Mo ZHENG





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Ph.D.,Southern California
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Rm 360, Sino Building
mozheng@cuhk.edu.hk
3943 6457
2603 5019






Brief IntroductionDr. Zheng received his PhD in psychology from the University of Southern California (USC). He worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Hong Kong before joining CUHK. Dr. Zheng is interested in how genetic and environmental influences are associated with children's reading, writing and math development. He is currently pursuing a research line related to laterality, or handedness, and learning.






Teaching Areas2021-2022
PSYC2020 Experimental Design
PSYC1050 Consciousness
PSYC4909 Psychology in Action II



2020-2021
PSYC2020 Experimental Design
PSYC2010 Introduction to Statistics










Research InterestsLanguage and mathematical development in children, behavior genetics, statistics and research methods in psychology.
I am interested in how genetic and environmental factors are associated with language and math development in young children. My current research focuses on the association between laterality, or handedness, and learning. Specifically, my work aims to investigate the prevalence and heritability of handedness in Chinese, and the connection between handedness (both preference and relative hand skill) and children’s reading, writing and math performance.






PublicationsRecent
Zheng, M., McBride, C., Ho, C. S. H., Chan, J., Choy, K. W., & Paracchini, S. (2020). Prevalence and heritability of handedness in a Hong Kong Chinese twin and singleton sample. BMC Psychology, 8:37, 1-12.
Chen, N. T., Zheng, M., & Ho, C. S. H. (2019). Examining the visual attention span deficit hypothesis in Chinese developmental dyslexia. Reading and Writing, 32(3), 639-662.
Ho, C. S. H., Zheng, M., & Fong, C. Y. C. (2019). Contributions of vocabulary and discourse-level skills to reading comprehension among Chinese elementary school children. Applied Psycholinguistics, 40, 323-349.
Ho, C. S. H., Zheng, M., McBride, C., Hsu, L. S. J., Waye, M. M. Y., & Kwok, J. C.-Y. (2017). Examining an extended simple view of reading in Chinese: The role of naming efficiency for reading comprehension. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 51, 293-302.
Ho, C. S. H., Zheng, M., Chow, B. W. Y., Wong, S. W, Lim, C. K., & Waye, M. M. Y. (2017). Adequacy of using a three-item questionnaire to determine zygosity in Chinese Young twins. Behavior Genetics, 47(2), 244-254.