蕭狄詩博士
助理教授
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Ph.D. in Psychology, The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
M.Phil. in Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
B.Soc.Sci in Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Research Areas
Social-cognitive and social-emotional development in infants, toddlers, and preschoolers
Early sensitivity to music
Pedagogies of care from Birth to Three
Language and literacy development
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Selected Funded Project - External grants
2020- 2022 Enhancing emotion understanding and theory of mind via block building (2020-2022), $941,382, funded by The Hong Kong Research Grant Council - Early Career Scheme. (PI: SIU, Tik-Sze Carrey)

2017- 2019 A community of minds: Pedagogies of care for infants and toddlers in group-based early childhood education and care settings in four cultures (USA, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and England) (2017-2019), funded by Frobel Trust UK. Collaboration Partners: Sacha Powell (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK), Mary McMullen (Indiana University, USA), Jean Rockel (The University of Auckland, New Zealand), & Tik-Sze Carrey Siu (The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

2017- 2019 Meta-linguistic vs. working-memory training in Chinese dyslexic children: behavioural and neural evaluation (2017-2019), $1,147,032, funded by Health and Medical Research Fund (Application No.: 04152496). (PI: MAURER Urs; Co-I: WONG Patrick Chun Man, CHUNG Kien Hoa Kevin, SIU Carrey Tik-Sze)
Selected Outputs
Journal Publications
Refereed Journal Article

2020 Siu, T.-S. C., & Ho, S.-H. C. (2020). A longitudinal investigation of syntactic awareness and reading comprehension in Chinese-English bilingual children. Learning and Instruction, 67, 101327. doi:10.1016/j.learninstruc.2020.101327

2019 Siu, T.-S. C., & Cheung, H. (2019). Developmental progression of mental state understandings in infancy. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 43, 363-368. doi:10.1177/0233

2018 Siu, T.-S. C., McBride, C., Tse, C.-S., Tong, X., & Maurer, U. (2018). Evaluating the effects of metalinguistic and working memory training on reading fluency in Chinese and English: A randomized controlled trial. Frontiers in Psychology – Language Sciences, 9, 2510. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02150

2017 Siu, T.-S. C., & Cheung, H. (2017). Infants’ sensitivity to emotion in music andemotion-action understanding. PLoS ONE, 12(2), e0171023. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0171023 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0171023

2016
Siu, C. T.-S., Ho, C. S.-H., Chan, D. W.-O., & Chung, K. K.-H. (2016). Development of word order and morphosyntactic skills in reading comprehension among Chinese elementary school children.Learning and Individual Differences, 47, 61-69. doi: 10.1016/j.lindif.2015.12.023

2015
Siu, C. T.-S., & Cheung, H. (2015). Emotional experience in music fosters eighteen-month-olds’ emotion-action understanding: A training study.Developmental Science, ahead of print. doi: 10.1111/desc.12348

2015
Siu, C. T.-S., & Ho, C. S.-H. (2015). Cross-language transfer of syntactic skills and reading comprehension among young Cantonese-English bilingual students.Reading Research Quarterly, 50, 313-336. doi: 10.1002/rrq.101

2015
Cheung, H.,Siu, C. T.-S., & Chen, L. (2015). The roles of liar intention, lie content, and theory of mind in children’s evaluation of lies.Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 132, 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2014.12.002

2014
Ho, C. S.-H., Fong, C. Y.-C., &Siu, C. T.-S.(2014). Cognitive-linguistic skills contributing to reading comprehension in Chinese: The unique role of morphosyntactic skill.Perspectives on Language and Literacy, 40, 25-31.



Conference Papers
Refereed Conference Paper


Siu, C. T.-S., & Cheung, H. (2016, July).Developmental progression of mental state understandings in infants. Paper presented at the 24^thBiennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, Vilnius, Lithuania.


Ho, C. S.-H., Fong, C. Y.-C.,Siu, C. T.-S., Chan, K. S.-C., Chan, D. W.-O., & Chung, K. K.-H. (2015, April).An extended simple view of reading in Chinese.Poster presentation at the Reading and Spelling Development, Disorders and Remediation Conference, Sydney, Australia.


Siu, C. T.-S., & Ho, C. S.-H. (2014, July).Cross-language transfer of syntactic skills and reading comprehension among Chinese-English bilingual children. Paper presented at the Twenty-First Annual Meeting Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Santa Fe, the United States.


Siu, C. T.-S., & Cheung, H. (2014, July).Infants’ perception of emotions in music and behvaiour attribution.Paper presented at the XIX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Berlin, Germany.


Siu, C. T.-S., Ho, C. S.-H., Chan, D. W.-O., Chung, K. K.-H., Lee, S.-H., & Tsang, S.-M. (2013, May).Development of syntactic awareness of Hong Kong Chinese primary school children: The relative contribution of morphosyntactic skill and word-order correction to Chinese reading comprehension.Paper presented at the International Workshop on Reading and Developmental Dyslexia, San Sebastian, Spain.


Siu, C. T.-S., & Cheung, H. (2012, October).The effect of tonal structure on lyrics comprehension in Cantonese vocal music.Oral presentation at the 14^thInternational Conference on the Processing of East Asian Languages, Nagoya, Japan.


Siu, C. T.-S., & Cheung, H. (2010, December).The effects of harmonic and rhythmic contexts on word comprehension in vocal music.Oral presentation at Musicognition II: Music and Emotions, ARCHE, Macau, China.