Alan Chun-Yat TONG
| Qualifications: | Ph.D., CUHK |
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| Appointment: | Research Assistant Professor |
| Office: | Rm 351, Sino Building |
| Email: | alantong@cuhk.edu.hk |
| Tel: | 3943 3462 |
| Fax: | 2603 5019 |
Brief Introduction
Dr. Alan Tong obtained his PhD from the Department of Psychology, CUHK, in 2022 and joined the department as a Research Assistant Professor in 2024. He is also the research team lead of the Jockey Club TourHeart+ Project (https://www.jcthplus.org/). Dr. Tong’s research focuses on mental health communication and digital mental health. He is particularly interested in studying how psychological reactance affects the uptake and adherence of psychological interventions.
Research Interests
Digital mental health interventions
Uptake and engagement of interventions
Psychological reactance
mental health communication
Publications
Wong, Y.K., & Wong, A.C.-N. (2016). Music-reading training alleviates crowding with musical notation. Journal of Vision, 16(8): 15.
Wong, Y.K., & Wong, A.C.-N. (2014). Absolute pitch memory: Its prevalence among musicians and dependence on the testing context. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 21(2), 534-542.
Lui, F.H., Wong, A.C.-N. (2012). Does media multitasking always hurt? A positive correlation between multitasking and multisensory integration ability. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 19(4), 647-653.
Wong, A. C.-N., Bukach, C. M., Yuen, C., Yang, L., Leung, S., & Greenspon, E. (2011). Holistic processing of words modulated by reading experience. PLoS ONE, 6(6), e20753.
Wong, A. C.-N., Palmeri, T. J., & Gauthier, I. (2009). Conditions for face-like expertise with objects: Becoming a Ziggerin expert – but which type? Psychological Science, 20(9), 1108-1117.
Wong, A. C.-N., Jobard, G., James, T. W., James, K. H., & Gauthier, I. (2009). Expertise with characters in alphabetic and non-alphabetic writing systems engage the same occipito-temporal area. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 26(1), 111-127.
Wong, A. C.-N., Gauthier, I., Woroch, B., Debuse, C., & Curran, T. (2005). An early electrophysiological potential associated with expertise in letter perception. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 5, 306-318.
Wong, A. C.-N., & Hayward, W. G. (2005). Constraints on view combination: Effects of self-occlusion and difference between familiar views. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 31, 110-121.
Palmeri, T. J., Wong, A. C.-N., & Gauthier, I. (2004). Computational approaches to the development of perceptual expertise. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8, 378-386.