturally diverse communities across the lifespan. In the Bilingualism and Psycholinguistics Group, Dr. Chung-Fat-Yim studies how culture and language affect multisensory emotion perception and examines the effects of language co-activation on semantic processing. Her research lies at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience, developmental psychology, and psycholinguistics.
Education
- Ph.D. in Psychology, York University
- M.A. in Psychology, York University
- Bachelor of Science in Psychology, York University